Gérard Watkins — Actor (8)

TV

La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
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Napoléon III perd la guerre contre la Prusse après un siège de Paris particulièrement dur pour le peuple parisien. Nous sommes en 1870-1871 et la misère est grande. Les 17 et 18 mars 1871, le peuple parisien, qui refuse la capitulation, se révolte. La Commune de Paris est née. Alors que la télévision versaillaise rapporte l'événement de façon partielle et orientée, une commission communarde se crée et s'organise pour relayer ce moment qui, bien que majeur dans l'histoire du mouvement ouvrier, reste néanmoins l'une des périodes les plus méconnues de l'histoire de France. Les journalistes se rendent sur les lieux où naît la Commune : mairie, barricades, clubs féministes, etc. et procèdent à des interviews pour rendre compte à la population de la réalité. Les gens disent leurs rêves, leurs révoltes, leurs combats et opposent leur opinions.

Movie

Hidden Diary (2009)
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Julie Lopes-Curval actor: Catherine Deneuve / Marie-Josée Croze …
other title: Mères et filles / Mères et Filles
In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old independent woman, returns to visit her parents. By chance, she finds a notebook that belonged to her grandmother, a diary that may at last explain her departure. Will it reveal the things left unsaid, that have altered the relationships within the heart of the family ever since? In it, will Audrey find answers to the questions that she is asking herself about her own future?

Movie

The Returned (2004)
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Robin Campillo actor: Géraldine Pailhas / Jonathan Zaccaï …
other title: Les Revenants / La resurrección de los muertos …
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.

Movie

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
Julian Schnabel actor: Mathieu Amalric / Emmanuelle Seigner …
other title: Lo scafandro e la farfalla / Dykkerklokken og sommerfuglen …
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.

Movie

Taken (2008)
Taken
★ 6.5 13 ratings
Pierre Morel actor: Liam Neeson / Maggie Grace …
other title: Taken - Io vi troverò / Busca Implacável …
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.

Movie

Love Me If You Dare (2003)
Jeux d'enfants
★ 7.1 10 ratings
Yann Samuell actor: Guillaume Canet / Marion Cotillard …
other title: Jeux d'enfants / Amami se hai coraggio …
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.