Grégoire Colin Filmography

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Biography:: Tall, lean, and possessing sensuously moody features, French actor Grégoire Colin has been acting in films and on the stage since he was 12. Although he found steady work in his native country for years, it was not until 1992 that audiences outside of France became aware of him. That year, he had...Read More

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The Killer

Actors: Gilbert Melki, Grégoire Colin, Melanie Laurent, Sophie Cattani, Xavier Beauvois

Synopsis: A hit man and his victim strike an unusual bargain in this thriller from France. Leo Zimmerman (Gilbert Melki) is a middle-aged financial analyst with a loving wife, Sylvia (Sophie Cattani) and a young daughter who has just turned eight. But Leo also has some secrets, and his under-the-counter Read More

2008
35 Rhums

Actors: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Grégoire Colin, Nicole Dogue, Ingrid Caven

Synopsis: Time and romantic attraction threaten to sour a family relationship in this drama from writer and director Claire Denis. Lionel (Alex Descas) is a middle-aged widower who makes his living driving a train and shares an apartment with his twenty-something daughter Josephine (Mati Diop). Lionel and Read More

2008
Horse Thieves

Actors: Adrien Jolivet, Grégoire Colin, François-René Dupont, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Igor Skreblin, Mylene St. Sauveur

Synopsis: Circa 1853, at an undisclosed locale in Eastern Europe, two sweaty, dirty and muscular brothers, Jakub (Adrien Jolivet) and Vladimir ((Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet) - both fire-breathing brutes of an almost subhuman order - participate in tortuous hazing as they undergo Cossack initiation rituals. Read More

2007
In the Arms of My Enemy

Actors: Adrien Jolivet, Grégoire Colin, François-René Dupont, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet

Synopsis: Set in 1810, director Micha Wald's tense revenge drama follows a vengeful Cossack (Adrien Jolivet) as he sets out on an epic journey to bring his brother's killer to justice. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
L'Intrus

Actors: Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Katya Golubeva, Karin Bambourough, Florence Loiret-Caille

Synopsis: Claire Denis' elliptical drama L'Intrus was inspired by a short book written by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy about his heart transplant. In the film, Michel Subor (Le Petit Soldat) stars as Louis, who lives fairly self-sufficiently in a small cabin in the snowy wilds near the Swiss border. Louis has Read More

12/23/05
A Song Of Innocence

Actors: Isild Le Besco, Émilie Dequenne, Grégoire Colin, Anémone, Frederic Pierrot

2005
The Lost Domain

2005
Sex Is Comedy

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida, Ashley Wanninger, Dominique Colladant

Synopsis: Catherine Breillat's Sex is Comedy concerns a female film director, Jeanne (Anne Parillaud), who is attempting to film a sex scene in her new movie. Complicating the already emotionally difficult shoot is the fact that Jeanne and her lead actor (Grégoire Colin) are sexually involved. The scene Read More

10/20/04
Inquiétudes

Actors: Grégoire Colin, Julie Ordon, Brigitte Catillon, Laurent Grévill, Etienne Chicot

Synopsis: Bruno (Grégoire Colin of Beau Travail) is a troubled art student fascinated with pristine white walls and empty space. A squalid, unhappy childhood has left him angry, reclusive, and obsessive. When his brutish uncle (Etienne Chicot), fed up with Bruno's eccentricities, threatens to kick him out Read More

2004
Friday Night

Actors: Valérie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon, Hélène de Saint Père, Hélène Fillières, Florence Loiret

Synopsis: Paris resident Laure (Valerie Lemercier) has just finished packing her belongings in preparation for moving in with her lover, though she is oblivious to her apparent jitters at doing so. As she leaves her apartment for the night to join a pair of friends for dinner, Laure gets held up in traffic Read More

5/23/03
Snowboarder

Actors: Nicolas Duvauchelle, Grégoire Colin, Juliette Goudot, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Camile de Sablet

Synopsis: Olias Barco's drama Snowboarder is set in the Alps. Gaspard (Nicolas Duvauchelle) is a young, gifted snowboarder. He is lured away from his ski shop job by the snowboarder he admires most in the world, Josh (Grégoire Colin), who, it turns out, does not have Gaspard's best interests at heart. Juliette Goudot Read More

2003
La Guerre à Paris

Actors: Grégoire Colin, Élodie Bouchez, Jérémie Renier

Synopsis: Yolande Zauberman's World-War II drama The War in Paris tells a sad story of a teenager trapped in a terrible time. Jules (Jérémie Rénier) is a 19-year-old living in Nazi-occupied Paris. After Jules' brother takes a Nazi's weapon, local cop Grégoire Colin puts Jules in a difficult place. Either Read More

2002
Beau Travail

Actors: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet

Synopsis: In this military drama, a military man finds his position of prominence questioned when a new recruit wins the commander's favor. Galoup (Denis Lavant) is an officer at a French Foreign Legion outpost in the Gulf of Dijbouti, where he enjoys a close relationship with the Commanding Officer (Michel Subor Read More

3/31/00
Adela

Actors: Eulalia Ramon, Grégoire Colin, Martin Lamotte, Mario Gas

Synopsis: Traveling down the river from the distant Bolivian outpost of San Jacinto in 1945, moody traveler Timar (Grégoire Colin) reflects on his star-crossed affair with the eponymous Adela (Eulalia Ramon) at her husband's decrepit hotel. Because Adela was married, deceitful, and adept at using her Read More

2000
Sade

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Grégoire Colin

Synopsis: Daniel Auteuil stars as the infamous Marquis de Sade, who at the beginning of Sade, is serving a sentence in Paris' grim Saint Lazarde prison. The year is 1794, and Sade is being persecuted for his steadfast atheism, which runs counter to the beliefs of Robespierre, France's terrifying Read More

2000
Disparus

Actors: Grégoire Colin, Anouk Grinberg, Xavier Beauvois, Frederic Pierrot, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo

Synopsis: Sex, avant-garde art, and Communist ideology are at the heart of this compelling historical drama. The film opens just as the Soviet Empire crumbles in 1989. As Louise (Brigitte Catillon) mourns the death of her lover, she discovers the journal of Alfred Katz (Gregoire Colin), an earnest Jewish Read More

1999
The Dreamlife of Angels

Actors: Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin, Jo Prestia, Patrick Mercado

Synopsis: Elodie Bouchez and Natacha Regnier both won "Best Actress" honors at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival in this naturalistic drama about two women alienated from mainstream society. After a trio of short films, this is the feature directorial debut of 41-year-old French filmmaker Erick Zonca. With Read More

9/16/98
Secret Défense

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Laure Marsac, Grégoire Colin, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: Innovative director Jacques Rivette created the memorable, multi-leveled classic Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), seemingly the inspiration for Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan (1985). Rivette generates a far-different mood in this French-Swiss-Italian murder mystery. Medical Read More

3/18/98
Homere - Portrait de l'Artiste dans ses Vieux Jours

Actors: Claude Rich, Valeria Cavalli, Grégoire Colin, Renée Faure, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: Celebrated blind poet Rene Kermadek (Claude Rich) is married to his former student Sibilla (Valeria Cavalli), who provides his only true connection to the world. Although Sibilla is a faithful and devoted wife, he suspects her of cheating on him -- currently with matador Manuel Fernandez (Gregoire Colin Read More

2/4/98
Nénette et Boni

Actors: Grégoire Colin, Alice Houri, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Vincent Gallo, Jacques Nollot

Synopsis: Nenette (Alice Houri) is a 14-year-old girl with an attitude problem who runs away from her boarding school only to knock on the door of her older brother Boni (Gregoire Colin). Boni has his own problems most of which center around an erotic fixation with the baker's sexy wife (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi Read More

1/29/97
Nel Profondo Paese Straniero

Synopsis: Though he is near death, blind Rene, an elderly Italian-French intellectual, continues to make his annual conference abroad accompanied by his self-centered loyal, beautiful assistant Sibilla who may or may not be his lover. Rene's domineering mother strongly disapproves of Sibilla and his Read More

1997
The Son of Gascogne

Actors: Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Grégoire Colin, Dinara Drukarova, Pascal Bonitzer

Synopsis: This gentle French comedy has a meandering plotline as it traces the exploits of a young man recognized as a the son of a star. The main protagonist is 23-year old Harvey who works as the guide for a group of Georgian singers who have a Paris gig. He is interested in Dinara, the 18-year old Read More

1995
À Propos De Nice, La Suite

Synopsis: This French anthology is a tribute to A Propos de Nice (1930), a classic documentary that took a poetic and sometimes satirical look at life in the French Riviera town. This version blends fact and fiction to chronicle life in modern-day Nice and is comprised of seven vignettes, each directed by Read More

1995
Fiesta

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Grégoire Colin, Marc Lavoine

Synopsis: A young aristocratic military cadet gets a dose of reality that shakes his high ideals to the core when he is called to fight in the Spanish Civil War in this French anti-war drama. Rafael, is the boy. He comes from a prominent Spanish family of military heroes and has spent his teens studying in Read More

1995
Pas Très Catholique

Actors: Anémone, Roland Bertin, Grégoire Colin, Michel Didym, Denis Podalydès

Synopsis: A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her Read More

1994
Before the Rain

Actors: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska, Silvija Stojanovska

Synopsis: Milcho Manchevski's first feature film is a three-part story of the violence and political chaos tearing apart the newly independent nation of Macedonia (former Yugoslavia). In part one, Kiril (Grégoire Colin), an Orthodox monk, encounters Zamira (Labina Mitevska), a Muslim from Albania. Zamira is Read More

1994
Queen Margot

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi

Synopsis: The historical novel by Alexandre Dumas was adapted for the screen with this lavish French epic, winner of 5 Césars and a pair of awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of scheming Catholic power player Catherine de Read More

1994
U.S. Go Home

Actors: Alice Houri, Jessica Tharaud, Grégoire Colin, Vincent Gallo

Synopsis: This film is part of the nine volume "Tous les Garcons et les Filles de Leur Age" series which chronicles the adolescent eras of nine prominent directors. "U.S. Go Home," set in 1965, chronicles 24 hours in the lives of three teenagers as they try to finally lose their virginity. Martine, Marlene Read More

1994
Roulez Jeunesse

Actors: Jean Carmet, Daniel Gélin, Grégoire Colin, Youssef Diawara

1993
Olivier, Olivier

Actors: François Cluzet, Brigitte Roüan, Jean-François Stévenin, Grégoire Colin, Marina Golovine

Synopsis: Olivier, the nine-year-old son of a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing from France to Africa and nearly destroys his mother, who clings to her remaining child, Nadine, and her Read More

1992
L'Oeil Ecarlate

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Grégoire Colin, Delphine Zentout

1992
L'Année de L'eveil

Actors: Laurent Grévill, Martin Lamotte, Chiara Caselli, Grégoire Colin, Roger Planchon

Synopsis: In this coming-of-age drama, based on a novel by Charles Juliet, François is a sensitive and thoughtful student at a military boarding school in 1948. He is fourteen and an orphan, and the French are still fighting in Indochina, as they will continue to do for many years. He believes he will be Read More

1991
Le Silence D'Ailleurs

Actors: Grégoire Colin, Clémentine Célarié, Daniel Olbrychski, Jean-Paul Lilienfeld

Synopsis: Most of the characters in this romantic drama are waiting for something. Jeanne (Clementine Celarie) is waiting for her husband Francois (Daniel Olbrychski) to return; he abandoned her and their son Christophe (Gregoire Colin) a couple of years ago. The boy is waiting for his father, too. Read More

1989