Benoît Poelvoorde

Benoît Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor, comedian, and filmmaker, born on September 22, 1964, in Namur, Belgium. He first gained recognition with the cult film C'est arrivé près de chez vous (1992), a darkly comedic mockumentary where he played a serial killer with unsettling charm. This film launched his career and established his unique blend of humor and intensity. Throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, Poelvoorde became a staple of Franco-Belgian cinema, starring in comedies like Les Randonneurs (1997), Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert (2001), and Podium (2004), where he portrayed an obsessive Claude François impersonator—a role that earned him a César nomination. His versatility allowed him to transition into more dramatic roles, such as Entre ses mains (2005) and Coco avant Chanel (2009), where he starred alongside Audrey Tautou. In recent years, Poelvoorde has continued to balance absurdist comedy (Au poste !, Fumer fait tousser) with auteur-driven projects (Le Tout Nouveau Testament, Saint-Amour). His ability to oscillate between slapstick humor and introspective performances makes him one of the most distinctive actors in European cinema

Works

Savages

In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to live with them seeking refuge from the conflict between his indigenous tribe and the logging companies. Kéria, Selaï and the little orangutang, now named Oshi, will have to fight against their forest’s destruction.

Release Date2024-10-16

Charactersd Father (voice)

Vote Count26

Represent

An idealistic educator is inadvertently thrust into the French presidential race.

Release Date2023-01-20

Charactersd Éric Andréï

Episode Count6

Vote Count60

A Town Called Panic

Follows the everyday events of Cowboy, Indian and Horse in a small rural town as they go about their lives.

Release Date2002-12-23

Charactersd Steven (voice)

Episode Count20

Vote Count12

Beating Hearts

Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.

Release Date2024-10-16

Charactersd La Brosse

Vote Count845

How I Became a Superhero

Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere mortals. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ex-superheroes, Monte Carlo and Callista. They'll do whatever it takes to dismantle the traffic. But Moreau's past resurfaces, and the investigation becomes more complicated.

Release Date2020-11-19

Charactersd Monté Carlo

Vote Count524

Man Bites Dog

The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.

Release Date1992-08-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Ben

Vote Count957

How to Make a Killing

Michel and Cathy, wed for longer than they can remember, lead a quiet but monotonous life in the mountains. When a bear bursts out in front of Michel’s car, accidentally killing two drug dealers and revealing a €2 million loot in the process, their life takes an unpredictable turn, especially when they decide to cover up the incident and keep the money! But their plan leads them to stumble upon an unexplained trail of dead bodies. More used to being honest than crooked, Michel and Cathy’s clumsy cover-up efforts soon put an interfering inspector hot on their trail.

Release Date2025-01-01

Charactersd Major Roland Bodin

Vote Count179

Asterix at the Olympic Games

Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and get rid of his father Julius Caesar in the process.

Release Date2008-01-25

Charactersd Brutus

Vote Count2034

The Brand New Testament

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...

Release Date2015-09-02

Charactersd God

Vote Count1686

Sink or Swim

40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.

Release Date2018-10-24

Charactersd Marcus

Vote Count1534

Coco Before Chanel

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.

Release Date2009-04-22

Charactersd Étienne Balsan

Vote Count974

Nothing to Declare

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

Release Date2010-12-20

Charactersd Ruben Vandevoorde

Vote Count1142

Family for Rent

Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, rather introverted man. Rich but alone, he is deeply bored and ends up concluding that what he needs is a family. Violette, a forty-year-old full of energy, is threatened with eviction and is afraid she'll lose custody of her two children. Paul-André then proposes a totally above the board contract to rent the family in exchange for him paying off Violette's debts. For better and for worse..

Release Date2015-08-19

Charactersd Paul-André

Vote Count425

Do You Do You Saint-Tropez

Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France. When a criminal car sabotage related to threatening letters wreak havoc in the villa, Tranchant goes in search of the best agent for the investigation. In the middle of this hot summer, only the arrogant and incompetent agent Boullin is available... To catch the suspect and solve the mystery, he will have no choice but to impersonate a newly hired butler and will turn everyone’s vacation into a hilarious game of ‘Cluedo’!

Release Date2021-07-14

Charactersd Claude Tranchant

Vote Count187

The Colors of Fire

February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire of which she is the heiress. But she has a son, Paul, who with an unexpected and tragic gesture will place her on the path to ruin.

Release Date2022-11-09

Charactersd Gustave Joubert

Vote Count159

Tied

A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.

Release Date2013-01-07

Charactersd Le banquier

Vote Count34

My Worst Nightmare

Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...

Release Date2011-11-09

Charactersd Patrick Demeuleu

Vote Count251

White as Snow

Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks uncontrollable jealousy in Maud, whose young lover has fallen in love with Claire. Maud decides to get rid of Claire who finds shelter in a farm where she’s allowed to break free from her strict upbringing through encounters with seven “princes.”

Release Date2019-04-10

Charactersd Charles

Vote Count100

I Love Peru

An eccentric actor abandons his friends while chasing success. After a troubling vision during self-reflection, he embarks on a spiritual quest to Peru.

Release Date2025-07-09

Charactersd Benoît Poelvoorde

Vote Count22

Hikers in Saint-Tropez

Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to spend the summer together on the Côte d’Azur. To their surprise, who should they meet in St-Tropez but Eric, the guide-from-Hell who transformed their last holiday into a nightmare and whom they swore never to see again...

Release Date2008-04-09

Charactersd Éric Jacquemart

Vote Count77

Laughter and Punishment

French director Isabelle Doval directs her husband, popular comedic actor José Garcia, in the comedy Rire et Chatiment (Laughter and Punishment). Vincent (Garcia) is a popular physician whose aggressive need to be funny and get people's attention annoys his girlfriend, Camille (Doval), to the point that she leaves him. He begins to suspect she might have been onto something when his behavior begins causing people to die.

Release Date2003-01-28

Charactersd Le prof de secourisme

Vote Count88

Hikers

A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives.

Release Date1997-03-12

Charactersd Éric Jacquemart

Vote Count214

Romantics Anonymous

What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly emotional man meets a highly emotional woman? They fall in love, and this is what occurs to Jean-René and Angélique who share the same handicap. But being pathologically timid does not make things easy for them. So whether they will manage to get together, join their solitudes and live happily ever after is a guessing matter.

Release Date2010-12-22

Charactersd Jean-René Van Den Hugde

Vote Count554

Dead Weight

After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.

Release Date2002-04-10

Charactersd Francis Reggio

Vote Count386

Charlie Says

The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.

Release Date2006-07-27

Charactersd Joss

Vote Count28

Adieu Paris

An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and cruelty. Eight old friends who hate and love each other. And suddenly an intruder ...

Release Date2022-01-26

Charactersd Benoît

Vote Count60

The Big Bad Wolf

Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situation for this bourgeois trio in their forties, one which opened a door to the novel and indeed the forbidden... and to the big bad wolf!

Release Date2013-06-27

Charactersd Philippe

Vote Count135

3 Hearts

A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.

Release Date2014-09-09

Charactersd Marc Beaulieu

Vote Count123

Inexorable

Desperately seeking inspiration for the follow-up novel to his bestseller "Inexorable", Marcel Bellmer moves in his wife's old family mansion with his family.

Release Date2022-03-31

Charactersd Marcel Bellmer

Vote Count78

Smoking Causes Coughing

After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion. Their sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.

Release Date2022-11-30

Charactersd Lézardin

Vote Count371

The Carriers Are Waiting

Roger Closset is a man who obviously loves his family, though that doesn't always make them feel better. Dad is an obsessive type with a short fuse and a long list of curious ideas, and his wife and children must often bear the brunt of his eccentricities. Roger works as a reporter, a job he doesn't like which doesn't pay especially well, either. One day, Roger learns an area business association is sponsoring a contest for a family that can break a world record, with the grand prize being a new car. Suddenly, Roger gets a brainstorm -- if his son can open and shut a door 40,000 times in 24 hours, the car will be theirs. 15-year-old Michel, however, is not at all happy to have been drafted into this new responsibility, especially when dad builds a practice door in the backyard and finds a trainer to teach Michel how to open and close it with greatest efficiency.

Release Date1999-05-19

Charactersd Roger

Vote Count32

Mr. Manatane's Notebooks

Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of his madness in the complete "Carnets de Mr Manatane". More than 7 hours of knowing how to live (or die) by Mr Manatane!

Release Date1997-01-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Monsieur Manatane

Episode Count[ 67 ]

Vote Count4

Podium

Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and has a son. He used to have another profession: being French star Claude Francois. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing that makes him happy: the applause.

Release Date2004-02-11

Charactersd Bernard Frédéric

Vote Count449

Venice Calling

Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond, because, it seems, he is more beautiful like that. When the girl who pleases him more than anything invites him to Venice for the holidays, he is overjoyed. Only problem, his parents decide to accompany him - This is the story of a teenager born into an unclassifiable family, the story of a first love, miraculous and fragile. This is the story of an initiatory and incredible journey where life often takes unawares, but where Venice, it will be at the rendezvous.

Release Date2019-05-29

Charactersd Bernard Chamodot

Vote Count250

The Price of Fame

A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.

Release Date2015-01-07

Charactersd Eddy

Vote Count50

The Other Dumas

Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration for they have just published "The Count of Monte Christo", "Queen Margot" and "The Three Musketeers". If it's Maquet who writes the majority of the texts, both the honours and fame go to Dumas.

Release Date2010-02-10

Charactersd Auguste Maquet

Vote Count35

Delete History

In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s family allowance, is afraid of losing her son’s respect because of a sex tape. Bertrand can’t say no to advertising calls and is fighting to protect his daughter, who is being bullied online. Christine, after losing everything because of her addiction to TV series, wonders why her rating as an Uber driver is not taking off. These three lone fighters are incapable of finding a solution to their problems on their own — until they join forces to declare war on the tech giants.

Release Date2020-08-26

Charactersd Le livreur Alimazone

Vote Count231

Two Worlds

A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.

Release Date2007-11-21

Charactersd Rémy Bassano

Vote Count119

Keep an Eye Out

Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy?

Release Date2018-07-04

Charactersd Commissioner Buron

Vote Count621

A Town Called Panic

Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.

Release Date2009-06-17

Charactersd Steven (voice)

Vote Count194

Adoration

Paul lives with his mother in the private clinic of doctor Loisel, deeply hidden in the woods. Paul likes to roam the forest and observe nature. One day Gloria, a schizophrenic teenager of around fifteen years old, arrives, and Paul falls in love immediately.

Release Date2020-01-22

Charactersd Hinkel

Vote Count65

The Return of James Battle

James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a 133-year sentence. Bataille escapes from behind bars to make an appointment to fix the car of music biz tycoon, as well as watch the love of his life take part in the town's annual talent show.

Release Date2004-07-21

Charactersd Allan Chiasse

Vote Count81

En chantier, monsieur Tanner !

Paul Tanner has just inherited a mansion on a vast property. Going there, he noticed that the building was in poor condition and that work had already started. He decides to continue the renovation and brings in several contractors who give him quotes for amounts that exceed his financial capabilities.

Release Date2010-03-15

Charactersd Jean-César Astor

Vote Count7

Normal

14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis. Whilst William hangs out in his wardrobe and devises pranks and jokes to make his daughter smile, Lucie tries her best at school while juggling a job in a sandwich shop and all the chores at home. Her vividly imaginative mind and the novel she is writing are her only distractions. But when a social worker is appointed to visit them, Lucie and William elaborate a complex plan to make social services believe they live a perfectly normal life.

Release Date2023-04-05

Charactersd William

Vote Count29

Jean-Philippe

A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.

Release Date2006-04-05

Charactersd Bernard Frédéric, double of Claude François

Vote Count315

Louise-Michel

In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.

Release Date2008-11-12

Charactersd Guy l'ingénieur

Vote Count94

Mammuth

Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...

Release Date2010-04-21

Charactersd Le récupérateur de métal

Vote Count158

Park Benches

As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops. All attention is turned towards the window of the opposite building opposite and abanner reading: Man Alone. Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has his own interpretation, and will try, by any means possible, to discover what lies behind this mysterious message.

Release Date2009-07-08

Charactersd Customer at the hook

Vote Count57

Cowboy

Daniel Piron has the blues. His relationship is monotonous, his ideals have vanished, and even his job as a journalist is a joke. The only idea that still inspires him is to find and film Tony Sacchi, the revolutionary hero of his youth. Through this adventure, Daniel wants to rehabilitate the passionate and committed young man he once was. But, unfortunately for him, Sacchi has become a cynical gigolo. At the end of this tragicomic epic, will Daniel Piron finally understand that he must accept his disillusionment in order to find himself again?

Release Date2007-12-05

Charactersd Daniel Piron

Vote Count15

The Green Shutters

The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.

Release Date2022-08-24

Charactersd Félix

Vote Count47

Narco

Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best friend Lenny Bar, Gus decides to undergo therapy sessions and finds out that he can make incredible comics from his dreams.

Release Date2004-12-01

Charactersd Lenny Barr

Vote Count161

Raoul Taburin

If anyone knows anything about bikes, it’s Raoul Taburin, official bicycle dealer of Saint Céron, a lovely village in the South of France. But Raoul has a terrible secret: he has never been able to keep his balance on a bike without using stabilisers. His childhood and teenage years were spent trying to overcome his flaw - in vain. All attempts to tell his secret have also failed. Nobody believes him. When photographer Hervé Figougne moves to Saint Céron, the two men become fast friends. And when Figougne offers to photograph Raoul riding a racing bike along a mountain precipice, the moment of truth has arrived. He does all he can to avoid the photo shoot. But everything goes against him and he finally has to accept his destiny. “At least”, he thinks, “people will have to believe me”. But for Raoul Taburin, things are never that simple...

Release Date2019-04-10

Charactersd Raoul Taburin

Vote Count152

Beauties at War

A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.

Release Date2009-01-14

Charactersd Franck Chevrel

Vote Count36

A Place On Earth

Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter.

Release Date2013-08-28

Charactersd Antoine Dumas

Vote Count41

In His Hands

In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him. The weird Laurent visits Claire in her office successively, inviting her for drinks and lunch, and they get close to each other. Meanwhile, a serial killer is terrorizing Lille, killing women with a scalpel. Claire feels a great attraction for Laurent, who has an unusual behavior in her apartment. When Claire sees a scalpel in the pocket of Laurent's jacket, she fears him, but still loves him.

Release Date2005-09-11

Charactersd Laurent Kessler

Vote Count37

Saint Amour

Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. This year, his father suggests they finish it together, but a real wine trail, across the French countryside. Accompanied by Mike, a young, quirky taxi driver, they set off in the direction of France’s major wine regions. Together, they are going to discover not only the wine trails, but also the road that leads back to Love.

Release Date2016-03-02

Charactersd Bruno

Vote Count154

Zebra Stripes

José is a football agent who goes to Ivory Coast to spot young talents in football. He is a braggart , who willingly sleeps with Gigi , a beautiful African woman who loves the luxury he offers her... One day, José spots Yaya, a street boy with the potential of a champion, and brings him to Belgium. Will Yaya be José's reward? Between the poor neighborhoods of Abidjan and Sporting Club of Charleroi, the cultural "gap" is brutal... and reserves surprises.

Release Date2014-02-05

Charactersd José

Vote Count48

La Bonne étoile

Release Date2025-11-12

Charactersd Chevalin

Akoibon

A disparate group of people meet at a hotel on a gorgeous and isolated Mediterranean island. Meanwhile, a woman schemes to get even with its owner.

Release Date2005-04-13

Charactersd Jean-Mi

Vote Count16

The Jews

Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust.

Release Date2016-06-01

Charactersd Boris

Vote Count195

Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle

In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest tragedy? Not having the legs his heart deserves.

Release Date2001-09-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Ghislain Lambert

Vote Count137

One Fine Day

François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck.

Release Date2006-03-15

Charactersd François Berthier

Vote Count87

Kill Me Please

Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, champagne glass to the hand. But in the private clinic of “ideal death”, nothing occurs as envisaged.

Release Date2010-11-03

Charactersd M. Demanet

Vote Count42

Father & Sons

Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan cannot fit in at school despite being very smart, and Joseph has secretly quit his job as a doctor and is trying to become a writer. While there is plenty of affection at home, all three are also, clumsily, searching for love...

Release Date2019-02-13

Charactersd Joseph

Vote Count109

The Big Night

An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.

Release Date2012-06-06

Charactersd Benoît Bonzini, alias NOT

Vote Count144

The Art of Being Happy

Jean-Yves Machond, a globally unknown and generally unhappy painter, decides one day to change his life. He seeks inspiration in a small Norman town, in order to design a masterpiece that will finally earn him glory and eternal recognition. But his meeting with local artists, from the warm Bagnoule to the skillful Cécile, will somewhat make him deviate from his path, and bring him face to face with his deepest dream: that of simply being a happy man.

Release Date2024-10-30

Charactersd Yves Machond

Vote Count13

Aaltra

In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.

Release Date2004-06-23

Charactersd L'amateur de moto-cross

Vote Count61

Just for Laughs

Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is because Nicolas does not know of Alice's affair with handsome sports photographer Gaspard. This sly sex comedy, the sophomore effort of Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux, follows the covert sexual misadventures of the troubled foursome.

Release Date1997-01-01

Charactersd L'innocent

Vote Count13

My Father's Stories

Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly follows his father in missions of utmost danger: tailing, spying, delivering top-secret letters. Emile carries out his orders in all seriousness. He even recruits Luca, a new classmate, into his secret combat. But what if the father’s exploits were all phony, and far too dangerous for children?

Release Date2021-07-28

Charactersd André Choulans

Vote Count46

Panique au village : La Foire agricole

Indian and Cowboy finally pass their exams. Horse buys them tickets for the County Fair. But at the last moment, he slips and comes crashing down on his head. He wakes up with no idea where he hid the tickets. So begins a race against time for them two to find the passes before it's too late.

Release Date2019-07-06

Charactersd Steven (voice)

Vote Count7

An Indian Tale

The life of two men changed unexpectedly when Ajith, an Indian sailor who was robbed and lost everything, appears out of nowhere in front of Pierre, a single and grumpy Frenchman.

Release Date2017-08-30

Charactersd Pierre

Vote Count55

A Town Called Panic: Christmas Panic!

The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas : the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly. Overexcited by the organisation of the celebration, they fight and destroy the Yule log on which Horse was putting the last touch. Horse is livid and cancels the gifts from Santa Claus. How will they win back the favours of Horse and The Old Bearded Man? How will they retrieve their gifts ? For Indian and Cowboy begins a long, very long Christmas Eve.

Release Date2013-12-22

Charactersd Steven (voice)

Vote Count6

A Wonderful Girl

Mimi is 29 years old and still dreaming about a job she could get. She meets Paul, a sidelined lawyer, as she decides to seek employment. Together, they will defend Christophe, a conman who proclaims his innocence.

Release Date2023-07-26

Charactersd Paul

Vote Count39

Le Pied

This is the terrifying story of a desperate foot. A reluctant accomplice of a man who has fallen into horror, he takes advantage of a moment when the man has dozed off to record a message for anyone who will listen. It's the ultimate S.O.S. from a foot who has no other option but to reveal the appalling truth to the world.

Release Date2003-01-01

Charactersd Le pied (voice)

Vote Count1

Twice Upon a Time

Mathias, aboard a ship with his wife, sees a boy with a striking resemblance to himself and is called - Mathias. He then tracks him to a town north of France to discover that the boys parents are exactly like his parents, only to know that his life is payed over again just 30 years post. He then chooses to be the guest in his own life, while he has a life to live at hand.

Release Date2012-06-13

Charactersd Jean Esnart

Vote Count29

A Town Called Panic: Double Fun

With disarming wit and hilarious visuals, A Town Called Panic: Double Fun revels in the simple setup of three plastic toys sent on increasingly surreal and freewheeling adventures. Cowboy and Indian are always up to some harebrained scheme, with Horse left to clean up the mess. In Christmas Panic, their out-of-control antics lead Horse to call Santa and cancel the presents. But the boys figure they can still save Christmas… if they break into their neighbor's house to steal his yule log! In Back to School Panic, a class assignment yields a special prize, but only Pig knows the answer. Cowboy and Indian use a special shrinking potion to sneak into Pig's brain, where they discover a sodium-packed world of pig cops riding in bacon cars and sausage cycles.

Release Date2016-09-24

Charactersd Steven (voice) (archive footage)

Vote Count4

The Summer Holidays

School is out, and Indian and Cowboy are bored. Watching an old pirate film gets them out of their funk and they decide to build a ship and go off on an adventure. But their first try is a disaster. With the help of some animals, they finally manage to launch their proud vessel and everything is ready for their departure. But of course, nothing goes to plan... And the catastrophes come thick and fast.

Release Date2021-07-21

Charactersd Steven (voice)

Vote Count3

A Town Called Panic: Back to School Panic!

Indian and Cowboy are about to set off on a magnificent cruise on a luxury liner, but they have made a big mistake. They completely forgot that today is the first day of school! Goodbye tropical islands, our friends are back at their desks in school listening as the teacher drones on and on.

Release Date2016-02-27

Charactersd Steven (voice)

Vote Count9

Doors of Glory

A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use for it.

Release Date2001-06-13

Charactersd Regis Demanet

Vote Count32

Le Signaleur

Two boys arrive at the hospice in a small village looking for someone who could act as a signalman for the bike race that will pass through the village the next day.

Release Date1997-05-01

Charactersd L'organisateur

Vote Count2

The Political Life of the Belgians

We follow the build-up and training of two opposite Belgian political parties. We see their leaders during meetings, during voting and after when the results of the elections are published.

Release Date2002-05-08

Charactersd self

L'Année des Guignols - Du cul, du cul, du cul !

Release Date1996-02-29

Charactersd Multiples voix

Vote Count1

Mr. Manatane's notebooks

Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of his madness in the complete "Carnets de Mr Manatane". More than 7 hours of knowing how to live (or die) by Mr Manatane!

Release Date2003-10-14

DepartmentWriting

JobIdea

Charactersd Mr. Manatane

Vote Count4

Modèle déposé

Release Date1995-09-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd René Altrus

Vote Count5

Beware of the Ravens

Michel has an appointment at the administrative city.

Release Date1989-01-01

Charactersd The director

Panique tous courts

Cowboy and Indian are leaving on a luxury cruise, but they've got caught up. They have totally forgotten that today is back to school day! Goodbye tropical islands, our friends desperately find themselves on the school benches being put through the monotony of class. To liven the start of the school year up and to welcome the new geography teacher, the head teacher organises a big contest. The laureates will get to spend a day on the Moon together with M. Youri. Cowboy and Indian are of course ready to do everything to win.

Release Date2017-03-01

Charactersd Steven (voice)

Les Shadoks et la maladie mystérieuse

For the Shadoks, panic strikes. A mysterious disease infects these curious creatures. Everyone talks about it, giving their various opinions, but all discussions lead to fighting. They used to spend their time enjoying, now it’s just a constant brawl. Professor Shadoko prepares a vaccination against this terrible disease.

Release Date2016-01-06

Charactersd (voice)

Vote Count2

L'Année des Guignols - Les Voleurs de patates

Release Date1996-06-30

Charactersd (voice)

Vote Count1

No C4 for Daniel Daniel

A mock trailer for a spy film about a secret agent called Daniel Daniel.

Release Date1987-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Daniel Daniel

Vote Count14

Jamais au grand jamais !

Jamais au grand jamais !

Release Date1996-07-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Monsieur Manatane

Episode Count26

Vivement dimanche

Release Date1998-09-20

Charactersd Self

Episode Count5

Vote Count7

Quotidien

Quotidien is a French television program presented by Yann Barthès and broadcast from September 12, 2016 on TMC.

Release Date2016-09-12

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count12

C à vous

Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.

Release Date2009-09-07

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Bonsoir !

Bonsoir !

Release Date2018-10-20

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.

Release Date2002-05-20

Charactersd Self

Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

Release Date2023-03-17

Charactersd Self - Guest

Vote Count12

Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

Release Date2019-02-15

Charactersd Self - Guest

Vote Count37

Le Palmier

Mad in Belgium

A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved that imposture could be an act of creation. Convinced that any so-called “new” cinematographic production was in fact a rehash of what had already been made, these pirates of images snuck as forgers, liars, tricksters, usurpers, … Outlaws of the cinema who falsified its form. From the filmed imposture of Man Bites Dog to Jan Bucquoy’s fabulist biopic, everything participates in the dynamiting of institutional language through simulacrum and absurdity. This free journey in the “cine-belgitude” has for vocation to approach these marvellous eccentrics followers of a overexcited and stripping situationism.

Release Date2022-06-29

Vote Count1

Mama's Lover

A man discovers his new love interest has a child. When they fist meet it's unclear who is embarrased more, he or the young daughter.

Release Date1987-01-01

Démodé

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