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Benoît Magimel

Benoît Magimel

French actor
May 11, 1974 (49 years old)

The Taste of Things

V.O.: La Passion de Dodin Bouffant
Fr. 2023. Sentimental drama by Tran Anh Hung with Benoît Magimel, Juliette Binoche, Bonnie Chagneau-Ravoire. In the late 19th century, the intimate and professional relationship between a cook and her boss, a world-renowned gastronome.
Runtime: 134 min.
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Fr. 2023. History by Stéphanie Di Giusto with Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay. In France in the 1870s, a young woman tries to hide the fact that her face and body have been covered with hair since birth.
Runtime: 115 min.

The King of Algiers

V.O.: Omar la fraise
Fr. 2023. Dramatic comedy by Elias Belkeddar with Reda Kateb, Benoît Magimel, Meriem Amiar.
Runtime: 92 min.

Incredible But True

V.O.: Incroyable mais vrai
Fr. 2022. Comedy by Quentin Dupieux with Léa Drucker, Alain Chabat, Benoît Magimel. A fifty-year-old man and his wife are buying a new house, even though the real estate agent has warned them that what's in the basement will change their lives.
Runtime: 73 min.
Esp. 2022. Drama by Albert Serra with Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Matahi Pambrun. In Tahiti, the High Commissioner, who administers the island on behalf of the French government, senses a wind of revolt as rumors of new nuclear tests spread.
Runtime: 163 min.
Fr. 2022. Drama by Alice Winocour with Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin. The efforts of a Parisian woman to reconstruct her memories and move forward, four months after surviving a terrorist attack in a Parisian brasserie.
Runtime: 105 min.

Peaceful

V.O.: De son vivant
Fr. 2021. Drama by Emmanuelle Bercot with Benoît Magimel, Catherine Deneuve, Gabriel Sara. A theater professor suffering from a pancreatic tumor spends the last months of his life in the palliative care unit of a benevolent Parisian oncologist.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 2020. Drama by Nicole Garcia with Stacy Martin, Pierre Niney, Benoît Magimel. Three years after an incident that caused her drug dealer lover to flee, a young woman married to a wealthy businessman stumbles upon him in Mauritius.
Runtime: 102 min.

Lola

V.O.: Lola vers la mer
Bel. 2019. Drama by Laurent Micheli with Mya Bollaers, Benoît Magimel, Els Deceukelier. A transgender teenager confronts her stubborn father on the way to their old summer home where her mother, who died of cancer, wanted her ashes scattered.
Runtime: 90 min.

An Easy Girl

V.O.: Une Fille facile
Fr. 2019. Mores drama by Rebecca Zlotowski with Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel. One summer in Cannes, a shy teenager is drawn by her wild female cousin into adventures with wealthy yacht owners.
Runtime: 92 min.

Little White Lies 2

V.O.: Nous finirons ensemble
Fr. 2019. Dramatic comedy by Guillaume Canet with François Cluzet, Gilles Lellouche, Marion Cotillard. A depressed and bankrupt restaurateur sees his friends, of whom he had no news for three years, arrive at his summer home to surprise him for his 60th birthday.
Runtime: 135 min.
Fr. 2017. Thriller by Olivier Marchal with Benoît Magimel, Gringe, Idir Chender. A dedicated and honest boss and his friends pull off a daring scam to save his family’s trucking business from bankruptcy.
Runtime: 104 min.

Memoir of War

V.O.: La Douleur
Fr. 2017. Drama by Emmanuel Finkiel with Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay. In 1944, in liberated Paris, a writer feverishly awaits the return of her husband, a member of a resistance network whose deportation she was unable to prevent a few months earlier.
Runtime: 126 min.

150 milligrams

V.O.: La Fille de Brest
Fr. 2016. Drama by Emmanuelle Bercot with Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoît Magimel, Charlotte Laemmel. At the turn of 2010, a Breton pulmonologist tries to ban the sale of a diabetes drug that causes fatal heart problems.
Runtime: 128 min.

Standing Tall

V.O.: La Tête haute
Fr. 2015. Social drama by Emmanuelle Bercot with Rod Paradot, Benoît Magimel, Catherine Deneuve. A violent teenager with learning difficulties tries to find his place in society with the help of an educator and a juvenile judge.
Runtime: 119 min.

We Were Young

V.O.: On voulait tout casser
Fr. 2015. Dramatic comedy by Philippe Guillard with Kad Merad, Charles Berling, Benoît Magimel. On the verge of starting his round-the-world sailing trip, a fifty-year-old man with a terminal_ illness agrees to take one last trip with his four best friends.
Runtime: 91 min.
Runtime: 102 min.

The Connection

V.O.: La French
Fr. 2014. Crime drama by Cédric Jimenez with Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette. In Marseilles, in 1975, a new judge of the major crimes unit attacks the French Connection, the hub of world heroin trafficking.
Runtime: 135 min.
Fr. 2013. Drama by Diane Kurys with Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Nicolas Duvauchelle. In the 1980s, a filmmaker investigates a post-war photograph showing her mother and sister posing with a man who is not her father.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2012. Biography by Florent-Emilio Siri with Jérémie Renier, Benoît Magimel, Monica Scattini. The life of the variety singer Claude Fran
Runtime: 148 min.
Fr. 2011. War drama by Stéphane Rybojad with Diane Kruger, Benoît Magimel, Djimon Hounsou. While trying to rescue a journalist taken hostage by the Taliban, the soldiers of a special French army force are pursued by them.
Runtime: 107 min.

Headwinds

V.O.: Des vents contraires
Fr. 2011. Drama by Jalil Lespert with Benoît Magimel, Antoine Duléry, Isabelle Carré. One year after his wife
Runtime: 91 min.

Little White Lies

V.O.: Les Petits Mouchoirs
Fr. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Guillaume Canet with François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel. While one of them is in the hospital following a motorcycle accident, a group of thirty-somethings from Paris decide to go on vacation by the sea.
Runtime: 155 min.
Fr. 2010. Thriller by Cédric Anger with Benoît Magimel, Gilbert Melki, Aïssa Maïga. An ambitious young lawyer is seduced by the flashy world of his client, a wealthy mobster who runs a landfill company.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Marc Esposito with Édouard Baer, Benoît Magimel, Diane Bonnot. A car magazine editor, living beyond his means, takes on a young inmate fascinated by fast cars as a day intern.
Runtime: 105 min.

Immaculate

V.O.: Sans laisser de traces
Fr. 2009. Thriller by Grégoire Vigneron with Benoît Magimel, François-Xavier Demaison, Julie Gayet. On the eve of taking over management of his industrial group, a senior executive finds himself unwillingly involved in a murder case.
Runtime: 95 min.

Resolution 819

V.O.: Résolution 819
Fr. 2008. History by Giacomo Battiato with Benoît Magimel, Hippolyte Girardot, Karolina Gruszka. In 1995, a French policeman goes to former Yugoslavia to investigate the massacre of Muslim civilians by the Bosnian Serb army in Srebrenica.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 2008. Thriller by Barbet Schroeder with Benoît Magimel, Lika Minamoto, Shun Sugata. In Kyoto, a French writer comes to the aid of a young geisha threatened by a spurned lover who has since become a famous novelist.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2008. Science-fiction by Michel Houellebecq with Benoît Magimel, Patrick Bauchau, Ramata Koite.
Runtime: 95 min.

A Girl Cut in Two

V.O.: La Fille coupée en deux
Fr. 2007. Drama by Claude Chabrol with Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand. An attractive weather girl is torn between a jaded older writer and a troubled young heir.
Runtime: 110 min.

Intimate Enemies

V.O.: L'Ennemi intime
Fr. 2007. War drama by Florent-Emilio Siri with Benoît Magimel, Albert Dupontel, Aurélien Recoing. During the Algerian war, a young idealistic French lieutenant experiences a painful disillusionment.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2007. Thriller by Frédéric Schoendoerffer with Benoît Magimel, Philippe Caubère, Béatrice Dalle. Aided by his henchmen, a Parisian kingpin reigns as a despot over the Parisian underworld.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2007. Psychological drama by Jalil Lespert with Lubna Azabal, Benoît Magimel, Bérangère Allaux. On Christmas Eve, an aimless prostitute who is forbidden to see her son placed in foster care, has a series of chance meetings.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2006. Mores drama by Lionel Bailliu with Benoît Magimel, Marion Cotillard, Jérémie Renier. The rivalries between different employees of the same company come to the surface when they play sports together.
Runtime: 103 min.

Sky Fighters

V.O.: Les Chevaliers du ciel
Fr. 2005. Thriller by Gérard Pirès with Benoît Magimel, Clovis Cornillac, Géraldine Pailhas. Two pilots try to prevent terrorists from hijacking a fighter jet to carry out an attack in Paris during the July 14 parade.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2005. Psychological drama by Nicole Garcia with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Lindon, Benoît Poelvoorde. The return of a famous paleontologist to his hometown disrupts the lives of a few people in a more or less direct way.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2004. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément. At his sister's wedding, a young executive falls in love with a bridesmaid who, as a proof of love, asks him to kill a random stranger.
Runtime: 106 min.

Crimson Rivers 2

V.O.: Les Rivières Pourpres 2 - Les Anges de l'Apocalypse
Fr. 2003. Fantasy by Olivier Dahan with Jean Reno, Benoît Magimel, Camille Natta. Two policemen try to solve a series of bloody murders committed by mysterious monks with supernatural powers.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 2003. Drama by Damien Odoul with Laetitia Casta, Benoît Magimel, Mattéo Tardito. In the late 1960s, a former soldier haunted by his memories of the Algerian war makes life difficult for his wife and young son.
Fr. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Jean Becker with Jacques Villeret, André Dussollier, Thierry Lhermitte. A teenager learns from his father
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 2002. Mores drama by Claude Chabrol with Nathalie Baye, Benoît Magimel, Suzanne Flon. In Bordeaux, a candidate for mayor is smeared by an anonymous leaflet revealing disturbing secrets about her wealthy family.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Nest

V.O.: Nid de guêpes
Fr. 2001. Crime drama by Florent-Emilio Siri with Samy Naceri, Benoît Magimel, Nadia Farès. Trapped in a warehouse, thieves join forces with a police officer who is being attacked by killers who want to free her prisoner, an Albanian mobster.
Runtime: 108 min.

The Piano Teacher

V.O.: La Pianiste
Autr. 2001. Mores drama by Michael Haneke with Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot. In Vienna, a forty-year-old sexually deviant piano teacher is courted by one of her young students.
Runtime: 129 min.

The King is Dancing

V.O.: Le Roi danse
Fr. 2000. History by Gérard Corbiau with Benoît Magimel, Boris Terral, Tcheky Karyo. On his deathbed, the musician Jean-Baptiste Lully recalls the milestones of his life and career, which were linked to the fate of his king, Louis XIV.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 2000. Melodrama by Pierre Grimblat with Benoît Magimel, Marion Cotillard, Jeanne Moreau. A filmmaker collects the testimony of an old woman who had a great love affair with a film actor in the 1930s.
Runtime: 109 min.
Fr. 2000. Drama by Xavier Beauvois with Benoît Magimel, Nathalie Baye, Antoine Chappey. A young worker avenges the death of his father, fired from their factory for smoking a cigarette, by engaging in an affair with the boss's wife.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Children of the Century

V.O.: Les Enfants du siècle
Fr. 1999. Biography by Diane Kurys with Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Robin Renucci. The tumultuous love affair of the writer George Sand with the romantic poet Alfred de Musset.
Runtime: 138 min.
Fr. 1997. Mores drama by Olivier Dahan with Clément Sibony, Benoît Magimel, Zoé Felix. In Nice, a young couple from a modest background is introduced by two rich boys into the seedy circle of a porn producer.
Runtime: 108 min.

Thieves

V.O.: Les Voleurs
Fr. 1996. Psychological drama by André Téchiné with Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve, Laurence Côte.
Runtime: 117 min.

A Single Girl

V.O.: La Fille seule
Fr. 1995. Psychological drama by Benoît Jacquot with Virginie Ledoyen, Benoît Magimel, Dominique Valadie.
Runtime: 90 min.

Hate

V.O.: La Haine
Runtime: 98 min.

The Stolen Diary

V.O.: Le Cahier volé
Fr. 1992. Mores drama by Christine Lipinska with Élodie Bouchez, Edwige Navarro, Benoît Magimel. At the Liberation, the daughter of a village caf
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1991. Chronicle by Marcel Bluwal with Gastone Moschin, Christine Fersen, Jean-Michel Leray. The childhood memories of an Italian immigrant's son living in an impoverished suburb of Paris.
Runtime: 190 min.
Fr. 1988. Mores comedy by Christine Lipinska with Sophie Aubry, Jérôme Kircher, Benoît Magimel. A teenager decides to take care of her brothers and sister by herself after her parents leave the house following an argument.
Runtime: 104 min.

Life Is a Long Quiet River

V.O.: La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille
Fr. 1987. Comedy by Étienne Chatiliez with Hélène Vincent, André Wilms, Benoît Magimel. Switched at birth by a nurse, two children are raised in opposite environments to those of their natural parents.
Runtime: 91 min.

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