Xavier Giannoli (born 7 March 1972) is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. In 2010, he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Description above from the Wikipedia article Xavier Giannoli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
Release Date2017-07-19
Charactersd Captain Norton
Vote Count7787
Release Date2010-10-28
Charactersd Self (cinéaste)
Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the world, who knew how to offer both great shows and subtle studies of characters. Beyond the myth of the tyrannical director, a contrasting portrait of a visionary, an agitator, an artist against the system.
Release Date2017-10-17
Charactersd Self
Vote Count8
Release Date2022-09-01
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
A worker and his boss hold each other prisoner 250 feet above the ground. Let's have laugh before joining the dole queue !
Release Date1996-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
A video library clerk becomes obsessed with a sleepwalking woman and takes it upon himself to save her from catastrophe.
Release Date2005-08-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count24
Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is completely knocked off balance when he meets strikingly attractive and much younger businesswoman Marion. She seems distant and apparently otherwise involved but soon shows quiet signs of reciprocating his interest.
Release Date2006-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count90
Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
Release Date2021-10-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScenario Writer
Vote Count528
France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?
Release Date2009-11-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count141
The scam of the century, which occurred in France and Europe between 2008 and 2009. Billions gone up in smoke on the new financial market of "carbon quotas" invented to fight against global warming. The association of Belleville crooks with a trader from the wealthy neighborhoods, tracked by an obsessive investigator. When human passions are unleashed beyond simple interest. Based on the investigative book by Fabrice Arfi.
Release Date2023-10-16
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count12
Vote Count41
Jean-Marc and Pamela attend the première of a film directed by one of their friends. They gradually lose control of things.
Release Date1995-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.
Release Date2004-09-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count73
Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate the veracity of a supernatural apparition allegedly happened in a small French village.
Release Date2018-02-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count153
A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.
Release Date2002-11-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count117
Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.
Release Date2015-09-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count285
An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous.
Release Date2012-08-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count86
Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous relationship.
Release Date2003-04-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count24
Two moviegoers start a romance like in the movies, thanks to the movies.
Release Date2018-09-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Jean and Otto, a French press man and a young German Francophile, fight for peace in Europe. Jean's daughter, Corinne, begins a brilliant career as a film actress. But war breaks out and France is occupied. The two friends play a major role in this new France. Jean achieves the stature of a major press magnate, an ardent promoter of collaboration with the occupier; Otto becomes the Reich's ambassador to Paris. Corinne finds herself thrown into the lion's den...
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A 55-minute film by director Xavier Giannoli that analyses 'À nos amours'. The film features former Cahiers du cinéma editorial director Jean-Michel Frodon, actors Jacques Fieschi and Sandrine Bonnaire, and other members of the cast
Release Date1999-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
In the late 1980s, a young journalist obtains an exclusive interview in London with one of the last mythical figures of Hollywood. He makes the trip but nothing goes as planned. The trouble is, he has an article to hand in.
Release Date1998-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
