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Daniel Auteuil

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Daniel Auteuil is a French actor and director who has had a successful career in both film and theatre. He has appeared in over 100 films since the 1970s, gaining critical acclaim for his performances. Auteuil has won numerous awards, including a César Award for Best Actor for his role in the film "Jean de Florette" in 1986. Some of his notable films include "The Closet," "Cache," and "The Well-Digger's Daughter." Auteuil has also directed several films, showcasing his talent behind the camera as well.

Films

Vie privée

Vie privée

By Rebecca Zlotowski

2025 | 107 min | Comedy

Jodie Foster stars in PARIS MYSTERY MURDER as a therapist who investigates a patient's unexpected death. An elegant murder mystery with a twist.

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A Violent Life

A Violent Life

2017 | 113 min | Drama

Despite the death threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to return to Corsica to attend the funeral of his best friend and comrade in arms, Christophe, murdered the day before. It’s an opportunity for Stéphane to reminisce about the events of the 1990s, that led him, a cultured petty bourgeois from Bastia, to move from small crime onto political radicalization and the underground movement. Caught up in a decade old conflict between native Corsicans and immigrants from mainland France, Stéphane ...

Voyages

Voyages

2019 | 105 min | Drama

In the middle of the night, a young woman with a suitcase stands on a street in Paris. She's not sure who she is - but the people she meets by chance seem to know her. "It's always strangers who think they know who you are" Anna answers the question of a tourist who mistakes her for an old friend. This is where Anna's journey through the city begins. Or, is it the city itself which takes her by the hand through nocturnal streets, strange encounters, and confusing scenarios? On her journey, Anna ...

Story of My Death

Story of My Death

2012 | 150 min | Drama

The free-spirited writer Giacomo Casanova leaves life at a Swiss castle, and with it the gallant, libertine atmosphere of the 18th century. Together with his new, faithful servant Pompeu, Casanova sets off on a journey to the Carpathians. He spends his last days in the poor and shadowy lands of northern Europe. There his rational thinking and his frivolous, earthly existence, succumb to a new, brutal, occult and romantic force, represented by Dracula and his eternal power. Serra's dazzling, diffuse ...

Enigma

Enigma

2018 | 80 min | Drama

Nancy, a 40-something hairdresser, receives an offer to participate in an episode of a tv show about unsolved mysteries. The episode will tell the story of her daughter, a young lesbian brutally murdered a decade ago, when she was leaving a LGBT night club. As Nancy decides whether or not to be a part of the show, she confronts her family and their versions of the events that occurred, learning more about the person her daughter was.

Paris Prestige

Paris Prestige

2015 | 106 min | Drama

Nasser, a 30 something Parisian with a troubled past, just got home after some jail time. Margot, his probation officer, urges him to work at "Le Prestige", his brother’s bar located right next to the Moulin Rouge, in the heart of Pigalle - one of Paris’ most diverse and rawest neighborhoods. But deep wounds between the two brothers make this collaboration difficult from the start. Even more so when Nasser decides to get back in the game by throwing exclusive parties against his brother’s will. With ...

Mother and Son

Mother and Son

2022 | 117 min | Drama

At the end of the 1980s, a mother and her two sons set foot on French soil for the first time. The hope of a better life leads them from the Ivory Coast to the suburbs of Paris—a place that offers both promise and disillusionment. Over three chapters, a family history unfolds that tells of new beginnings, motherly love, friction, and maturation. While the sons search for their way between conformity, rejection, and self-assertion, the mother struggles with social stereotypes, isolation, and her ...

Secrets and Lies

Secrets and Lies

1996 | 142 min | Drama

A successful black woman discovers that her biological mother is a poor white woman who rejects her. Emotions run high and secrets come to light. Cynthia lives in London with her grumpy daughter, who is a street sweeper. Her brother is a successful photographer and now lives in a nicer house nearby. But Cynthia has never been invited to visit him. Overall, she feels lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, Hortense, who was adopted at birth and is now an adult, is trying to find her mother in another part ...

Mrs. Hyde

Mrs. Hyde

2017 | 95 min | Drama

One stormy night, an unpopular physics teacher (Isabelle Huppert) is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she begins to feel new powers within her... Mrs. Géquil (Isabelle Huppert) is an eccentric teacher who is despised by her colleagues and students. Submissively, she lives her life until the moment of transformation. The reference in the title to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic hints at the direction this story will take. As always, Isabelle Huppert plays both parts of her character ...

Murder in Pacot

Murder in Pacot

2014 | 125 min | Drama

After Raoul Peck documented the earthquake that shook Port-au-Prince in January 2010 in his film DEADLY AID, he focuses on a bourgeois couple in MURDER IN PACOT. The earthquake in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince in January 2010 turned large parts of the city into a field of rubble. The villa of a married couple living in the upscale neighborhood of Pacot was also destroyed. In the ruins, they try to reorganize their everyday life and rent out the undamaged part of the house to Alex, a European NGO ...

The Woman in the Fifth

The Woman in the Fifth

2011 | 85 min | Thriller

THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH follows Tom Ricks, an American writer who arrives in Paris hoping to reconnect with his young daughter after the collapse of his marriage. Instead, he finds himself increasingly isolated, drifting through unfamiliar neighborhoods, cheap hotels and precarious jobs while struggling to regain control over his life. Cut off from stability and emotionally unraveling, Tom takes work as a night watchman on the outskirts of the city. Paris gradually transforms from a place of possibility ...

Rien ne va plus

Rien ne va plus

2017 | 15 min | Shorts

Evi calls Bodo to tell him he won a prize in a competition he never took part in. As Bodo desperately tries to fend her off, he overhears how the casino Evi is calling from is being robbed... And now not only his life, but the lives of all the hostages are in danger.

Humanity

Humanity

1999 | 142 min | Timeless

Dumont's second feature film caused controversy in Cannes - also because the Jury under David Cronenberg awarded the amateur actors the prizes for best acting. When a girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a policeman who can barely access his own feelings investigates the crime. It is the story of a simple young man with modest knowledge but great faith in everyone. He is a stern, unassuming man who feels the pain of others and suffers constantly from his own compassion. ...