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Denis Lavant

Denis Lavant

French film actor
June 17, 1961 (62 years old)
Fr. 2022. Drama by Helena Wittmann with Gustavo Jahn, Ingo Martens, Ferhat Mouhali. The only woman among the international crew of a ship sailing the Mediterranean, a Greek scientist is trying to track down a former legionnaire.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 2021. Musical by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu with Mathieu Amalric, Bertrand Belin, Mélanie Thierry. A Parisian drifter, who has followed to Lourdes a young girl resembling the Virgin Mary, is mistaken for the missing son of a 60-year-old woman.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 2021. Drama by Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh with Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven. Dreaming of being an astronaut, teenaged Youri, along with two friends, tries to save the dilapidated high-rise buildings of his housing estate in Gagarin, a suburb of Paris.
Runtime: 98 min.

Night of the Kings

V.O.: La Nuit des rois
Fr. 2020. Drama by Philippe Lacôte with Bakary Koné, Steve Tientcheu, Issaka Sawadogo. In an overcrowded prison in the Ivory Coast, a new prisoner is forced by the chief inmate, on the verge of death, to play the role of storyteller for an entire night.
Runtime: 93 min.
Can. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Guillaume Lambert with Guillaume Lambert, Valérie Cadieux, Sarianne Cormier. Unable to finish his first film, a 30-year-old Montrealer decides to take a modest job as a scriptwriter for a funny video show.
Runtime: 80 min.

3 Days in Quiberon

V.O.: 3 Tage in Quiberon
All. 2018. Biography by Emily Atef with Marie Baumer, Birgit Minichmayr, Charly Hübner. In 1981, a spa in Brittany is the scene of actress Romy Schneider’s very last interview with a journalist and photographer from the German magazine Stern.
Runtime: 115 min.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 2018. History by Pierre Schoeller with Olivier Gourmet, Adèle Haenel, Gaspard Ulliel. From 1789 to 1793 in France, the revolution forces the meeting of common people and political figures, called to discuss the fate of the fallen king and the advent of the Republic.
Runtime: 121 min.

The Emperor of Paris

V.O.: L'Empereur de Paris
Fr. 2018. History by Jean-François Richet with Vincent Cassel, Freya Mavor, Patrick Chesnais. In 1804, a resourceful convict, who has always maintained his innocence, works as an agent and informant for the Parisian police, hoping to obtain his letter of pardon.
Runtime: 120 min.
All. 2018. Fantasy comedy by Veit Helmer with Miki Manojlovic, Denis Lavant, Paz Vega.
Runtime: 90 min.

Boris Without Beatrice

V.O.: Boris sans Béatrice
Can. 2016. Psychological drama by Denis Côté with James Hyndman, Simone-Elise Girard, Denis Lavant. A successful businessman temporarily retires to the countryside to support his wife who is in a silent depression.
Runtime: 93 min.

Eva Doesn't Sleep

V.O.: Eva no duerme
Arg. 2015. Drama by Pablo Aguero with Gael Garcia Bernal, Denis Lavant, Ailin Salas. From 1952, in Argentina and across Europe, the very special destiny of Eva Peron's embalmed corpse.
Runtime: 85 min.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 2015. Comedy by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu with Isabelle Carré, Karin Viard, André Dussollier. An uptight woman comes to bury her mother in a mountain village and is led into crazy adventures by a friend of the deceased.
Runtime: 115 min.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

V.O.: Céline - Deux clowns pour une catastrophe
Fr. 2015. Drama by Emmanuel Bourdieu with Philip Desmeules, Denis Lavant, Géraldine Pailhas. In 1948, a Jewish American writer visits his idol, novelist Louis-Ferdinand C
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 2013. Drama by Arnaud des Pallières with Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, Delphine Chuillot. In sixteenth century France, a horse trader forms an army to wage war against the authorities who have violated his rights.
Runtime: 122 min.
Fr. 2013. Biography by Olivier Guignard with Denis Lavant, Judith Rémy.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2012. Drama by Léos Carax with Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Kylie Minogue. From dawn to dusk, a mysterious ""actor"" is escorted through Paris in a white limousine equipped like a theatre box has a series of encounters.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2011. Psychological drama by Eva Ionesco with Isabelle Huppert, Anamaria Vartolomei, Denis Lavant.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2011. Fantasy comedy by Guy Faucon, Sylvie Habault with Rachel Paux, Michael Lonsdale, Denis Lavant.
Fr. 2011. History by Stan Neumann with Denis Lavant, Airy Routier, Lou Castel. In 1610 Prague, German astronomer Johannes Kepler develops his disputed theory of planetary motion using one of the first telescopes invented by Galileo.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 2009. Crime drama by Frédéric Tellier with Émilie Dequenne, Samuel Le Bihan, Olivier Sitruk. Without the approval of her superior, a policewoman with a mysterious past investigates a horrible murder case, with the help of a colleague who is as unconvenetional as she is.
Runtime: 100 min.
Jap. 2008. Sketches by Michel Gondry, Léos Carax, Bong Joon-ho with Ayako Fujitani, Denis Lavant, Teruyuki Kagawa. In Tokyo, the fantastic fates of a young woman undergoing a strange mutation, a human-like monster emerging from the sewers and a man who has been confined to his home for ten years.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2008. Police comedy by Éric Woreth with Antoine Duléry, Marius Colucci, Denis Lavant. A sententious commissioner and his naive student are powerless to prevent murders announced to the police by their perpetrator through an anonymous letter.
Runtime: 95 min.
G.-B. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Harmony Korine with Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant. In Paris, a Michael Jackson impersonator meets a fake Marilyn Monroe who invites him to a commune in Scotland.
Runtime: 112 min.

A Very Long Engagement

V.O.: Un Long Dimanche de fiançailles
Fr. 2004. Drama by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Albert Dupontel. In 1919, a young Breton woman who refuses to believe that her fianc
Runtime: 134 min.
All. 1999. Tale by Veit Helmer with Denis Lavant, Chulpan Khamatova, Philippe Clay. The loves and dreams of a young man who fights to prevent the destruction of his father's dilapidated old bathhouse.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1998. Psychological drama by Claire Denis with Denis Lavant, Grégoire Colin, Michel Subor. A warrant officer who firmly commands a platoon in the Foreign Legion is troubled by the attitude of a young rebellious recruit.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1995. Mores drama by Jean-Michel Carré with Denis Lavant, Dominique Froh, Vanessa Guedj.
Runtime: 99 min.

The Chess Game

V.O.: La Partie d'échecs
Bel. 1993. Drama by Yves Hanchar with Denis Lavant, Pierre Richard, Catherine Deneuve. In the nineteenth century, a young chess champion takes part in a tournament organized by a marquise who promises to give her daughter to the winner.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Lovers of the Pont Neuf

V.O.: Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
Fr. 1991. Sentimental drama by Léos Carax with Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, Klaus Michael Grüber. A young portrait artist reduced to homelessness after a failed romance sfalls passionately in love with a young homeless man.
Runtime: 126 min.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1988. Crime drama by Jean Kerchbron with Jean Richard, Gilles Ségal, Jean Negroni. Inspector Maigret organizes a fake reenactment of the murder of a neurologist in order to lure the murderer to the scene.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1986. Comedy by François Dupont-Midy with Henri Tisot, Ronny Coutteure, Cerise. The matrimonial plans of a garage owner are disrupted by the arrival of a look-alike in his town.
Runtime: 90 min.

Bad Blood

V.O.: Mauvais Sang
Fr. 1986. Poetic drama by Léos Carax with Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, Michel Piccoli. Hired to rob a laboratory's safe, a young thief is fascinated by his boss's mistress.
Runtime: 128 min.
Fr. 1985. Poetic drama by Léos Carax with Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks. An apprentice filmmaker falls in love with a young girl disillusioned with life and love.
Runtime: 104 min.

The Wounded Man

V.O.: L'Homme blessé
Fr. 1983. Psychological drama by Patrice Chéreau with Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Roland Bertin. Attracted by a stranger, a teenager is drawn into disturbing experiences that lead him to discover homosexual tendencies.
Runtime: 109 min.

Between Us

V.O.: Coup de foudre
Fr. 1983. Psychological drama by Diane Kurys with Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand. In 1952, two young women befriend each other and start to question their respective marriages.
Runtime: 110 min.

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