Simon Abkarian — Actor (16)
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Sobredosis (2022)
Overdose
director: Olivier Marchal actor: Sofia Essaïdi / Assaad Bouab …
other title: Überdosis / Overdose
Captain Sara Bellaiche, from Toulouse Judiciary Police branch, is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers, an investigation led by Richard Cross, from the Paris Criminal Brigade. Forced to collaborate in order to find the murderer and stop the bloody go-fast, Sara and Richard are both thrown in a breathless race against the clock on the roads of Spain and France.
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The Cut (2014) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Cut
director: Fatih Akin actor: Tahar Rahim / Simon Abkarian …
other title: Il padre / El padre
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
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Army of Crime (2009) IMDb TMDB
L'Armée du crime
director: Robert Guédiguian actor: Simon Abkarian / Virginie Ledoyen …
other title: Forbryderhæren / O Exército do Crime …
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.
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The Truth About Charlie (2002) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Truth About Charlie
director: Jonathan Demme actor: Thandiwe Newton / Mark Wahlberg …
other title: A Verdade Sobre Charlie / Die Wahrheit über Charlie …
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. Stuck in ever-increasing danger and with four men pursuing her, another stranger offers assistance - but who can she trust?
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When the Cat's Away (1996) IMDb TMDB
Chacun cherche son chat
director: Cédric Klapisch actor: Garance Clavel / Zinedine Soualem …
other title: Ognuno cerca il suo gatto / ...und jeder sucht sein Kätzchen …
When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée, who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.
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Notre-Dame (2022) IMDb TMDB
Notre-Dame, la part du feu
director: Hervé Hadmar / Olivier Bocquet actor: Roschdy Zem / Caroline Proust …
other title: Notre-Dame, la part du feu
As the Paris firefighters try to stop the flames from spreading in the Cathedral, the show also follows characters being put through the wringer - they will have to fight each other, love each other, come across each other, hate each other, smile at or help each other - so that, in the end, they may have a chance to start all over again.
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The Sonata (2018) TMDB
The Sonata
director: Andrew Desmond actor: Freya Tingley / Simon Abkarian …
other title: Sonata - Symphonie des Teufels
After a gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances, she discovers his last musical masterpiece riddled with cryptic symbols that unravels an evil secret, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.
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De Gaulle: Résistance (2028)
De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre
★ 8.0 (10 ratings) director: Antonin Baudry actor: Simon Abkarian / Niels Schneider …
other title: De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre / La Bataille de Gaulle : L’âge de fer
June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.
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Rebels (2019) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Rebelles
director: Allan Mauduit actor: Cécile de France / Audrey Lamy …
other title: Ribelli / Rebellinnen - Leg dich nicht mit ihnen an! …
Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of her childhood which she left almost 15 years ago. She finds her mother there and a world she left behind. Without money, she is hired in a fish cannery where she befriends two workers. But one day, one of her colleagues tackles her insistently, she defends herself and kills him accidentally.
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014) TMDB
גט: המשפט של ויויאן אמסלם
director: Shlomi Elkabetz / Ronit Elkabetz actor: Ronit Elkabetz / Simon Abkarian …
other title: Viviane / Gett - sagen om Viviane Amsalem …
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
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Persepolis (2007)
Persepolis
★ 8.5 (22 ratings) director: Marjane Satrapi / Vincent Paronnaud actor: Chiara Mastroianni / Danielle Darrieux …
other title: Persépolis
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
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Casino Royale (2006)
Casino Royale
★ 7.7 (28 ratings) director: Martin Campbell actor: Daniel Craig / Eva Green …
other title: James Bond: Casino Royale / 007: Casino Royale …
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
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The Swallows of Kabul (2019)
Les Hirondelles de Kaboul
director: Zabou Breitman / Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec actor: Simon Abkarian / Zita Hanrot …
other title: Le rondini di Kabul / As Andorinhas de Cabul …
Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
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Cyrano, My Love (2018) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Edmond
director: Alexis Michalik actor: Thomas Solivérès / Olivier Gourmet …
other title: Cyrano, mon amour / Vorhang auf für Cyrano …
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.