Jean-Marc Barr

Jean-Marc Barr

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean-Marc Barr (born on 27 September 1960 in Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) is a French-American film actor and director. His mother is French. His American father was in the US Air Force and served in the Second World War. Jean-Marc Barr is primarily known as an actor, but is also a film director, screenwriter and producer. Barr is bilingual in French and English: he speaks French with a nasal, hybrid accent, reminiscent of his American upbringing - with a slight American accent and occasional anglicisms in interviews - and English with a Mid-Atlantic accent. He studied philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Paris Conservatoire and the Sorbonne. He went on to pursue an education in drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In London he met his future wife, a pianist and composer Irina Dečermić. Jean-Marc Barr began working in theatre in France in 1986. After some television roles and film work, in particular, Hope and Glory (1987) by John Boorman, he was cast in the tremendously successful The Big Blue (1988). Luc Besson cast him in the role of French diver Jacques Mayol. He played in the role opposite Rosanna Arquette and Jean Reno. The Big Blue was the most financially successful film in France in the 1980s. In 1991, he starred in Danish director Lars von Trier's Europa, marking the beginning of a long friendship (he is the godfather of von Trier's children) as well as a significant professional relationship. He went on to appear in von Trier’s Europa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2004) and Manderlay (2005). Also in 2005 he starred in the French film Crustacés et Coquillages. His collaboration with von Trier put him on track to start directing his own work. He debuted in 1999 as a director, screenwriter and producer with the intimate love story Lovers. This film became the first part of a trilogy; the two subsequent parts being the drama Too Much Flesh (2000) and the comedy Being Light (2001) which he co-directed with Pascal Arnold. He may also be recognized for his role as the attractive divorce lawyer, Maitre Bertram in the Merchant Ivory film le Divorce (2003). He appeared as Hugo in The Red Siren in 2002. He appeared as the main character in the video for Blur's 1995 single, "Charmless Man". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Marc Barr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Popularity : 3.515
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1960-09-27
  • Place of Birth : Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Jean-Marc Barr Movies

  • 2000
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    Dancer in the Dark

    Dancer in the Dark

    7.9 2000 HD

    Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder...

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  • 1996
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    Breaking the Waves

    Breaking the Waves

    7.5 1996 HD

    In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it...

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  • 1988
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    The Big Blue

    The Big Blue

    7.462 1988 HD

    Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood,...

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  • 2005
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    Cockles and Muscles

    Cockles and Muscles

    6 2005 HD

    Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about the tolerance of a family of four. The...

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  • 2003
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    Dogville

    Dogville

    7.8 2003 HD

    When a beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters,...

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  • 2001
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    Being Light

    Being Light

    5 2001 HD

    Maxime, a young man of 25, arrives in Paris, but wishes to join Justine, the woman he loves, in India. At the bar of the Raphael Hotel, he meets Jack...

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  • 2005
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    Tara Road

    Tara Road

    5.4 2005 HD

    A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

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  • 2006
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    The Boss of It All

    The Boss of It All

    6.623 2006 HD

    An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.

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  • 2023
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    This Is the End

    This Is the End

    9 2023 HD

    Road trips through Los Angeles, famous verses in the Poetry Lounge and love in times of the pandemic: Rendezvous with an old flame, fourty years...

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  • 2009
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    Making Plans for Lena

    Making Plans for Lena

    5.5 2009 HD

    Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her...

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  • 1987
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    Hope and Glory

    Hope and Glory

    6.8 1987 HD

    A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.

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  • 1991
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    Europa

    Europa

    7.324 1991 HD

    A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try...

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  • 1970
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    Le jour qui vient

    Le jour qui vient

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2008
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    Baby Blues

    Baby Blues

    5.1 2008 HD

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  • 2010
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    City of Shadows

    City of Shadows

    5.5 2010 HD

    A doctor broken by 8 years of war in North Africa tries to come back home. On his way, he is faced with a bigger challenge: save a city from the...

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  • 1995
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    Iron Horsemen

    Iron Horsemen

    6 1995 HD

    Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

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  • 1998
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    Ça ne se refuse pas

    Ça ne se refuse pas

    1 1998 HD

    Marthe, an aging queen of the night, roams the streets of a city haunted by the presence of an invisible murderer in search of money to pay a large...

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  • 2011
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    His Mother's Eyes

    His Mother's Eyes

    5.5 2011 HD

    A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write,...

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  • 1994
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    Le fils préféré

    Le fils préféré

    6.6 1994 HD

    Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal...

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  • 1998
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    St. Ives

    St. Ives

    5.7 1998 HD

    In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the...

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  • 1997
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    Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

    Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

    6.7 1997 HD

    A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his...

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  • 1998
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    Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday

    Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday

    4.6 1998 HD

    Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance...

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  • 2011
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    American Translation

    American Translation

    6 2011 HD

    From the moment they meet, brooding Chris and the beautiful Aurore fall instantly and passionately in love but it's not long before their intense...

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  • 2003
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    The Car Keys

    The Car Keys

    5.1 2003 HD

    Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

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  • 1998
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    The Scarlet Tunic

    The Scarlet Tunic

    4.5 1998 HD

    Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor...

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  • 2002
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    The Red Siren

    The Red Siren

    5.2 2002 HD

    Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids...

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  • 1998
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    What I Did for Love

    What I Did for Love

    5 1998 HD

    A man falls in love from afar with a woman who has just broken up acrimoniously with her husband and is disgusted with all men except her gay friends.

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  • 2000
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    Too Much Flesh

    Too Much Flesh

    4.1 2000 HD

    In an Illinois farming community, Lyle lives quietly with his wife Amy. But their life is set spinning when Lyle's friend Vernon visits with his...

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  • 2013
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    Big Sur

    Big Sur

    5 2013 HD

    Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.

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  • 2009
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    Parc

    Parc

    3.9 2009 HD

    Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by...

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  • 2012
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    And They Call It Summer

    And They Call It Summer

    4.5 2012 HD

    Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying...

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  • 2013
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    Vandal

    Vandal

    6.7 2013 HD

    15-year-old Chérif feels like a million bucks behind the wheel of a stolen car. Placed under the guardianship of his Aunt and Uncle, he has to...

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  • 2009
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    Nucingen House

    Nucingen House

    6.3 2009 HD

    Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.

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  • 2003
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    Saltimbank

    Saltimbank

    5 2003 HD

    The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his...

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  • 2013
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    Manhattan Romance

    Manhattan Romance

    1 2013 HD

    Annette is a young French actress. During her stay in New York to promote her latest film, she meets up with Alex, an Armenian photographer and long...

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  • 1991
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    Blaze

    Blaze

    5.5 1991 HD

    All of Europe was affected by the Great Depression of the 1930s, but some parts were hurt less badly than others. France, for instance, was...

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  • 2023
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    The Pod Generation

    The Pod Generation

    5.9 2023 HD

    In a not-so-distant future, couples can share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs. While botanist Alvy has doubts about...

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  • 2007
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    Here’s Looking at You, Boy

    Here’s Looking at You, Boy

    5.8 2007 HD

    Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.

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  • 2013
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    Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations

    Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations

    7.5 2013 HD

    A documentary about erotic obsessions by Laure Michel.

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  • 2010
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    Heavy Rain

    Heavy Rain

    2 2010 HD

    A powerful short documentary inspired by the launch of the genre breaking PlayStation 3 title HEAVY RAIN. 

Directed by the acclaimed filmmaker...

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  • 2004
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    CQ2 (Seek You Too)

    CQ2 (Seek You Too)

    4.3 2004 HD

    CQ2 (seek you too) is the story of an teenager, with an uncertain future, who canalises her lust for life in the study of contemporary dance.

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  • 2002
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    Mary's Sons

    Mary's Sons

    5 2002 HD

    After the death of her husband and teenage son, a woman puts an ad in a newspaper for a surrogate child.

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  • 2013
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    Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

    Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

    6.729 2013 HD

    The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.

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  • 2008
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    The Anarchist's Wife

    The Anarchist's Wife

    5.6 2008 HD

    "The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during...

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  • 1992
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    The Plague

    The Plague

    5.6 1992 HD

    In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city, an idealistic doctor...

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  • 2022
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    Silent Land

    Silent Land

    5.1 2022 HD

    A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out that the pool...

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  • 2023
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    Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier

    Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier

    1 2023 HD

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  • 2011
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    Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying

    Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying

    4.8 2011 HD

    This is a modern age romantic comedy about the trials to find the right person, in four very different love stories. Initially, Stefan, a young...

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  • 2017
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    Buğday

    Buğday

    5.7 2017 HD

    The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by...

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  • 1997
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    Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi

    Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi

    10 1997 HD

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  • 2024
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    The Rebellious

    The Rebellious

    3.6 2024 HD

    Paris, France, April 2020. Félix, manager of a luxury hotel, decides to start a clandestine business during the first lockdown caused by the...

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  • 1986
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    Hotel du Lac

    Hotel du Lac

    4 1986 HD

    Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by...

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  • 2000
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    The Name of This Film Is Dogme95

    The Name of This Film Is Dogme95

    3.5 2000 HD

    The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the most influential movement in world cinema for a...

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  • 1996
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    Marching in Darkness

    Marching in Darkness

    5.9 1996 HD

    A young recruit to the Italian army discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But...

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  • 2016
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    Wax - We Are The X

    Wax - We Are The X

    7.2 2016 HD

    A mysterious video falls into the hands of a troupe of reporters following an accident involving three thirty-something year olds – two men and...

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  • 2025
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    The Academy

    The Academy

    1 2025 HD

    Jojo, a young art student, discovers the microcosm of an art academy with all of its opportunities and contradictions.

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  • 1994
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    Les Faussaires

    Les Faussaires

    4.9 1994 HD

    This comedy was shot in Tahiti. It focuses on the rocky relationship between Cohn, a local con man, and author Jack Baker who wants to profile Paul...

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  • 1970
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    Halo of Stars

    Halo of Stars

    1 1970 HD

    Set against the backdrop of a small traveling circus, a European clown and his 5-year-old daughter lead each other through the everyday mysteries of...

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  • 1970
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    Hexameron

    Hexameron

    1 1970 HD

    In Europe after the outbreak of the Black Death, an ascetic nonk falls in love with the Devil.

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  • 2017
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    UK18

    UK18

    6 2017 HD

    A documentary film-maker suspects she is being brainwashed by a secret government organisation.

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  • 1987
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    Maurice

    Maurice

    7.6 1987 HD

    After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

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  • 2017
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    Dolphin Man

    Dolphin Man

    7.4 2017 HD

    As well as providing the subject for Luc Besson’s The Big Blue, Jacques Mayol did more than anyone to establish the sport of free diving to...

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  • 2005
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    Anecdotes from Europa

    Anecdotes from Europa

    6 2005 HD

    Documentary with interviews of the cast and crew of Lars von Trier's 1991 film "Europa."

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  • 2017
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    After the War

    After the War

    6.9 2017 HD

    Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left...

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  • 2018
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    The Call

    The Call

    6.3 2018 HD

    An aged woman is taking a bath. While entering the water a new world reveals. The phone, on a chair, connects her with her son and keeps her linked...

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  • 2018
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    The Cellar

    The Cellar

    7 2018 HD

    The marriage of Tana and Milan Labat is going through a crisis. They are constantly quarreling while their 16-year-old daughter goes missing at her...

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  • 2000
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    FreeDogme

    FreeDogme

    4 2000 HD

    Marie Berthelius and Roger Narbonne conference call Lars von Trier, Win Wenders, Lone Scherfig, and Jean-Marc Barr and are also linked by digital...

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  • 2005
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    Manderlay

    Manderlay

    6.9 2005 HD

    In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is...

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  • 1997
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    The Infidels

    The Infidels

    1 1997 HD

    The story takes place in an around Lebanon. It concerns Farid, a repentant Islamic fundamentalist and Charles, a French diplomat. Farid is prepared...

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  • 2010
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    Dimension

    Dimension

    5.3 2010 HD

    Dimension is a short film written and directed by Lars von Trier, released in 2010. The film was shot in three-minute segments over several years....

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  • 2020
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    My Best Part

    My Best Part

    5.3 2020 HD

    Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his...

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  • 2018
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    Cut Off

    Cut Off

    5.7 2018 HD

    Struggling with his new life in New Orleans, Clive follows Trevor, a former professor to his country home on the bayou to gain a new perspective....

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  • 2016
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    Whoever Was Using This Bed

    Whoever Was Using This Bed

    10 2016 HD

    A married couple is woken in the dead of night by a mysterious phone call. Unable to sleep, they are drawn into an unsettling examination of their...

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  • 2003
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    Le Divorce

    Le Divorce

    4.959 2003 HD

    While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

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  • 2014
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    The Last Mirage

    The Last Mirage

    1 2014 HD

    A thriller about the disappearance of a manuscript from the Baghdad Museum, during the US-offensive in Irak. Feat. Livingstone, a biologist +...

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  • 1985
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    Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

    Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

    4 1985 HD

    The true story of Bill Johnson, the first US men's skiing gold medal winner, whose Olympics dreams were threatened by his rebellious attitude.

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  • 1996
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    Lifeline

    Lifeline

    1 1996 HD

    After her daughter is kidnapped by white slave traders, a mother enlists the aid of a world war 2 vet and a boat captain. Together they hunt down the...

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  • 1985
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    King David

    King David

    5.478 1985 HD

    This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.

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  • 1996
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    L'Échappée belle

    L'Échappée belle

    1 1996 HD

    An aviation magnate takes desperate measures to regain custody of his kids after he is granted minimal visitation rights by a harsh female judge....

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  • 1970
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    Meurtres en dentelles

    Meurtres en dentelles

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1999
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    Lovers

    Lovers

    5.8 1999 HD

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  • 1999
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    Lovers

    Lovers

    5.8 1999 HD

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  • 2006
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    One to Another

    One to Another

    6.2 2006 HD

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  • 2011
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    American Translation

    American Translation

    6 2011 HD

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  • 2000
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    Too Much Flesh

    Too Much Flesh

    4.1 2000 HD

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  • 2000
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    Too Much Flesh

    Too Much Flesh

    4.1 2000 HD

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  • 2012
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    Sexual Chronicles of a French Family

    Sexual Chronicles of a French Family

    5.4 2012 HD

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  • 1999
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    Lovers

    Lovers

    5.8 1999 HD

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  • 2024
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    The Rebellious

    The Rebellious

    3.6 2024 HD

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  • 2024
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    The Rebellious

    The Rebellious

    3.6 2024 HD

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  • 2006
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    One to Another

    One to Another

    6.2 2006 HD

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  • 2024
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    The Rebellious

    The Rebellious

    3.6 2024 HD

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  • 2001
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    Being Light

    Being Light

    5 2001 HD

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  • 2002
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    Searching for Debra Winger

    Searching for Debra Winger

    6.3 2002 HD

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  • 2012
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    Sexual Chronicles of a French Family

    Sexual Chronicles of a French Family

    5.4 2012 HD

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  • 2012
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    Sexual Chronicles of a French Family

    Sexual Chronicles of a French Family

    5.4 2012 HD

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  • 2012
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    Sexual Chronicles of a French Family

    Sexual Chronicles of a French Family

    5.4 2012 HD

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  • 2001
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    Being Light

    Being Light

    5 2001 HD

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  • 2001
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    Being Light

    Being Light

    5 2001 HD

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  • 2011
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    American Translation

    American Translation

    6 2011 HD

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  • 2011
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    American Translation

    American Translation

    6 2011 HD

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  • 2011
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    American Translation

    American Translation

    6 2011 HD

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  • 2002
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    Baby Einstein: Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun

    Baby Einstein: Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun

    7 2002 HD

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  • 2018
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    The House That Jack Built

    The House That Jack Built

    7.141 2018 HD

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  • 2011
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    Blood On The Docks

    Blood On The Docks

    7.2 2011 HD

    Le Havre, France. The city’s at war as local mobsters and petty gangsters fight over territory, while the police do their best to put an end to...

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  • 2022
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    The Rope

    The Rope

    4.4 2022 HD

    A team of scientists face a test of faith and survival when they discover a mysterious rope in the middle of a forest, in this riveting French...

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  • 1970
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    Shores

    Shores

    1 1970 HD

    Following the inexplicable sinking of a trawler and its fishermen who remain untraceable, Abigail, an oceanographer, is sent by IFREMER on a mission...

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  • 2018
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    Bad Banks

    Bad Banks

    7.3 2018 HD

    Ambitious Jana is confronted with the unscrupulous machinations of the world of finance. Her working life is determined by egotism, the pressure to...

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  • 2024
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    Anthracite

    Anthracite

    6.439 2024 HD

    An old case is wrenched open when a reporter goes missing, leading his web sleuth daughter to a small mountain town haunted by a sect, secrecy and...

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  • 1970
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    King and Conqueror

    King and Conqueror

    1 1970 HD

    The story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years. Harold of Wessex and William of...

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  • 2018
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    The Miracle

    The Miracle

    7.149 2018 HD

    In Rome, a Virgin Mary statue is found crying blood. Pondering on the implications of the existence of miracles, and eventually, the existence of...

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  • 2011
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    Le Repaire de la vouivre

    Le Repaire de la vouivre

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2020
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    Little Birds

    Little Birds

    6.8 2020 HD

    We arrive with New York heiress Lucy Savage fresh off the transatlantic steamer and ready for love and marriage in exotic climes. But when her...

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