Didier Flamand
Didier Flamand (born 12 March 1947) is a French actor. He has appeared in over 150 films and television shows since 1973. He starred in Raúl Ruiz's 1978 film The Suspended Vocation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Didier Flamand, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full... Read full bio →
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Fahim
2019
Daaaaaalí!
A young French journalist meets Salvador Dalí repeatedly for a documentary film project which never gets to start shooting.
Un tour chez ma fille
While her apartment is being renovated, Jacqueline is thrilled to be forced into spending "a few days" with her eldest daughter Carole and her son-in-law, who are both in couples therapy. These "few days" turn into "a few months". Jacqueline quickly feels at home. She prepares dinners, monopolizes the television, reorganizes the kitchen...
Fahim
Fahim Mohammad, a Bangladeshi immigrant, becomes a world junior chess champion in France.
Eva
A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm.
Retour chez ma mère
At 40, Stephanie loses her job and is forced to move back in with her mother. She is welcomed with open arms to the joys of overheated apartment, Francis Cabrel playing on loop, Scrabble games and precious motherly advice on how to behave at the table and live her life.
1001 Gram
When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a human life truly weighs and which measurements she intends to live by.
Klauni
Once a hugely popular clown trio, Oskar, Max, and Viktor are now living very different lives. The intense fight that ended their friendship has left them on bad terms for over 40 years.
Il était une fois, une fois
Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence.
Une pure affaire
An attorney stumbles upon a suitcase filled with cocaine.
Poulet aux prunes
Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.
Forces spéciales
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her.
Coursier
Sam est coursier. Il sillonne Paris, souvent au mépris des règles élémentaires du code de la route. Alors qu'il doit impérativement assister à un mariage pour tenter de sauver son couple avec Nadia, il n'a pas d'autre choix que d'accepter une course urgente pour son boss... Course qui va faire de cette journée, le pire cauchemar de sa vie.
Les brigades du Tigre
The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.
La maison du bonheur
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
Factotum
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
Les choristes
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
L'enquête corse
Rémi François is a detective who is hired to find Ange Leoni, a Corsican who apparently has inherited a 2 million euros house.
Double zéro
Ben and Bill are the two worst, completely useless agents - real losers. But who else would you send on a super-difficult top-secret mission? The French have just sold a new high-power M51 rocket to the Russians for crazy money. Unfortunately for them, the rocket was hijacked before they could get it of their hands.
Le raid
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac...
Ah! Si j'étais riche
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize.
Meilleur espoir féminin
Yvon Rance, a born hairdresser and an elegant middle-aged man with a perfect toupee, reigns in his native Brittany over a clientèle of little old ladies. But his main reason for living, his masterpiece, is Laetitia, his only daughter, whom he has single-handedly brought up for eighteen years and whom he fondly pictures as heading a cutting-edge ...
Les rois mages
Et si les Roi Mages étaient victimes d'un phénomène spatio-temporel ? Projetés 2000 ans après J-C, Bethléem en tête, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar se retrouvent à Paris. Laissant la providence guider leur pas, naïvement pris au piège par un magnat de la Télé, retrouveront-ils leur Messie ?
Les rivières pourpres
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases.
Les destinées sentimentales
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife...
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment.
Quasimodo d'El Paris
Quasimodo the hunchback is mistaken as the serial killer of El Paris. Can he clear his name?
À vendre
A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective.
La belle verte
As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.
J'ai pas sommeil
Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arrived to Paris, becomes fascinated with the life of a mysteriously beautiful drag performer.
La crise
Provetto avvocato si trova di colpo senza moglie e senza lavoro, disperato.
Chocolat
On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.
Der Himmel über Berlin
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them.
Le complexe du kangourou
Loïc, a chestnut seller, has a mistress who wants a baby. Not daring to admit to her that he had the mumps late in life, he finds other excuses. Until the day he meets Claire, an old girlfriend, who has a little boy. Loïc finds the resemblance between the little boy and himself enormous and is convinced that he is his father...
Blanche et Marie
A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germinal, the hairdresser. His daughter Marie knows everything and asks to be part of it...
La vocation suspendue
The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arguments that plagued Latin American left-wing political parties.
L'animal
The funny misadventures of a dating duo of movie stunt professionals in France.
India Song
Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. She takes many lovers as systems of oppression decay around her.