Melvil PoupaudFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Observant American moviegoers may recognize the très beau French actor Melvil Poupaud from his role in James Ivory's 2003 romantic comedy Le Divorce -- in which he played the arrogant two-timer Charles-Henri de Persand, who divorced a gorgeous, pregnant American wife (Naomi Watts) whom any...Read More

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44 Inch Chest

Actors: Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane, and Joanne Whalley star in first time feature filmmaker Malcolm Venville's darkly comic tale of a man who rallies his friends in order to seek revenge against the French waiter who recently slept with his wife. Sexy Beast Read More

2009
Le Refuge

Actors: Isabelle Carré, Louis-Ronan Choisy, Pierre Louis-Calixte, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: A woman flees to the sea after her lover dies of a sudden drug overdose in this intimate drama from director François Ozon. Parisian couple Mousse (Isabelle Carré) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud) are gorgeous, wealthy, and deeply in love. They share a fashionable apartment in a popular part of the Read More

2009
Lucky Luke

Actors: Jean Dujardin, Melvil Poupaud, Sylvie Testud

2009
A Christmas Tale

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: The devastating reverberations of a profound tragedy echo through generations of a long-suffering French family in this emotional family drama from director Arnaud Desplechin. When Abel and his wife, Junon, started a family, it seemed like the seeds of true happiness had been planted. But while Read More

11/14/08
Le Crime est notre affaire

Actors: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Claude Rich, Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Alexandre Lafaurie, Christian Vadim

Synopsis: An adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1929 short story "The House of Lurking Death," this French-language whodunit represents director Pascal Thomas's third Christie adaptation, following the 2005 By the Pricking of My Thumbs and the 2007 Towards Zero; like Thumbs, it hones in on Prudence (Catherine Read More

10/15/08
Speed Racer

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, John Goodman

Synopsis: The Matrix masterminds Andy and Larry Wachowski usher anime icon Tatsuo Yoshida's classic 1960s-era hit into the new millennium with this family-friendly story of a young racecar driver who takes on the mysterious Racer X in a custom-made, gadget-loaded speed machine named the Mach 5. Speed Read More

5/9/08
Broken English

Actors: Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo, Gena Rowlands, Justin Theroux

Synopsis: A single thirtysomething whose friends all seem to be romantically involved, happily married, or with child meets an eccentric Frenchman who shows her just what an amazing place the world can truly be in director Zoe Cassavetes' entry into the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. As if it wasn't Read More

6/22/07
The Broken

Actors: Lena Headey, Ulrich Thomsen, Melvil Poupaud, Michelle Duncan, Asier Newman, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: A woman is thrust into a world where everything is subtly unfamiliar in this edgy thriller from writer and director Sean Ellis. Gina McVay (Lena Headey) is a radiologist who is enjoying dinner one evening with her family and her boyfriend Stefan (Melvil Poupaud) when a mirror shatters for no Read More

2007
Towards Zero

Actors: François Morel, Danielle Darrieux, Melvil Poupaud, Laura Smet, Chiara Mastroianni

Synopsis: By the Pricking of My Thumbs director Pascal Thomas returns to the written word of Agatha Christie for inspiration, and the result is a lively whodunit centering on a deadly family gathering and the exquisite sleuthing skills of hyper-perceptive crime-fighter Superintendent Bataille. For the past Read More

2007
Un Homme Perdu

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Alexander Siddig

Synopsis: 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 Koyré is a fearless shutterbug who's always willing to put his life on the line for the sake of a Read More

2007
Time to Leave

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Daniel Duval, Marie Rivière

Synopsis: Diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only a short while to live, a successful fashion photographer embarks on one final journey in the second of three films in a trilogy about death and mourning from French director François Ozon (the first entry in the the trilogy was Under the Sand) . After Read More

7/14/06
Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmeriens

Actors: Féodor Atkine, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Claude Brialy, Florence Darel, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Eric Rohmer is one of the best-respected filmmakers in the history of the French cinema, as well as among the most elusive. Notoriously reluctant to talk about his own work, Rohmer rarely sits for filmed interviews, but documentary filmmaker Marie Binet has taken another route to gain a Read More

2005
Eros Therapie

Actors: Catherine Frot, François Berléand, Isabelle Carré, Melvil Poupaud, Claire Nebout

2004
Le Divorce

Actors: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Jean-Marc Barr, Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Based on the 1997 National Book Award-nominated novel of the same name by Diane Johnson (co-writer of the script for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining), Le Divorce is a romantic comedy from director James Ivory. Revisiting the "Americans in France" theme that Ivory explored in 1998's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Read More

8/8/03
Shimkent Hotel

Actors: Yann Collette, Thibault de Montalembert, Melvil Poupaud, Caroline Ducey, Romain Duris

2003
Les Sentiments

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Carré, Melvil Poupaud, Agathe Bonitzer

Synopsis: Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues in director Noemie Lvovsky's 2003 marriage comedy drama Les Sentiments. Nearing the end of his career, small-town doctor Jacques (Jean-Pierre Bacri) and his wife Carole (Nathalie Baye) are relatively content Read More

2003
Time Regained

Actors: Marcelo Mazzarella, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich, Pascal Greggory, Catherine Deneuve

Synopsis: An ambitious project of Chile-born, Paris-based Raul Ruiz, this psychological drama brings to the screen the famous classic of Marcel Proust with fidelity to its interior monologues and streams of consciousness. Proust (Marcelo Mazzarella), on his deathbed in his small apartment on Rue Hamelin, is Read More

6/16/00
A Raiz Do Coracao

Actors: Luis Miguel Cintra, Joana Barcia, Melvil Poupaud, Isabel Ruth

Synopsis: Ebullient drag queens do battle with repressive police in The Heart's Root, a fantastical film set in Lisbon. The city's protector, Saint Anthony, is the patron saint of lovers and also the inspiration behind "the brides of St. Anthony," a group of transvestites that dances through the city's Read More

2000
Combat d'amour en songe

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Elsa Zylberstein, Lambert Wilson, Christian Vadim, Diogo Doria

Synopsis: Raul Ruiz's Love Torn in a Dream is introduced with a fake newsreel, taking place in postwar France, in which the cast of the film meet with the producer, who explains the film's complex weave of nine narratives. A diagram in which each story is represented by a letter of the alphabet explicates Read More

2000
La Chambre Obscure

Actors: Jackie Berroyer, Mathieu Demy, Caroline Ducey, Melvil Poupaud, Hugues Quester

Synopsis: Caroline Ducey, who previously gained fame by bearing it all in the 1999 dour erotic drama Romance, stars in this drama set in the 14th century. Alienor (Ducey) is provincial lass who puts her skill with herbal cures to use by healing the festering boil on the king's leg. He rewards her with Read More

1999
Souvenir

Actors: Stanton D. Miranda, Manon Blanc, Kristin Scott Thomas, Melvil Poupaud, Hugues Quester

Synopsis: Music video director Michael Shamberg debuts with this experimental drama about a woman who comes to terms with painful childhood memories. Orlando (Stanton D. Miranda) is an expatriate American sports journalist living in Paris. She is also slowly recovering from childhood sexual abuse from her Read More

1999
Le Ciel est à nous

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Romane Bohringer, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Isaac Sharry, Jean-Claude Flamand

Synopsis: This film is the directorial debut of 29-year-old Graham Guit, who co-scripted with Eric Neve. Young Frenchman Lenny (Melvil Poupaud) takes some cocaine from London to Paris where he makes a risky connection with dapper drug dealer Joel (Jean-Phillippe Ecoffey) and his violent henchman Sammy (Issac Sharry Read More

6/25/97
Genealogies of a Crime

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: Raul Ruiz directed this typically eccentric look at the nature of crime, the human mind, and life in the modern world. Solange (Catherine Deneuve) is a defense attorney with a reputation for taking on cases that can't be won -- and proving it by losing them. Her latest lost cause is Rene (Melvil Poupaud Read More

3/26/97
A Summer's Tale

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Aurelia Nolin, Gwenaëlle Simon

Synopsis: The third film in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons quartet takes place in a resort town in Brittany. Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) has come to enjoy a vacation with his girlfriend, Lena (Aurelia Nolin). However, Lena has yet to arrive, and Gaspard finds his attention drawn to two other women Read More

5/6/96
Three Lives and Only One Death

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni plays several different roles in this off-beat, witty exploration of a man with multiple personalities from world-class filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. Mastroianni first appears as Parisian traveling salesman Mateo Strano who suddenly shows up at the home of Maria, the wife he abandoned Read More

1996
Le Plus Bel Age...

Actors: Élodie Bouchez, Melvil Poupaud, Sophie Aubry, Gael Morel

Synopsis: The grueling, emotionally torturous world of French preparatory schools provides the framework for this mystery. The deliberately rigorous courses are designed to prepare students to take the brutal examinations for entry into the elite Grand Ecoles, where a select few will gain the skills and Read More

1995
Le Journal D'Un Seducteur

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Hubert Saint-Macary, Serge Merlin, Mathieu Amalric

Synopsis: This gentle French comedy, takes an intellectualized look at the nature of a crush as it tells the tale of 20-year-old Claire, a young woman seemingly suffering a terminal case of ennui. She glumly goes through the minimal motions of living until she falls in love with handsome Gregoire, a highly Read More

1995
Elisa

Actors: Vanessa Paradis, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sekkou Sall, Florence Thomassin

Synopsis: A troubled young woman goes in search of the father she never knew in this French drama. In 1979, Elisa (Florence Thomassin) is an unhappy and unstable woman who -- after trying to strangle her two year old daughter Marie -- kills herself on Christmas Eve. Sixteen years later, Marie (Vanessa Paradis Read More

1995
Innocent Lies

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Gabrielle Anwar, Adrian Dunbar, Sophie Aubry, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Murder and double-dealing among the idle rich sets the stage for this drama. Alan Cross (Adrian Dunbar) is a British detective who travels to a wealthy community along the coast of France in 1938; he's there to attend the funeral of a friend and wants to find out more about the mysterious Read More

1995
L'Ile Au Trésor

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Martin Landau, Vic Tayback, Lou Castel, Jeffrey Kime

Synopsis: Jonathan (Melvil Poupaud) is an imaginative young man. This film unveils what goes on in his mind as he mulls over his recent reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island and the television adventure shows he is watching. This story device allows the highly regarded and very Read More

6/15/94
Fado Majeur et Mineur

Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Melvil Poupaud, Ana Padrão, Jean-Yves Gautier

Synopsis: The seemingly unrelated scenes in this 110 minute black and white cinematic collage reflect the highly personalized vision of filmmaker Raul Ruiz. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
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

1994
Les Gens Normaux N'ont Rien d'exceptionnel

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Melvil Poupaud, Marc Citti, Claire Laroche, Serge Hazanavicius

Synopsis: Martine (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) hasn't been quite right in the head since she suffered a romantic reversal several years before, but she had been getting by in the regular world fairly well. However, when her current boyfriend tells her he's leaving, she promptly butts her head into a door so Read More

1993
The Lover

Actors: Jane March, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the film explores the erotic charge of forbidden love. Jane March plays a French teenager sent to a Saigon boarding school, while Tony Leung is a 32-year Chinese Read More

1/22/92
Archipel

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Claire Nebout, Melvil Poupaud, Ludmila Mikael

Synopsis: A wealthy woman owns an exclusive private boarding school off the coast of England, where young men are taught in French and English, becoming completely fluent. In general, the school is exactly what it purports to be, but the owner selects some of her young scholarship students for special Read More

1991
La Fille de Quinze Ans

Actors: Judith Godrëche, Melvil Poupaud, Jacques Doillon

Synopsis: Wise beyond her 15 years, Juliette (Judith Godreche) has developed a curious modus operandi in matters of the heart. She goes out of her way to befriend older men, sleeps with each of her conquests but once, then moves on. Director Jacques Doillon plays the father of Juliette's latest beau; the Read More

1989
Dans un Miroir

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Jean-Claude Wino, Anne Alvara

Synopsis: In this perplexing experimental film, two people are having a lengthy, surreptitious discussion about doing something nasty to a third party. Louise (Anne Alvara) and Leonard (Jean-Claude Wino) are the plotting couple, but is the third party Louise's brother? Is that brother Leonard? Why is that Read More

1986
L'Eveille Du Pont D'Alma

Actors: Michel Lonsdale, Jean-Bernard Guillard, Olimpia Carlisi, Jean Badin, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: 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 alongside the Seine, a crime made all the Read More

1985
Ville des Pirates

Actors: Hugues Quester, Anne Alvaro, André Engel, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: Lacking any visible plot, Ville des Pirates meanders from episodes that are alternately comic or dramatic, gross or non-sequitur, capricious or outrageous, all in the name of a murder mystery. A hard sell to anyone who is not a student of the avant-garde or the history of cinema, most audiences Read More

1983

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