Benoît Magimel
Benoît Magimel is a French actor. A prolific actor who was 14 when he appeared in his first film, Magimel has starred in a variety of roles in French cinema.
For a number of years, he lived with French actress Juliette Binoche, with whom he co-starred in 1999's Children of the Century and later had a daughter, Hana, born in 1999. The relationship ended in 2003.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 28.066 |
| Birthday | 1974-05-11 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Benoit Magimel, 브누아 마지멜, ブノワ・マジメル, Бенуа Мажимель, |
2001
The Piano Teacher
7.269/1055
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
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The Piano Teacher
1988
Life Is a Long Quiet River
6.751/406
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family i...
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Life Is a Long Quiet River
2005
Sky Fighters
6.021/192
Two air force pilots prevent a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.
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Sky Fighters
2003
The Flower of Evil
6.016/63
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that rev...
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The Flower of Evil
2007
A Girl Cut in Two
6/71
Gabrielle Deneige is an independent, ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior, and the att...
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A Girl Cut in Two
2002
The Nest
6.408/125
Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with...
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The Nest
2008
Inju: The Beast in the Shadow
4.923/26
The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer S...
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Inju: The Beast in the Shadow
2007
Intimate Enemies
6.333/72
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
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Intimate Enemies
2007
Crime Insiders
5.7/49
A Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.
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Crime Insiders
2008
2 Alone in Paris
5.135/304
A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth.
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2 Alone in Paris
2006
Fair Play
5.388/26
A company, where manipulation and harassment is a problem between colleagues, decides to organize a canyoning trip for its employees. The building ten...
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Fair Play
2004
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
6.099/681
No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher in the end of the world. A murder victim with the same DNA...
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Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
2010
Traceless
6.422/45
Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at wor...
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Traceless
2008
Resolution 819
6.2/6
Resolution 819: Adopted by the Security Council at its 3199th meeting on April 16th, 1993. Resolution 819 tells the compelling story of a young invest...
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Resolution 819
2000
The King Is Dancing
6.5/40
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and...
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The King Is Dancing
1999
The Children of the Century
5.8/36
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...
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The Children of the Century
2007
24 Bars
3/10
It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But t...
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24 Bars
1993
The Stolen Diary
4.8/10
A young woman in a lesbian relationship keeps a diary that is stolen by a young man who loves her.
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The Stolen Diary
2010
Little White Lies
7.122/1516
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt an...
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Little White Lies
2005
Trouble
5.4/11
The photographer and family man Matyas is married and has a happy life with his beloved wife Claire, who is pregnant and near the delivery, and his yo...
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Trouble
1996
Thieves
6.1/40
In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his young son. Flashbacks reveal the relationships among Ivan and his brot...
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Thieves
2006
Charlie Says
5.4/26
The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
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Charlie Says
2003
Strange Gardens
7.469/112
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. And...
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Strange Gardens
2010
Mon pote
6/32
The story of a friendship between Victor, owner of a magazine, and Bruno, a car thief.
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Mon pote
2004
The Bridesmaid
6.3/42
A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.
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The Bridesmaid
2011
Special Forces
6.69/550
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched t...
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Special Forces
1998
Already Dead
5.737/38
A young pizza-deliverer, Andréa, introduces Laure, a 20 year old girl he barely knows, to his friend David, a wealthy layabout who is looking for mode...
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Already Dead
2010
The Counsel
6.286/28
A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him.
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The Counsel
2000
To Mathieu
5.9/13
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory f...
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To Mathieu
2008
Possibility of an Island
4.1/8
La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island.
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Possibility of an Island
2012
My Way
6.468/279
A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his su...
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My Way
2003
Errance
4.1/7
A dramatic love story, set in 1968 in the Gévaudan region. Jacques, in his thirties, is driving at high speed on a steep road. He is drunk. At the sam...
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Errance
1995
A Single Girl
6.107/42
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
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A Single Girl
2011
Headwinds
5.784/118
Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his chil...
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Headwinds
2001
Lisa
3.8/2
Stumbling across an uncompleted 1939 film called "Princess Marushka", filmmaker Sam becomes intrigued with the young actor Sylvain Marceau, who last a...
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Lisa
2013
For a Woman
6/37
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...
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For a Woman
1994
Le Chambon
7.8/3
During the Nazi regime in France in World War II, Pastor Fontaine and the town of Chambon undertake a mission to protect and shelter the children of m...
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Le Chambon
2015
Standing Tall
7.2/458
The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirele...
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Standing Tall
2014
The Connection
7.123/804
Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is gi...
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The Connection
2015
We Were Young
5.7/69
Five long-term pals confront ageing and mortality as they enjoy their last weeks together before taking different paths.
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We Were Young
1998
A Minute of Silence
3.5/4
In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have dif...
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A Minute of Silence
2016
Fast Convoy
5.6/106
Málaga, southern Spain. Seven men, divided into four cars, set off with a large drug shipment towards Creil, a city near Paris; a routine mission that...
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Fast Convoy
1989
Dad Is Gone, Mom Also
3.2/6
A coming-of-age film: When Laurette's parents disappear following a row, Laurette assumes responsibility for the family. The initial fiesta of childre...
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Dad Is Gone, Mom Also
2015
Cafard
5.6/5
August 1914. While Jean Mordant is away winning the title of Wrestling Champion of the World in Buenos Aires, his daughter Mimi is raped by German occ...
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Cafard
2016
150 Milligrams
6.7/119
In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She...
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150 Milligrams
2017
Carbone
6.743/407
In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he...
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Carbone
2017
Money
6/17
The lives of three thieves attempting to rob a house are altered by what they see inside.
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Money
2017
Memoir of War
6.1/134
In the last days of the Nazi-occupied France, writer Marguerite Duras awaits the return of her husband, Robert Antelme, arrested for being a Resistanc...
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Memoir of War
1994
L'incruste
0/0
A teen party gone out of control provides the focus of this drama which explores the transitions of youth in a transitional time set in the post-disco...
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L'incruste
1992
The Country Years
8/1
An adolescent comes of age during a summer in the Rhône valley with his maternal grandparents. Jules seems a little too close to his mother and distan...
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The Country Years
2017
Anatomy of Betrayal
0/0
What makes men and women lie to others or to themselves? A dramatic movie almanac about the bitter side of love.
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Anatomy of Betrayal
2019
Little White Lies 2
6.66/686
The result of the small handkerchiefs "Petits mouchoirs", 7 years later. The band, which erupted, is found on the occasion of the anniversary surprise...
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Little White Lies 2
2019
An Easy Girl
5.579/341
Naïma has just turned 16. This summer, she will have to decide what she wants from life if she doesn’t want to miss out. Then her cousin Sofia arrives...
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An Easy Girl
2019
Lola and the Sea
6.5/58
Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Ab...
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Lola and the Sea
2021
Peaceful
7.1/85
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. T...
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Peaceful
1998
No happy end
0/0
A man and a little girl taken hostage during a bank raid end up trapped in a claustrophobic closed environment. This is the start of a painful prychol...
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No happy end
2020
Lovers
5.349/156
Set in Paris the story follows Lisa, who, while on vacation with her husband, rekindles a passionate affair with her ex-boyfriend. But that may lead t...
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Lovers
1995
La Haine
8.096/3890
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news...
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La Haine
2022
Incredible But True
6/339
Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives...
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Incredible But True
2006
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
0/0
Spring 2004, a house with a large garden welcomes filmmaker Claude Chabrol. He is about to celebrate his 54 films and 74 years of age. Thomas Chabrol,...
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The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
1994
Putain de porte
5/1
Four young men try to gate crash a birthday party.
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Putain de porte
2021
Dune Dreams
5/7
In the wake of his wife’s death, Simon tries to make a fresh start by moving with his son Camille to Dubai. In that extraordinary city, Camille manage...
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Dune Dreams
2022
Jack Mimoun & the Secrets of Val Verde
5.274/186
Two years after surviving alone on the hostile island of Val Verde, Jack Mimoun has become an adventure star. The book recounting his experience is a...
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Jack Mimoun & the Secrets of Val Verde
2022
Revoir Paris
7.106/274
Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to m...
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Revoir Paris
2023
The Taste of Things
7.1/139
Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eug...
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The Taste of Things
2022
Pacifiction
6.434/114
Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the...
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Pacifiction
1992
Sweetheart
6.2/12
A young French police inspector, Christophe Vade, is assigned to investigate some mysterious murders in a village in the Swiss Alps. His superior is a...
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Sweetheart
2024
Rosalie
6.3/20
France, 1870s. Rosalie is a young woman unlike any other. She hides a secret: she was born with a face and body covered in hair. She’s concealed her p...
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Rosalie
2023
Le Marchand de sable
6/14
Marked by years of prison, Djo, a parcel delivery man in the Paris suburbs, lives modestly with his mother and daughter. One day, an aunt who has just...
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Le Marchand de sable
2022
Filmoteca de Catalunya 10 anys al Raval
8/1
Short film on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Filmoteca de Catalunya using fragments from unused footage of the film Pacifiction.
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Filmoteca de Catalunya 10 anys al Raval
2023
The King of Algiers
6.04/87
Omar, better known as Omar the Strawberry, is an old-fashioned bandit. Forced to flee to Algeria, he makes a living out of petty crime, accompanied by...
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The King of Algiers
2024
Ni chaînes ni maîtres
0/0
1759. Mauritius is in the hands of the Kingdom of France. Massamba and Mati, two slaves in the plantation of Eugène Larcenet, live a life of fear and...
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Ni chaînes ni maîtres
2006
Sur la terre comme au ciel : Making of Les Chevaliers du Ciel
7/1
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De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre
0/0
Part one of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his dev...
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