Niels Arestrup
Niels Arestrup is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His father was Danish and his mother was French. He has won two César Awards for Best Supporting Actor for De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté and Un prophète, both films where he was directed by Jacques Audiard.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.094 |
| Birthday | 1949-02-08 |
| Place of Birth | Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France |
| Also Known As |
2005
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
6.9/433
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career thre...
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
7.6/1155
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2009
A Prophet
7.6/1506
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younge...
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A Prophet
1982
Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
0/0
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Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
1976
The Big Night
5.2/4
In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group and gets to know Léa, a dedicated activist and the group leader's mistress. The...
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The Big Night
2009
Farewell
6.5/123
An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Af...
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Farewell
2007
The Candidate
5.4/19
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The Candidate
2002
A Private Affair
5.5/29
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing...
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A Private Affair
2011
You Will Be My Son
6.3/46
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Mart...
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You Will Be My Son
1984
The Future Is Woman
5.8/17
In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for aw...
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The Future Is Woman
2010
The Big Picture
6.3/151
Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of...
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The Big Picture
1987
La Rumba
4.8/3
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charlesto...
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La Rumba
2010
Sarah's Key
7.29/676
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands...
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Sarah's Key
1979
Memoirs of a French Whore
6.3/25
Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoratio...
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Memoirs of a French Whore
1974
Je Tu Il Elle
6.4/78
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
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Je Tu Il Elle
2010
Small World
6.4/35
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big ho...
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Small World
2000
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
1/1
Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to hea...
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Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
2002
Parlez-moi d'amour
5.3/5
Justine and Richard's 15-year relationship ends in separation due to irreconcilable differences with Justine maintaining custody of their three boys....
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Parlez-moi d'amour
1987
Lorfou
0/0
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Lorfou
2012
Our Children
6.7/74
Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir. A wedding soon follows, and...
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Our Children
1985
Diesel
4.7/6
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to t...
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Diesel
1982
One Man's War
6/7
Via the New York Times: "...a dialogue between found objects... the remarkably calm, somewhat banal wartime journals of Ernst Junger, a German writer...
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One Man's War
2023
Divertimento
7.1/54
Zahia Ziouani, 17, dreams of becoming a conductor, while her twin sister Fettouma hopes to be a professional cellist. They want to make classical musi...
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Divertimento
1991
Meeting Venus
5.8/18
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the no...
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Meeting Venus
1987
Doux amer
0/0
A married woman, Anne Lambert has a child with her lover. But her lover becomes afraid and refuses to recognize the baby. Very invested in her career,...
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Doux amer
1976
Lumière
6.8/10
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago...
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Lumière
1976
Tomorrow's Children
4/2
The hero of this bleak science-fiction story is a married man who, along with his wife, survives the mysterious destruction of the world. After his wi...
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Tomorrow's Children
2013
The French Minister
6.1/290
Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of F...
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The French Minister
1998
Rewind
2.5/2
Terrorist Paul Mansart, imprisoned in a maximum security prison, overcomes initial reluctance and agrees to experiment in “virtual reality” in order t...
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Rewind
1985
Sincerely Charlotte
3.3/5
In a most unusual, near menage a trois, Charlotte is a terrified young singer who is forced to hide out at the home of her ex-boyfriend -- her current...
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Sincerely Charlotte
2014
Diplomacy
7/213
On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to destroy the city on Hitler's orders. As the general p...
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Diplomacy
2014
96 heures
5.5/67
Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested a big mobster, Kancel. Today, thanks to an extract...
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96 heures
1977
Plus ça va, moins ça va
4.1/8
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Plus ça va, moins ça va
1982
La Cerisaie
0/0
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La Cerisaie
1985
Among Wolves
4.1/7
An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the Med...
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Among Wolves
2014
The Dune
6/18
Through the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will meet and each of them will have to face a page of his personal hi...
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The Dune
Tiens ferme ta couronne
0/0
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Tiens ferme ta couronne
2006
Fragments of Antonin
6.4/14
A psychiatrist who probes the mind of traumatized soldiers attempts to unlock the secret that drove a gentle but deeply-disturbed World War I veteran...
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Fragments of Antonin
1976
A Second Chance
5.95/20
Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunit...
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A Second Chance
2015
By the Sea
5.6/585
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be...
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By the Sea
1994
Délit mineur
0/0
A teenager named Guillaume admits to being guilty of his father's murder in order to protect his dear mother.
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Délit mineur
1980
Bruges la Morte
0/0
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Bruges la Morte
2015
So Long Africa
5.5/2
Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, April 2011. Jacques and Safi arrive from Abidjan, from where they've been repatriated in an emergency. He's as tou...
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So Long Africa
1980
La Femme flic
6.1/25
Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute Ber...
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La Femme flic
1981
Alone
5.5/4
Jean, the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the overwhelming need to love a woman of his dreams...
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Alone
1988
Ville étrangère
0/0
An Austrian diplomat assigned to Paris wakes up after having a strange nightmare and finds himself emotionally distanced from his world. He feels abso...
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Ville étrangère
2017
Return to Montauk
5.8/45
During a book tour in the United States, Max meets and falls in love with a young woman. Many years later, Max returns to the United States, hoping to...
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Return to Montauk
1988
La Ruelle au clair de lune
7/1
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La Ruelle au clair de lune
1993
Albert Savarus
0/0
Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths s...
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Albert Savarus
2017
See You Up There
7.849/1268
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageou...
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See You Up There
1974
Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men
1/1
Pierre and Yves, two homosexuals, live a cozy love in a small Breton village until the arrival of Anne, the ex-girlfriend of Pierre, who will try to s...
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Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men
2018
At Eternity's Gate
7/1444
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
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At Eternity's Gate
1978
The Song of Roland
4.8/5
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a k...
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The Song of Roland
1977
The Sorceror's Apprentice
6/1
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than act...
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The Sorceror's Apprentice
2011
War Horse
7.309/3380
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey beg...
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War Horse
1974
Stavisky...
6.2/103
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power....
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Stavisky...
1992
La Femme abandonnée
1/1
Tired of Parisian life, Louis de Nueil settles in a provincial village to rest from his hectic life. But he quickly gets bored. He then meets Fanny de...
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La Femme abandonnée
2010
Behind Bars
0/0
A documentary that chronicles how ‘A Prophet’ came to exist.
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Behind Bars
1995
Les Derniers Jours de la victime
0/0
Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.
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Les Derniers Jours de la victime
2021
Villa Caprice
5.5/45
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnif...
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Villa Caprice
2021
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
0/0
In eight films, Jacques Audiard has renewed French cinema, without alienating either the critics or the success. It is only at the age of 42 that he s...
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Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
1987
Charlie Dingo
6/1
Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life i...
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Charlie Dingo
1982
Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff
0/0
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Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff
1977
Tauwetter
0/0
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Tauwetter
2000
Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre
0/0
A French adaptation of Tankred Dorst's play "Fernando Krapp hat mir diesen Brief geschrieben", staged by Bernard Murat.
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