Mathieu Kassovitz Filmography

Johnny Mad Dog

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christopher Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy

Synopsis: A vicious child soldier armed with weapons of death and willing to use them at the slightest provocation serves as the focal point for this drama highlighting the need for greater humanity in a country ravaged by absurd wars. Johnny is a fifteen year old soldier with a small commando unit, and Read More

White Palms

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Miklos Zoltan Hajdu, Orion Radies, Silas Radies, Gheorghe Dinica, Kyle Shewfelt

Synopsis: An athlete recalls his troubled youth while helping to coach a talented but headstrong youngster in this drama from Hungarian filmmaker Szabolcs Hajdu. Miklos Dongo (Miklos Zoltan Hajdu) is a world class gymnast who competed in the Olympics before taking on his current career as a performer with Read More

Avida

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine, Eric Martin, The Velvet Underground, Jean-Claude Carrière

Synopsis: In this bizarre surrealist comedy from France, a handful of oddball characters live in world where people heap strange forms of abuse on animals -- dwarves stage bullfights with rhinos, zoos open restaurants where the privileged can dine on the animals on display, and the wealthy lock themselves Read More

Munich

Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful Read More

Just For Kicks

Actors: Tommy Rebel, Grandmaster Caz, Fab 5 Freddy, Bill Adler, Run-D.M.C.

Synopsis: The documentary Just for Kicks explains how important shoes are in hip-hop culture. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Gothika

Crew: Director

Actors: Halle Berry, Robert Downey, Jr., Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Bernard Hill, Penélope Cruz

Synopsis: A woman is taken on a voyage to the other side of sanity in this moody thriller. Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) is a clinical psychologist who works alongside her husband, Dr. Doug Grey (Charles S. Dutton), in the mental ward of a top security prison, where Miranda has been devoting much of her Read More

Amen

Actors: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Ion Caramitru

Synopsis: The collective crimes against humanity known as the Holocaust have been well-documented since the end of World War II, but lingering questions remain about how much was known about the Nazi mass-extermination schemes outside Germany, and what could have been done to prevent them. Political Read More

Birthday Girl

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Kate Evans

Synopsis: A man looking for love gets more than he bargained for when he chooses his prospective wife on the internet in this dark comedy. The manager of a bank in a small British community (Ben Chaplin) decides that he's in need of long-term companionship, and through an on-line marriage broker called From Read More

Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Based on the original '60s French comic books by René Goscinny, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre is the big-budget sequel to the 1999 box-office hit Astérix and Obélix vs. Caesar. Empress Cleopatra (Monica Bellucci) makes a wager with Julius Caesar (played by writer/director Alain Chabat) that Read More

Amélie

Actors: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Yolande Moreau, Artus de Penguern, Urbain Cancelier, Dominique Pinon

Synopsis: One woman decides to change the world by changing the lives of the people she knows in this charming and romantic comic fantasy from director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amelie (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amelie Read More

The Crimson Rivers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra

Synopsis: Two very different policemen seeking the truth about separate crimes find a terrible common link in this thriller from France. Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno) is a noted French detective assigned to investigate a brutal murder at a prestigious college located high in the Alps; the victim was first Read More

Jakob the Liar

Actors: Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Michael Jeter, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Liev Schreiber, Mark Margolis

Synopsis: This remake of the 1975 German film Jakob der Lügner stars Robin Williams in a dramatic role as a man who uses his active imagination to bring a ray of hope where hope was all but unknown. Jakob Heym (Robin Williams) is the owner of a small café during the Nazi occupation of Poland; he has little Read More

Le Plaisir

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Francois Renaud, Julie Gayet, Mathieu Kassovitz, Caroline Cellier

Synopsis: Director Nicolas Boukhrief, who debuted with the 1995 Up Yours, returned with this French-Italian-Luxembourgian-Belgian drama in seven segments. In a variation on Schnitzler's La Ronde, each segment introduces a character seen in the next episode: In the opening, a murderer strangles a woman. A Read More

Assassin(s)

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Mathieu Kassovitz, Michel Serrault, Mehdi Benoufa, Robert Gendreu

Synopsis: Mathieu Kassovitz's Assassins(s) stars Michel Serrault as Mr. Wagner. For over 40 years, Mr. Wagner has been a successful assassin, but now he is 70; his hands tremble and his eyesight and reflexes are rapidly failing. Mr. Wagner is ready to retire, but first he must find a successor. Max (Mathieu Kassovitz Read More

The Fifth Element

Actors: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry

Synopsis: Good and evil battle for the future of 23rd century Earth in this visually striking big-budget science fiction epic. In the movie's prologue, which is set in 1914, scientists gather in Egypt at the site of an event that transpired centuries earlier. Aliens, it seemed, arrived to collect four Read More

Un Heros Très Discret

Actors: Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel

Synopsis: Irony abounds in this French comedy that tells the tale of an unsophisticated, rather dim-bulbed country lad who follows the advice of a former French freedom fighter and tries to change himself into a hero of the recently ended French Resistance. Poor Albert is no stranger to deceit. For his Read More

Des Nouvelles Du Bon Dieu

Actors: Marie Trintignant, Maria de Medeiros, Christian Charmettant, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: A little philosophy can be a dangerous thing. Especially if it comes from the sudden blinding insights of the none too bright. Such insights, based upon totally illogical conclusions form the basis of this devilishly dark, distorted French absurdist comedy. At the beginning of the eccentric tale Read More

Mon Homme

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Sabine Azéma

Synopsis: A successful prostitute attempts to fashion a homeless man into her ideal pimp in this unconventional, darkly humorous French drama. Marie (Anouk Grinberg) has no real need for a pimp, being a self-reliant, unabashed woman so fond of her job as a hooker that she is able to convince strangers to Read More

La haine

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Saïd Taghmaoui, Francois Levantal, Edouard Montoute

Synopsis: While to most outsiders Paris seems the very picture of beauty and civility, France has had a long and unfortunate history of intolerance toward outsiders, and this powerful drama from filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz takes an unblinking look at a racially diverse group of young people trapped in the Read More

3000 Scenarios Contre un Virus

Actors: Anémone, Daniel Gélin, Patachou, François Cluzet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000 ideas put in by French school children and were made by filmmakers on a voluntary basis. Most of the vignettes deal with heterosexuality and AIDS, but one deals with drug-usage Read More

Avant Mais Apres

Actors: Mathieu Kassovitz, Quentin Ogier

Elle Voulait Faire Quelque Chose

Actors: Brigitte Bemol, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz

Regarde les Hommes Tomber

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Yanne, Mathieu Kassovitz, Bulle Ogier, Christine Pascal

Synopsis: This French crime thriller was the directorial debut of screenwriter Jacques Audiard and won three Césars. Jean Yanne stars as Simon Hirsch, a bored, middle-aged salesman who accompanies his best friend, cop Mickey (Yvon Back), on a stakeout for the sake of excitement. When Mickey is shot and put Read More

Café au Lait

Crew: Director

Actors: Julie Mauduech, Hubert Kounde, Mathieu Kassovitz, Vincent Cassel

Synopsis: A Caribbean beauty living in Paris wraps two very different but equally devoted men around her little figure when she announces that one of them is the father of her baby. Both Felix, a poor Jewish bicycle messenger boy, and Jamal, the genteel son of African Muslim diplomats, are in love with her Read More

Un Été Sans Histoires

Actors: Dodine Herry, Philippe Harel, Brigitte Bemol, Mathieu Kassovitz

Synopsis: In this witty and fast-paced short comedy, Claudine is driving her rattletrap of a car and pulling a camping trailer behind it on the way to spending a summer vacation with her boyfriend. The other passenger in her car is Henri, a boy she has little time for. He is her boyfriend's younger brother Read More

Touch and Die

Actors: Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands cut off. He soon uncovers not only plots of plutonium theft, but also of nuclear arms deals and dark political schemes. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Read More

Cauchemar Blanc

Crew: Director

Actors: Yvan Attal, Francois Toumarkine, Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Fierrot le pou

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Au Bout du Bout au Banc

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Jane Birkin, Henri Cremieux, Georges Wilson, Mathieu Kassovitz

Synopsis: In this tender and sentimental comedy, Ben (Victor Lanoux), a Parisian Jew, copes with the dramas in his everyday life against the background of his family's survival of the Holocaust. Things between him and his wife are not any too easy, and on top of it, he has to heed his father's concerns Read More

L'Année Prochaine ... Si Tout Va Bien

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Thierry Lhermitte, Michel Dussarat, Marie-Anne Chazel, Bernard Crombey

Synopsis: Set in Paris, this romance centers on a pair of lovers who wrangle over whether or not they want to marry and have children. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More