Xavier BeauvoisFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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Villa Amalia

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Xavier Beauvois, Maya Sansa, Clara Bindi

Synopsis: Legendary French screen actress Isabelle Huppert headlines this sumptuous, passionate tale, adapted from a novel by belletrist Pascal Quignard (All the Mornings of the World). Huppert stars as Ann, a gifted and brilliant, middle-aged musician whose sense of security falls to pieces when she Read More

4/9/09
Les Femmes de l'ombre

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Déborah François, Moritz Bleibtreu

Synopsis: A handful of women use their smarts and allure in the service of the French Resistance in this historical drama set during World War II. Louise (Sophie Marceau) is a beautiful woman recruited into the French underground by her brother Pierre (Julien Boisselier) while Nazi forces occupy their Read More

3/5/08
The Witnesses

Actors: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Julie Depardieu, Johan Libereau

Synopsis: The early days of the AIDS crisis in France provides the backdrop for this powerful, life-affirming drama from writer and director André Téchiné. It's 1984, and Mehdi (Sami Bouajila) is a police detective who, unbeknownst to his wife Sarah (Emmanuelle Béart), is a bisexual who has occasional Read More

2/1/08
The Killer

Actors: Gilbert Melki, Grégoire Colin, Mélanie 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
Le Petit Lieutenant

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Jalil Lespert, Roschdy Zem, Antoine Chappey, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: A young, inexperienced detective is inducted into an elite Paris plainclothes unit in Le Petit Lieutenant, directed by Xavier Beauvois (Don't Forget You're Going to Die). Antoine (Jalil Lespert or Human Resources) is as gung-ho as they come, and eager to learn everything he needs to know to be a Read More

9/1/06
Bad Faith

Actors: Roschdy Zem, Cécile De France, Pascal Elbe, Leila Bekhti, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Roschdy Zem and Cecile de France star as a Muslim Arab and a Jewish woman who find their four-year love affair put to the ultimate test in director/co-writer Zem's 21st Century take on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Ishmael (Zem) is a music instructor at a Paris conservatory. His widowed mother Read More

2006
Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus

Actors: Hany Abu-Assad, Pedro Almodóvar, Vicente Aranda, Bruno Barde, Xavier Beauvois

2004
Selon Matthieu

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Nathalie Baye, Antoine Chappey, Jean-Marie Winling

Synopsis: One man's attempt to avenge his father has unexpected consequences in this drama from France. Matthieu (Benoit Magimel) and Eric (Antione Chappey) are two brothers who work in a factory alongside their father (Fred Ulysse). When father is fired under dubious circumstances, Matthieu is outraged and Read More

2000
Le Vent de la Nuit

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Duval, Xavier Beauvois, Jacques Lasalle

Synopsis: French superstar Catherine Deneuve stars in this downbeat drama about the fine line between love and need. Deneuve plays Hélène, an attractive but aging housewife who keeps a lover, a young artist named Paul (Xavier Beauvois). Hélène is strongly attracted to Paul, but isn't sure if he's interested Read More

1999
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
Le Jour et la Nuit

Actors: Alain Delon, Lauren Bacall, Xavier Beauvois, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also accompanies them. There, Alexandre meets the strange Read More

2/14/97
Ponette

Actors: Victoire Thivisol, Xavier Beauvois, Matiaz Caton, Delphine Schiltz, Claire Nebout

Synopsis: A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; Ponette survives, but her mother does not. Her father Read More

1996
N'Oublie Pas Que Tu Vas Mourir

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Xavier Beauvois, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Bulle Ogier

Synopsis: In this downbeat drama from France, Benoit (Xavier Beauvois) is an upper class art student who is shocked to discover that he's been drafted into the Army. Eager to avoid military service, Benoit feigns illness, consults a psychiatrist for depression, and even tells the draft board he's gay, all Read More

1995
Les Amoureux

Actors: Nathalie Richard, Pascal Cervo, Olaf Lubaszenko, Loic Maquin, Xavier Beauvois

Synopsis: In this French coming-of-age drama a 15-year old boy breaks free from his fixation with his older half-sister and learns to trust himself and become independent. The story is set in a rural French town. When his wild half-sister Vivien finally returns home after an eight year absence, young Marc Read More

1994
Aux Petits Bonheurs

Actors: Anémone, Xavier Beauvois, André Dussollier, Nicole Garcia, Sylvie Laporte

Synopsis: Helene (Anemone) is looking for her love of 25 years ago. She is 43 now, was 18 then. She has returned to the last place she saw him, a large house in the country. Once there, she finds Ariane making love to Matthieu. Matthieu is Sabine's husband; Sabine is younger than he is, she wants a child Read More

1993
Nord

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Bernard Verley, Xavier Beauvois, Jean-René Gossart

Synopsis: In this measured, leisurely paced melodrama, a kindly village pharmacist is transformed by drink into a brute when he leaves work and returns home, terrorizing his wife, son, and handicapped daughter. When his drinking causes problems on the job, he checks into a rehabilitation clinic and for a Read More

1991