Jacques Gamblin

A Grain of Sand in the Gear

A chronicle of a year of health crisis. A film that travels to the four corners of the planet to question us about our model of society. The grain of sand is Covid. The gear is the system in which we live. The subject: how could a small piece of genetic code stop our system?

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0

2021 Documentary 88 min Spielen

7

The Ideal Palace

Follows Joseph Ferdinand Chavel a French postman who built a palace in the French countryside over 33 years.

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7

2019 Drama 105 min Spielen

5.6

Father Son Therapy

A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip.

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5.6

2016 Comedy 92 min Spielen

4.2

Week-ends

It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, Sylvette and Ulrich, are no longer such good friends. Everything is falling apart at the seams. But life is always full of surprises.

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4.2

2014 Comedy 90 min Spielen

6.8

24 Days

When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".

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6.8

2014 Drama 110 min Spielen

6.5

Hippocrates

Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is far more experimented than he is. This internship will force Benjamin to confront his limits… and start his way to adulthood.

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6.5

2014 Drama 101 min Spielen

6.9

The Finishers

Julien, 17, is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy. Despite their love for him, his family is gradually falling apart under the strain of dealing with his disability. In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him in the Ironman race in Nice (French Riviera), a triathlon in which his father has previously competed.

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6.9

2013 Drama 94 min Spielen

5.7

Blind Man

A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.

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5.7

2012 Action 94 min Spielen

6.3

The First Man

Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy come flooding back.

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6.3

2011 Drama 100 min Spielen

4.6

Holidays by the Sea

A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.

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4.6

2011 Comedy 77 min Spielen

7.3

Der Name der Leute

Die junge attraktive Bahia trägt ihren außergewöhnlichen Namen mit Stolz, kämpft mit aufbrausender Leidenschaft für alle gerade verfügbaren Randgruppen und dürfte für ihren Geschmack ruhig ein bisschen weniger französisch aussehen. Auch sonst hat die charmante Politaktivistin ihren eigenen Weg gefunden, die Welt zu verbessern: Ganz nach dem Lebensmotto ihrer hippiebewegten Eltern, „Make love, not war", schläft sie mit politisch rechts stehenden Männern, um sie ideologisch umzudrehen. Eine ...

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7.3

2010 Drama 100 min Spielen

7.6

C’est la vie – So sind wir, so ist das Leben

Der Film porträtiert fast zwei Jahrzehnte im Leben der französischen Durchschnittsfamilie Duval. Über die Jahre hinweg ist das Familienleben immer wieder von Schicksalsschlägen und Meinungsverschiedenheiten gekennzeichnet, aber es gibt auch viele schöne Momente im Leben der Duvals...

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7.6

2008 Drama 114 min Spielen

6.8

Safe Conduct

The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have to write anything collaborationist. Devaivre is in dangerous political activity. Devaivre also works for the German production company Continental where he is respected. On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting doesn't help how he lives and he is ...

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6.8

2002 Drama 170 min Spielen

5.9

The Color of Lies

In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a ...

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5.9

1999 Crime 113 min Spielen

7.2

The Children of the Marshland

The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.

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7.2

1999 Comedy 115 min Spielen

5

Mauvais Genre

The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok (Jacques Gamblin) promotes his new sexy novel La Fille de Dos ("Girl Observed From the Rear") with a round of book-signings and talk-shows. When beautiful hat designer Camille (Monica Bellucci) buys the book, Martial follows her and spies on her as she reads his book and removes her clothing. It's the beginning of his obsession and also an ...

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5

1997 Comedy 90 min Spielen

6.1

All That… for This?!

The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge who get on with the trial and who are being unfaithful to their couples.

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6.1

1993 Comedy 116 min Spielen