Philippe NahonFilmography

Mr 73

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy, Catherine Marchal, Francis Renaud, Gérald Laroche

Synopsis: A cop on the edge of an emotional collapse is on the trail of a violent madman in this edgy crime thriller from French writer and director Olivier Marchal. Charles Subra (Philippe Nahon) is a habitual criminal who, after serving twenty-five years in prison on a sentence for rape and murder, is up Read More

The Orphans' Season

Actors: Laurent Lucas, Aurélien Recoing, Gabrielle Lazure, Valérie Mairesse, Philippe Nahon

Synopsis: A middle-aged man is forced to come to terms with traumatic events from his childhood in this drama. Not long after the end of World War II, young Alexandre Gérard (Jordan Chemama) was an orphan was an orphan who was handed over to M. de Montferrand, a gentleman who was already taking care of six Read More

Lady Blood

Actors: Emmanuelle Escourrou, Matthias Van Khache, Serge Riaboukine, Philippe Nahon, Shirley Bousquet

Synopsis: The blood-soaked heroine of Alain Robak's Baby Blood attempts to rebuild her life by joining the police department, only to find that escaping her past is no simple task when she becomes the unwitting target of a sadistic serial killer. Years after giving birth to a hideous monstrosity, Yanka has Read More

Second Wind

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Monica Bellucci, Michel Blanc, Jacques Dutronc, Eric Cantona

Synopsis: Adapted from the same José Giovanni story that spawned Jean-Pierre Melville's classic 1966 film of the same name, director/screenwriter Alain Corneau's nail-biting thriller stars Daniel Auteuil as iconic French gangster Gustav "Gu" Minda and Monica Bellucci as the smoldering Manouche -- whose love Read More

Last Investigation

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Nahon, Jean-Claude Brialy, Micheline Presle, Yolande Moreau

Synopsis: When a retired police officer is forcefully checked into a senior citizen's home, a fatal accident involving one of the residents leads him to suspect foul play in this lighthearted thriller written and directed by Romuald Beugnon. Simon may be up there in years, but he still feels like he's got Read More

Calvaire

Actors: Laurent Lucas, Jackie Berroyer, Philippe Nahon, Jean-Luc Couchard, Brigitte Lahaie

Synopsis: A traveling entertainer falls prey to a disturbed recluse in director Fabrice Du Welz's twisted, slow-burn riff on Deliverance and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Having finished his latest performance at a remote retirement home, wandering singer Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas) packs his gear into his Read More

High Tension

Actors: Cécile De France, Maïwenn Le Besco, Philippe Nahon, Franck Khalfoun, Andrei Finti

Synopsis: French filmmaker Alexandre Aja writes and directs the slasher film Haute Tension, given the English title Switchblade Romance. Best friends Marie (Cécile De France) and Alex (Maïwenn Le Besco) go out to the countryside to visit Alex's parents. However, a homicidal delivery man (played by Philippe Nahon Read More

Friday or Another Day

Actors: Philippe Nahon, Alain Moraida, Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla

The Code

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Samy Naceri, Clotilde Courau, Marie Guillard, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: French filmmaker Manuel Boursinhac directs the action thriller La Mentale. Samuel Le Bihan plays Dris, a criminal who wants to go straight. Major mob boss Yanis (Samy Naceri) is an old friend who desperately needs Dris' help. However, Dris has already spent enough time in jail and only wants to Read More

Irreversible

Actors: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon, Jo Prestia

Synopsis: Gaspar Noé's Irreversible utilizes the same storytelling technique used by Christopher Nolan in Memento and Harold Pinter in Betrayal. Consisting of about a dozen scenes, all shot in single takes, Irreversible charts a disturbing night in the life of Marcus (Vincent Cassel), but presents the Read More

A La Petite Semaine

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Gamblin, Clovis Cornillac, Julie Durand, Florence Pernel

Synopsis: French filmmaker Sam Karmann directs the crime drama A La Petite Semaine (Nickel and Dime), co-written with actual ex-con Desir Carre. When fiftysomething Jacques (Gerard Lanvin) gets released after serving five years in prison, he goes right to his local hangout and reunites with his old hoodlum Read More

Supernova (Experiment #1)

Actors: Philippe Nahon, Catherine Wilkening, Clément Sibony, Marie-Anne Mestre, Jacques Serres

Synopsis: French experimental-short filmmaker Pierre Vinour makes his feature-length debut with the low-budget mood piece Supernova (Experiment #1). Politician Simon Peyrelevade (Philippe Nahon) contemplates suicide as he is hit by some unearthly matter. Instead of heading home to Paris, he goes out to his Read More

Une Affaire Privée

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Marion Cotillard, Samuel Le Bihan, Aurore Clément, Dr. Robert Hirsch

Synopsis: A throwback detective attempts to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of a young Parisian student named Rachel in this noirish mystery from director Guillaume Nicloux. His life a smoky and meaningless haze of women and seedy investigations, private eye François Maneri (Thierry Lhermitte) Read More

The Crimson Rivers

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

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Émilie Dequenne, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci

Synopsis: French legend has it that a creature known as the Beast of Gevaudan -- a huge, wolf-like monster -- was responsible for the violent deaths of over 100 persons in the mid-18th century, and this horror fantasy blends the lore of this fabled beast with a story of two men who set out to capture it. Read More

Sauve-Moi

Actors: Roschdy Zem, Rona Hartner, Karole Rocher, Jean-Roger Milo, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: Two people brought together by fate find it's not easy to live on love in this drama with a sharp sociopolitical subtext. Agatha (Rona Hartner) is a beautiful young woman from Romania who had a brief but passionate love affair with a French surgeon when he visited her country as part of a Read More

Les Convoyeurs Attendent

Actors: Benoît Poelvoorde, Morgane Simon, Bouli Lanners, Dominique Baeyens, Philippe Grand'Henry

Synopsis: In Les Convoyeurs Attendent/The Carriers Are Waiting, Roger Closset (Benoit Poelvoorde) 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 Read More

Virilite et Autres Sentiments Modernes

Actors: Bruno Putzulu, Estelle Skornik, Sandrine Le Berre

Synopsis: The first time directorial effort of Ronan Girre, who previously composed scores for two Eric Rohmer films, Virilite et Autres Sentiments Modernes is a social comedy about power and the struggle between the sexes. Shy, underachieving Alexis (Bruno Putzulu) is a 30-year-old night watchman who Read More

Sur Un Air d'Autoroute

Actors: Sacha Bourdo, Aure Atika, Philippe Nahon, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: A man discovers he's no longer as close to his ear as he once was in this absurdist comedy. Jeff (Sacha Bourdo) is minding his own business when a phonograph record tossed from a passing car accidentally cuts off his ear. The ear falls into traffic, gets stuck on the windshield of another vehicle Read More

I Stand Alone

Actors: Philippe Nahon, Frankye Pain, Blandine Lenoir, Martine Audrain

Synopsis: In this French drama, Gaspar Noe, who won awards (Prix Georges Sadoul, Cannes Crix Week) for his 40-minute Carne (1991), continues where that film ended, beginning with a Carne recap: The Butcher (Philippe Nahon) narrates, telling how, as a war orphan working at 14, he opened his horsemeat butcher Read More

Le Poulpe

Actors: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Clotilde Courau, Stephane Boucher, Julie Delarme, Aristide Demonico

Synopsis: Gillaume Nicloux directed this French comedy drama about amateur sleuth Gabriel Lecouvreur, aka The Octopus (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), a Gallic gumshoe with no fixed address, who travels with his girlfriend Cheryl (Clotilde Courau) to a harbor town in western France. The graves of Cheryl's Read More

La haine

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

Faut pas rire du bonheur

Actors: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Laura Morante, Philippe Nahon, Roland Amstutz

Synopsis: What there is of a plot in this drama serves mainly as a vehicle for the exploration of character. In the story, Michel (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) is a recent widower. As the story opens, he and his friend Andre (Philippe Nahon) are sharing a drink on Christmas Eve. He takes a yellow scarf from a Read More

Jour De Fauche

Actors: Michel Modo, Philippe Nahon

Carne

Actors: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain

Synopsis: Written and directed by Gaspar Noé, this 39-minute experimental film centers around a horsemeat butcher who comes to suspect his daughter is being repeatedly raped by one of his employees. The plot is purposely incoherent at times, and utilizes graphic depictions of sex, the birth process Read More

Toubab Bi

Actors: Hélène Lapiower, Mouss Diouf

Synopsis: Soriba Samb (Oumar Diop Makena) is a Senegalese who has gotten a much-prized internship to study filmmaking in Paris. In this story, Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by the five-year old son of a friend of his who is believed to be still living in Paris. In addition to coping with his new Read More

Tabataba

Actors: Francois Botozandry, Lucien Dakadisi, Soatody, Soavelo

Synopsis: In some European colonies, the governing country might have been relatively lackadaisical about resistance movements and independence movements, unless they surfaced in active rebellion. This was certainly true of the British in India. However, in the nearby island of Madagascar, the ruling French Read More