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Benoît Poelvoorde

Benoît Poelvoorde

Belgian actor
September 22, 1964 (59 years old)
in theaters starting July 19th 2024 (QC)
Fr. 2023. Dramatic comedy by Olivier Babinet with Benoît Poelvoorde, Justine Lacroix, Steve Tientcheu. A dreamy teenager, whose father suffers from multiple sclerosis, devises a plan with him to fool a social worker into believing that they lead a normal life.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 2022. Drama by Clovis Cornillac with Clovis Cornillac, Léa Drucker, Benoît Poelvoorde. In 1927 in Paris, the heiress of a financial empire is plotting revenge against those who caused her ruin.
Runtime: 135 min.
Fr. 2021. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris with Benoît Poelvoorde, Jules Lefebvre, Audrey Dana. In the early 1960s, a 12-year-old boy is drawn into the political conspiracy fantasies of his father, an embittered, unemployed, pathological liar.
Runtime: 106 min.
Bel. 2021. Thriller by Fabrice Du Welz with Alba Gaia Bellugi, Benoît Poelvoorde, Mélanie Doutey. Through lying and manipulation, a young woman gets hired as the housekeeper for the author of her favourite novel.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2019. Comedy by Anne Fontaine with Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Huppert, Damien Bonnard. After surviving an attempted murder by her envious mother-in-law, a young woman takes refuge in a village and catches the eye of seven men.

Delete History

V.O.: Effacer l'historique
Fr. 2019. Dramatic comedy by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern with Blanche Gardin, Denis Podalydès, Corinne Masiero. Three friends, former yellow vests riddled with debt, go to greath lengths to erase their digital footprints.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 2019. Thriller by Fabrice Du Welz with Thomas Gioria, Fantine Harduin, Benoît Poelvoorde. A lonely boy falls in love with a young patient of the psychiatric clinic where his mother works, and decides to run away with her.
Runtime: 98 min.

Venice Calling

V.O.: Venise n'est pas en Italie
Fr. 2019. Dramatic comedy by Ivan Calbérac with Benoît Poelvoorde, Valérie Bonneton, Hélie Thonnat. Invited by the classmate he has fallen in love with, a teenager travels to Venice with his cumbersome parents, who have insisted on travelling with him in their caravan.
Runtime: 95 min.

Sink or Swim

V.O.: Le Grand bain
Fr. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Gilles Lellouche with Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde. A group of men who have been tested by life challenge themselves to represent France at the men’s world synchronized swimming championships.
Runtime: 122 min.

Keep an Eye Out

V.O.: Au poste!
Fr. 2018. Police comedy by Quentin Dupieux with Grégoire Ludig, Benoît Poelvoorde, Marc Fraize. The interrogation of a murder witness by a disillusioned police commissioner takes a surprising turn in a Parisian police station.
Runtime: 73 min.
Fr. 2017. Dramatic comedy by Hector Cabello Reyes with Benoît Poelvoorde, Pitobash, Alexandra Lamy. Fascinated by absurd events, a misanthropic hardware store owner from the north of France reluctantly takes in a penniless young Indian man in search of his uncle.
Runtime: 91 min.
Runtime: 111 min.
Bel. 2015. Fantasy comedy by Jaco Van Dormael with Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Marco Lorenzini. In present-day Brussels, a grumpy and egotistical God, happily working for the misfortune of humanity, sees his young daughter determined to write a brand new Testament.
Runtime: 113 min.
Fr. 2015. Sentimental comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris with Benoît Poelvoorde, Virginie Efira, François Morel. A wealthy and lonely business person rents the family of a young, indebted, and extroverted mother, hoping to be happier.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 2015. Dramatic comedy by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern with Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste. In order to get closer to his son, whom he hopes will soon take his place, an old farmer visits different wine regions in France.
Runtime: 101 min.

3 Hearts

V.O.: 3 Coeurs
Fr. 2014. Sentimental drama by Benoît Jacquot with Benoît Poelvoorde, Chiara Mastroianni, Charlotte Gainsbourg. A Parisian tax inspector begins an affair with an antique dealer from the provinces, without knowing that she is the sister of a woman whose heart he had unwittingly broken.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Xavier Beauvois with Benoît Poelvoorde, Roschdy Zem, Séli Gmach. In 1977 in Switzerland, two men in financial difficultiy decide to steal the coffin of filmmaker Charlie Chaplin to demand a ransom from the family.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 2013. Dramatic comedy by Fabienne Godet with Benoît Poelvoorde, Ariane Labed, Max Baissette de Malglaive. A disillusioned photographer finds meaning in his life after saving his neighbour across the street, a young doctoral student in archaeology, from suicide.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2013. Dramatic comedy by Benoît Mariage with Benoît Poelvoorde, Marc Zinga.
Runtime: 80 min.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 2012. Comedy by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern with Benoît Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel, Brigitte Fontaine. When his conformist brother loses his job as a salesman, an old punk takes him under his wing and leads him on the path of non-conformism.
Runtime: 92 min.

The Big Bad Wolf

V.O.: Le Grand méchant loup
Fr. 2012. Comedy by Nicolas Charlet, Bruno Lavaine with Benoît Poelvoorde, Kad Merad, Fred Testot. Reunited with their hospitalized mother, three brothers in their forties question their married and romantic life.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2012. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Paul Rouve with Jean-Paul Rouve, Miljan Chatelain, Benoît Poelvoorde. On vacation with his wife in northern France, a forty-year-old man is troubled by a boy who looks exactly like him was when he was ten years old.
Runtime: 95 min.

My Worst Nightmare

V.O.: Mon pire cauchemar
Fr. 2011. Comedy by Anne Fontaine with Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Dussollier. The orderly world of an open-minded Parisian bourgeoise is turned upside down by the intrusion of a rough-hewn Belgian worker into her life.
Runtime: 99 min.

Nothing to Declare

V.O.: Rien à déclarer
Fr. 2010. Police comedy by Dany Boon with Dany Boon, Benoît Poelvoorde, Julie Bernard. In 1992, a French customs officer volunteers to participate in a mixed flying squad with a Francophobe Belgian colleague, whose sister he is secretly in love with.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Gustave Kervern, Benoît Delépine with Gérard Depardieu, Yolande Moreau, Isabelle Adjani. A pensioner rides his motorcycle around the province to collect administrative paperwork that will give him access to his pension.
Runtime: 92 min.

Romantics Anonymous

V.O.: Les Émotifs anonymes
Fr. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris with Isabelle Carré, Benoît Poelvoorde, Lorella Cravotta. A shy chocolate maker falls in love with her new boss who, underneath his authoritarian exterior, hides paralyzing sensitivities.
Runtime: 80 min.
Bel. 2009. Animation by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar. A cowboy, a Native American and a horse chase after strange sea creatures that have stolen the brick walls of their home.
Runtime: 80 min.

Dumas

V.O.: L'Autre Dumas
Fr. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Safy Nebbou with Benoît Poelvoorde, Gérard Depardieu, Mélanie Thierry. In 1848, Auguste Maquet, Alexandre Dumas' ghostwriter, steals the latter's identity to help a young woman he is in love with free her revolutionary father.
Runtime: 105 min.

Coco Before Chanel

V.O.: Coco avant Chanel
Fr. 2009. Biography by Anne Fontaine with Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola. The life and beginnings of Gabrielle Chanel, an orphan of modest origins, who became the first great fashion designer in history.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Patrice Leconte with Benoît Poelvoorde, Olivia Bonamy, Jacques Mathou. A failed actor drags the contestants from his village to a beauty contest that is invariably won by the prettier girls from the rival ski resort.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern with Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners, Benoît Poelvoorde. After the brutal closure of her factory in Picardy, a taciturn and illiterate worker joins forces with a fake hitman to murder her boss.
Runtime: 94 min.

Astérix at the Olympic Games

V.O.: Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques
Fr. 2007. Fantasy comedy by Frederic Forestier, Thomas Langmann with Gérard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Stéphane Rousseau. Gauls who oppose Caesar participate in the Olympic Games in order to prove to him their superiority over the Romans.
Runtime: 116 min.
Fr. 2007. Comedy by Daniel Cohen with Benoît Poelvoorde, Natacha Lindinger, Michel Duchaussoy. A humble Parisian art restorer who has become the king of a primitive tribe in a parallel universe must save his people from slavery.
Runtime: 105 min.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2006. Comedy by Philippe Le Guay with Benoît Poelvoorde, Anne Consigny, Bernard Bloch. A bank employee accustomed to failures and inconveniences of all kinds doesn't know how to react when his life is suddenly transformed into a series of happy events.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 2006. Fantasy comedy by Laurent Tuel with Fabrice Luchini, Johnny Hallyday, Guilaine Londez. Coming out of a short coma, a die-hard fan of Johnny Hallyday finds himself in a parallel universe where his idol does not exist.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 2005. Psychological drama by Anne Fontaine with Isabelle Carré, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jonathan Zaccaï. Married and mother of a little girl, a young professional is courted by a disturbing veterinarian.
Runtime: 90 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. Comedy by Tristan Aurouet, Gilles Lellouche with Guillaume Canet, Zabou Breitman, Benoît Poelvoorde. A dishonest shrink tries to steal the work of a narcoleptic who transforms his dreams of being a fearless hero into beautiful comic books.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2003. Fantasy comedy by Yann Moix with Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Paul Rouve, Julie Depardieu. A former impersonator of singer Claude Fran
Runtime: 95 min.

Laughter & Punishment

V.O.: Rire et châtiment
Fr. 2003. Sentimental comedy by Isabelle Doval with Isabelle Doval, José Garcia, Laurent Lucas. A fun-loving osteopath sets out to win back his wife who left him on account of his self-centeredness.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 2001. Police comedy by Alain Berberian, Frederic Forestier with Gérard Lanvin, Benoît Poelvoorde, José Garcia. An escaped felon and a polite prison guard travel to Africa to find a winning lottery ticket.
Runtime: 108 min.

Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle

V.O.: Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert
Fr. 2000. Satire by Philippe Harel with Benoît Poelvoorde.
Bel. 1999. Dramatic comedy by Benoît Mariage with Benoît Poelvoorde, Morgane Simon, Jean-François Devigne. An overbearing father enlists his son in an extravagant race to win a car.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1997. Mores comedy by Philippe Harel with Philippe Harel, Benoît Poelvoorde, Karin Viard.
Runtime: 102 min.

Man Bites Dog

V.O.: C'est arrivé près de chez vous
Bel. 1991. Satire by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde with Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde. A small team of filmmakers make a documentary about a young criminal who robs and kills to support himself.
Runtime: 95 min.

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