Jacky Nercessian
Jacky Nercessian (or Nersessian (Armenian: Ժաքի Ներսեսյան), born November 16, 1950) is a French actor who is ethnically Armenian. One of his most known roles is Apkar in Mayrig by Henri Verneuil. Nercessian was born in 1950 in Saint-Etienne. He graduated from the Department... Read full bio →
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God Save the Tuche
The Tuches are enjoying life in Bouzolles. But when Jeff and Cathy's grandson Jiji is selected for a training camp with Arsenal, it's a dream opportunity for the whole family to head over to Blighty and meet the royal family.
Simone, le voyage du siècle
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
La fameuse invasion des ours en Sicile
To rescue his missing son, Léonce the King of Bears invades the land of men with the help of his clan.
Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
An adventure set in the early party of the 20th century and focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
L'ivresse du pouvoir
A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
Jean-Philippe
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
Incontrôlable
Imaginez. Un beau matin, votre corps décide de ne plus vous obéir. Pire, il n'en fait qu'à sa tête, prend un malin plaisir à vous mettre dans les situations les plus humiliantes, et passe son temps à vous vanner avec la voix de l'âne de Shrek ! Cet étrange phénomène, c'est ce qui arrive au pauvre Georges, devenu incontrôlable bien malgré lui...
Le grand voyage
Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship.
Le papillon
An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl.
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 trois frères
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
Le colonel Chabert
When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.
La soif de l'or
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to avoid a fine for tax evasion. For several years, he has been stealing money from his construction company and buying gold bars with his ill-gotten gains.
588 rue Paradis
A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by a new name to fit in better with French society.
Mayrig
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.