Cast: Denis Lavant

Direction Leos Carax

Cast Juliette Binoche · Denis Lavant · Klaus-Michael Grüber · Daniel Buain

Synopsis 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 be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven...

Direction Veit Helmer

Cast Denis Lavant · Chulpan Khamatova · Philippe Clay · Terence Gillespie

Synopsis In a desolate and colorless landscape stands a dilapidated bathhouse run by a puffed-up blind man, his long-suffering wife, and their son Anton, who does all the work. He's lonely and unsophisticated, and he falls in love with the beautiful...

Direction Leos Carax

Cast Denis Lavant · Michel Piccoli · Juliette Binoche · Julie Delpy

Synopsis In Paris of the not-too-distant future, a mysterious new disease named STBO is killing young people who make love without emotional involvement. A serum has been developed, but it is locked away in an office block, out of the reach...

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast Audrey Tautou · Gaspard Ulliel · Dominique Pinon · Chantal Neuwirth

Synopsis Five desperate men shoot themselves in order to be relieved from the horrifying frontline at the Somme, in WWI. A court-martial decides to punish them by leaving them alone in no-man's land, to be killed in the crossfire. Then all...

Direction Leos Carax

Cast Leos Carax · Denis Lavant · Kateryna Yuspina · Nastya Golubeva Carax

Synopsis A self-portrait of the director and his oeuvre, revisiting in free-form more than 40 years of the author's filmography.

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Grégoire Colin · Denis Lavant · Michel Subor · Richard Courcet

Synopsis In the east African enclave of Djibouti, the men of a small French Foreign Legion outpost spend their days practicing military drills, exercising and baking in the desert sun. Barely older than his soldiers, Sergeant Galoup seems to be the...

Direction Diane Kurys

Cast Miou-Miou · Isabelle Huppert · Guy Marchand · Jean-Pierre Bacri

Synopsis In 1942, a young Jewish woman, Léna, marries a French soldier, Michel, to avoid being deported to Germany. Meanwhile, another young woman, Madeleine gets married to an artist, Raymond, who is subsequently killed by a Resistance sniper. During the Liberation,...

Direction Akaki Popkhadze

Cast Nicolas Duvauchelle · Florent Hill · Ia Shugliashvili · Denis Lavant

Synopsis 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 priest, finds himself alone with his grieving mother. Gabriel, his older brother with a troubled past,...

Direction Måns Mårlind · Björn Stein

Cast Leïla Bekhti · Gustaf Hammarsten · Albin Grenholm · Jakob Hultcrantz Hansson

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2016). 8 Episodes. The brutal murder of a French citizen sees French homicide investigator Kahina Zadi (Leïla Bekhti) go to Kiruna, Sweden. Together with Rutger Burlin (Peter Stormare) she begins an investigation that soon takes on staggering proportions.

Direction Veiko Õunpuu

Cast Taavi Eelmaa · Ravshana Kurkova · Tiina Tauraite · Sten Ljunggren

Synopsis A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.

Direction Leos Carax

Cast Denis Lavant · Mireille Perrier · Carroll Brooks · Elie Poicard

Synopsis This highly acclaimed first feature by wunderkind filmmaker Leos Carax (he was only 22 at the time) is an unconventional, moody tone poem that centers on a young man cruising the dark side of Paris. Having just split with his...

Direction Bong Joon-ho · Leos Carax · Michel Gondry

Cast Yû Aoi · Yosiyoshi Arakawa · Jean-François Balmer · Julie Dreyfus

Synopsis Tokyo is a city of transitions in three short films. A young woman who finds her life useless experiences a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution; he calls himself "Merde" and speaks...

Direction Michael Lockshin

Cast Fedor Fedotov · Sonia Priss · Yuriy Borisov · Kirill Zaytsev

Synopsis The 20th century is just around the corner. In winter, St. Petersburg transforms into a fairy tale-like wonderland where frozen rivers and canals serve as the iced-over roads and bustle with skaters and markets. The city is home to 18-year-old...

Direction Philippe Lacôte

Cast Issaka Sawadogo · Steve Tientcheu · Denis Lavant · Rasmane Ouedraogo

Synopsis 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, he is designated by the Boss to be the...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Denis Lavant

Synopsis The face of an exhausted man breathing deeply, his face agitated and, nearby, the sea. A Buddhist monk walks barefoot and incredibly slowly through Marseille – so slowly, that his progress is barely perceptible and he becomes a calming influence...

Direction Leos Carax

Cast Denis Lavant · Edith Scob · Kylie Minogue · Michel Piccoli

Synopsis From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man... He seems to be...

Direction Harmony Korine

Cast Diego Luna · Samantha Morton · Denis Lavant · Esme Creed-Miles

Synopsis In Paris, a young American (Luna) who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe (Morton), who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin (Lavant) and her daughter, Shirley Temple.

Direction Eva Ionesco

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Anamaria Vartolomei · Denis Lavant · Georgetta Leahu

Synopsis Violetta, a ten-year-old girl, lives in a little apartment with her grandma. His mother Hannah, a photographer, forces her one day to pose as a model. The fame of this pictures increases very fastly. Violetta's fairytale soon becomes a nightmare.

Direction Fanny Liatard · Jérémy Trouilh

Cast Alseni Bathily · Lyna Khoudri · Jamil McCraven · Finnegan Oldfield

Synopsis 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. When plans to demolish Gagarin Towers leak out, Yuri joins the resistance. With his...

Direction Saïd Belktibia

Cast Golshifteh Farahani · Denis Lavant · Mathieu Espagnet · Jérémy Ferrari

Synopsis A woman earns a living by smuggling exotic animals and illegal goods, developing a mobile app that links users with mystical marabout healers, but one of the user's consultations takes a tragic turn facing a violent backlash.