Denis Lavant
Denis Lavant (born June 17, 1961) is a French film actor known for his distinctive face and the physically demanding aspects of the roles he plays, which often involve slapstick, acrobatics or dance, as well as for his long-standing association with director Leos Carax. Lavant has played the lead role in all but one of Carax's films.
Lavant is also known for his starring roles in Claire Denis' Beau Travail and Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, which features Carax in a supporting role.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.475 |
| Birthday | 1961-06-17 |
| Place of Birth | Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
| Also Known As | Дени Лаван, 드니 라방, |
2018
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2023
Miserable Miracle
0/0
Directed by Japanese filmmaker Ryo Orikasa, this animated short was inspired by Henri Michaux’s book of poetry and drawings of the same name, about hi...
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Miserable Miracle
2015
Austerlitz
0/0
“You buy a book. You don’t really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are, facing your own in...
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Austerlitz
1991
The Lovers on the Bridge
7.4/328
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would...
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The Lovers on the Bridge
2004
A Very Long Engagement
7.33/1218
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way....
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A Very Long Engagement
2004
Language Does Not Lie
8/2
Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when H...
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Language Does Not Lie
1982
Les Misérables
6.9/70
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables
2009
The Lonely
0/0
A documentary portrait of the filmmaker Harmony Korine during the production of his third feature film, Mister Lonely (2007). Shot on location in Scot...
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The Lonely
2000
Deep in the Woods
3.7/56
A group of artists, composed of the young actors Wilfried and Matthieu and the actresses Sophie, Mathilde and the dumb Jeanne, is hired by a millionai...
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Deep in the Woods
1999
Tuvalu
6.278/36
Set in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the efforts of Anton, a clueless dreamer who yearns to sail t...
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Tuvalu
2018
Scaramouche Scaramouche
0/0
Ophélie, a very imaginative girl, lives with her father in a mobile home. One day, she is haunted by a terrifying imaginary friend, Scaramouche.
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2008
Tokyo!
6.915/230
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....
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1997
Wild Animals
5.8/28
Two Korean ex-pats in Paris are recruited by a French mobster. The duo find themselves at war with their mobster recruiters and each other.
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2022
South Sentinel
5.697/33
The journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush in Afghanistan, has returned to France. Soon mixed up...
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South Sentinel
2011
Atlantika
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On April 15, 1912, Jack L., radio operator on a military vessel, reported an SOS signal from the Titanic. He was ordered by command control not to rev...
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Atlantika
2005
Wild Camp
4.5/12
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2000
Beau Travail
7/308
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regim...
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Beau Travail
2000
La Squale
5.9/15
Désirée, a black girl, is nicknamed "The Shark" by her friends. This nickname comes from her strong rebellion and her ability to win in the suburban c...
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La Squale
2008
Mister Lonely
6.5/120
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives...
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Mister Lonely
1984
Boy Meets Girl
6.664/110
In Paris at night, a young aspiring filmmaker grapples with heartbreak after his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend. After a failed attempt to...
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1993
De force avec d'autres
5/1
Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back t...
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De force avec d'autres
1984
After Midnight
10/1
A fancy dress ball takes place in a strange palace. The host is unknown. The theme: "your idea of human representation”. During the course of this mys...
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After Midnight
2008
Captain Ahab
4.8/4
When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his pious aunt. It is Rose who sparks the imagination o...
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Captain Ahab
1986
Mauvais Sang
7.146/254
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them br...
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Mauvais Sang
2009
The Temptation of St. Tony
7/37
A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he faces the challenges of middle age and loses control...
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The Temptation of St. Tony
2014
Ogaden
0/0
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Ogaden
2023
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
0/0
Documentary about French actor Michel Simon.
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L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
2024
It's Not Me
7.3/18
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, wh...
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It's Not Me
2011
My Little Princess
6.518/82
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is...
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My Little Princess
2022
All Effort of Men
0/0
Whaling has been around for centuries. It seems to be the fruit of man’s violence, destroying himself by destroying nature. Accompanying the rise of c...
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All Effort of Men
1983
Entre Nous
6.7/53
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husba...
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Entre Nous
2012
Holy Motors
6.997/1161
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwov...
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Holy Motors
2011
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
5.2/5
Children encounter a kid-eating ogre.
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1990
Mona and I
4.9/7
Mona is the girlfriend of Pierre, who is a member of a rather pathetic rock band in France. Their hero is the singer "Johnny Valentine " who, seeing t...
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Mona and I
1984
Long Live Life
5.9/19
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection...
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Long Live Life
2012
Morning Star
3.5/2
A small circus arrives in a coastal area of the North Sea: the place looks rather eerie and the audience is quite scarce. But despite all of this, the...
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Morning Star
2012
Eye of the Astronomer
3.3/3
During the summer of the year 1610 one of the first telescopes made by Galileo ends up in the hands of Jean Kepler in Prague who at the time was the...
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Eye of the Astronomer
1998
Melody for a Hustler
2.6/9
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionair...
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2022
X14
0/0
Liz, thirty-something, lives in her appartement in the Paris suburbs with her cat and her robot butler. Somewhere between a peaceful Golddorak and a p...
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2013
Marussia
6.3/3
In cities like Paris there are countless people from Eastern Europe who have forsaken their homelands because they can see no future there. Lucia and...
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2013
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
5.915/211
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2013
Biette
0/0
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2004
Luminal
5.7/3
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2013
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
2/1
Late 1950s, the CIA Office in New York after viewing the footage shot by their agent, investigators are puzzled how Marcel Dassault, the French engine...
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Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
2003
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
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1989
Once Around the Park
4/3
Al and Elsa have been a couple for some time, but the chances that their relationship will be long-lived are few. For one thing, Al is appallingly dep...
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1998
Don Juan
4.4/14
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countr...
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Don Juan
2014
Journey to the West
6.3/30
In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival. Since he was not familiar with Marsei...
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2023
Body of Crime
0/0
"Corpus delicti": object that materially proves the existence of a criminal offense, a crime. Filmmaker Léolo reverses the perspective and asks in thi...
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Body of Crime
2001
Married/Unmarried
3/4
Obsession and doubt control four friends' relationship.
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Married/Unmarried
2024
The Boy Who Owns the World
8.5/2
Basilio lives in an abandoned villa in Sicily with his mysterious elderly mentor Casimir who is to help him find true poetry. In this villa, he tries...
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The Boy Who Owns the World
2025
Hyacinthe
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Hyacinthe
2015
Me and Kaminski
6.125/40
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on h...
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Que demande le peuple
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La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
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2009
Les Williams
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A César award nominated short drama.
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Correspondances: Dostoïevski
0/0
Pierre Dumayet relate the life of Fyodor through his letters, in particular his correspondence with his brother Mikhaïl.
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Correspondances: Dostoïevski
2023
Thunder Voice
0/0
Before the apocalypse, a prophet declaims an ode to the new generations.
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Thunder Voice
1995
Visiblement je vous aime
4.6/5
A misanthropic Parisian street punk learns some difficult lessons after being captured for assaulting and robbing a man in this interesting French dra...
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Visiblement je vous aime
2013
Les Grandes Marées
0/0
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Les Grandes Marées
2014
Mr. X
5.9/9
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure...
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Mr. X
2015
Pitchipoï
5/1
Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp survivor. Before he died, his father left a "will" in...
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Pitchipoï
2021
Le discours
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Redoubt
0/0
Affected by the powerful images in the pamphlet Om kriget kommer (If war comes), farmhand Karl-Göran Persson begins fortifying his house. Through yea...
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Redoubt
2015
Dark Forests
5.1/4
At the end of the road lies a track, the very last, a track swamped with the mud of a Siberian autumn, and at the end of this track lies a vast, dark...
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Dark Forests
1994
The Chess Game
4.7/5
In 19th century, a disillusioned priest helps a young boy drifter who's a chess wunderkind to move on up in life and social structures using his talen...
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The Chess Game
2022
Aymeline
0/0
Experience heartbreak, horror and mayhem with Aymeline Valade Once one of the most beloved film stars in the world, Aymeline now avoids the spotlight...
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Aymeline
2015
Eva Doesn't Sleep
5.015/34
In 1952, Argentina's beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A renowned embalmer was commissioned by the grieving Ju...
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Eva Doesn't Sleep
2015
21 Nights with Pattie
5.725/89
During the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must hastily organ...
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21 Nights with Pattie
2002
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
0/0
This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through th...
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La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
2024
Hood Witch
6.5/12
Nour makes a living from smuggling exotic animals and illicit products (birds of prey, venom, rare roots, etc.). Wishing to get her son out of the cit...
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Hood Witch
2023
Poisson rouge
4.833/3
Affected by a neurodegenerative disease, Guillaume will finish losing his memory in a specialized center. In the hope of leaving him a happy memory, h...
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Poisson rouge
2023
The Green Eyes
0/0
Yuri is a sculptor. Since the death of his wife, 17 years ago, he has been working hard to re-fabricate her. He misses only one element, the eyes. Whe...
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The Green Eyes
2015
Graziella
3/2
A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the possibility of a second act.
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Graziella
2013
Jiminy
7.2/8
In the near future, most people get a "cricket" implanted in their brains : an electronic chip which allows them to switch to an "automatic mode" when...
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Jiminy
2016
History's Future
3.9/4
Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his me...
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History's Future
2016
Boris Without Beatrice
6.5/12
Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker, open-minded and proud, he also displays a certain...
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Boris Without Beatrice
2025
Sauver les morts
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Sauver les morts
1982
Paris Ficelle
0/0
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Paris Ficelle
2016
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
5.9/13
1948 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Denmark, in exile, accused of collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of the France. He is accompanied by...
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2019
Girls with Balls
4.202/238
All girls volley ball team The Falcons end up stranded in the middle of nowhere after their mini-van breaks down. Little do they know they landed in d...
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Girls with Balls
2017
Gray House
1/1
A silent fisherman in Texas, a blazing oil field in North Dakota, a mysterious community in Virginia, a women’s prison in Oregon, and a modernist home...
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Gray House
2018
The Night Eats the World
6/710
After waking up to find himself all alone in an apartment where a massive party was being held the night before, Sam is immediately forced to face a t...
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The Night Eats the World
2013
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
1/1
Denis Lavant reads long passages from Luis Buñuel's semi-autobiographical "My Last Sigh". From this text, without film excerpts, Laurence Garret trave...
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En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
2018
One Nation, One King
5.6/172
„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly...
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One Nation, One King
2019
The Escapade
0/0
The story revolves around the characters of Tess and Anatole. Barely of age, but not exactly adults, they still know nothing of love. Anatole sleeps w...
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The Escapade
1983
The Wounded Man
5.7/33
Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into g...
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The Wounded Man
1985
Going and Coming Back
6.2/19
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot the...
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Going and Coming Back
2018
3 Days in Quiberon
6.4/54
1981, Quiberon, a small village on the coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit her old friend who has retreated to a spa hotel to es...
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3 Days in Quiberon
2019
The Bra
5.958/36
Train driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train s...
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The Bra
2018
My Intelligent Comedy
6.8/4
Damien Nadeau-Daneau, a young filmaker, is unable to finish a movie he started with french actor Denis Lavant. Indebted, he’s working at a post-produc...
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My Intelligent Comedy
2018
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
4.9/15
An isolated village welcomes a new miller with open arms. Problem is, the man howls at the moon every night. His integration is starting well… French...
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Cornelius, the Howling Miller
2019
The Mountain
5.2/54
1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace...
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The Mountain
2016
Kazarken: As We Dig
5.8/6
A woman of Turkish ascent, following ancient Anatolian healing rites, dreams her way through fragments of memory, both personal and collective. Guided...
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Kazarken: As We Dig
2019
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
6.6/14
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2018
The Emperor of Paris
6.325/487
Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him. When...
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The Emperor of Paris
2019
Silent Streams
5/2
Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From this sudden intimacy, the murmurs of their little in...
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Silent Streams
2010
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
5/2
Separated at the birth of his mother who has only time to entrust to a member of his family, Guillaume de Villon, when he should have been killed, Fra...
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2020
Silver Skates
7.6/280
1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century tho...
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Silver Skates
2014
The Iron Ivan
6.1/37
He was called the Champion of Champions. The strength and strong-willed character Poddubniy composed legends. And 50 great fighter effortlessly overca...
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The Iron Ivan
2014
Le mystère des jonquilles
4/4
The director of a department store is murdered. He is discovered in a park, a bunch of daffodils on his chest.
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Le mystère des jonquilles
2019
Who the Fuck Are You
0/0
Psychedelic punk drama about one city, one man and his madness.
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Who the Fuck Are You
2019
Figurant
7.1/5
A man follows a group of workers coming for daywork in an industrial area. Soon, he’s stripped from his clothes and identity, dressed in a military un...
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Figurant
2020
The Blue Star
0/0
It all happened on a dark night. The Man was tired of being a stranger, tired of being insulted by others simply because he speaks Arabic to a wife wh...
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The Blue Star
2020
Gagarine
6.628/133
Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. Wh...
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Gagarine
2001
Şoför
0/0
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Şoför
2013
Tired of Being Handsome
0/0
Two cowboys look for a bullet in the desert.
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Tired of Being Handsome
2013
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
6/2
A making-of documentary of Leos Carax's Holy Motors. Present during the shoot, Salomé catches exacting and inspiring moments of the production and add...
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DRIVE IN Holy Motors
2023
Human Flowers of Flesh
6/2
Ida lives on a sailing yacht with a crew of five men. While on shore leave in Marseilles, she becomes fascinated with the French Foreign Legion and de...
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Human Flowers of Flesh
2021
Night of the Kings
6.7/75
A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon...
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Night of the Kings
1998
Le monde à l'envers
0/0
Rolando Colla made his directorial debut with this Swiss-French-Italian period drama about a Breton woman who disguises herself as a man to join a shi...
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2021
The Nipple Whisperer
6.3/3
Maurice Sanders has a gift. He's a nipple whisperer. Once he was known as "Magic Sandy". But that was years ago, before Doris, a famous model and Sand...
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The Nipple Whisperer
2007
Happy New Year London
6/2
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Happy New Year London
2021
Tralala
5.737/38
A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary.
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Tralala
2009
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
7/1
Cowboys aren't afraid to die. Their death, always spectacular, is the grand finale of a tragic destiny. But when a cowboy messes up his exit, when he...
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Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
2009
Hymn to Merde
6/2
A clip by Leos Carax, inspired by his film "Merde" (part of the feature film "Tokyo!'), with Denis Lavant singing in Merdogon.
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2025
In the Name of Blood
6/6
In the working-class neighborhoods of Nice, a pillar of the local Georgian community is murdered. His son Tristan, who aspires to become an orthodox p...
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Dante's Divine Comedy
0/0
A visually immersive musical Odyssey, set during the week of Easter year 1300, following Dante's descent into the sins of the Circles of Hell, as he o...
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Dante's Divine Comedy
2024
Two Night Owls in Paris
8/1
Near the oldest bridge in Paris, the Pont-Neuf, Camille, a second-hand bookseller, crosses paths with Paul, an Eiffel Tower trinket seller. Over the c...
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Two Night Owls in Paris
2023
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
0/0
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2024
Fracas
0/0
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Erratic Blocks
0/0
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