Isaach De Bankolé

Isaach De Bankolé

Nascimento : 1957-08-12, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

História

Isaach or Isaac de Bankolé (born 12 August 1957; Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian actor. De Bankolé was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to Yoruba parents from Benin. His grandparents are from Nigeria.[6] He moved to Paris in 1975 for his last year of lycée and pursued a master's degree in physics and mathematics. He then attended an aviation school and earned a private pilot licence, before a chance encounter with French director Gérard Vergez led him to enroll in the Cours Simon, a Parisian drama school.

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Isaach De Bankolé
Isaach De Bankolé

Filmes

Os Odiados do Casamento
Henrique
As tensões familiares aumentam entre os irmãos Alice e Paul, que, mesmo contrariados, concordam em ir ao casamento de sua distante meia-irmã rica no interior da Inglaterra com sua mãe, Donna. Ao longo da semana do casamento, muitos esqueletos do passado são arrancados do armário, e a improvável reunião dá a todos a motivação para seguir em frente com suas próprias vidas. Essa é uma comédia de casamento moderna para qualquer pessoa com uma família um pouco disfuncional (todos), ou qualquer pessoa que foi forçada a comparecer a um casamento que tentou evitar (também todos).
Pantera Negra: Wakanda para Sempre
River Tribe Elder
A rainha Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye e as poderosas Dora Milaje lutam para proteger sua nação após a morte do rei T'Challa. Com a ajuda da Cão de Guerra Nakia e de Everett Ross, eles tentam encontrar um novo caminho para Wakanda.
Saída à Francesa
Julius
Frances (Michelle Pfeiffer) é uma socialite viúva sem dinheiro de Manhattan cujo marido morreu há quase duas décadas. Com sua herança, ela ganha o último de seus bens e resolve viver...
Shaft
Pierro 'Gordito' Carrera
Após a morte suspeita de um amigo, John Shaft Jr. (Jessie T. Usher) resolve pedir ajuda a seu pai, Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson), para resolver o caso. Ele aceita deixar a aposentadoria para iniciar a investigação, apesar dos problemas existentes com o próprio filho.
Black Is Beltza
Wilson Clever (voice)
Em outubro de 1965, algumas grandes figuras de San Fermín são convidadas a desfilar na Quinta Avenida de Nova York, mas são detidas antes disso por conflitos raciais.
Pantera Negra
River Tribe Elder
O príncipe T'Challa retorna a Wakanda para ser coroado rei. Assumindo o manto de Pantera Negra, ele vai à caça de um vilão que roubou um precioso metal de seu país.
A Violent Man
Pete
A struggling mixed martial arts fighter finds himself in a fight for his life after his one night stand is found dead in her home.
Kiss Me!
Bernard
Claude falls in love with Cécile. She is convinced that she is the woman of her life unlike her mother who knows the tumultuous sentimental life of her daughter.
Double Play
Ernesto
Double Play is about anolder man named Ostrik who returns to Curaçao and his childhood after many years abroad. Ostrik reminisces about 1973 and the events surrounding a game his father played which had major consequences for Ostrik’s youth. The dramatic poverty and colourful landscapes provide the background for the leads who represent Curaçao’s melting pot: a story of pride and humiliation, money and love, ambition and hope.
Norman: Confie em Mim
Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) tem uma solitária vida às margens do poder e do dinheiro de Nova Iorque, um improvável operador sonhando sobre esquemas financeiros que nunca se tornam realidade. Sempre na busca de alguém disposto a prestar atenção nele, Norman faz amizade com Micha Eshel (Lior Ashkenazi), um carismático político israelense em uma má fase de sua carreira. Porém, três anos depois, Eshel torna-se um influente líder mundial, transformando drasticamente a vida de Norman tanto positivamente quanto negativamente.
O Último Caçador de Bruxas
Max Schlesinger
Amaldiçoado com a imortalidade, o caçador de bruxas Kaulder é obrigado a enfrentar mais uma vez sua maior inimiga e unir forças com a jovem bruxa Chloe para impedir que uma convenção espalhe uma terrível praga pela cidade.
Run
Assa
Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain miracle-worker, his adventures with Gladys the eater, and his past as a young member of militia, in the heart of the politic and military conflict in Ivory Coast. All those lives, Run didn't choose them. Every time, he felt in by running from another life. That's the reason why his name's Run.
Where the Road Runs Out
Co-Executive Producer
George, a scientist living in Rotterdam is growing wary of the world of academia. The sudden death of an old friend is the incentive he needs to return to his African roots where he takes over a dilapidated field station in the jungle of Equatorial Guinea. There he meets an orphan boy with a sunny disposition who opens George's wary eyes to this colorful place. The boy plays matchmaker between George and the lady who runs the local orphanage and all seems rosy until an old friend of George's shows up out of nowhere to throw their lives into disarray as George discovers there are many obstacles on the road to redemption and a few more where the road runs out.
Where the Road Runs Out
George
George, a scientist living in Rotterdam is growing wary of the world of academia. The sudden death of an old friend is the incentive he needs to return to his African roots where he takes over a dilapidated field station in the jungle of Equatorial Guinea. There he meets an orphan boy with a sunny disposition who opens George's wary eyes to this colorful place. The boy plays matchmaker between George and the lady who runs the local orphanage and all seems rosy until an old friend of George's shows up out of nowhere to throw their lives into disarray as George discovers there are many obstacles on the road to redemption and a few more where the road runs out.
Mirage
Executive Producer
Um jogador de futebol africano em uma pequena cidade húngara comete um crime e tem que fugir. Ele encontra refúgio nos fundos de uma fazenda. Logo, percebe que a fazenda é um campo de escravos moderno, onde ele é forçado a lutar por sua liberdade e, finalmente, sua vida.
Mirage
Francis
Um jogador de futebol africano em uma pequena cidade húngara comete um crime e tem que fugir. Ele encontra refúgio nos fundos de uma fazenda. Logo, percebe que a fazenda é um campo de escravos moderno, onde ele é forçado a lutar por sua liberdade e, finalmente, sua vida.
Calvário
Simon
O filme conta a história de um padre com boas intenções e o desejo de tornar o mundo um lugar melhor, mas encontra-se continuamente chocado e entristecido com os habitantes rancorosos e os confrontos que ocorrem em sua cidade. Um dia, ele é ameaçado durante uma confissão, e se vê cercado de perigos a todo momento.
Mother of George
Ayodele Balogun
A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
Chaos
Vincent
Vincent, Marie and their son have just moved from Paris into a farm near a small town in the south of France. He is a history and geography teacher, who looks forward to a quieter life, some kind of return to nature. His wife, a renowned international pianist, who retired in spite of her young age, has decided to follow him but almost unwillingly. From the very beginning, Thibault, one of Vincent's students, invades his family and slowly the couple, whose desires seem now so far away, falls apart. But Thibault's intentions are not at all motivated by love. And he will do anything to achieve his goal...
Oka!
Bassoun
The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.
Minha Terra, África
Boxer
Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.
I Am Slave
Bah
Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daughter of champion wrestler Bah, is abducted from her Sudanese village in the Nubar Mountains by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery to a woman in Khartoum, who beats her for touching her daughter. After six years she is sent to London, where her name is changed, but her miserable life of servitude continues. Her passport is taken and she is told that her father will die if she goes to the authorities. Fortunately she meets a sympathetic person who seems to offer her the hope of escape and reunion with Bah ,back in Sudan. For all the film's optimism an end title states that there are around 5,000 'slave' workers currently in Britain.
Os Limites do Controle
Lone Man
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.
24 Horas: A Redenção
President Ule Matobo
O filme é baseado na série "24 Horas" e dá continuidade aos acontecimentos da sexta temporada. O ex-agente Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) esta exilado em um fictício país africano, onde espera poder escapar das investigações que o governo americano esta fazendo a seu respeito. Lá, ele trabalha como voluntário em uma escola para crianças orfãs, que pertence a seu amigo Carl Benton (Robert Carlyle). O país esta a mercê do desonesto general Juma (Tony Todd), que esta tramando um plano contra o governo atual e recrutando meninos orfãos contra sua vontade para seu exército. Bauer e Benton precisam trabalhar juntos para conseguirem evitar que tais planos virem realidade.
A Guitarra
Roscoe Wasz
Mel não tem a vida que todo mundo pediu a Deus. Ela é uma jovem nova-iorquina que passa os dias agüentando um emprego sem graça e um namorado ainda menos empolgante. Um belo dia, a jovem descobre que, por causa de um tumor maligno em sua garganta, lhe restam menos de dois meses de vida. Sem mais obrigações com o emprego e o namorado, Mel embarca na aventura de realizar todos os seus desejos, em vez de ficar esperando a morte. Ela compra os melhores objetos, prova das mais finas cozinhas, quebra os mais pervertidos tabus sexuais e, principalmente, aprende a tocar guitarra.
Machetero
Post 9/11 definitions, ideas and notions of terrorism are challenged in this highly controversial and experimental film. Machetero is an allegorical narrative that follows French journalist Jean Dumont, to a New York prison where he interviews Pedro Taino, a so-called "Puerto Rican Terrorist". Pedro is a self-described Machetero fighting to free Puerto Rico from the yoke of United States colonialism. He is obsessed with freedom, freedom for his country, his people and for himself. Jean questions Pedro about his decisions to use violence as a means to achieve that freedom. Jean utilizes a global perspective in questioning Pedro, referencing examples of achieving his goals through more peaceful means. However Jean soon finds that Pedro is well versed in liberation struggles from around the world and their debate over the use of violence as a catalyst for change escalates. As Jean and Pedro speak, another story unfolds. A ghetto youth grows up in the streets doing what he has to do to ...
O Quinto Paciente
Cpt. Mugambe
John Reilly wakes up in an African Hospital with only fragments of his memory intact. An officer of the local regime, Mugambe, accuses him of being an American spy.
A Batalha de Seattle
Abasi
Ano de 1999. Dezenas de milhares de pessoas vão às ruas de Seattle, em protesto contra a Organização Mundial de Comércio. De início o protesto era pacífico, pedindo o fim das conferências da OMC, mas logo se tornou um motim. O resultado foi a classificação de estado de sítio, que fez com que o Departamento de Polícia e a Guarda Nacional adotassem uma postura de combate aos manifestantes.
O Escafandro e a Borboleta
Laurent
Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) tem 43 anos, é editor da revista Elle e um apaixonado pela vida. Mas, subitamente, tem um derrame cerebral. Vinte dias depois, ele acorda. Ainda está lúcido, mas sofre de uma rara paralisia: o único movimento que lhe resta no corpo é o do olho esquerdo. Bauby se recusa a aceitar seu destino. Aprende a se comunicar piscando letras do alfabeto, e forma palavras, frases e até parágrafos. Cria um mundo próprio, contando com aquilo que não se paralisou: sua imaginação e sua memória.
007: Cassino Royale
Steven Obanno
Depois de obter o status 00 e uma licença para matar, o agente secreto James Bond parte em sua primeira missão como 007. Bond precisa derrotar um banqueiro privado que financia terroristas em um jogo de pôquer de alto risco no Casino Royale, Montenegro.
Miami Vice
Neptune
James Crockett e Ricardo Tubbs são detetives que trabalham juntos, investigando o tráfico de drogas nos Estados Unidos. Após um plano do FBI dar errado, eles são chamados para uma operação secreta que tem por objetivo capturar Arcángel de Jesús Montoya, poderoso traficante que controla seus negócios diretamente do Haiti. Sonny e Tubbs se disfarçam como transportadores, no intuito de serem os responsáveis pela entrada das drogas de Montoya nos Estados Unidos. Em meio às negociações Sonny se envolve com Isabella, braço-direito de Montoya.
A Passagem
Professor
O psicólogo Sam Foster estuda o caso de um paciente que pretende se suicidar. As terríveis profecias do rapaz começam a se realizar e, enquanto tenta salvá-lo, Sam também lida com questões pessoais e dolorosas.
Viúva Negra
Waiter
Eleonora é uma jovem italiana que herda uma misteriosa casa após a morte de seu amante. Ao visitá-la, se encontra com Leslie, um homem encarregado de cuidar do imóvel, nos arredores de Nova York.
A Chave
Creole Gas Station Owner
Caroline é uma enfermeira contratada para cuidar de uma idosa e ajudar o seu marido. Intrigada pelo casal enigmático, pelos seus mistérios e pelos segredos da sua mansão colonial, com muitos corredores e recantos, Caroline começa a explorar a casa com uma chave mestra, que lhe permite abrir todas as portas, e descobre um sótão que esconde um terrível segredo.
Manderlay
Timothy
Em 1933, uma jovem mulher chamada Grace e seu pai descobrem uma fazenda no Alabama, cujos habitantes vivem como se a escravidão nunca tivesse acontecido. Sentindo a necessidade de ajudar estas pessoas, Grace tenta libertá-las. Com quatro colegas de seu pai e um advogado, ela enfrenta a difícil tarefa de reconstruir o lugar conhecido como Manderlay.
From Other Worlds
Abraham
FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her life until she encounters an alien force in her backyard. With the help of a fellow contactee, an African immigrant, she is determined to solve the mystery of her otherworldly experiences. Along the way, she finds romance, saves the planet and finds new meaning in her life.
Homework
Executive Producer
Sara, a young ballet dancer, drifts through boredom as a constrained classical dancer until she meets Jean, a West African plumber from the opposite side of town with natural simplicity and freedom in his dance movements. Curiosity leads towards an explosion of awakening in both her dance and personal worlds.
Homework
Jean
Sara, a young ballet dancer, drifts through boredom as a constrained classical dancer until she meets Jean, a West African plumber from the opposite side of town with natural simplicity and freedom in his dance movements. Curiosity leads towards an explosion of awakening in both her dance and personal worlds.
Sobre Café e Cigarros
Isaach
Série de 11 curtas-metragens sobre diversos personagens que, bebendo café e fumando cigarros, discutem os mais variados temas, tais como picolés com cafeína, Abbott & Costello, a ressurreição de Elvis Presley, a forma correta de se preparar um chá inglês, as invenções de Nikola Tesla, desentendimentos familiares, Paris nos anos 1920, rock, hip hop e o uso da nicotina como inseticida.
The Killing Zone
Malcolm
Killing Zone is the story of an affluent Harlem psychiatrist living an unexamined life until his adoptive father- a doctor who plucked him from a Nigerian refugee camp as a child - is gunned down by an eleven-year-old in Brooklyn. In an instant, everything he's absorbed in twent years in America is thrown into question, and his search for the boy resurrects memories of his own buried past.
3 A.M.
Angus
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory, this film offers dove-tailing stories centering on the lives of individual taxi drivers as they reflect on and experience romance, politics, sociology, and spirituality.
Bàttu
Saar
The star-stubbed cast includes Issac de Bankolè as Saar, a blind beggar, and Danny Glover as a corrupt president. In this often hilarious mix of politics and superstition, the beggars hamper the tourist industry yet play a necessary role opposite the lives of devout and wealthy Muslims. The agitated Minister of Public Health and Sanitation imposes a novel way of eliminating the problem.
Cherry
Menu Man
At age 19, a young woman is jilted at the altar. This leads to a declaration that she will swear off men forever. Now 10 years later, she suddenly decides she would like to have a child. She advertises in the newspaper for potential mates, whether by traditional methods or by sperm donors, but gets nothing but losers. However, two neighborhood men vie for her attention - her gynecologist and a professional clown.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life
Sgt. Barthelmy
In the eleventh film in the series, in December 1916, Indy, still stationed in Africa, is promoted to Captain and then ordered to cross the jungle with Remy and Captain Boucher to pick up a shipment of weaponry. Along the way, Ubangan Sergeant Barthélèmy picks up the sole surviving child from a disease-ravaged village despite Boucher's orders against it. On the way back, Indy and company succumb to disease themselves, and are picked up by Albert Schweitzer and the orderlies from his jungle hospital. At first resistant to being treated by a German, Indy soon begins to realize that Schweitzer is not interested in war, only attempting to cure people against all odds.
Otomo
Otomo
The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble and his final destiny.
Ghost Dog: Matador Implacável
Raymond
Um assassino profissional de Nova York segue as regras dos samurais orientais e respeita apenas o seu próprio código de ética. Mas quando o seu chefe mafioso não cumpre com o acordo mantido entre eles, o matador deve lutar para salvar a sua vida.
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Mamadou (as Isaac De Bankole)
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.
The Keeper
Jean Baptiste
Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already in trouble when he bails out a mysterious Haitian, Jean Baptiste, in the belief that Baptiste has been wrongly accused. Baptiste insinuates himself in Lamont's life and leads him on a journey of discovery. Lamont then finds that acts of conscience can have unforeseen consequences.
Casa de Lava
Leão
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
A Maldição da Selva
Mfumu
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Uma Noite Sobre a Terra
Cab Driver Paris
Uma coleção de cinco histórias passadas dentro de 5 táxis em 5 cidades diferentes. Los Angeles - Uma agente de talentos para o cinema acha sua motorista de táxi perfeita para um papel. Nova York - Um motorista de táxi imigrante continuamente perdido numa cidade que não conhece. Paris - Um taxista da Costa do Marfim que pega uma menina cega. Roma - Um taxista falante que pega um religioso. Helsinki - Um trabalhador industrial é despedido e seus compatriotas reclamam da vida para o motorista.
Dane-se a Morte
Dah
O beninês Dah e o caribenho Jocelyn ganham dinheiro organizando lutas ilegais de galos. Quando Pierre, o proprietário do restaurante onde decorrem as lutas, os encoraja a torná-las mais violentas, Jocelyn procura uma escapatória desse ambiente sórdido.
Vanille fraise
Hippolyte N'Go
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
Vieux
A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a lazy amateur philosopher who quotes the Koran. Man's habit of picking up young white women makes many young white men jealous...
Ada in the Jungle
Bumbo
A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.
Chocolat
Protée
Um retrato das relações entre as raças ambientado nos Camarões antes da sua independência, na perspectiva de uma garotinha branca e seu empregado negro. A estreia de Claire Denis como diretora.
Lady Cops
Inspecteur Lacroix
Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp. To take revenge on Mireille, Jean-Pierre, another pimp, accuses him of corruption. It was then the subject of an investigation by two IGS inspectors: Blondel and Lacroix. Soon after, Charlie was released for lack of evidence. To keep Yasmina, he kidnaps his son and threatens to kill him.
Black Mic Mac
Lemi
This is a charming and successful farce from director Thomas Gilou, featuring a witty screenplay co-authored by producer Monique Annaud. When a group of African squatters in Paris are threatened with eviction, they find themselves fighting against a bureaucracy that few French citizens understand, let alone immigrants. In desperation, they turn to their best option to resolve this dilemma: they call for a sorcerer from home. The sorcerer hops on a jet to Paris to cast spells on the entrenched bureaucrat, and while en route he strikes up a conversation with a fellow passenger, mentioning his job pays quite well. The interested passenger could stand to make a few extra francs, so he decides to take the sorcerer's place. Once he arrives, this imposter has to act like he knows what he is doing, and at the same time, he had better solve the eviction problem.
Noir et blanc
Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. He's assigned to a fitness gymnasium for a month to straighten out their books. The owner, M. Roland, encourages Antoine to use the facilities, including the massages, so Antoine goes to Dominique, a muscular African. In these sessions, Antoine discovers that the pain is comforting, and Dominique finds the accountant ideal for his own sadism. When Dominique breaks Antoine's arm and then goes to the hospital to take Antoine away, Antoine confesses his fascination with and fear of death. With Dominique's help, the accountant breaks all earthly ties to confront his fear.
The Syringe
Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets', the 'Blackies', the 'Arabs', the neo-nazis 'Justiciers' and some mean gays. Vincent (Daniel Auteuil) is the good cop coming from Marseilles where he was a gangster. He's a soft method guy but also kicks assses hard and throw lethal dialog lines when needed. With the precious help of 'l'Arbalète'* (Marisa Berenson**), a tox' prostitute ex-member of Vincent's former gang, he will try to put order in that mess. There's also a violent and racist cop (Marcel Bozzuffi), Algeria veteran with hard methods, whose role could be more than to protect and to serve.
Traveling Miles
Director
Concert documentary of American jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson's tribute to the music of Miles Davis.
The Brutalist
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.