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Denis Podalydès
Born: 22nd Apr 1963 Versailles, Yvelines, France
Dept: Acting
Denis Podalydès (born 22 April 1963) is a French actor and writer.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 181
Film: 169 (93%)
Television: 12 (7%)
Remaining genres not in graph: War & Politics, Adventure, Fantasy, Music, Horror, Action
Filmography
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A wild, tragicomic adventure that satirizes history through dueling narratives by Jules Verne and his wife Honorine, each recounting young Charles Dar ... view
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Survivor of a shipwreck, Viola arrives in Illyria and disguises herself as a man to protect herself. ... view
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Orsino
Original title: De la Comédie-Française
2026
At the Comédie-Française, there is one golden rule: the play is never canceled. Unfortunately for Nina, everything else is—just three hours before ... view
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La voix de Radio Molière (voice)
2026
Lola, a young animal rights activist, mysteriously travels to Paris during the Salon de l'Agriculture. As she settles into her hotel room, where nothi ... view
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Original title: Maigret et le mort amoureux
2026
Commissioner Maigret rushes to the Quai d’Orsay with Lieutenant Janvier. There, they find Mademoiselle Larrieu in a state of shock. That very mornin ... view
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Commissaire Jules Maigret
Original title: Rembrandt
2025
Claire and Yves, trained as physicists, have worked in the nuclear industry their entire lives. During a visit to the National Gallery, Claire is deep ... view
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Gregory
Original title: Le Répondeur
2025
Baptiste, a talented imitator, is unable to make a living from his art. One day, he is approached by Pierre Chozène, a famous but discreet novelist, ... view
Character:
Pierre Chozène
Original title: Le Dernier souffle
2025
In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death… A whirlwind of encounters ... view
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Fabrice Toussaint
Original title: La Plus Précieuse des marchandises
2024
Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives we ... view
Character:
Man with the Broken Face (voice)
Original title: La Petite Vadrouille
2024
To overcome their financial problems, Justine, her husband and their whole group of friends organize a fake romantic cruise for Franck, a big investor ... view
Character:
Albin
2024
Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting to protect their factory from being relocated. But ... view
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Simon
Original title: Sarah Bernhardt, à corps perdu
2023
Television documentary about the life and importance of actress Sarah Bernhardt. ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Bernadette
2023
When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had always worked in the shadow of h ... view
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Bernard Niquet
Original title: Le retour
2023
Kheìdidja, in her forties, works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers her the opportunity to take care of their children for a summer in Corsica. ... view
Character:
Marc
Original title: Wahou !
2023
Catherine and Oracio are real estate advisors, and are visiting two properties in quick succession: a large bourgeois house "which can have a swimming ... view
Character:
Le client silencieux
Original title: L'Établi
2023
A few months after May '68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a far-left activist, decides to get a job at Citroën as a line wo ... view
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Junot
Original title: Je verrai toujours vos visages
2023
Since 2014, France's restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawell ... view
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Paul
Original title: Le Roi Lear
2023
King Lear, as he ages, decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. However, the transfer of power comes wit ... view
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Lear
Original title: La grande magie
2023
The 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby conjurer, makes Marta, the wife of the wealthy bourgeois Ch ... view
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Charles
Original title: Le Tourbillon de la vie
2022
Paris 2052. Julia, 80 years old, had a fulfilled life. On her birthday, she reflects on the decisions and circumstances that could have led her on dif ... view
Character:
Victor Massenet
2022
Sami works in a children's home which is set to be closed. The young man is an enthusiastic stadium usher and has convinced the president of the Olymp ... view
Character:
Le président de l’OM
Jun 2022 (first aired)
Mira is an American movie star disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, who comes to France to star as “Irma Vep” in a remake of the Fren ... view
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Police Prefect (1 ep.)
Original title: Sigmund Freud, un juif sans Dieu
2022
An account of the life and work of the influential Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), an iconic figure and a godless demigod who dared t ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
Original title: Le Monde d'hier
2022
A moral tale and a political thriller: a few days before the term of her mandate, the President must make a major decision concerning the destiny of F ... view
Character:
Franck L’Herbier
Original title: En corps
2022
Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheat ... view
Character:
Henri Gautier
2022
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Molière’s birth on 15 January 2022, Ivo van Hove reunited with the Troupe for their third collaboration ... view
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Orgon, mari d’Elmire
2021
The crazy rise and fall of Jacques Tati, comedy genius, actor, director and athlete of laughter. Or how the inventor of the mythical Mr. Hulot made Fr ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Oranges sanguines
2021
Simultaneously, a retired couple overwhelmed by debt tries to win a dance contest, as the minister of economy is suspected of tax evasion, and a teena ... view
Character:
Le ténor du barreau
2021
A fresh new look at Lolita, the famous and controversial novel published in 1955 by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov (1891-1977), a masterpiece of Engl ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
This short film presents graphic designer Philippe Apeloig's installation: "Ces murs qui nous font signe" (These walls that beckon us). At the Panthé ... view
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Narrator (voice)
Original title: Les Amours d’Anaïs
2021
A young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him. ... view
Character:
Daniel
Original title: Les Fantasmes
2021
Faced with their fantasies, six couples try to explore the hidden sides of their intimate life. Six questions on access to pleasure. From role play to ... view
Character:
Vincent Lebrun (sketch 'Ludophilie')
Original title: Tromperie
2021
An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women. His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as the ... view
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Philip
Original title: Présidents
2021
A former french President, Nicolas, decides to persuade another one, François, to campaign together in order to return to the front stage of politics ... view
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Le psy
Original title: Napoléon : la destinée et la mort
2021
May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to take his last breath. The son of a Corsican family, h ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution in ... view
Character:
Georges Clemenceau (voice)
Original title: Les 2 Alfred
2021
Down-on-his-luck, unemployed Alexandre has two months to prove to his wife he can take care of his two young kids and be financially independent. Now, ... view
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Alexandre Duveteux
Original title: Vie et destin du Livre noir, la destruction des Juifs d'URSS
2020
The Black Book, drafted during World War II, gathers numerous unique historical testimonies, in an effort to document Nazi abuses against Jews in the ... view
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(voice)
2020
50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 to his burial at Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises in 1970. ... view
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(voice)
Original title: Effacer l'historique
2020
In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s fa ... view
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Bertrand
2020
In collaboration with AIDES, an association fighting against HIV, this feature film brings together over 30 artists to explore the freedom to love bey ... view
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Original title: Toute ressemblance…
2019
Since his sensational arrival at the head of the 20 Hours, Cédric Saint Guérande, known as "CSG" is THE favorite presenter of the French. His insole ... view
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Julien Demaistre
2019
Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love ... view
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François
Original title: Le Roman de la colère
2019
In April 1939, "Grapes of Wrath" entered the pantheon of literature with a bang. Americans are at loggerheads over the odyssey of the Joad family, ten ... view
Character:
Reciter (voice)
Original title: J'accuse
2019
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony. ... view
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Maître Demange
2019
A staging of Pascal Rambert's play "Architecture" by himself. ... view
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Original title: Marie-Antoinette, ils ont jugé la reine
2018
Chronicle of the last months of Marie-Antoinette.Accused of having conspired against the new republic,with her children taken away and guillotined hus ... view
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Narrator
Original title: Conversation avec Romy Schneider
2018
During a night in Cologne in 1976, Romy Schneider opens up like she’d never done before. An intimate portrait based on audio recordings of her inter ... view
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Narrator (voice)
2018
In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly comp ... view
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Stanislas de Chazelle
2018
Born to a poor farming family in Brittany, Bécassine finds work as a nanny with the Marquise de Grand-Air who has recently adopted a lovely baby name ... view
Character:
M. Proey-Minans
Original title: Plaire, aimer et courir vite
2018
At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a wo ... view
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Mathieu
Original title: Le Manuscrit sauvé du KGB
2018
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental ... view
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Self - Narrator (voice)
Original title: Au revoir là-haut
2017
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageou ... view
Character:
The Minister (voice)
Original title: Les Grands Esprits
2017
Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of ... view
Character:
François Foucault
2017
A woman at the age of 50 moves back in with her parents after her husband leave her for a younger woman. ... view
Character:
Emmanuel Doublet
Mar 2017 (first aired)
By making the Elysée Palace the most coveted, and also one of the most mysterious residences in France, the founder of the Fifth Republic surely neve ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice) (2 ep.)
2017
How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals ... view
Character:
Le Psy
2017
A cat with velvet paws is full of love for his elderly mistress, who loves him right back. ... view
Character:
(voice)
2016
Emile Dutilleul, 47 years old, lives a quiet and withdrawn life in Montmartre and works as an employee in an open-plan office with an insurance compan ... view
Character:
Émile Dutilleul
2016
One hundred and twenty years of film history in a warehouse in Paris. In the reserves of the French Cinematheque, where thousands of cameras and proje ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: La Mécanique de l'ombre
2016
Two years after a burn-out, Duval is still unemployed. Contacted by an enigmatic businessman, he is offered a simple and well-paid job: transcribing t ... view
Character:
Clément
Original title: Les Jeux d'Hitler, Berlin 1936
2016
Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as a grand showcase for a Germany that was athletic, ... view
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Narrator (voice)
Original title: Ils sont partout
2016
Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the ... view
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Talmudiste #2
2016
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Fo ... view
Character:
Louis Lumière
Original title: Comme un avion
2015
Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean ... view
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Rémi
2015
A French adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "Richard II", staged by Jean-Baptiste Sastre. ... view
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Richard II
Original title: Un village presque parfait!
2014
"Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne", a tiny village hurt by the financial crisis and the desertification. Its last hope : Start back the Smoked Salmon factory. ... view
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Henri
Original title: La Forêt
2014
The Forest is both a vibrantly spontaneous and brutally funny family drama, and a glorious tribute to acting and theater - in other words, an Arnaud D ... view
Character:
Arkadi
Original title: Libre et assoupi
2014
Sebastian has one ambition in life: to do nothing. His horizon is his couch. His life he does not want to live but contemplate. But today, if you do n ... view
Character:
Richard
2014
A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Maria Skłodowska-Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution to wounded soldiers' treatment during ... view
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Narrator (voice)
Original title: L'amour est un crime parfait
2013
Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge ... view
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Richard
Original title: Les conquérants
2013
Half-brothers Galaad and Noé first meet at their father's funeral. They have little in common, apart from an equal share of personal failures. Convin ... view
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Galaad
Sep 2013 (first aired)
Casting(s) was a French television shortcom created by Pierre Niney and Ali Marhyar, written by Ali Marhyar, Igor Gotesman and Pierre Niney, produced ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: Pour une femme
2013
After the death of her mother, Anne makes a shocking discovery: an old photograph casts doubt on her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious un ... view
Character:
Maurice
2013
With the ghost of Delphine, a sociétaire who committed suicide several months earlier, still hanging over the place, an unexplained series of backsta ... view
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Philippe Laclanche
Original title: Le Grand Méchant Loup
2013
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering a ... view
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Dr. Stanislas de Lastic
2013
With the President of the Republic very ill, an advisor offers an unusual suggestion: hire a double to replace him during his convalescence. The lucky ... view
Character:
Barry
Original title: Camille redouble
2012
Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for ... view
Character:
Alphonse Da Costa - le prof de physique
Original title: Vous n'avez encore rien vu
2012
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play 'Eurydice'. These a ... view
Character:
Antoine
Original title: Du vent dans mes mollets
2012
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her. ... view
Character:
Michel Gladstein
Original title: Adieu Berthe ou l'enterrement de mémé
2012
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky c ... view
Character:
Armand
Original title: La Clé des Champs
2011
A man remembers holidays at his uncle in a little village in the French countryside when he was something like 10. He feels so bored until he finds a ... view
Character:
Le narrateur (voice)
Original title: Le Premier Homme
2011
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 childh ... view
Character:
Professor Bernard
Original title: Omar m'a tuer
2011
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill ... view
Character:
Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard
Original title: La Conquête
2011
A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power. ... view
Character:
Nicolas Sarkozy
Original title: L'Illusion comique
2010
In this contemporary adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s brilliant, eponymous 17th century play, the enigmatic Alcandre is now a hotel concierge who us ... view
Character:
Matamore
2010
Writer George Sand (played by Ariane Ascaride) takes a young peasant girl under her wing. ... view
Character:
Agricol Thiercellin
Original title: 8 fois debout
2010
Elsa makes a living from little jobs, struggling to gain custody of his son. Mathieu, who lives next door, also keeps getting job interviews only to p ... view
Character:
Mathieu
Original title: Une Exécution ordinaire
2010
During the last days of Stalin's reign, a doctor (Marina Hands) tries to go unnoticed in a society of mutual dread where a neighbour or colleague migh ... view
Character:
Le concierge
Character:
Harpagon
Original title: Kérity, la maison des contes
2009
Natanaël, seven, still doesn't know how to read. His eccentric old aunt bequeaths her house to his parents and her book collection to the young boy. ... view
Character:
Le Père - dad (voice)
Original title: Une affaire d'État
2009
A plane explodes above the Gulf of Guinea. An escort girl is murdered in a Parisian park. Thousands of miles separate these two events, and yet Nora C ... view
Character:
Flandin
Original title: Rien de personnel
2009
The Muller company organizes a reception to mark the launch of a new product. During the evening, we discover that this is actually a coaching exercis ... view
Character:
Gilles Bergerat
Original title: Neuilly sa Mère !
2009
Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly. ... view
Character:
Stanislas de Chazelle
Original title: Bancs publics (Versailles rive droite)
2009
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every ... view
Character:
Aimé Mermot
Original title: La Journée de la jupe
2008
A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage. ... view
Character:
Chief Brigadier Labouret, negotiator
Original title: Coluche, l'histoire d'un mec
2008
French comedian Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, announces - for laughs - his candidacy for the 1981 French presidential elections. ... view
Character:
Jacques Attali
2008
Pauline, une riche héritière, a été mariée contre son gré par son père à un de ses employés, François, qui l'avait mise enceinte.Quand, quel ... view
Character:
Alexis Taget
2008
France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation. In 1954, 19-year-old F ... view
Character:
Guy Schoeller
2008
When the dead body of Mr Kaplan is found, a kitchen knife in the back, all eyes turn to the maid. When the widow reveals that her departed husband was ... view
Character:
Louis Berger
Original title: Caos calmo
2008
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns ... view
Character:
Thierry
2008
Seville, 1766. Count Almaviva falls in love with a young woman called Rosina, who lives under the tutelage of the old doctor Bartolo. Thanks to the he ... view
Character:
Figaro
Original title: Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
2007
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak ... view
Character:
The manager (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
2007
A small-town detective unravels a web of secrets after a mysterious hanging jolts the community. As whispers of betrayal surface, he confronts his own ... view
Character:
Legoff
2007
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 w ... view
Character:
Martin (voice)
2007
A novelist, an actress, and a struggling young singer all attempt to make their mark in modern day Paris in director Marc Fitoussi's cynical entertain ... view
Character:
Bertrand
Mar 2007 (first aired)
"Chez Maupassant" is a French anthology television series based on short stories by Guy de Maupassant. Created by Gérard Jourd'hui and Gaëlle Girre, ... view
Character:
le comte de Sallure (1 ep.)
Original title: Sartre, l'âge des passions
2006
Biographical film about French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, concentrating on his passionate affairs with women. ... view
Character:
Jean-Paul Sartre
2006
Victoire wakes up one morning to find the body of her partner, Felix, lying on the floor of her bedroom. Without being able to reconstruct the course ... view
Character:
Louis-Philippe
2006
A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious myste ... view
Character:
Flight Controller
Mar 2006 (first aired)
Le Grand Charles was a 2006 French TV-drama on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959, written and directed by Bernard Stora. De Gaulle was p ... view
Character:
Claude Mauriac (2 ep.)
Original title: Le Temps des porte-plumes
2006
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service. ... view
Character:
Falmin
Original title: Palais royal !
2005
Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the ... view
Character:
Titi
2005
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that ... view
Character:
Yvon
Original title: Les Âmes grises
2005
In 1917, the old rivalry between a prosecutor and a judge resurfaces during a police investigation into the murder of a child. ... view
Character:
Le policier
Original title: Le Parfum de la dame en noir
2005
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shoc ... view
Character:
Joseph "Rouletabille" Joséphin
Original title: Le Pont des Arts
2004
The film is a love story which tells the impossible tale of two youths who have never before met. The action unrolls in Paris between 1979 and 1980. ... view
Character:
Guigui, alias l'Innomable
Original title: Bienvenue en Suisse
2004
Thierry, an ethnologist specializing in the Sami people, travels to his native Switzerland with his partner, Sophie, to attend his grandmother's funer ... view
Character:
Thierry
Original title: Vert paradis
2004
Lucas, a young sociologist, finds in his home village two friends, Isabelle and Simon. Discovering that they almost got married ten years earlier, he ... view
Character:
Lucas
Original title: Le Mystère de la chambre jaune
2003
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the titl ... view
Character:
Joseph Rouletabille
Original title: Il est plus facile pour un chameau...
2003
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton ... view
Character:
Philippe
Original title: Un monde presque paisible
2002
Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restar ... view
Character:
Charles
Original title: Une affaire qui roule
2002
Tired of being bossed around, Jean-Jacques, a talented cook quits his job to start up his own restaurant. He does a business course run by Claude, a f ... view
Character:
Claude Carle
Original title: Un jour dans la vie du cinéma français
2002
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Embrassez qui vous voudrez
2002
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it ... view
Character:
Jérôme
Original title: Laissez-passer
2002
During the Nazi occupation of France, two filmmakers try to build a career without compromising their ideals. ... view
Character:
Jean Aurenche
Original title: Malraux, tu m'étonnes!
2001
Feature film about the life of André Malraux. While still a teenager, Malraux embarks on an initiatory journey in search of the artistic and literary ... view
Character:
2001
Françoise Barnier, the film's heroine, is a mother. One day, she stole something. She was in dire straits but no more so than usual. She was not in d ... view
Character:
L'avocat
2001
Jean, a young Parisian philosopher, travels to Angoulême to take part in a recruitment competition for the National Education. On the bus, he meets t ... view
Character:
Jean Dupuis
Original title: La Chambre des officiers
2001
The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâ ... view
Character:
Henri
Original title: Liberté-Oléron
2001
39 years old Jacques Monot is tired from the same vacation he and his family have every year so he decides to buy a boat. ... view
Character:
Jacques Monot
2001
Haunted by the mysterious death of her son, found drowned, Anna returns to the town where he lived. ... view
Character:
Thomas Meils
Original title: Mortel transfert
2001
Michel, a psycho-analyst, falls asleep while listening to his patient Olga, a kleptomaniac and a sexual pervert, tell him how she likes her husband be ... view
Character:
Inspector Chapireau
Original title: Comédie de l'innocence
2000
Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat ... view
Character:
Pierre
Sep 2000 (first aired)
Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison f ... view
Character:
Scaufflaire (4 ep.)
Original title: Les Frères Sœur
2000
The Soeur brothers would like to work in the film making business. They wrote a complex story that doesn't make any sense, and nobody wants to produce ... view
Character:
Jacques Sœur
2000
Theater play "Le misanthrope" played by the "Comédie française" in 2000. ... view
Character:
Alceste
Original title: À l'attaque !
2000
Two scriptwriter friends with opposing personalities fuss and fight as they cobble together a script for a modern political film. Their arguments seem ... view
Character:
Yvan
Original title: Les Enfants du Siècle
1999
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But the ... view
Character:
Sainte-Beuve
Original title: Rien sur Robert
1999
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles. ... view
Character:
Martin
Original title: En plein cœur
1998
High-profile lawyer Michel takes on the defence of a young and pretty small-time thief, Cécile, after the botched hold-up of a jewellery shop. As pre ... view
Character:
Martorel
1998
Michel, a children's book author, has always been successful in life until the day his wife leaves him for a Chinese person. Planning on killing his r ... view
Character:
Gérard
1998
Theater play "Les fourberies de Scapin" played by the "Comédie française" in 1998. ... view
Character:
Octave
Original title: Dieu seul me voit
1998
Albert, a sound engineer who is chronically hesitant successively meets three charming young women who will, each in their own way, provoke and help h ... view
Character:
Albert
Original title: Jeanne et le garçon formidable
1998
Jeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has finally found it with Olivier. However, Olivier rev ... view
Character:
Julien
Original title: La Divine Poursuite
1997
A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of the ... view
Character:
Marc
Original title: Je suis ton châtiment
1996
An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a differenc ... view
Character:
The Failed Killer
1996
As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the o ... view
Character:
Papapote
Original title: Comment je me suis disputé… (ma vie sexuelle)
1996
Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full profess ... view
Character:
Jean-Jacques
1996
An aviation magnate takes desperate measures to regain custody of his kids after he is granted minimal visitation rights by a harsh female judge. It's ... view
Character:
Sanchez
Original title: Le Journal du séducteur
1996
Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At sc ... view
Character:
Accompanying Male Nurse
Original title: État des lieux
1995
Pierre, a young man in his thirties, grew up with his two brothers in a city in the suburbs of Paris. He still lives there today with his wife, Debora ... view
Character:
Employé de l'ANPE
Original title: La mal-aimée
1995
An idle teenager with a bad attitude kidnaps a neighbor's baby. ... view
Character:
Le jeune père
Original title: Pas très catholique
1994
A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman i ... view
Character:
Martin
Original title: Versailles Rive-Gauche
1992
A young man in Versailles invites a Parisian girl to his place for dinner. The evening is thrown into turmoil. ... view
Character:
Arnaud
Original title: Mayrig
1991
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Mar ... view
Character:
Soghomon Tehlirian
Original title: Ξένια
1989
A young French actor, Matthieu comes to Greece. He meets a pregnant Greek woman, Xenia, who leaves for Andalusia to give birth there. Car breakdowns, ... view
Character:
Matthieu