
Charles Berling
Actor · b. 1958 · Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
Charles Berling (born 30 April 1958) is a French actor, director and screenwriter. Charles Berling, son of a navy doctor, is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) settlers in Morocco" was born in Meknes (Morocco); she died in 2004. When he was two years old he left Paris for Brest, then Toulon, then, at seven, Tahiti. He studied acting at the Belgian school INSAS, in Brussels. He is the father of the actor Émile Berling. Source: Article "Charles Berling" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Movies24
Movie6.5Comedy38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he holds the key to her promotion.
Movie6.6DramaThrillerWhen Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
Elle
2016 · 2K votes
Movie6.5ThrillerDramaChristmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of a child, and a big ravaging storm.
Movie5.5ActionCrimeFrom his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...
Movie6.8ComedyCrimeAdrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Margot, who lives off scams and amorous manipulations.
Movie7.1DocumentaryFamilyEvery year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!!
Movie6.5DramaRomanceClaire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo.
Movie6.4DramaComedyGabrielle, a dedicated surgeon and head of a hospital department, is stretched thin by the weight of responsibility. There is little time left for her private life: a loving husband and a mother who depends on her care. Yet this is the life she wanted, the life she chose. When a novelist comes to observe her at work for a book, her balance begins to shift.
Movie5.8ThrillerMysteryWhen a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.
Movie5.1ComedyDramaClaire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks uncontrollable jealousy in Maud, whose young lover has fallen in love with Claire. Maud decides to get rid of Claire who finds shelter in a farm where she’s allowed to break free from her strict upbringing through encounters with seven “princes.”
Movie5.8DramaMysteryA French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.
Demonlover
2002 · 131 votes
Movie7.3ComedyVincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the prenatal examination of his and his wife Anna's unborn son. The name chosen by the soon-to-be parents strongly offends the others for many reasons. The dispute between the guests quickly escalates and before long the resurgence of old grudges and hidden secrets is unavoidable...
Movie7.0DramaRomanceNelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
Movie6.9ComedyDramaTo get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Ridicule
1996 · 227 votes
Movie6.4DramaAfter the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
Movie5.4DramaRomanceA philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
L'ennui
1998 · 55 votes
Movie5.1DramaHistoryThe most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Maria Skłodowska-Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France's male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.
Marie Curie
2016 · 100 votes
Movie6.4DramaComedyA talented cellist, Marie, is secretly losing her sight due to a degenerative eye disease. Determined to attend a prestigious music school, she strikes a pact with her struggling classmate Victor: she’ll help him with his homework if he becomes her “eyes,” helping her hide her condition as she prepares for the entrance exam. As the two grow closer, their arrangement begins to change both of their lives.
Movie4.3DramaThrillerA hot young Wall Street trader finds a formula based on climatology to play the market and win big... but at what cost?
Movie6.3ThrillerDramaJournalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-expanding anti-corruption investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke. Their paths will lead them to the heart of a political/financial intrigue, which will rock the foundations of Europe and the French government itself.
Movie5.1ComedyDramaTwo architects and best friends have a difficult time sharing an office and their troubled private lives.
Cravate Club
2002 · 9 votes
Movie6.2RomanceDramaA group of mourners travels by train to bury a recently deceased artist in Limoges. As they journey, secrets and desires unfold, with relationships shifting, past loves resurfacing, and personal connections revealed. At the funeral and afterward, tensions rise among the group, leading to further emotional complexities at the artist’s family home.
Movie7.0DramaHistoryMarie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and a very young girl, marries King Louis-Auguste, Dauphine of France. This historical drama tells the tragic tale of a young woman who, in the beginning started out with task, that ended with great sadness and sorrow.
Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire
2006 · 14 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryTV MovieDocumentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.
Series13
TV3.6Talk ShowVivement dimanche
1998 · 9 votes
TV5.1On n'est pas couché was a French talk show broadcast on France 2 on Saturdays at 11 p.m., hosted by Laurent Ruquier assisted by various columnists.
On n'est pas couché
2006 · 5 votes
TV6.1CrimeDramaBeneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
Capitaine Marleau
2015 · 37 votes
TV6.4DramaA horrific discovery in a small town nestled high in the French Pyrenees begins to unravel a dark mystery that has been hidden for years. On an unforgiving winter morning, a group of workers discover the headless body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. Commandant Martin Servaz starts investigating and soon discovers a dark story of madness and revenge.
TV5.6DramaSci-Fi & FantasyThe economic situation is a nightmare: only 20% of the population is employed. The Actives live inside the city. On the fringes, in the Zone, live the Jobless. Separating them is a wall.
Trepalium
2016 · 25 votes
TVThe story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France.
L'Abolition
2009
TV6.6DramaCrimeChristine lost her son at birth 15 years ago. Or so she believes, until she receives a video suggesting he might not be dead. That sends her hurrying back to the island of her childhood in Brittany to discover the truth in an investigation confronting multiple mysteries.
TV6.6DramaLes Siffleurs
2023 · 5 votes
TV7.0DramaThe life story of famous singer and actress of Egyptian and Italian ancestry Iolanda Gigliotti known by her stage name Dalida.
Dalida
2005 · 2 votes
TV6.0DramaWar & PoliticsThe life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements during WWII.
Jean Moulin
2002 · 3 votes
TV7.2ComedyLe Diplôme
2026 · 6 votes
TVDocumentaryPassage des arts
2018
TV8.0Ten million years ago, in tropical Africa, as the forest disappeared, a few large primates stood up and began walking on two legs. Faced with the dangers of the savannah, like all living beings, they defended themselves and adapted. Their brains grew, their consciousness developed. They invented, they organized themselves, they roamed the earth and the oceans. They conquered the world.
L'Odyssée de l'espèce
2003 · 1 votes