Dominique Pinon

Dominique Pinon

Nacimiento : 1955-03-04, Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France

Historia

After studying at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, Dominique Pinon moved to Paris where he enrolled at the Cours Simon acting school. His introducing appearance in cinema took place in 1981 in the movie Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix. Pinon is considered to be a theatre actor in first place, with constant on-stage acting since 1985. Until today, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli, Valère Novarina and numerous others. His career in cinema, counting more than 80 movies to-date, shows a strong collaboration with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amongst these 8 movies dating from between 1990 and 2013, it is most notably his appearances in Delicatessen (1991), Alien Resurrection (1997) and Amélie (2001) which made him become known to the broader public outside of France. Pinon also had numerous appearences on French TV, both in movies as well as in series. His most recent international appearance on TV is that of the character Master Raymond in the second season of the award-winning TV series Outlander. He received the Molière theatre award for Best Actor in 2004 and was awarded the title of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.

Perfil

Dominique Pinon
Dominique Pinon
Dominique Pinon

Películas

Apaches: Gang of Paris
Gueule de bois
1900. From Montmartre to Belleville, Paris is in the hands of ultra-violent gangs that reign terror on the capital: the Apaches. Ready to do anything to avenge the death of her brother, a young woman joins a gang. But the closer she gets to the man she wants to eliminate, the more fascinated she becomes by him.
La véritable histoire d'Amélie Poulain
Self (Archival Footage)
The true story of Amélie
A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
An actress, Céline, is hired by the famous director Milan Zodowski to star in a mysterious film shooting in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. She arrives there to discover that the crew consists only of a sound engineer and a unit manager and that Milan stubbornly refuses to leave the cabin where he has locked himself in. Céline realizes that the shoot won’t be happening. She then chooses to face her destiny. This plunge into reality forces her to open up to herself and to others…
Bigbug
Igor
En el año 2045, la humanidad ha cedido la mayoría de las tareas a loa robots, incluso en la casa de la anticuada Alice. Cuando los robots se rebelan contra la humanidad, sus androides cierran las puertas de la casa y la encierran con todos los que están dentro, para protegerlos.
Emma Bovary
Homais
1857. A courtroom. The prosecutor and defense counsel prepare to face off. Between them: Gustave Flaubert, the man on trial. Madame Bovary is charged with obscenity and offending public morals. As the two sides lay out their cases, the novel springs to life. Emma's story unfolds before our eyes. The trial is a reality check for us, rekindling the debate over the status of women at the time. What will the verdict be for Flaubert? What will the verdict be for women - for all the other Emmas?
Pierre & Jeanne
Family Roland lives in Etretat. Jeanne, the youngest, inherits Mr Marechal's fortune, a friend of the parents. Pierre the elder brother, bogged down in questions, questions the sacredness of the family. Is this money hiding a heavy secret?
Cosmética del enemigo
Jean Rosen
Jeremiasz Angust es un arquitecto de éxito que dirigiéndose al aeropuerto de Tokyo pierde su vuelo a causa de una misteriosa joven, Texel Textor, que lo aborda de repente. Los dos personajes iniciarán una conversación que irá enrareciéndose hasta convertirse en algo siniestro y criminal...
Dernière Station
Le pompiste
Jo
L'Inspecteur Ducros
Dark Stories to Survive the Night
Jean Luc
What if Demons, the Living Dead, Evil Dolls, Djinn and other Extra-terrestrial creatures came to haunt our apartments, houses, cafes, museums and other places of daily life? What would we do? How would we react? DARK STORIES tells five tales of gripping terror in a fantastic anthology where horror, suspense and humour intertwine with stark reality to make us shiver with fear! Join us for a Ghoul’s Feast, the Last Judgment before the impending Apocalypse, a surprise package from the deliveryman, a forensic scientist confronted by his zombie victim and the worst Moroccan monster nightmare.
Volando juntos
Pichon
Christian es un científico especializado en los gansos salvajes y sus procesos de migración. Su hijo, un adolescente obnubilado por los videojuegos, no quiere pasar unas vacaciones con su padre, en plena naturaleza. Sin embargo, padre e hijo se unirán en una aventura increíble: salvar a una especie en peligro de extinción con la ayuda de un ultraligero. Emprenden juntos un viaje fascinante por los cielos de Europa. Basada en una historia real.
I Love My Mum
French Restaurant Manager
Una madre y un hijo, sin darse cuenta, van en un container que les lleva desde Londres a Marruecos. La vuelta a casa les hará pasar por España y Francia y pondrá a prueba su relación.
Anna
Monk Dominic
French monk Dominic is sent to Kyiv, pretending to be a photographer for a French fashion magazine. He has to make a photo inside Ukraine's oldest Cathedral. Dominic is accompanied by mysterious assistant, who in reality is the member of the French secret order, sent to Kyiv after news that one ancient artifact may be in danger...
Cartas a Roxane
Lucien
París, Francia, diciembre de 1897. El joven dramaturgo Edmond Rostand se siente un fracasado. La inspiración lo ha abandonado. Casado y padre de dos hijos, desesperado y sin dinero, convence al gran actor Constant Coquelin para que interprete el papel principal de su nueva obra. Pero hay un problema: Coquelin quiere estrenarla en Navidad y Edmond no ha escrito todavía ni una sola palabra.
Caminhos Magnétykos
Raymond Vachs
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years.
Colmillo Blanco
Beauty Smith (voice)
Orgulloso y valiente, Colmillo Blanco es un perro lobo salvaje que crece en la majestuosa e indómita extensión del territorio del Yukón, en el noroeste canadiense. Su contacto con los seres humanos es a través de Castor Gris y su tribu nativa americana. Pero, víctima de la crueldad humana, Castor Gris se verá forzado a venderlo a un nuevo dueño, cruel y sin corazón, que lo convierte en un luchador feroz y le obliga a pelear contra otros perros. ¿Podrá Colmillo Blanco algún día recobrar la confianza en el ser humano? ¿Volverá algún día a correr libre y feliz por la tierra que le vio nacer?
Basada en hechos reales
Raymond
Delphine (Emmanuelle Seigner) es una sensible y atormentada novelista de éxito, paralizada ante la idea de tener que comenzar a escribir una nueva novela. Su camino se cruza entonces con el de Elle (Eva Green), una joven encantadora, inteligente e intuitiva. Elle comprende a Delphine mejor que nadie, y pronto se convierte en su confidente. Delphine confía en Elle y le abre las puertas de su vida. Pero ¿quién es Elle en realidad? ¿Qué pretende? ¿Ha venido para darle un nuevo impulso a la vida de Delphine o para arrebatársela?
Two Snails Set Off
(voice)
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").
Sélection Officielle
Ulysses, an idealistic, novice film director, invites Clothilde, his young and pretty neighbor, to accompany him to the Love Film Festival on Réunion Island, where his debut film has been selected. Unfortunately, the day before they're due to leave, Ulysses learns that his film has been removed from the program. Afraid of disappointing Clotilde, he hides the truth and flies with her to Réunion, determined to do everything in his power to get his film back in the official selection and, at the same time, win the favors of the young woman, who dreams of becoming an actress. But Ulysses must cope with internal rivalries and struggles behind the scenes if he wants love and cinema to triumph.
Vive la crise !
Noël
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless.
Somewhere Beautiful
Magazine Editor
Two emotionally charged love triangles collide as Elena accompanies her photographer husband on a work trip, falling for the sublime beauty of Patagonia and the man who guides them through it. Meanwhile, Albert, a director returning home to Los Angeles, adjusts to being a single father in the wake of his failing marriage.
La DorMeuse Duval
Basile Matrin
In a village by the Meuse river, located near the French-Belgian border, a factory storekeeper named Basile Matrin leads a dreary life with his wife, Rose. The young Maryse Duval, who had just come back from Paris, has abandoned her dreams of becoming an actress. She will unwittingly turn their life upside down. Basile's great friend and neighbour, who is a reporter for a local newspaper called " Le Quotidien de la Meuse", witnesses the comical drama that is unfolding on the street outside his house, and will unwillingly be drawn into this "Dramedy".
La loca historia de Max y Léon
Michel
Max y Leo son dos amigos de la infancia que intentan escapar por todos los medios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
A Love You
Serge
After a drunken evening and an unforgettable night with a total stranger, Manu wakes up alone to find a message on his arm giving him an appointment in Avignon. Convinced that the appointment is with the dreamy woman from the night before, he is ready to do anything to find her again.
The Price of Desire
Fernand Leger
Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was a leading light in the modern design movement. This graceful portrayal of her later life and work in France focuses on the triangle of tension between Gray (Orla Brady), her lover Badovici (Francesco Scianna) and Le Corbusier (Vincent Perez). Alanis Morrissette also features as chanteuse Marisa Damia, Gray’s other lover, with Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen, Amélie) as artist Fernand Léger.
Soulless 2
Bernard
Max Andreev thought the best place to start a new life would be at the other end of the world. What he didn't know, is that you can't outrun your past.
Mi casa en París
Monsieur Lefebvre
Un estadounidense decide viajar a París para vender un suntuoso departamento producto de una herencia de su padre a quien no veía muy seguido. Cuando llega al lugar conoce a la amante de su padre quien estuvo con él durante 50 años y con quien deberá pasar un tiempo para poder conocerla…
El extraordinario viaje de T.S. Spivet
Two Clouds
T. S. Spivet es un genio de diez años que vive en un rancho de Montana con su peculiar familia. Su gran talento para la cartografía pronto tiene recompensa: una institución científica le concede un prestigioso premio y, con la única compañía de una maleta, se dispone a recorrer el país para plasmarlo en mapas.
Les Profs
L'inspecteur d'académie
Con un 12% de aprobados en Bachillerato, el instituto Jules Ferry es el peor de toda Francia. El inspector de la academia, desesperado, sigue el consejo de su adjunto. Este le proponer reclutar un equipo de profesores según una nueva formula: A peores alumnos, peores profesores
La guerre du Royal Palace
Colonel Otto Strudel
Between September 1940 and August 1944, luxury hotels are requisitioned by the Germans as staff headquarters, giving the hotels' employees a ringside seat of the enemy's secrets and activities. Such is the case with Royal Palace, run by Maxime and Solange Verdier, in which the Abwerth, the German counter-intelligence service, establishes its HQ.
The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm
L'inspecteur Lamentin
Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. She lives in an orphanage in Burgandy.
Holidays by the Sea
Homme caravane
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.
Madame Sans Gêne
Fouché
Crédit pour tous
Gobert
While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he lives in, bailiffs swarm. Gobert will organize resistance and develop an original and popular loan system which will soon arouse the interest of the French government.
Specky Four-Eyes
Narrator
A young boy is made to wear corrective glasses but refuses so that his imagination of the world around him can roam.
What War May Bring
Maurice Lemoine
A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.
La loi de Murphy
Rudy
After four years in jail, Elias is doing his rehabilitation in an hospital as stretcher bearer. In five hours, his parole will be completed. He will make a fresh start and forget about his past. But that would be forgetting about Murphy's law and its string of problems.
Micmacs
Fracasse
Cuando Bazil era niño, su padre murió en el Sáhara a causa de una mina antipersonas. Ahora de adulto, el pobre Bazil recibe un bala perdida que se aloja en su cabeza, y para salvarle la vida, aunque sin saber cuándo se puede morir, los médicos no se la extraen. Vagabundeando por las calles, Bazil hace amistades con artistas callejeros que le aceptan como uno más de la familia. Con su ayuda, tratará de vengarse de las compañías armamentísticas, que se lucran a costa de las desgracias ajenas, como las que ha sufrido Bazil.
Humans
Gildas
A team of several researchers travel to the Swiss Alps to investigate a scientific discovery on human evolution. The trip, however, turns into a deadly fight for survival when the team crash into a gully and find themselves falling prey to someone...or something.
Musée haut, musée bas
Simon
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
The Clown
Everybody's afraid of zombies... But try to imagine your self waking up from the dead... How would you feel?
Fin de partie
Hamm
Los crímenes de Oxford
Frank
Un joven americano que estudia en Oxford descubre el cuerpo sin vida de su casera, una mujer que en su juventud había formado parte del equipo que descifró el Código Enigma de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Poco después, un profesor de lógica de la universidad recibe una nota en la que se advierte que ése es el primero de una serie de asesinatos. El estudiante y el profesor deciden investigar el caso, utilizando códigos matemáticos, para encontrar el patrón que sigue este asesino en serie. Basada en el libro "Oxford Murders" (Crímenes Imperceptibles), de Guillermo Martínez.
Dante 01
César
El film narra la historia de una prisión espacial de alta seguridad(llamada “Dante 01“) que orbita un planeta llamado Dante, y adonde sólo envían a los psicópatas más peligrosos, pero no para encerrarles de por vida entre rejas, sino para utilizarles como cobayas humanas en extraños y terribles experimentos. Hasta que un día, César (Dominique Pinon), uno de los reclusos allí, decide liderar una rebelión que acabe con todo lo llevado a cabo en ese lugar, hasta que llega Saint Georges (Lambert Wilson), un misterioso prisionero poseído por una fuerza secreta que, cuando aprenda a controlar, empleará para acabar con la hostilidad de sus compañeros presos y liberarlos de la maligna atracción de Dante.
La luna en botella
Pascal Rossignol
“La luna en botella” son mil historias en una, un cuento coral de soñadores solitarios que comparten anhelos y desencantos mientras esperan que mejore su suerte. Cambiar el rumbo de sus vidas puede resultar tan difícil como meter la luna en una botella, pero el que lo intente será un valiente, no un loco. (FILMAFFINITY)
Midsummer Madness
Toni
St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get together to build bonfires, drink and have a good time. According to a legend, on this night lovers and those who wish to fall in love can search the woods for the "magic fern".
Crossed Tracks
Pierre Laclos / Louis
Judith Ralitzer, mujer fatal y escritora de éxito busca los personajes para su próximo best-seller. Un asesino en serie se escapa del psiquiátrico. A Huguette, una ingenua peluquera parisina, la abandona su novio en una estación de servicio. Algunos encuentros son más decisivos que otros...
When Evil Calls
Detective Ringwald
When Evil Calls centers around the mysterious appearance of a text message that grants the students of Wilburn High School their wildest desires.
Dikkenek
Stef
Jean-Claude (Jean-Luc Couchard) es un "Dikkenek" (expresion belga usada para designar una persona presumida, habladora y soberbia), un tipo que no puede evitar sermonear a todos los que se le cruzan en su camino. Stef (Dominique Pinon), a pesar de ser su amigo desde siempre, es su total opuesto, reservado y tímido. Claudy Faucan (Francois Damiens) es director de un matadero en Bélgica, y amante de la fotografía. Nadine (Marion Cotillard) es una profesora un poco loca, de familia burgesa que está más interesada por “la blanca” que por sus alumnos. Fabianne (Marie Kremer) es una oficial de policía, más fascinada por las armas que por la gramática.
Your Name is Justine
Oncle Goran
While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their trip. Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany. We follow her ordeal as she tries to free herself and stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to break and condition her to a new life of servitude.
L'Hiver sous la table
Dragomir
Ze Film
Le SDF
A poor kid nicknamed Kubrick loves movies and dreams about being an award winning director. One day, he stumbles upon a movie shoot, gets confused with a real movie maker and takes the equipment he needs to shoot his movie.
Largo domingo de noviazgo
Sylvain
Cuando la I Guerra Mundial (1914-1918) se acerca a su fin, para una joven francesa está a punto de comenzar la más cruel de las batallas. Mathilde ha recibido la noticia de que su prometido Manech es uno de los cinco soldados heridos que, tras haber sido sometidos a un consejo de guerra, han sido enviados a la tierra de nadie que hay entre el ejército francés y el alemán, lo cual supone una muerte casi segura. Mathilde, que se niega a aceptar esa situación, emprende un extraordinario viaje para conocer el destino de su prometido. Las noticias que va recibiendo sobre Manech son desalentadoras. Aún así, animada por una fe y una esperanza inquebrantables y también por un gran optimismo, sigue su investigación hasta el final. A medida que se acerca a la verdad sobre los desafortunados soldados y su brutal castigo, se ve más envuelta en los horrores de la guerra y en las marcas indelebles que deja en quienes la han vivido.
Darkhunters
Charlie Jackson
Walking the Earth as an undead spirit has Charlie Jackson in a quandary. Unable to interact with his family, Charlie feels he's been forsaken by God. Now, his ultimate goal is to get to heaven as soon as possible - but that's easier said than done. The battle between good and evil for Charlie's soul has begun, and salvation might only come via Carol Miller, a darkhunter who brings lost souls back to death.
Ne quittez pas!
Le clochard
Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds.
Hellbreeder (La resurrección del mal)
Detective Weiss
Alice Nelson vive traumatizada por el asesinato de su hijo. Tras pasar por una institución psiquiátrica para recuperarse de sus problemas emocionales, ahora, años después, a consecuencia de una oleada de crímenes que repiten las características del caso de su hijo, Alice se obsesiona con atrapar al criminal. Para ello contará con la ayuda del detective Weiss, el investigador de la policía que se encarga del caso. La protagonista, además de cumplir con su misión, deberá luchar contra los demonios de su subsconsciente que le atormentan.
Le bon, la brute et les zombies
Petit cowboy
Hordes of zombies invade a western town.
El puente de San Luis Rey
His Excellency's Fop
Perú, siglo XVIII. La historia se desplaza desde los burdeles y los teatros de Lima a la majestuosa Corte de España, desde los palacios arzobispales peruanos a la Inquisición de Madrid. Cuando el puente de San Luis se rompe, cinco viajeros se precipitan al abismo. ¿Es el azar o la mano de Dios lo que reunió a estas cinco personas en ese lugar en ese momento fatídico? O, por el contrario, ¿fueron ellos mismos los responsables de lo que ocurrió?
At Home with the Rozes
le lieutenant
Mientras son conducidos a otra prisión, dos reos peligrosos consiguen fugarse. Con la policía pisándoles los talones, se refugian en los suburbios, en la hermosa casa de los Rozes. Pero pronto descubrirán que la vida de esta familia no es tan normal como a primera vista pudiera parecer. (FILMAFFINITY)
La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón
Fredy Mazas
Al Profesor Bacterio le han robado el más peligroso de sus inventos, un artefacto que termina en manos de un dictador bajito, chalado criminal. El Super lo tiene claro: si quiere recuperarlo, no debe contar con sus agentes Mortadelo y Filemón. Cuando éstos se enteran de que la TIA ha contratado a un detective para resolver el caso, deciden actuar por su cuenta ¿Salvarán al mundo o acabarán con él?
Entrusted
Henri Lafont
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
Dead or Alive
The Butcher
Crime short starring Dominique Pinon and Bernard Montiel.
Acordarse de cosas bellas
Robert
Nathalie lleva a su hermana menor Claire, una joven reservada, a un centro para amnésicos. Claire recibió una descarga eléctrica en un bosque y presenta pequeños lagos de memoria. Claire penetra en el seno de un universo curioso y desajustado. Conoce a Philippe, de cuarenta años, que perdió la memoria tras un accidente automovilístico que le costó la vida a su mujer y su hijo. Los dos se enamoran...
Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver!
P'tit gars
Amelie
Joseph
Amelie no es una chica como las demás. Ha visto a su pez de colores deslizarse hacia las alcantarillas municipales, a su madre morir en la plaza de Notre-Dame y a su padre dedicar todo su afecto a un gnomo de jardín. De repente, a sus veintidós años, descubre su objetivo en la vida: arreglar la vida de los demás. A partir de entonces, inventa toda clase de estrategias para intervenir, sin que se den cuenta, en la existencia de varias personas de su entorno. Entre ellas está su portera, que pasa los días bebiendo vino de Oporto; Georgette, una estanquera hipocondríaca: o "el hombre de cristal", un vecino que sólo ve el mundo a través de la reproducción de un cuadro de Renoir.
Sabotage!!
Armani
Junio de 1815. La "Grande Armée" de Napoleón Bonaparte y las fuerzas aliadas, al mando del Duque de Wellington, se disponen a enfrentarse en un lugar de Bélgica llamado Waterloo.
Highway Melody
A man discovers he's no longer as close to his ear as he once was in this absurdist comedy. Jeff 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, and begins a long, strange journey, passing from car to car and hand to hand across the country. Jeff, however, can still hear whatever his separated ear is picking up, and is trying to follow the sounds in hopes of catching up with his former body part. However, a doctor warns him he only has a few hours to find his ear, otherwise reattachment will be impossible; in the meantime, Jeff's former girlfriend wastes several of his precious minutes with a discussion about the notion of giving their relationship another try.
Der Pilot
Pilot
A short science fiction comedy directed by Oliver Seiter.
Like a Fish Out of Water
Melvin
A seductive femme fatale (Monica Bellucci) and two con men -- one cool as ice, and one who just likes to "ice" his victims -- enlist a mild-mannered, unsuspecting man in their mission to steal a rare and valuable fish. They plan to sell it back to its grieving owner at an enormous profit (talk about "sleeping with the fishes!"). Tcheky Karyo, Michel Muller and Dominique Pinon co-star.
Quasimodo d'el Paris
Trouillefou
The location is the town of El Paris. When ten-year-old boy Quasimodo shows signs of deformity, his well-to-do parents place him in the charge of the town’s mysterious evangelist, Frollo. In exchange, they adopt a Cuban girl, Esméralda, from a lower social class. Ten years later, El Paris is menaced by a serial killer, and Quasimodo is the prime suspect.
Alien: Resurrección
Dom Vriess
Más de doscientos años después de su muerte, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) vuelve a la vida gracias al empleo de técnicas avanzadas de clonación. Pero, durante el proceso, el ADN de Ripley se ha mezclado con el de la Reina Alien, por lo que Ripley empieza a desarrollar ciertas características de la peligrosa alienígena.
Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen
After a 10-year absence, 27-year-old Amelie returns home to suburban Paris and the decaying motorcycle-dealership/junkyard where she was raised. Her hope is that time has healed the open wound of hostility between herself and her alcoholic older brother Adrien. Amelie dusts off an ancient motorcycle, revs it up, and practices riding inside the immense sphere of metal latticework constructed by her late father. The local popularity of this stunt suggests a broader appeal plus profits, so soon the act goes on the road, where emotions spin out of control.
A Saturday on Earth
Le brigadier Morel
A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance. Through a montage of different film stock and techniques director Diane Bertrand creates pieces of a puzzle, from which the viewer has to piece together a story. That's the premise of the film, and it is solvable. You just have to work a bit...
La Gotera
'Pastel de Fer'
A man is in his flat and he has a leak on his ceiling, suddenly the ceiling caves in and a dead man falls through unsure of what to do he tries to take the man out of his flat but at that moment the ceiling really starts to leak, but its not water coming through...
La ciudad de los niños perdidos
The Diver / The Clones
Sobre una plataforma marina perdida en la niebla, el malvado Krank envejece prematuramente, pues carece de una cualidad esencial: la facultad de soñar. Por esta razón, rapta a los niños de la ciudad para robarles sus sueños. Sus compañeros de infortunio son: Irvin, un cerebro que flota dentro de un acuario, la señorita Bismuth y una banda de clónicos. Al otro lado de la niebla, en la ciudad portuaria, se encuentra One, una fuerza de la naturaleza ingenua, pero extraordinariamente valiente, que busca a su hermano pequeño desaparecido.
KO Kid
An unequal battle between a small and skinny boxer, and a big and great boxer. The film is a mixture of animation and live action, a little surreal, making it an experimental film.
La cavale des fous
Angel
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.
Je m'appelle Victor
Bernard
No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his grandparents. He has the usual boyish adventures in town, punctuated with odd goings-on brought about by events which take place in his grandfather's crocodile farm. However, there is a deep rivalry between his grandmother and her wheelchair-bound half-sister, Cecile, who has kept hidden from the world (and her family), and has lived in the attic for decades. Basile eventually feels the wrongness of her situation and feels that he may be the reincarnation of Victor, Cecile's long-lost lover. Eventually things come to a head in a confrontation which provides the town gossips with material for years to come.
Août
Eugène Blouzette
The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart.
Les arcandiers
Bruno
In this surreal comedy, Tonio works very hard for every bit of ill-gotten cash he can get his hands on, but he remains a poor criminal in both senses of the word. He and his buddies Bruno and Hercule think they have the solution to their pocketbook woes. The body of St. Bernadette has been miraculously preserved from decay and is a central object of pilgrimage in the shrine where it is kept. Why not steal that and hold it for ransom? The criminal gang is well able to pull this coup off and are soon in possession of one perfectly preserved corpse and a very fancy coffin. It's too bad for them that the church seems to have a limitless supply of these and doesn't want the one they stole back. Bemused, the lads set the coffin adrift on the river, only to be followed by it as they drive back upriver. In the course of carrying out their criminal designs, these lovable lugs encounter a variety of eccentric characters.
Delicatessen
Louison
Esta comedia negra y surrealista nos cuenta acerca de un pequeño pueblo postapocalíptico, donde Clapet, el carnicero, alimenta a sus clientes con carne humana. Cuando su hija se enamora de su siguiente víctima, las cosas se empiezan a torcer.
25 décembre 58, 10h36
Dominique
Cesar 1992 of the best short movie
1871
Napoléon III
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
Historia de una revolución
Drouet
Historia de la Revolución Francesa. En 1789, Luis XVI decide convocar los Estados Generales con el fin de resolver el grave problema de la deuda de Francia. El 10 de agosto de 1792 el rey es capturado cuando intentaba huir de París para unirse a los contrarrevolucionarios. Pierde entonces toda su autoridad y es encarcelado. Durante la Época del Terror, el gobierno jacobino de Robespierre llevó a la guillotina a cientos de miles de franceses, entre ellos Luis XVI, María Antonieta e incluso a revolucionarios como Danton y Desmoulins.
Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
Man
Dominique Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes."
La leyenda del santo bebedor
Woitech
Andreas es un vagabundo más de los muchos que viven bajo los puentes de París. Cuando recibe de un desconocido la suma de doscientos francos, con la única condición de devolverlos como ofrenda a la imagen de una santa, emprende un peregrinaje de carácter fundamentalmente espiritual para ser digno del favor recibido.
El misterio de la muerte de Nina Chéreau
Albert
Un joven psiquiatra trata de ayudar a una joven en un asilo que ha sido acusada de haber matado a una adolescente. Pero cuando ella se escapa y el va tras ella, se ve envuelto en un misterio mucho mayor que el de una mujer con problemas psiquiátricos.
Frenético
Wino
La asistencia a una conferencia en París le brinda al doctor Richard Walken y a su esposa la oportunidad de revivir su luna de miel. Pero, nada más instalarse en la habitación del hotel, su mujer desaparece misteriosamente. Completamente solo, en un país desconocido cuyo idioma ignora, Walken la buscará desesperadamente. La única pista que tiene es un número de teléfono apuntado en una caja de cerillas, pero, a partir de ahí, la trama se irá complicando hasta convertirse en una auténtica pesadilla.
Le Reve Du Phenix
"...The budget was 500,000 francs, financed by the Ministry of Culture, the OCTET agency in Populus [...] On this occasion, we created a production company whose name was inspired by the comic book of Jean-Claude Forest, Mystérieuse Matin Midi et Soir." - Minh
Devil's Paradise
Gato
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors soon find the island as well.
Sauve-toi, Lola
Jean-Pierre
Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as it has always done in life with strength, determination, and above all with humor. In his fight, it is supported by Ferdinand, his fiery lover and naive who is a journalist. In the hospital, treated by Prof. Tobman, deeply human doctor, she met a group of women, all living with the same bad but each following a different social environment. This group will become his new "family".
Cent francs l'amour
Tom
Jeremy, a young art photographer, needs money to finance an exhibition of his work. He turns to Maurice, a lonely bachelor who will do almost anything to buy Jérémy’s company. When his relationship with his girlfriend starts to fall apart, the young photographer visits a peepshow and is at once struck by the beauty of one of the performers, Otie. He uses the money Maurice gave him to pay for further visits to the sex shop...
Betty Blue
Surfer
Zorg es un manitas que trabaja en Francia como encargado de unos bungalows en la playa. Su vida es tranquila y pacífica, trabaja con dedicación y escribe en su tiempo libre. Pero un día Betty entra en su vida, una joven tan bella como salvaje e impredecible. De repente, el carácter sin reglas de Betty empieza a descontrolarse.
Zina
Pierre
Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in Germany and Austria and Zina commits suicide.
La Baston
Marcel Noblet
After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son is mortally ill and in desperate need of expensive medical help, René can't refuse the offer to crack a safe in a villa. What René and his pals don't know is that they serve as a decoy for criminals who have much bigger plans. Can he escape from the police?
Going and Coming Back
Un villageois
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
Dream one, sueños interminables
Monkey
Based on Winsor McCay's comic strip, a little boy embarks on a dream-like adventure. Also known as Dream One.
Mint Tea
Roger
A young Algerian in Paris has not been as successful as he claims in letters home, and when his mother unexpectedly arrives for a visit of several months, he is hard put to hide his circumstances -- and the fact that he has resorted to small-time criminal activity to support himself. His mother disembarks in her traditional attire, a warm-hearted woman who does not have a clue as to how this foreign society functions but also has absolutely no inhibitions about finding out, if the need arises. As the story progresses, the mother catches on to her son's circumstances though the two are still not able to confront the deception and right it. Even with a low budget, this first-time feature-length story by Bahloul Bahloul combines satire, comedy, and pathos to bring home a relationship between mother and son that transcends life's many obstacles.
Ghost Dance
Salesman/Guide
Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. The film focuses on the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who observes, 'I think cinema, when it's not boring, is the art of letting ghosts come back.' He also says that 'memory is the past that has never had the form of the present.'
The Moon in the Gutter
Frank
En los callejones sórdidos de Marsella Gérard, un estibador, busca obsesivamente el violador de su hermana, la cual, no soportando la infamia y el horror, se ha suicidado. Un día Gérard es golpeado por Loretta, una bella joven al volante de un magnífico Ferrari rojo. Este es el punto de partida para una historia de amor imposible, en un clima de soledad, venganza y desesperación.
Car Cemetery
Ybar
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
If I Were 1000 Years Old
A long time ago, On a french island, a bunch of villagers saved a girl from being sacrifice by the local lord. To this day the place is cursed and each years, mysterious knights comes out of the fog, while a woman disappear.
Tir groupé
Daniel Verlot
El regreso de Martin Guerre
Antoine
Aldea de Artigat, sur de Francia, verano de 1542, durante el reinado de Francisco I. Martin Guerre y Bertrande de Rols contraen matrimonio. Pocos años más tarde, acusado de haber cometido un robo, Martin desaparece repentinamente. Cuando, casi una década después, un hombre llega a Artigat diciendo ser Martin, la familia Guerre le reconoce como tal; pero pronto empiezan a surgir dudas sobre su verdadera identidad.
Noisy Neighbours
Musician
A grotesque, frenetic and musical short film from Jérome Lefdup, Dominik Barbier, and Larry Flash.
La Diva
Le curé
Un joven mensajero motociclista parisino hace una copia de contrabando ilegal de su cantante de ópera favorita en un concierto en directo. Cuando la cinta es accidentalmente sustituida por una cinta de vigilancia que incrimina a unos famosos gángsteres, dos asesinos psicópatas son enviados a la caza del mensajero
La Découverte
The young painter
Gilles et Louise
Hamlet Revenant
A modern-day version of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', which explores a young man's psyche as he contemplates avenging his father's death.