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Melvil Poupaud

Melvil Poupaud

Melvil Poupaud (born 26 January 1973) is a French actor.

He was named after Herman Melville by his screenwriter mother. At the age of ten, he launched into acting with a role in La Ville des Pirates (1983), directed by Raul Ruiz. At the age of 15, he was nominated for a César. He has a daughter, Anna-Lisa.

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Heads or Fails (2025)

Armande Pigeon, a queen of shenanigans in Brussels struggles to make ends meet because she can't stop gambling on everything, always ending up on the wrong side of luck. When she teams up with Ronnie one night, everything changes — they win it all. And w ...

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Marcello Mio (2024)

Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back to life through her own self. She goes by the name of Marcello, dresses like him and asks to now be considered an actor, not an actress. ...

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Coup de Chance (2023)

Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former ...

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Just the Two of Us (2023)

When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by li ...

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Jeanne du Barry (2023)

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress. ...

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My Sole Desire (2023)

When aimless Manon begins work at À mon seul désir, a strip club that offers high concept performances, she instantly bonds with her fellow strippers, particularly Mia, an aspiring actress with a boyfriend and child. Manon learns that it is "not easy mon ...

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Benjamin Biolay - Christmas Show (2022)

Musical Christmas Special hosted by Benjamin Biolay. ...

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One Fine Morning (2022)

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair. ...

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15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour (2022)

"Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill me every thursday? His wife, Lucie, prefers to go to a shrink. To each their own therapy. ...

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Brother and Sister (2022)

Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven't seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face. ...

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The Young Lovers (2022)

Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief meeting 15 years previously. Both are quite troubled to meet again and begin an affair. While Pierre's fam ...

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Summer of 85 (2020)

What do you dream of when you're 16-years-old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you ca ...

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An Officer and a Spy (2019)

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil's Island penal colony. ...

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Silent Streams (2019)

Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From this sudden intimacy, the murmurs of their little inner voice let us hear the anxieties of love. ...

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By the Grace of God (2019)

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and "lift the burden of silence ...

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Golden Youth (2019)

Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert, two b ...

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When Margaux Meets Margaux (2018)

20-year-old Margaux makes the acquaintance of 45-year-old Margaux: they have a lot in common – so much so that it turns out they are one and the same person, at two different ages and stages of their life… ...

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The Lady in the Portrait (2017)

An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian ...

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Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible (2016)

Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both cinema lovers and prestigious festiva ...

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In Bed with Victoria (2016)

Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who's struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. At a friend's wedding she reconnects with Vincent, an old friend, and Sam, an old client. Her l ...

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The Great Game (2015)

Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to take on ...

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By the Sea (2015)

Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its mo ...

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Face Down (2015)

Samy is a Frenchman accused of smuggling counterfeit money from Bulgaria to France. To avoid jail, he becomes an informer for the French police, joining under cover a Bulgarian channel for human trafficking. Gradually, he falls in love with Elka, an undera ...

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Mad Love (2015)

1959. Guilty of a double-murder, a man is beheaded. At the bottom of the basket that just welcomed it, the head of the dead man tells his story: everything was going so well! Admired priest, great lover - his earthly paradise seemed to have no end. Inspire ...

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Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey (2014)

Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman: she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a woman will be a woman, with her heart, her desires and her seduction - ...

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Duras and Cinema (2014)

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor. ...

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Lines of Wellington (2012)

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon's 1810 invasion of Portugal. ...

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Laurence Anyways (2012)

The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self. ...

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Ballet aquatique (2012)

In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose work always blended science with surrealism. Ruiz and friends further perfect the art of mystification. Why it is ...

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The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm (2012)

Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. She lives in an orphanage in Burgandy. ...

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The Edge (2011)

After studying in Paris, the young doctor François moves to Beauval, where single-family houses are lined up monotonously. He quickly becomes the focus of a group of young people, led by the charismatic Cédric and Matthieu, his assistant. The gang tries ...

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The Argument (2011)

A Frenchman stuck in New Orleans has just had a colossal argument. The mother of his infant child has left him wallet-less and with a wailing baby. He must get diapers for his son, but he does not speak English. ...

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Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the con ...

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Black Heaven (2010)

An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world. ...

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The Counterfeiters (2010)

The plot revolves around Bernard – a schoolfriend of Olivier's who is preparing for his bac – discovering he is a bastard and taking this as a welcome pretext for running away from home. He spends a night in Olivier's bed (where Olivier describes a rec ...

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Hideaway (Le refuge) (2009)

Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months la ...

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Lucky Luke (2009)

Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town. ...

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44 Inch Chest (2009)

Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife's infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge. ...

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Souvenirs and Evocations (2008)

A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema. ...

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The Broken (2008)

The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest ...

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Crime Is Our Business (2008)

Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie. ...

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A Christmas Tale (2008)

When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, th ...

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Speed Racer (2008)

Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities. ...

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Broken English (2007)

Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children. Nora is in her thirties, alone with job she's outgrown and a mother who constantly reminds her of it all. Not to mention her best friend Audrey's "perfe ...

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Towards Zero (2007)

Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form, bodies have begun to stack up by the end of this cinematic update of a classic Agatha Christie tale. Luckily ...

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A Lost Man (2007)

Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek out the most extreme experiences imaginable. Thomas is a fearless shutterbug who's always willing to put his ...

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Melvil (2006)

«Melvil» is the name of a character who manoeuvres between cinema and reality, searching for a family, a place to take over, a role to play. ...

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Time to Leave (2005)

Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him. ...

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The Making of A Summer’s Tale (2005)

In 1995, producer Françoise Etchegaray recorded the production of A Summer's Tale. The footage remained on the shelf for years until director Jean-André Fieschi combined the images with bits of the finished film. ...

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Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens (2005)

Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who s ...

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Eros Therapy (2004)

A husband wants to win back his wife, even though she has been living with her lesbian lover for six months. ...

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Qui a tué Johnny Mac? (2004)

20 years later Melvil Poupaud returns to his short "Qui es-tu Johnny Mac?" and replay the story of an alcoholic detective and a killer. ...

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Feelings (2003)

Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues. ...

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Le Divorce (2003)

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer. ...

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Shimkent hôtel (2003)

Shimkent hôtel tells the story of a young man who's experienced the failure of a business venture in the Afghan mountains, and who suffers from shock in Kazakhstan. ...

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Pronobis (2003)

Philippe lives in his deceased parents' large flat. He hides a dark secret there, wich a girlfriend will soon discover... ...

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A Hell of a Day (2001)

Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that proves positive, a car accident and being fired from her job... For Hortense, mobile phone in hand, the frantic quest for sexual satisfaction begins in a ...

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The Dark Room (2000)

In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls' behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out ...

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Love Torn in a Dream (2000)

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the conve ...

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The Heart's Root (2000)

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young ...

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Time Regained (1999)

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life. ...

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Quelque chose (1999)

Melvil Poupaud short about one crying man and one man in good mood. ...

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Les Kidnappeurs (1998)

Ulysse, a gun-toting hood, gets together a team of four people, including himself, to carry out what he thinks will be a fail-safe heist... ...

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La Vie de Marianne (1997)

In the aristocratic society of the seventeenth century, the fate of Marianne child who survived the deadly attack on a convoy. ...

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Shooting Stars (1997)

A mobster is determined to find the drugs his mistress stole from him before running off with a young hustler. ...

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Genealogies of a Crime (1997)

An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies. ...

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Souvenir (1996)

An elliptical, poetic film about an American woman sportswriter who wanders around Paris remembering traumatic experiences in her life. ...

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A Summer's Tale (1996)

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna's arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends—and flirts heavily with—two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situat ...

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Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before. ...

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Diary of a Seducer (1996)

Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At school, Claire meets Gregoire, who loans her a book by philosopher Soren Kierkegaard that makes the reader a ...

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Innocent Lies (1995)

In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of ...

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Fado, Major and Minor (1995)

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has ta ...

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Elisa (1995)

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames fo ...

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Under the Stars (1994)

The first emotions in love with a young man of seventeen: Thomas who understands that his life belongs to him at last. Four young women contribute to his sentimental education. ...

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Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional (1993)

Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she can't seem to get a fix on herself. In desperation, after a last quarrel with François, she unintentional ...

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Archipel (1993)

A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season. ...

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The Lover (1992)

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torr ...

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The 15 Year Old Girl (1989)

Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, staying at an isolated villa on the unspoilt part of the coast. Thomas insists on bringing his friend Juliette, a girl of his own age with whom he enjoys a clo ...

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3 Jours... (1988)

An arrogant parisian guy is stuck in a small village for 3 days waitng his car being repaired. ...

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Dans un miroir (1986)

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting. ...

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Treasure Island (1986)

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures. ...

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Richard III (1986)

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne. ...

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The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985)

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman al ...

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Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au cœur (1985)

Melvil Poupaud short in 5 chapters about different guys reading farewell letters. ...

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City of Pirates (1984)

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities. ...

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Qui es tu Johnny Mac? (1984)

Melvil Poupaud short film noir about an alcoholic detective and a killer. ...

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Movies Made By Melvil Poupaud (8)

Melvil (2006)

«Melvil» is the name of a character who manoeuvres between cinema and reality, searching for a family, a place to take over, a role to play. ...

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Qui a tué Johnny Mac? (2004)

20 years later Melvil Poupaud returns to his short "Qui es-tu Johnny Mac?" and replay the story of an alcoholic detective and a killer. ...

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Pronobis (2003)

Philippe lives in his deceased parents' large flat. He hides a dark secret there, wich a girlfriend will soon discover... ...

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Rémi (2001)

Three students pass their vacation in Normandie. One day they offer to stay at their house a young painter Remi. ...

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Quelque chose (1999)

Melvil Poupaud short about one crying man and one man in good mood. ...

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3 Jours... (1988)

An arrogant parisian guy is stuck in a small village for 3 days waitng his car being repaired. ...

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Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au cœur (1985)

Melvil Poupaud short in 5 chapters about different guys reading farewell letters. ...

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Qui es tu Johnny Mac? (1984)

Melvil Poupaud short film noir about an alcoholic detective and a killer. ...

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