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Isaach de Bankolé

Isaach de Bankolé

Ivorian actor
August 12, 1957 (66 years old)
G.-B. 2020. Dramatic comedy by Azazel Jacobs with Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Valerie Mahaffey. Accompanied by her eccentric son, a New York high society widow travels to Paris to spend the remains of her squandered fortune.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 2019. Police comedy by Tim Story with Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Richard Roundtree. To catch his friend’s killers, a cybersecurity expert enlists the help of his father and grandfather, private investigators with unorthodox methods.
Runtime: 111 min.

Mirage

V.O.: Délibáb
Hongr. 2014. Drama by Szabolcs Hajdu with Isaach de Bankolé, Razvan Vasilescu, Orsolya Torok-Illyés. In the Hungarian flatland., after having committed a crime, an African football player finds refuge on a farm, which is no less than a modern slave camp.
Runtime: 85 min.
Irl. 2014. Drama by John Michael McDonagh with Brendan Gleeson, Kelly Reilly, David Wilmot. In Ireland, a priest receives in confession a man who announces his intention to kill him in eight days, in retaliation for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child.
Runtime: 100 min.
14A
Fr. 2014. Drama by Philippe Lacôte with Abdoul Karim Konaté, Isaach de Bankolé, Reine Sali Coulibaly. The circumstances that led a young Ivorian to assassinate the new Prime Minister of his country.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 2012. Drama by Andrew Dosunmu with Danai Gurira, Isaach de Bankolé. In Brooklyn, a young Nigerian woman starts a new life with her husband, only to discover that she can't have children, which defies the ancestral traditions of her ethnic group.
Runtime: 107 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 2009. Crime drama by Jim Jarmusch with Isaach de Bankolé, Paz de la Huerta, Tilda Swinton. In Spain, a lonely individual meets various people who provide him with clues that will lead him to the place where he must fulfill a mysterious mission.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2009. Drama by Claire Denis with Isabelle Huppert, Isaach de Bankolé, Christophe Lambert. In a black African country, the French owner of a coffee plantation resists the onslaught of anti-colonial revolutionary forces.
Runtime: 102 min.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

V.O.: Le Scaphandre et le papillon
Fr. 2007. Biography by Julian Schnabel with Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Marie-Josée Croze. Suffering from locked-in syndrome and rendered totally paralyzed except for his left eye, a journalist dictates a book about his experience by blinking his eye.
Runtime: 111 min.
G.-B. 2006. Spy drama by Martin Campbell with Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen. Secret agent James Bond seeks to dismantle an international terrorist organization financed by a wealthy poker player.
Runtime: 144 min.
14A
U.S. 2006. Mores drama by Steven Kessler with Isaach de Bankolé, Kirk Acevedo, Paz de la Huerta. In New York, the trials and tribulations of two cocaine-addicted roommates, one an aspiring painter, the other a small-time hustler dealing with a seriously ill mother.
Dan. 2005. Social drama by Lars von Trier with Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover. In 1933, a gangster's daughter tries to help Black workers on a remote Alabama plantation break free from their slave status.
Runtime: 139 min.
Fr. 2004. Social drama by André Chandelle with Isaach de Bankolé, Valérie Mairesse, Maurice Risch. After entering France illegally, a Senegalese swindler posing as a priest in an underprivileged city discovers a misery greater than the one he had fled.
U.S. 2003. Sketches by Jim Jarmusch with Cate Blanchett, Alfred Molina, Steve Coogan. Eleven short scenes in which two or three people discuss everything and anything while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1996. Psychological drama by Joe Brewster with Giancarlo Esposito, Regina Taylor, Isaach de Bankolé.
U.S. 1993. Drama by Nicolas Roeg with Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach de Bankolé. The journey in the congo of a young trader who travels up a river by boat to meet an enigmatic ivory trader.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1991. Sketches by Jim Jarmusch with Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito. At the same time, around the world, five cab drivers meet very special customers.
Runtime: 127 min.

No Fear, No Die

V.O.: S'en fout la mort
Fr. 1990. Mores drama by Claire Denis with Isaach de Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-Claude Brialy. Two Black men are in charge of covert cockfights organized by a restaurant owner in the Paris suburbs.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1989. Comedy by Gérard Oury with Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Isaach de Bankolé. A woman married to a jealous surgeon who ignores her past as a spy agrees to carry out a new mission without her husband's knowledge.
Runtime: 105 min.

How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired

V.O.: Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer
Can. 1989. Satire by Jacques W. Benoit with Isaach de Bankolé, Maka Kotto, Roberta Bizeau. The parade of pretty women in the apartment of two idle Black men arouses the envy and suspicion of a trio of drug dealers.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1988. Mores drama by Claire Denis with Isaach de Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet. On the way back to her childhood village, a woman recalls her colonial past with her parents stationed in Cameroon.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1988. Comedy by Gérard Zingg with Marie Louisa, Victoria Abril, Richard Bohringer. In 1942, the young heiress of an English lord must find his son, abandoned in the African jungle twenty years earlier.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1987. Police comedy by Josiane Balasko with Josiane Balasko, Isaach de Bankolé, Jean-Pierre Léaud. A police officer from the vice squad disguises herself as a prostitute in order to infiltrate the prostitution scene.
Fr. 1986. Psychological drama by Claire Devers with Francis Frappat, Jacques Martial, Joséphine Fresson. An accountant has a strange sadomasochistic relationship with a Black masseur.
Runtime: 84 min.
Fr. 1986. Comedy by Thomas Gilou with Jacques Villeret, Isaach de Bankolé, Félicité Wouassi. In Paris, a resourceful young Black man posing as a marabout manages to circumvent a health inspector.
Runtime: 93 min.

The Asphalt Warriors

V.O.: L'Arbalète
Fr. 1984. Crime drama by Sergio Gobbi with Daniel Auteuil, Marcel Bozzuffi, Marisa Berenson. Two fiercely different detectives are called on to intervene and counter gang confrontations sparked by a drug shortage.
Runtime: 91 min.

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