Niels Arestrup
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1949-02-08
Locus Natus: Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
Et ut:
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
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...
release : 2005.03.16popularis : 11.558
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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...
release : 2007.05.23popularis : 25.28
A Prophet
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...
release : 2009.08.26popularis : 9.738
The Big Night
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...
release : 1976.10.01popularis : 1.106
Farewell
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...
release : 2009.09.23popularis : 11.339
A Private Affair
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing...
release : 2002.04.30popularis : 3.237
You Will Be My Son
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...
release : 2011.08.23popularis : 3.048
The Future Is Woman
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...
release : 1984.09.05popularis : 3.424
The Big Picture
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...
release : 2010.11.03popularis : 7.552
La Rumba
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the...
release : 1987.02.18popularis : 1.418
Sarah's Key
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...
release : 2010.09.16popularis : 8.204
Memoirs of a French Whore
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...
release : 1979.10.17popularis : 3.543
Je Tu Il Elle
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
release : 1974.12.31popularis : 4.768
Small World
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...
release : 2010.12.16popularis : 3.292
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to...
release : 2000.01.19popularis : 1.006
Parlez-moi d'amour
Justine and Richard's 15-year relationship ends in separation due to irreconcilable differences with Justine maintaining custody of their three boys....
release : 2002.10.09popularis : 1.066
Our Children
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...
release : 2012.05.30popularis : 6.824
Diesel
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to...
release : 1985.08.07popularis : 1.49
One Man's War
Via the New York Times: "...a dialogue between found objects... the remarkably calm, somewhat banal wartime journals of Ernst Junger, a German writer...
release : 1982.11.17popularis : 0.502
Divertimento
Zahia Ziouani, 17, dreams of becoming a conductor, while her twin sister Fettouma hopes to be a professional cellist. They want to make classical...
release : 2023.01.25popularis : 4.588
Meeting Venus
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the...
release : 1991.09.18popularis : 1.448
Doux amer
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...
release : 1987.10.17popularis : 0.517
Lumière
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...
release : 1976.03.24popularis : 1.792
Tomorrow's Children
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...
release : 1976.08.18popularis : 1.673
The French Minister
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...
release : 2013.11.06popularis : 5.865
Rewind
Terrorist Paul Mansart, imprisoned in a maximum security prison, overcomes initial reluctance and agrees to experiment in “virtual...
release : 1998.07.07popularis : 1.262
Sincerely Charlotte
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...
release : 1985.02.20popularis : 1.869
Diplomacy
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...
release : 2014.03.05popularis : 9.123
96 heures
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...
release : 2014.04.23popularis : 3.858
Among Wolves
An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the...
release : 1985.12.31popularis : 1.908
The Dune
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...
release : 2014.08.13popularis : 1.293
Fragments of Antonin
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...
release : 2006.11.08popularis : 1.898
A Second Chance
Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is...
release : 1976.09.30popularis : 1.161
By the Sea
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...
release : 2015.11.12popularis : 10.48
Délit mineur
A teenager named Guillaume admits to being guilty of his father's murder in order to protect his dear mother.
release : 1994.03.23popularis : 0.507
So Long Africa
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...
release : 2015.07.29popularis : 1.387
La Femme flic
Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute...
release : 1980.01.08popularis : 1.918
Alone
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...
release : 1981.10.07popularis : 1.367
Ville étrangère
An Austrian diplomat assigned to Paris wakes up after having a strange nightmare and finds himself emotionally distanced from his world. He feels...
release : 1988.07.24popularis : 0.585
Return to Montauk
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...
release : 2017.05.11popularis : 3.854
Albert Savarus
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...
release : 1993.01.30popularis : 0.625
See You Up There
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his...
release : 2017.10.25popularis : 12.198
Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men
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...
release : 1974.05.05popularis : 1.299
At Eternity's Gate
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
release : 2018.11.15popularis : 16.599
The Sorceror's Apprentice
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...
release : 1977.09.28popularis : 1.954
The Song of Roland
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...
release : 1978.10.04popularis : 2.357
War Horse
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...
release : 2011.12.25popularis : 15.596
Stavisky...
Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French...
release : 1974.05.15popularis : 4.895
La Femme abandonnée
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...
release : 1992.09.04popularis : 1.24
Behind Bars
A documentary that chronicles how ‘A Prophet’ came to exist.
release : 2010.02.17popularis : 1.064
Les Derniers Jours de la victime
Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.
release : 1995.09.04popularis : 0.424
Villa Caprice
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...
release : 2021.06.02popularis : 4.464
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
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...
release : 2021.05.16popularis : 1.072
Charlie Dingo
Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life...
release : 1987.10.07popularis : 2.165
Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre
A French adaptation of Tankred Dorst's play "Fernando Krapp hat mir diesen Brief geschrieben", staged by Bernard Murat.
release : 2000.01.01popularis : 0.173