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Aurore (2006)
Character: Le Conseiller du Roi
Once upon a time there was a kingdom where dancing was forbidden by a tyrant king. Defying the edict of her father, the Princess Aurore continues to dance, for the amusement of herself and brother, Solal. With the kingdom virtually bankrupt, the King has no choice but to marry his daughter to a wealthy prince. As preparations are made for a ball that will set the seal on the marriage, the princess discovers that she is in love.
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Du fond du cœur (1994)
Character: Prosper de Barante
1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in love with her. He has the spirit of a young writer, weighed down by the hardships of life. Germaine, daughter of a wellknown figure, is one of the most brilliant woman of the century. Early on, Germaine lutes against Benjamin's love and only admits ot admiring his spirit. But, little by little, a violent and indispensable passion bonds them together. The two lovers continue to love one another and to struggle against this love for a period of twenty years. Season after season they meet and bask in each other's company. These intimate moments are at times ambivalent, but never lack in obstinance and passion.
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Voleur de coeur (1999)
Character: N/A
On the platform of a train station, the pretty Laurence is waiting for her fiancé. They have planned to go to Venice, but the young woman waits for hours for Prince Charming, who never comes. Meanwhile, Bruno Lombart, who lives on petty theft, has decided to lock his son Timothée in Laurence's apartment. The little boy's mission is to steal as many objects as possible. When the young woman returns home, disappointed, she is surprised to find little Timothy! He explains to her that if he doesn't bring back any booty from his expedition, he will be beaten. Out of pity, Laurence gives him a few trinkets, then drops him off in the street after having given him her coordinates...
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Le zoo de Monsieur Vanel (2015)
Character: N/A
At Vanel's zoo, there is Rafael, Ludovic and the elegant Mr. Vanel. There is also Philippe, the little monkey, and a very discreet panda, not to mention the Dutch tourists. When Marthe, the young and inexperienced accountant arrives to save the zoo's finances, she has no idea of the strange world she is entering into. That's because Mr. Vanel's zoo is not exactly an ordinary zoo.
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La chambre obscure (2000)
Character: N/A
In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.
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Der grüne Heinrich (1993)
Character: Henri le Vert / Heinrich
It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk on life, but the sensitive Henry does not follow him. Lys has betrayed his fiancé, as Henry once betrayed his lost love Anna. In memory of Anna and his cruel Dickensian childhood, Henry challenges Lys to a duel to try to appease his guilt.
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For This Is My Body (2016)
Character: Le manager
This is the story of an encounter. An encounter between a groupie and the rock star she has always worshipped, This is a story of fascination and despair. She has loved him for many years, idolized his every move, lived for his songs. He is a shell. Scarred, alcoholic and paranoid, ruined by success. They find each other one morning, in a hotel room. He needs to be saved and all she wants is to protect him.
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Une fille indigne (2024)
Character: Thierry
When Manon's mother discovers her daughter's unwanted pregnancy, she decides to organize her birthday party at the worst possible time. Despite secrets and manipulations, Manon will have to juggle her mother's temperament with her desire to make her happy.
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Les Infortunes de la beauté (1999)
Character: Vincent
This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and trying to define beauty. Daphne is a lovely women who is nonetheless unsure about her looks, compounded by the fact that she's fallen in love with Vincent, who has a policy of only dating models. Daphne's best friend Celine comes up with an idea -- she'll get her pal Jacques to paint a nude portrait of Daphne. When Vincent sees the painting, he'll be more attracted to the woman who posed for it, leading him to her doorstep. But of course, it isn't quite that simple.
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Lola Zipper (1991)
Character: Stéphane
With his job in the balance, Gérard bets his boss that he can transform bad-tempered street person Lola into television star material. With the inducement of stardom as his lure, he takes Lola in hand and becomes her instructor, sending her to ballet and acting classes, where she misbehaves. Most of her petulance is reserved for Gérard, however, but in the tradition of Pretty Woman and My Fair Lady, in the end he gets the girl and a new star -- in the same package.
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Teen spirit: Les ados à Hollywood (2009)
Character: Narrator
Teen movies have had a great impact on the movie industry - especially in the 80s. This documentary takes a closer look at the genre's origins and the impact it has made up till today.
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L'Amoureuse (1987)
Character: Thibault
A love story. But while the first is in love with the girl, the second boy has just met her and isn't ready to give her up. And the girl in love no longer knows which one to choose. The second is willing to dissappear from her life, to sacrifice himself ; if she accepts to marry him abroad in utmost secrecy...
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Le pont du trieur (2000)
Character: Radio speaker
“Le Pont du Trieur”, co-written by de Meaux and Philippe Parreno, with an original score by Dave Stewart, is set in Pamir, a region situated in the highest part of Tajikistan, at the border between Afghanistan and China. This is a strategic zone controlled by various armies in the midst of a region that awaits reconstruction. The film stems from the simple question of how to tell the story of a country of which the West is deprived of images. Both fiction and documentary, it is about reality and the means of telling it.
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Inéluctable (2008)
Character: Chauffour
An Indian delegation, headed by Kuldip Badhwar, is going to Cateneau's French power plant to negotiate the purchase of four new generation nuclear reactors. Before signing the contract, the Indian representative requires guarantees on the safety of the installations and requests an emergency shutdown test of the reactor. But a succession of incidents occur and seem to turn to disaster.
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Un cœur oublié (2001)
Character: Monsieur de Vallières
Monsieur de Fontenelle has resisted feelings of love and passion all his life, but at an advanced age he meets a young woman who makes him discover the feeling he has always wanted to ignore: love.
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Stardom (2000)
Character: French Intellectual #2
A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
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Love, etc. (1996)
Character: Bernard
A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the world's oldest 32-year-old. The shy, well-employed Benoît's life changes when he answers the personal ad of Marie, a 25-year-old who restores paintings. He's attracted to her and she likes his steady calm and his honest attention. They're soon a couple, and they include Pierre in their dinners, outings, and trips. What will happen when Pierre realizes that he too is in love with Marie?
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Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (1996)
Character: Bob
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 professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers?
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La Sentinelle (1992)
Character: Jean-Jacques
A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage.
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Mes amis (1999)
Character: Marc
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.
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La Vie des morts (1991)
Character: Christian McGillis
A young woman convenes with her extended family in a provincial village where her cousin, in a coma, is hospitalized after attempting suicide.
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المدينة (1999)
Character: N/A
Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won't fully remember until he returns to Egypt.
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North Star (2023)
Character: N/A
Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.
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Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Character: Assistant
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
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Indigènes (2006)
Character: Capitaine Martin
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…
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Aurore (2017)
Character: Totoche
Aurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.
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Les Infidèles (1997)
Character: N/A
The story takes place in an around Lebanon. It concerns Farid, a repentant Islamic fundamentalist and Charles, a French diplomat. Farid is prepared to give the French secret service a list of names of terrorists operating in France on the condition that they liberate a friend of his imprisoned in France. The deal is complicated by the fact that Farid and Charles are irresistably attracted to each other, which inflames great jealously in Charles' wife, Juliette, estranging the couple.
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L'Odyssée (2016)
Character: Etienne Deshaies
The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.
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Shimkent hôtel (2003)
Character: Le Docteur de Montalembert
Shimkent hôtel tells the story of a young man who's experienced the failure of a business venture in the Afghan mountains, and who suffers from shock in Kazakhstan.
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Hors-la-loi (2010)
Character: Morvan
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
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AKA (2023)
Character: Kruger
A steely special ops agent finds his morality put to the test when he infiltrates a crime syndicate and unexpectedly bonds with the boss' young son.
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Léa (2011)
Character: Martin Itzinger
Léa lives in Le Havre, where she attends college whilst taking care of her elderly grandmother. To make ends meet, she works as a waitress in a night club. Her admittance to the Institute of Political Studies in Paris offers her new opportunities, but at a high price. Léa finds work as a striptease artist, so that each evening she can put into practice the theory of economic liberalism which she learns by day...
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Vive nous! (2000)
Character: Yves
When Valérie's husband Yves confesses he's in love with another woman, she happens into a judo club and begins lessons. She likes it, she's a natural, and she's attracted to Bruno, the quiet instructor. He likes her as well, but sees social class as a barrier, and Yves never seems to be too far away. Valérie's two close friends have their own stories: Annette is continuously looking for a husband, with little luck. Clara cares more about wealth and power, and takes up with the country's finance minister, an older man who flips for her. Meanwhile, Yves's lover doesn't seem in a hurry to leave her husband, so Valérie looks good to him from time to time. Will Bruno ever make a move?
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Dans ma peau (2002)
Character: Daniel
Esther's life is panning out nicely. She will soon move in with her boyfriend Vincent and she seems set to get a permanent position at the public relations company where she freelances. All would be fine if Esther didn't accidentally discover a piercing curiosity about her own body.
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Le Portrait interdit (2017)
Character: Castiglione
An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint.
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King (2022)
Character: Paul Sauvage
King, a trafficked lion cub, escapes from the airport and takes refuge with Inès and Alex, who then have the crazy idea of getting him back to Africa. Anything can happen when Max their kooky grandfather, decides to join the adventure.
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Miss (2020)
Character: Lola
A young man seeking his sexual identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.
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La Petite Apocalypse (1993)
Character: Assistant Arnold
An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publisher, but there's a strange single condition that could cost the writer his life.
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Lovers (1999)
Character: Jean-Michel
A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.
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Chocolat (2016)
Character: Jules Moy
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.
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Im Westen nichts Neues (2022)
Character: General Ferdinand Foch
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
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Indochine (1992)
Character: Charles-Henri
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.
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Le Pornographe (2001)
Character: Richard
A former porn director, who once elevated the genre with 1960s counter-culture ideals, returns to filmmaking after 20 years, clashing with his producer's hard-core vision. Estranged from his son over the family business, they begin reconnecting as the son embraces political activism, while the director seeks personal renewal.
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The King (2019)
Character: King Charles VI
England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.
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Éternité (2016)
Character: Père de Valentine
Valentine marries at the end of the 19th century, and love passes through her family from generation to generation.
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Cuisine américaine (1998)
Character: Vincent
Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves to France, to learn haute cuisine under a four star chef...
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Hôtel de France (1987)
Character: Nicolas
A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.
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Jalouse (2017)
Character: Jean-Pierre Pécheux, Nathalie's ex-husband
A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.
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Mourir d'aimer (2009)
Character: La père de Lucas
Priests and educational institutions try to put an end to a forbidden love between a 16-year-old student and his 40-year-old teacher.
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