Philippe Nahon

Philippe Nahon

Nascimento : 1938-12-24, Paris, France

Morte : 2020-04-19

História

Philippe Nahon (24 December 1938 - 19 April 2020) was a French actor. Nahon is best known for his roles in French horror and thriller films, including I Stand Alone, Humains, Calvaire, Irréversible, The Pack and Haute Tension, and he has been featured as a nameless butcher in three films by Gaspar Noé – Carne, I Stand Alone, and Irréversible (cameo).

Perfil

Philippe Nahon

Filmes

Journaliste(s)
Hyppolyte
After the attacks that bloodied Paris, everyone is worried about terrorist acts. A man is running in the middle of the night. He has blood on his face. He arrives at the radio station and explains to his colleagues that he was investigating a cell of terrorists but that one of them has just committed suicide in front of him. Just before he told her that a bomb was on the 11 p.m. Paris-New York flight. It's scheduled for four in the morning: in one hour. Should they disseminate the information?
Moi, maman, ma mère et moi
Jeff
Benedict missed Mother's funeral. He was stuck in the Eurostar. In the offbeat as always, and a little pitiful, he joined the family home to find his brother, his two sisters - and in a merry bazaar, many memories. There, in the remnants of his childhood, in the intimacy of his room, he sees her - She is waiting for him. And she will not let go.
Fornacis
Owner of the Fornacis Bar
Anya, a mourning woman, drives to the unknown in her vintage car, a 1961 Facel Vega. Her only traveling companion is a mysterious urn. Consumed by sadness and loneliness, Anya falls into a confused world, where the memories of her lover, Frida, and her fantasies are blended. In the middle of the night, Anya decides to make a stop at the FORNACIS, a godforsaken dive bar, to get some rest. In this atypical cellar, she meets Wolf. The two lost souls get along immediately, the night belongs to them for only few hours...
Me and El Che
The photograph
GO is not just an aging college teacher. He still is the young 18 year-old idealist who dared to engaged in social and political action to defend his principles. As a matter of fact, he was one of El Che’s last companions. It was somewhere over there, in Bolivia, in 1967. At least, that’s what he tells everyone...
The Cat's Regret
A ten-year-old boy who hates his little brother is punished by his mother and has to spend an afternoon with a scary old man. The boy will learn a lesson about life when he discovers the old man’s terrible secret.
Besoin Dead
Father Daniel
In a church, a future bride dresses in secret. Just before meeting up with her, the best man and the priest discover the city has been invaded by the living dead. They grab whatever weapons they can and go to her rescue.
Mon frère bien-aimé
Guy Fourvier
Doce Veneno
Le voisin
Pierre e Jacques, amigos que viajam para o litoral da França depois que o primeiro se divorcia. O problema é que cada um leva sua filha adolescente e Antoine acaba tendo um caso com a filha do companheiro. Enquanto ela quer contar a Laurent sobre o relacionamento, o amigo insiste o contrário e a jovem acaba não mencionando o seu nome, levando o pai a buscar quem é o homem que está com sua filha.
Anton Tchekhov 1890
Grigorovitch
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation is improving and Anton Chekhov gets the Pushkin prices and admiration of Tolstoy. But when one of his brothers died of tuberculosis, Anton saw it as a personal failure and wants to escape his fame and his love.
La storia di Cino
Le Chercheur D’or
ADN, l'âme de la terre
Howard
Akim is a young uneducated Tunisian born with the gift of healing. Confronted by an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company who seeks to profit from his gift, Akim realizes that his unique blood chemistry can either be used as a weapon of mass destruction or to help save his people from a global pandemic.
Horsehead
Priest
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home...
Colt 45
Police Prefect Pradier
No filme seguimos um jovem policial, Vincent, que possui um dom, mas que é incompreendido pelos seus colegas. Quando ele cruza o seu destino com o de Milo Cardena, um policial problemático, as consequências serão dramáticas, entrando a dupla numa espiral de violência onde as inúmeras rivalidades entre agentes serão colocadas a prova. Será o jovem ‘Flic’ capaz de ingressar no seu lado negro para sobreviver?
Ablations
Wortz
Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He wakes up in the middle of a field without any memory at all of how he got there. Even stranger is the ugly scar on his back. But what really drives him out of his mind is that the stitches from the operation are still fresh. Has he become the victim of on organ theft? Is he missing a kidney? Pastor starts to put everything in Question; being a father, a husband, a salesman... The only thing he wants is to find out what has happened to him and nothing and nobody will stop him.
14 Million Screams
Le mari
The movie is called 14 Millions Screams because 14 millions young girls are forced to be married every year. As of today 700 Million women were married before the age of 15. I hope that with this movie everybody can imagine their own children and realize how those screams are not bearable anymore.
Julia's Curse
Julien
When Julia comes back to France, a curse seems to have hit her family. So when Julia's daughter is accused of murder, she decides to investigate by herself.
The Marchers
René Ledu
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resistance encountered, their movement will bring about a real boost of hope in the way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They unite with their arrival more than 100 000 people from all walks of life and give France its new face.
Our Heroes Died Tonight
Ferdinand
France in the early 60s. Simon, a wrestler, wears a white mask. In the ring, he is known as "The Specter". He suggests to his friend Victor who has just returned from combat to be his adversary in the ring and wear a black mask, and be known as "The Slaughterer of Belleville". But for Victor, still shaken from his experience in combat, this is too much; for once in his life he would like to be the good guy, the one people cheer on. Simon then suggests they switch masks. But it proves less easy to fool the rest of the wrestling crowd...
Tied
Le ministre
A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.
Autopsy des délices
Gary (voice)
Gary, breathless, is about to die. In his last confession, the old man begins a painful journey through the darkness of his cruel and morbid past.
In the Name of the Son
Père Taon
Elisabeth, a Catholic mother and a loving wife, dedicates her life to the service of others. Her life changes when she discovers that her son is being molested by a priest.
Nothing Sacred
Otho
A pair of twins named Blue and Delilah, separated at birth, meet for the first time at their mother's death bed. Their mother tells the twins that it is their fate to fulfill a secret prophecy. The prophecy foretold long ago that they would avenge her death by killing the dark sorcerer Chambers. The only problem is that Chambers is their father - and in a month from now, he'll have the last gruesome ingredient he needs to become immortal. As time runs down, the twins chase Chambers across the world from the corpse-filled catacombs of Paris to the most sacred rituals of the Muskogee Indians in Oklahoma. Along the way, they have to do battle with Chambers' vast army of followers, bringing them face to face with the Mayor of Paris, the Greek god Hermes, a street magician whose frightening tricks are real, and an immortal king with a castle hidden high in the mountains of Belgium.
Cavalo de Guerra
French Auctioneer
Albert vive com o pai e a mãe no campo e tem uma intensa ligação com seu cavalo. Depois de ser vendido para a cavalaria inglesa durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, Albert se alista para recuperar o animal e acaba conhecendo o major.
Belleville Tokyo
Jean-Jacques
Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette situation. Elle trouve du réconfort dans son travail auprès de ses deux « cow-boys » de patrons, Jean-Jacques et Jean-Loup, qui dirigent un cinéma du quartier latin spécialisé dans les films classiques américains…
A Clínica
M. Antoine
Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, champagne glass to the hand. But in the private clinic of “ideal death”, nothing occurs as envisaged.
Cannibal
Le père
A lonely man finds a beautiful young woman unconscious and covered in blood while walking through the woods. He starts to fall for her but learns of a terrifying secret.
The Pack
Chinaski
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during the night but gets kidnapped by the bartender, La Spack, who turns out to be Max's mother and needs to feed her kids, 'The pack', a bunch of blood lusting ghouls. Charlotte now faces a terrifying reality: these ghouls are already dead... and hungry. Alone and in the middle of nowhere, she quickly realizes... she's next on the menu!
Comme les 5 doigts de la main
Kazan
Um dos cinco irmãos que havia se afastado da família retorna, agora perseguido por um bando de traficantes. Ele revela um segredo, selando a união dos irmãos que juntos buscam vingança pelo assassinato do pai.
Mamute
Le directeur gâteux de l'hospice
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...
As Múmias do Faraó
Professeur Ménard
Adèle é uma jovem e aventureira repórter capaz de qualquer coisa para conseguir o que quer. Ela vai até o Egito em busca da cura da doença de sua irmã, na tumba secreta de um faraó. Ao retornar para Paris, ela percebe que o pânico tomou conta da população. Um ovo de dinossauro de milhões de anos se chocou misteriosamente no museu e a criatura está aterrorizando a cidade. Além disso, coisas estranhas continuam acontecendo no museu. Mas, nem o perigo e nem todo mistério por trás dos curiosos acontecimentos impedirá Adèle de conseguir salvar sua irmã. Prepare-se, a aventura está apenas começando!
Blackout
Père François
Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives is making a report on Westerners who have been repatriated from Rwanda, fleeing the massacres. He meets Clément, a student of Hutu origin whose Tutsi fiancée Alice hasn’t been able to leave Rwanda. Antoine convinces Clément to go back with him to look for Alice, and to let him film the journey. Their pact soon becomes untenable as they find themselves thrown into chaos. This is a journey through horror during which a young man’s First World illusions are stripped away as he wakes up to human tragedy.
En chantier, monsieur Tanner !
Tanner's father
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Guillaume de Villon
Separated at the birth of his mother who has only time to entrust to a member of his family, Guillaume de Villon, when he should have been killed, François will as well go to the ill-known taverns of the Latin Quarter that the Court of the Duke of Orleans, passing by the benches of the university. This marvelous poet at the same time as a scoundrel of morality will have a life where fights, robberies, imprisonments and final banishment will be linked. Leaving Paris, Villon will disappear.
Wandering Streams
Edmond
Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe and uneventful to a fault, somewhat juiced by friendship with raucous fishing companion Edmond. Still, they trade pleasantries rather than confidences -- so Emile is shocked when it turns out his elderly pal watches porn, paints nudes and shags women who are his contemporaries that he meets online.
Humans
Professeur Schneider
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.
Contre nature
The patriarch
Aix’s Island, 1930’s. An impossible love story: two cousins, Igor and Claire. Victims of pressure from the community who lives on this isolated Island, they’re going to watch their family’s unity sever and a painful past resurface.
Lady Blood
Jo Lamier
15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lead a criminal investigation into her bloody past.
Eldorado
Le Collectionneur
Documentário sobre a imigração de lituanos para o Brasil durante os anos de 1924 e 1928.
Caçadores de Dragões
Le Seigneur Arnold
Há perigo no Reino: um dragão está prestes a destruir o mundo! Uma garota decide ajudar seu tio, Lord Arnold, dono de um imenso castelo e de uma fabulosa fortuna, sai à procura de heróis iguais aos que ela conhece dos contos de fadas. Mas ao invés disso encontra Gwizdo e Lian-Chu, dois atrapalhados caçadores de dragão. Determinada a seguir com eles em sua aventura para salvar a terra. Zoe parte em uma viagem perigosa, para um mundo desconhecido de dragões adormecidos, que podem acordar a qualquer momento.
MR 73 - A Última Missão
Charles Subra
Desde a terrível morte de seus pais, Justine tem vivido a solidão daqueles que se tornaram virtualmente invisíveis. Mas a saída rápida do assassino da cadeia levanta medo e dor. Ela nunca teve sucesso na procura por ajuda e compaixão em Louis Schneider, um policial do Esquadrão do crime em Marseille, onde em particular assassinatos selvagens permanecem sem explicação, criando descrédito na policia. Scheneider, um individualista incorruptível, decide ficar contra a opinião de seus superiores e começa uma investigação que irá levá-lo às portas do inferno. Ajudar a Justine o levará, de alguma forma à redenção?
Vous êtes de la police?
Francky Garcia
A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.
Cowboy
Le borgne
The Second Wind
Inspecteur Fardiano
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...
Bloody Current Exchange
Vincent
A well dressed old man was waiting on a bed. A telephone rang. A glamorous young lady entered the room. They vaguely introduced themselves and made love. A bloody current exchange in a way.
Michou d'Auber
le cafetier
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.
Les prédateurs - Les rois du pétrole
André Tarallo
Les prédateurs
In 1988, after much cunning political maneuvering, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven become the chief executives at Elf. They discover a company that runs on kickbacks: in exchange for the oil rights, Elf makes handsome but discreet payoffs to the leaders of African nations. With the tacit complicity of President Mitterrand, and with eventual political and personal interests in mind, the new management takes charge of the slush fund. Within months, Sirven, Le Floch-Prigent and his wife Fatima Belaïd fill their pockets with more than they could ever have imagined.
Virgil
Louis
Every week, Virgil makes his father Ernest dream by telling him about his boxing exploits during a visit. Every week, Virgil comes to dream by meeting the eyes of Margot, a young woman who is also visiting. This week, Ernest tells her that he is going to get out and that he will finally be able to see Virgil in the ring. There's just one problem: Virgil hasn't boxed in three years.
Doo Wop
Michel
Ziggy is a freedom loving Parisian often in debts and usually misunderstood by fellow citizens. Though there's a pretty unique karma he has it when seducing girls due to his carelessness. But on the contrary all the girls disappear after moments spending with him, realizing he's still waiting for "Coppola" to come back to Paris.
O Amor Está no Ar
Le père de Ludo
Instrutor para uma companhia aérea, Yann Kerbec avalia as capacidades dos pilotos com simuladores de vôo, em situações extremas. Mas Yann tem um problema: ele tem pavor de avião, um pânico originado no seu nascimento, e que o impediu, quando jovem, de seguir a mulher de sua vida do outro lado do mundo. Hoje, ele tem 30 anos e desenrola o fio de seu trauma, com nostalgia e humor faz o balanço de sua histórias de amor fracassadas por conta de sua fobia. Entre sua batalha para melhorar a segurança aérea e a gestão bastante falha de sua vida sentimental, Yann se encontra num cruzamento: vencer seus demônios e aceitar crescer.
Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône
Since the beginning of the 70s, committed and willing, Philippe Nahon has been exploring the strangest roles and became at the dawn of the 90s, with "Carne", a rising star and a source of inspiration for a generation of young directors such as Gaspar Noé, for whom he has become a favorite actor. At fifty, he has become an emblematic figure for a new generation of filmmakers. Even today, he is still in full rebellion against age and invests in short films and first films of young directors with an enthusiasm still intact. Through the testimonies of his first partners, filmmakers of several generations, relatives and fans, this documentary sketches the portrait of a committed man, an actor unknown to the general public, an icon for film lovers.
The Ordeal
Robert Orton
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège when his van breaks down. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog then leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
D77
Le dépanneur
A deserted secondary road under a blazing sun. A 50 year-old peasant driving a very dirty pick-up truck. The discovery of four corpses along the road.
Dérives
Short movie
Handsome Jack
For years, Alain and Madeleine, in their fifties, have consecrated all of their time to their small bistro. Devoted to serving their clientele, they are liked by everyone. The arrival of a new customers, a young worker passing through named Jacques, turns their lives upside down...
Local Kid
Charles
This tale of childhood and adolescence is told through brief sequences that take place in the life of a modest family from the Pas-de-Calais region during the forties, fifties and sixties. Paul, the main character, who we meet when he’s 5, 13 and 18, is the throughline of this tale told in a fragmentary way well adapted to the scattered nature of memories. Encounters, joy, fear, first love, friendship, disappointment, the relationship between brothers and parents, the discovery of the vocation of acting and writing: all these elements weave together to create the irreplaceable fabric of an ordinary life whose particularities guide spectators back to their own personal stories.
Nickel and Dime
Roger
Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. They have a job lined up. but Jacques wants out of the life, Francis would rather be on the stage and wannabe mobster Didier has loser written all over him. Looks like someone's heading for a fall.
Alta Tensão
The Killer
Marie e Alexia são amigas e companheiras na universidade. Num final de semana, Alexia leva Marie para a fazenda de seus pais, mas elas não imaginam que um inferno baterá a sua porta, e que a ida até a fazenda trará conseqüências drásticas e sombrias.
Contra o Tempo
Simon
Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his best friend Yanis, are mobsters and his brother is a small time delinquent. Yanis tries to bring Dris back to his gang, and uses his former lover Nina to seduce him, taking him to expensive places to feel the importance of big money. Dris fights against the temptation, but an event will route him back to Yanis' gang and in a fight between gangs with tragic consequences for the whole community.
Irreversível
Man
O filme narra, de trás para frente, a história de uma vingança. A primeira seqüência mostra dois amigos desesperados, Marcus (Vincent Cassel) e Pierre (Albert Dupontel), saindo pelo submundo de Paris à procura do homem que teria estuprado e espancado Alex (Monica Bellucci), a atual namorada de Marcus e ex-namorada de Pierre. Em seguida, a narrativa volta passo a passo no tempo para mostrar como Marcus e Pierre descobriram o nome do autor do crime, recuando até o próprio estupro e os eventos que o antecederam.
Virilité
Thirty-year-old Alexis is a retarded teenager and has no desire to commit himself either professionally or romantically. He succumbs to the charm of Laura who uses her diabolical gifts to push him to work, marry him and have children.
O Pacto dos Lobos
Jean Chastel
Em 1765, durante o reinado de Luís XV, uma misteriosa criatura traz pânico e terror em uma província rural da França. Chamada de a Besta de Gevaudan, ela atacava crianças e mulheres há meses e ninguém era capaz de prevenir suas ações, vê-la com nitidez ou sequer capturá-la. Desesperado em pôr um fim na situação, o rei decide então enviar ao local o renomado biólogo Gregóire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan). Entretanto, Gregóire terá não apenas que lutar contra o monstro mas também contra a ignorância, a conspiração e a intolerância local, recebendo o apoio de duas mulheres, uma aristocrata e uma prostituta.
The Outcasts
Damien and his friends are garbage collectors in a small provincial town. One day, Damien finds a decomposing corpse in the dump where he works, but also a knife that turns out to be his. Because of his personal and social environment (an omnipresent mother, humiliating friends, an unenviable situation) and because he arrives at a moment in his life when he realizes that he is nothing to anyone, Damien wants to prove that he is capable of doing something with his life, of becoming someone, by finding the murderer who is prowling around the dump. In the course of his investigation, he meets Julie, a young divorced woman who is a little lost and who moves in across the street from him. But as his investigations progress, Damien wonders if he is not the killer he is looking for.
The Château
Pierre
Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.
Without Family
Barberin
Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father to an old street performer named Vitalis. Vitalis was once a famous opera singer, but became destitute after a tragic love affair.
Rios Vermelhos
Homme à la station service
O veterano policial Pierre Niémans (Jean Reno) é enviado à cidade de Guernon para investigar um bizarro assassinato ocorrido próximo à uma famosa escola. Ao chegar, Niémans constata que o crime foi causado por alguém meticuloso, que não deixou nenhuma pista sobre quais os motivos do assassinato. A 300 km do local outro policial investiga a violação do túmulo de uma criança morta vinte anos atrás. Trata-se de Max Kerkerian (Vincent Cassel), um impetuoso policial novato que foi no passado ladrão de carros. As duas investigações seguem em paralelo até que os dois policiais se encontram e descobrem que os dois casos estão intimamente ligados e que precisarão trabalhar juntos para resolvê-lo.
Save Me
Agatha 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 charitable medical team. Agatha has decided to come to France to rekindle their romance, but when she arrives in the city of Roubaix, she discovers he didn't take their relationship nearly as seriously as she did. With nowhere to go, Agatha is befriended by Mehdi, a cab driver who helps her find a place to stay. Mehdi is attracted to Agatha, and she returns his interest, but as it turns out Mehdi is already seeing someone -- Cecile, who is having an affair with Mehdi while involved with his close friend Marc. Hoping to move away from Roubaix with Agatha and start a new life, Mehdi gets a job as a bill collector, while Marc impulsively walks off his job and an angry Cecile gives him his walking papers.
Prison à domicile
The bowling alley boss
Leonie Koutcharev, a top civil servant at the Ministry of Interior, proposes an ideal solution to the problem of overpopulated prisons: put model prisoners in the homes of carefully screened families. Jules and Norma Klarh, a childless couple, expect to receive an inoffensive juvenile delinquent but end up with the psychopath Marcus Steckner in their suburban home. The film centers on social criticism of the gap between reality and the bureaucratic assumptions of what reality should be.
The Carriers Are Waiting
Le responsable
Roger Closset 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 the brunt of his eccentricities. Roger works as a reporter, a job he doesn't like which doesn't pay especially well, either. One day, Roger learns an area business association is sponsoring a contest for a family that can break a world record, with the grand prize being a new car. Suddenly, Roger gets a brainstorm -- if his son can open and shut a door 40,000 times in 24 hours, the car will be theirs. 15-year-old Michel, however, is not at all happy to have been drafted into this new responsibility, especially when dad builds a practice door in the backyard and finds a trainer to teach Michel how to open and close it with greatest efficiency.
Melody for a Hustler
L'inspecteur du Havre
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
The Octopus
Bar boss 2
Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire Valley port of Angerneau, with his lover Clotilde who has been summoned by the police concerning the defacement of a deceased relative's grave. Since Angernau is her home town, she wants to leave it as soon as possible to avoid old acquaintances, but Gabriel stumbles on intriguing events concerning the cargo of a ship in port.
Sozinho Contra Todos
The Butcher
A figura central da trama é o Açogueiro, saído do curta-metragem "Carne", também do diretor Gaspar Noé. Essa criatura violenta, petrificada, fica vagando por labirintos obsessivos repletos de recalques, ódio contra estrangeiros e homossexuais, com a sempre onipresente figura da filha que ele deseja de maneira doentia.
Os Visitantes II
Le gérant du supermarché
O impagável conde de Montmirail e seu atrapalhado escudeiro estão de volta. Os Visitantes 2 é a ótima continuação do grande sucesso Os Visitantes. O filme traz novamente o diretor Jean-Marie Poiré e os atores Jean Reno e Christian Clavier. Quando finalmente está se preparando para seu casamento, o conde Montmirail precisa viajar de novo da Idade Média à França dos dias de hoje, para recuperar as jóias da família de sua noiva. É o início de uma série de novas e hilarientes aventuras.
Sodomites
Un spectateur
Homens e mulheres vestidos de couro descansam em uma grande sala enquanto um minotauro entra e começa a sodomizar uma jovem disposta e ansiosa.
Seule
A Self-Made Hero
The Général
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
Happiness Is No Joke
André
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 woman he knows (Laura Morante) and teasingly refuses to return it. Throughout the remainder of the film, the scarf reappears, as does the woman, until they wind up in bed together at the end of the film. Before that happens, Michel wanders around Paris, viewing the festivities with a jaundiced eye which serves to heighten the unattractiveness of those he observes. Later he has dinner with a group at Andre's house, and his poor opinion of human nature is amply supported by the events that occur then.
O Ódio
Roof Police Chief
Um dia na vida de três jovens delinquentes, um árabe, um judeu e um negro que moram num conjunto habitacional pobre de Paris, mostra a que ponto pode chegar a discriminação racial de policiais hostis.
Pigalle
Lezzi
It's a grim world of prostitution, drug dens, transvestites, junkies and murderers. The seediest side of urban life is examined in this tragedy. The film follows the complex, interwoven lives of four characters as they live their harsh and gritty nocturnal lives on the city streets. The main characters are Fifi a pickpocket who is simultaneously involved with Divine, a transvestite hooker and Vera a peep show dancer who refuses to be a hooker. Vera lives with her would-be pimp Jesus le Gitan, a small-scale drug dealer. When the area riff-raff become embroiled in hostilities, two of main characters are slowly killed in horrible ways. Fifi is then left to avenge their deaths.
Carne
The Butcher
A butcher in Paris takes his revenge after his daughter is brutally attacked.
Touched in the Head
Jean-Paul, l'ouvrier-boulanger
Baker's apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.
Técnica de Um Delator
Remy
Recém-saído da prisão, Maurice planeja um roubo junto com o amigo Silien. O comparsa, no entanto, o delata para a polícia, que impede o roubo e fere Maurice. Recuperado, ele orquestra um plano de vingança.