5 Movies Starring Virginie Efira

Max & Co

Max & Co

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-02-06

Languages:

French

Countries:

Switzerland, Belgium, France, UK

Runtime:

76 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (225 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Christine Dory

Emmanuel Salinger

Fullplot:

15-year-old Max is in search of his father, the famous troubadour Johnny Bigoude, who disappeared shortly after Max's birth. He reaches Saint-Hilare where Madam Doudou, the old teacher, takes care of him and finds him a job as elevator musician in the fly swatter factory Bzzz & Co. But the factory doesn't run well and half of the village gets fired. To boost the swatter sales, a dangerous scientist creates a mass production of flies. Soon, a thick cloud of insects attacks the village... With courage and determination, Max and his new friend Fèlicie will do their best to neutralize the insane projects of Bzzz&Co. Will they manage to convince the villagers to help them in this adventure? All together will they stop the scientist's crazy handlings? And will Max find his father?

La chance de ma vie

La chance de ma vie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-01-05

Languages:

French, Korean

Countries:

France, Belgium

Runtime:

87 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (1459 Reviews)

Director:

Nicolas Cuche

Cast:

Writer:

Luc Bossi

Laurent Turner

Luc Bossi (idea)

Fullplot:

Julien Monnier has a serious problem. Though he's a brilliant couples counselor, he can't keep a woman in his life for more than two weeks. Indeed, ever since his childhood, Julien jinxes every woman who falls in love with him. But it's not just any small jinx. It's the kind that sends you to the hospital several times a week, that destroys your professional life or that turns your friends into enemies. Julien is strictly speaking a true black cat for women. Joanna Sorini will soon learn this at her expense the day she meets him. A career that's just taking off, a love life that finally seems to be taking a good turn, all that may just change.

Turning Tide

Turning Tide

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-11-06

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

101 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (1220 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jean Cottin (scenario)

Christophe Offenstein (scenario)

Frèdèric Petitjean (from a scenario by)

Pierre Marcel (from a scenario by)

Marc Guilbert (from a scenario by)

Frèdèric Petitjean (original idea)

Fullplot:

It tells the story of Yann Kermadec whose dreams suddenly come true when he has to replace the DCNS star skipper at the last minute before the start of the Vendèe Globe (a round-the-world non-stop single-handed yacht race). After several days of racing, Yann, who is in the lead, has to stop to repair a damaged rudder. This will disrupt his round-the-world journey...

It Boy

It Boy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-03-06

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (4738 Reviews)

Director:

David Moreau

Cast:

Writer:

Amro Hamzawi (original idea)

Amro Hamzawi (scenario and dialogue)

David Moreau (scenario and dialogue)

Amro Hamzawi (adaptation)

David Moreau (adaptation)

Virginie Efira (adaptation)

Fullplot:

The thirty-eight year-old ambitious and workaholic editor of the fashion magazine Rebelle Alice Lantins returns from Brazil to Paris and loses her flash memory in the airplane. However, the student of architecture Balthazar Apfel finds it and calls Alice to tell her. She schedules a meeting in the bar where Balthazar is drinking with his friends but he tells her that the device is at home. He offers a ride in his scooter to Alice and while he is putting the spare helmet on her, two coworkers of Alice see from an angle that make them believe that Balthazar is kissing Alice. They take a photo and posts it in the Twitter. On the next morning, everybody is laughing at Alice but the chief editor and her boss Vincent Khan loves the idea that Alice is dating someone twenty years younger. Alice decides to impersonate that she is in love with Balthazar to get a promotion in the magazine. But soon she learns that she should not trifle with love.

Dead Man Talking

Dead Man Talking

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-10-03

Languages:

French

Countries:

Belgium, Luxembourg, France

Runtime:

101 min

IMDB Ratings:

(308 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Sèbastien Lopez

Patrick Ridremont

Fullplot:

Forty-year-old William Lamers, an anonymous criminal sentenced to death for murder, is soon to be executed. The procedure is about to take place in an atmosphere of general indifference and neither the condemned man's family nor the relatives of his victims have bothered to come to witness the execution. Only a journalist from local rag has turned up to watch the "show." However, what was supposed to be a mere formality rapidly becomes a nightmare for Karl Raven, the prison director. When William is asked if he wishes to say something before he dies, William starts telling the story of his life and recounts an incredible, moving tale.

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