Dominique Farrugia

Dominique Farrugia (born 2 September 1962) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, humorist and comedian. He is a member and founder of the group of comedians Les Nuls alongside Alain Chabat, Chantal Lauby and Bruno Carette. Farrugia was born in Vichy, France, to a Jewish pied-noir and Maltese family. Since the launching of Canal+, in 1984, he works in editing trailers and as a broadcast production assistant on the Tous en scène show. Thus he meets Canal+ first weatherman, Alain Chabat, with whom he would form the group of comedians Les Nuls alongside Chantal Lauby and Bruno Carette in 1986. In 1987 he is included in the writing of the TV series Objective: nul (7 d'Or for best comedy TV show), the first parody by Les Nuls. He hosts a parodic weather forecast in the 'JTN' of 'Nulle part ailleurs' from 1987 to 1988. Initially, he did not want to act, but rather write. The absence of one of the actors in an episode of Objective: nul accidentally placed him in front of the camera. TVN 595, a TV special which was broadcast in October 1988, won the 7 d'Or for best show. Les Nuls' career lasts until 1992. In 1994, La Cité de la peur is released making 3,216,436 entries in the French box office. After Les Nuls split, Dominique Farrugia starts a film career as a director with Delphine 1, Yvan 0 and Trafic d'influence. He subsequently becomes a producer founding the RF2K production company with the actor Olivier Granier. In 1997 he founded the cable and satellite TV channel Comédie!, discovering new comic talents such as Les Robins des Bois, Franck Dubosc, Titoff, Kad & Olivier and Jonathan Lambert. In April 2001, he created the cable and satellite TV channel Cuisine TV. In 2001-2002, he produces Vidocq (1,865,998 entries in France) and Monsieur Batignole (1,872,045 entries in France). In 2002, he first becomes director-general and deputy director of broadcasting and programming at Canal+ and later president from April 2002 to February 2003 and to date, only assistant becoming president of Canal+. In July 2003, he created FEW (Farrudg Entertainment Worldwide), a media company producing feature films. In 2007 he produced the show of Manu Payet, then two years later of Laurent Lafitte. In 2009, he launched the website Les graves infos which presents false news. The site is closed on 23 February 2010. In 2010, he co-directed with Arnaud Lemort the film L'amour c'est mieux à deux (1,250,000 entries in France, more profitable movie of 2010, with its particular stage of Clovis Cornillac, Virginia Efira and Manu Payet). Between September 2010 and May 2011, he is a columnist in the show Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil, hosted by Bruce Toussaint, every Sunday on Canal+. On 20 November 2012, FEW, his production company and Luc Besson's EuropaCorp, signed an agreement under which all FEW films will be produced exclusively in partnership with EuropaCorp. Source: Article "Dominique Farrugia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

La Cape et l'épée

Release Date2000-11-04

Charactersd Ménestrel

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Les Nuls, l'émission

Release Date1990-10-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Self - Various characters

Episode Count56

Vote Count5

Histoire(s) de la télévision

Release Date1990-03-12

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Gilou Gilet (le fils)

Episode Count[ 54 ]

Vote Count2

Ça cartoon

Release Date1986-02-16

Charactersd Silent Projectionist

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

RRRrrrr!!!

In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy tribe to get some shampoo for his tribe. When the healer of the Clean Hairs tribe surprisingly kills two cavemen of his tribe, their imbecile chief assigns Pierre with curled hair and Pierre blonde to investigate the murder and find the criminal.

Release Date2004-01-28

Charactersd Le Gourdinier

Vote Count1188

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.

Release Date1994-03-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Simon Jérémi / Benjamin / Michel, TV journalist

Vote Count1294

Didier

Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...

Release Date1997-01-29

Charactersd Commentateur sportif, Jean-Philippe

Vote Count620

Room(h)ates

Delphine and Yvan divorce. While his financial situation does not allow him to find a home, Yvan remembers that he owns 20% of his ex-wife's house. He then returned to live with Delphine, in his 20%. The two ex will discover the joys of forced housemates.

Release Date2017-04-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Copain Yvan 1

Vote Count394

Influence Peddling

Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer, is assigned the banal task of escorting them to the nearest prison in Melun. Things get complicated when killers try to knock them off. Meanwhile, they must contend with strikes which have paralyzed the country and make travelling a nightmare. Added to this mess are the prisoners' many botch escape attempts. All these complications turn a simple transfer into a hellish adventure.

Release Date1999-03-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd l'employé du Funérarium

Vote Count43

La Classe américaine

George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)

Release Date1993-12-31

Charactersd Dubbing Voice (voice)

Vote Count235

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

Release Date1991-04-24

Charactersd Le vendeur du sentier

Vote Count26

The Car Keys

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

Release Date2003-12-10

Charactersd Producer

Vote Count76

Leave Your Hands on My Hips

Odile is 42 years old actress and single mother. One day her 18 year old daughter decided to leave her and start living with the boyfriend. All of a sudden alone in her empty house, the anguish takes over...

Release Date2003-08-03

Charactersd Le dragueur du VIP

Vote Count33

Paparazzi

Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.

Release Date1998-04-29

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Dominique Farrugia (uncredited)

Vote Count67

Casablanca Driver

This mockumentary follows the world's worst boxer and the events that led to his meteoric rise in the year 1969.

Release Date2004-06-30

Charactersd Walter Goudon, le clochard bookmaker

Vote Count28

Let There Be Light!

God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

Release Date1998-07-08

Charactersd Le chauffeur de taxi

Vote Count5

The Strategy of Failure

My various experiences in the field of failure have allowed me to highlight specific areas in which it is crucial to get disorganized and to recognize the steps to be taken to end in ineffective management. This sentence is totally incomprehensible. It's normal. The longer the sentences, the less we understand them. It is the strategy of failure. To help us understand the failure and illustrate this video, we will need two men who we will call Luc for further misunderstanding. We will also need a woman whom we will call Sylvie for hygiene reasons.

Release Date2001-11-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Le Présentateur

Vote Count27

Le Clone

Thomas is a computer whiz working on a program aimed at curing timidity. The program's host, Leo, is Thomas' alter ego. One night, he decides to see the world for himself and takes over the body of Patrice, the houseworker.

Release Date1998-06-17

Charactersd Réceptionniste hôtel

Vote Count17

Delphine : 1, Yvan : 0

C'est une histoire d'amour banale présentée comme un match de foot ordinaire. Ce sont donc Thierry Roland et Jean-Michel Larqué qui commentent, avec leurs mots (d'amour) et leurs noms (d'oiseaux), la première année de vie en couple de Delphine et Yvan, filmés pas à pas, dans leurs ébats et leurs éclats.

Release Date1996-06-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Serge

Vote Count27

Les nuls, l'émission avec Lio

Release Date1991-01-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd self

L'Intégrule 2 - Les Nuls

Release Date2004-11-15

Charactersd (archive footage)

Vote Count18

L'Intégrule - Les Nuls

Release Date2003-11-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScenario Writer

Charactersd (archive footage)

Vote Count28

Les nuls, l'émission

Release Date1991-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd self

Champs-Elysées

Release Date1982-01-16

Charactersd Self - Les Nuls

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

Vivement dimanche

Release Date1998-09-20

Charactersd Self

Episode Count2

Vote Count7

Sacrée soirée

Release Date1987-09-02

Charactersd Self - Les Nuls

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Clique

Release Date2013-09-01

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Salut les Terriens !

Release Date2006-11-04

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Hot Ones

Watch Kyan Khojandi interview celebrities as they burn their tastebuds!

Release Date2022-04-12

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

A.B.C.D. Nuls

A.B.C.D. Nuls

Release Date1989-08-28

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Self

Episode Count[ 54 ]

Panique dans l'oreillette

Release Date2008-09-06

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Le Late avec Alain Chabat

Alain Chabat hosts a brand-new late show for TF1: games, fake ads, stand up, live music and interviews with all the personalities of the entertainment world!

Release Date2022-11-21

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Burger Quiz

A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host.

Release Date2001-08-27

Charactersd Self

Episode Count13

Vote Count22

Who Wants to Win Millions?

Starting with easy multiple-choice questions that gradually get more challenging, contestants have only their wits and three lifeline chances to see them through to the grand prize of one million euros

Release Date2000-07-03

Charactersd Self - Contestant

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

On n'est pas couché

On n'est pas couché was a French talk show broadcast on France 2 on Saturdays at 11 p.m., hosted by Laurent Ruquier assisted by various columnists.

Release Date2006-09-16

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

Release Date2022-12-21

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Camille & images en hebdo

Camille & images en hebdo

Release Date2023-11-09

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vidéo Club

Vidéo Club

Release Date2018-07-10

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

40

Primetime special to celebrate 40 years of CANAL+.

Release Date2024-11-04

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

L'Âge d'or de la pub

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of creative little films would seduce and build our collective memory. Kitschy or cult spots, humor, slogans, music, stars, gimmicks, grand spectacle or sex appeal: during its golden age, how did advertising convince? Thierry Ardisson has brought together almost 400 advertising clips to relive the era of the conquest of minds and wallets.

Release Date2023-06-02

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count6

CANAL+'s 30th anniversary

Primetime special to celebrate 30 years of CANAL+.

Release Date2014-11-04

Charactersd Self

Bacri, comme un air de famille

Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January 2021, this film tells the story of this quintessential Frenchman: a man turned towards others, an actor by accident, a moralist by vocation, who was left unaffected by flattery and false honors by success, and ready for all kinds of anger when it was necessary to speak out against injustice and stupidity. The film tells the story of how Jean-Pierre Bacri's life changed several times: from Algeria to France when he was eleven years old in 1962; from bank clerk to apprentice theater actor; from Pieds-noirs film star to screenwriter for Alain Resnais; and from Cannes playboy to Agnès Jaoui's mad lover, the most decisive encounter for his life as well as for his work

Release Date2022-01-14

Charactersd Self

Vote Count5

Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)

Les portraits désormais cultes de Stéphane Guillon sur Canal+ . S'adressant aux invités, il ose un ton inédit, parfois irrévérencieux mais toujours hilarant et taquine avec facétie et perspicacité Jean Dujardin, IAM, Christophe Lambert, Judith Godrèche, Rocco Siffredi, David Douillet, Joey Starr, Fabrice Luchini, Nagui, Marianne James, Bernard Kouchner... Et retrouvez en bonus, les invités en colère qui ne voulaient plus jamais entendre parler de leur portrait !...

Release Date2008-10-07

Charactersd Self

La télé des Nuls

Release Date2019-11-02

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

TVN 595, la télévision des nuls

Release Date1988-11-26

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Les Nuls : La Pub

Release Date1992-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count7

Carême

Witness the rise of the world's first celebrity chef, Antonin Carême, and his descent into espionage in Napoleon-era France—where manipulation is king. With his gifts for gastronomy and seduction, he becomes the perfect weapon in a fight for power.

Release Date2025-04-30

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count21

Serial Lover

Camille's life changes when the man she loves disappears overnight after emptying his bank account.

Release Date2022-07-29

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count4

Vote Count3

No Goal

Release Date1987-02-02

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count5

Robins des bois, the Story

Robins des bois, the Story

Release Date1990-01-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Rien ne t'efface

Rien ne t'efface

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vidocq

Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...

Release Date2001-09-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count543

Bis

Éric and Patrice have been friends since high school. Over the years, they have both taken very different paths: Éric has become a hedonist, has a string of girlfriends and is always on the look out for a new one; Patrice has become a monogamous father with a very ordered life. After a drunken evening, the two childhood friends find themselves cast back into 1986, when they were 17 years old. This return to the past is a dream opportunity to try to change the path their lives will take. What will they do with this second chance?

Release Date2015-02-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count556

10 Days with Dad

Antoine is the Head of HR of a big company. Managing people is his thing, so when his overwhelmed wife suddenly decides to go on holiday and leave him with the responsibility of the house and their four kids, he knows it will be a piece of cake for him. But Antoine has drastically underestimated the mess that four mischievous kids can cause...

Release Date2020-02-19

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count309

Samedi soir en direct

Release Date2003-09-13

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Depression and Friends

When Frank is diagnosed with depression, his friends try to cheer him up -- and it quickly becomes clear that they're just as down and out as he is.

Release Date2012-04-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count155

Most Promising Young Actress

Yvon Rance, who runs a hair salon in Brittany, only wants his beloved teenaged daughter Laetita to be happy, something he believes she'll be able to achieve by completing high school and then following in her father's professional footsteps. When Laetita tells him that she has been cast in the latest movie by renowned director Stephane, he is initially unimpressed. He grudgingly relents when he learns that the money she will make for a couple months of work is twice what he makes in a year.

Release Date2000-05-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count71

RTT

When Florence, his companion of five years, shocks him with the news that she's leaving him, moving to Miami and marrying another man, Arthur loses it. He follows Florence to all the way to Florida with plans to stop the wedding, which is set to take place in just a few days. Along the way, he crosses paths with Emilie, who is also heading to Miami, but unlike Arthur, is wanted by the police. As a result, Arthur gets stuck on an adventure he definitely never expected.

Release Date2009-12-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count254

SOL

Sol, a famous Argentine Tango performer, has lived in Buenos Aires for many years. Behind her excessive temper and her glowing smile, the Diva hides an injury from which she never really recovered: the loss of her only son, Raphaël.

Release Date2020-01-08

DepartmentProduction

JobDelegated Producer

Vote Count35

Monsieur Batignole

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.

Release Date2002-03-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count230

The Perfect Date

Michel dreams of a perfect meeting with the woman of his dreams, entirely due to chance, as his parents and grandparents experienced. Vincent, Michel's contrast, is completely different. He is more the man of the direct approach and he follows his...! The two childhood friends Michel and Vincent, with completely opposite views when it comes to women, soon discover the limits of their respective techniques when they meet Angèle and Nathalie.

Release Date2010-05-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count210

Mes amis, mes amours

Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal outlook on life and Mac Enzie, the boss of Antoine's agency who is completley in love with Yvonne despite the big age difference.

Release Date2008-07-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count54

Sitcom, A Movie

In the morning, two friends, a producer and an actor, discover the corpse of a young woman who accompanied them the previous night. The shooting of the day is not going to go as planned at all.

Release Date1999-06-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Thank God We Have Each Other

Vincent is 13 years old and has a boundless admiration for his father. His father is unemployed and is mainly involved in football, pretending to become a professional trainer soon, and does not take care of his family. Vincent's mother manages everything, until one day, at the end of her tether, she attempts suicide.

Release Date2022-12-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count14

Never on the First Night

Julie, a woman who is unlucky in love despite her bubbly demeanor. Her job at a bookstore takes an interesting twist when she discovers a book titled "Happiness Can Be Learned," and she sets out to fix her love life once and for all.

Release Date2014-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count295

The Belgian Job

Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers that his candidacy is not accepted because he is Belgian, he and his compatriots decide to take revenge

Release Date2012-02-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count40

The Marquis

Thomas Gardesse, a traveling alarm systems salesman, is arrested for a minor offense and sentenced to six months imprisonment. To win the respect of his fellow inmates, he claims he is "The Marquis," a brilliant robber whose identity has remained a mystery. Two weeks before his release, an armed robber named Quentin Tasseau helps him escape and takes him to Manila so he can take part in a robbery whose mastermind requires the talents of the Marquis.

Release Date2011-03-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count182

Titoff au Palais des glaces

On the stage of the Palais des Glaces, accompanied by his everlasting chair, Titoff, experiments once more, the sketches of which he has the secret. After the "Chips" or the "Chasseur", the southern comedian conquers his public with some texts of his invention. Evoking subjects as diverse as men's fashion or the ravages of celebrity, Titoff makes the difference with a style based on improvisation.

Release Date2001-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Je vais mieux

A fifty-year-old man suffers from a sore back. All the world's doctors, radiologists, and oesteopaths can do nothing for him : the roots of his illness are pyschological. But what should he change about his work, his wife and his family in order to get better ?

Release Date2018-05-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count50

Soda

Soda is a French television series produced by CALT. The series follows Adam, an 18-year-old high school student as he struggles with amusing yet realistic everyday issues. His group of friends are always there to help him through it all.

Release Date2011-07-04

Episode Count30

Vote Count20

Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique

Show recorded at the Opéra Comique in Paris on March 6, 1995 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.

Release Date1995-03-08

Vote Count1

Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania

Show recorded on February 26, 1993 at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.

Release Date1993-03-06

Vote Count2

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

Release Date2014-12-13

Vote Count2

Le Show de Noël Must Go On

Hosted by French comedian Manu Payet, here to cheer you up for Christmas in such hard times.

Release Date2020-12-21

Vote Count5

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