Denis Podalydès

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.

Dir. Nicolas Bedos · With Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier

How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small moments of the last century's history.

Dir. Nicolas Bedos · With Nicolas Bedos, Doria Tillier, Denis Podalydès

Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her with her stage backup; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance ever again.

Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Marion Barbeau, Pio Marmaï, Denis Podalydès

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this "most precious of cargoes", will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter's wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross—including the man who threw her from the train. And some will try to protect her, whatever the cost. Their story will reveal the worst and the best in the hearts of men.

Dir. Michel Hazanavicius · With Dominique Blanc, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydès

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Annie Girardot

At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and much-younger university student who is just beginning to live. Brought together by chance, the two men find themselves navigating a casual fling that gradually deepens into a tender, transformative bond.

Dir. Christophe Honoré · With Pierre Deladonchamps, Vincent Lacoste, Denis Podalydès

A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.

Dir. Jean-Paul Lilienfeld · With Isabelle Adjani, Denis Podalydès, Jackie Berroyer

Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.

Dir. Bruno Podalydès · With Bruno Podalydès, Sandrine Kiberlain, Agnès Jaoui

The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever...

Dir. François Dupeyron · With Éric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Derangère

Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?

Dir. Bruno Podalydès · With Denis Podalydès, Jean-Noël Brouté, Claude Rich

Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.

Dir. Olivier Ayache-Vidal · With Denis Podalydès, Abdoulaye Diallo, Pauline Huruguen

Sebastian has one ambition in life: to do nothing. His horizon is his couch. His life he does not want to live but contemplate. But today, if you do nothing - You are nothing. So driven by his two roommates, that chain internships and odd jobs, decided to Anna and not quite decided Bruno, Sebastien will have to - A little.

Dir. Benjamin Guedj · With Baptiste Lecaplain, Charlotte Le Bon, Félix Moati

Down-on-his-luck, unemployed Alexandre has two months to prove to his wife he can take care of his two young kids and be financially independent. Now, the thing is, although The Box, a user-friendly startup, wants to hire him on pro- bation, the company’s slogan is “No kids!” and Séverine, his future boss, is a short-tempered “killer”. So if Alexandre wants to land the job, he’s bound to lie... Will his meeting with Arcimboldo, an “entrepreneur of himself” and the king of online odd jobs, help the brave, disoriented Alexandre overcome all those challenges?

Dir. Bruno Podalydès · With Denis Podalydès, Sandrine Kiberlain, Bruno Podalydès

A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.

Dir. Carine Tardieu · With Agnès Jaoui, Denis Podalydès, Isabelle Carré

Paris 2052. Julia, 80 years old, had a fulfilled life. On her birthday, she reflects on the decisions and circumstances that could have led her on different paths. From the age of 17 to this day, her life was full of small but critical moments. Each was a turning point with dramatic consequences. What would have happened if she had forgotten her passport, chosen a different line at the store, driven the scooter this one time...? Is her life a succession of coincidences and accidents or a ready-made path?

Dir. Olivier Treiner · With Lou de Laâge, Raphaël Personnaz, Grégory Gadebois

When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had always worked in the shadow of her husband to make him president. Put aside because she was considered too old-fashioned, Bernadette decided to take her revenge by becoming a major media figure.

Dir. Léa Domenach · With Catherine Deneuve, Denis Podalydès, Michel Vuillermoz

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.

Dir. Antonello Grimaldi · With Nanni Moretti, Alessandro Gassmann, Valeria Golino

In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, her Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad is found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in a French prison. Shocked by the case, and convinced of his innocence, journalist Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard moves to Nice to investigate, and uncover the truth...

Dir. Roschdy Zem · With Sami Bouajila, Maurice Bénichou, Denis Podalydès

Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and desperate Camille drinks so much liquor at a New Year Eve's party that she falls into an ethylic coma and she finds herself... propelled into her own past! Camille is sixteen again when she wakes up this morning, her parents are not dead anymore and she must go to school, where she will meet her schoolmates and, of course, Eric. Is she going to fall for him again and... be miserable twenty-five years later? Or will she avoid him with the result never having her beloved daughter? Who ever said that time traveling was fun?

Dir. Noémie Lvovsky · With Noémie Lvovsky, Samir Guesmi, Judith Chemla

Simultaneously, a retired couple overwhelmed by debt tries to win a dance contest, as the minister of economy is suspected of tax evasion, and a teenage girl encounters a sexual maniac, while a young lawyer attempts to climb the social ladder. When the shoe drops, the winner won’t necessarily be the one we expected.

Dir. Jean-Christophe Meurisse · With Alexandre Steiger, Christophe Paou, Lilith Grasmug

Two years after a burn-out, Duval is still unemployed. Contacted by an enigmatic businessman, he is offered a simple and well-paid job: transcribing telephone tapping. Duval accepts financially without questioning the purpose of the organization that employs him. Precipitated at the heart of a political plot, he must face the brutal mechanics of the underground world of the secret services.

Dir. Thomas Kruithof · With François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila

Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...

Dir. Michel Blanc · With Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Dutronc, Michel Blanc

Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.

Dir. Gabriel Julien-Laferrière · With Samy Seghir, Jérémy Denisty, Rachida Brakni

A young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him.

Dir. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet · With Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès

Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting to protect their factory from being relocated. But nothing goes as planned... His producer Viviane wants to rewrite the ending and is threatening to cut the budget; his own crew goes on strike; his personal life is in shambles; and to make things worse, his lead actor Alain is an egocentric jerk. Joseph, an extra who wants to get into the film industry, agrees to direct the making of and shoot the behind-the-scenes. He takes his role very seriously and starts following around the crew, capturing all this mess... What follows is proof that the making of can sometimes be far better than the film itself!

Dir. Cédric Kahn · With Denis Podalydès, Jonathan Cohen, Stefan Crepon

Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge, isolated chalet that they inherited when they were very young — he carries on one love affair after another with his students. Winter has almost ended when one of his most brilliant students, Barbara, suddenly disappears. Two days later, Marc meets Barbara’s mother, Anna, who wants to find out more about her vanished daughter.

Dir. Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu · With Mathieu Amalric, Karin Viard, Maïwenn

Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud is married to the lovely Armelle and they have two young children. They become the future rulers of the kingdom.

Dir. Valérie Lemercier · With Valérie Lemercier, Lambert Wilson, Catherine Deneuve

A woman at the age of 50 moves back in with her parents after her husband leave her for a younger woman.

Dir. Valérie Lemercier · With Valérie Lemercier, Denis Podalydès, Patrick Timsit

"Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne", a tiny village hurt by the financial crisis and the desertification. Its last hope : Start back the Smoked Salmon factory. The only issue : Insurances require a permanent doctor on site. But it s has been 5 years the previous doctor retired without setting a replacement. The whole village,supporting their surly major Germain, will try everything to convince the very Parisian Doctor Maxime Meyer that happiness is only at Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne! This movie is the french remake of the Canadian movie 'la Grande Seduction'

Dir. Stéphane Meunier · With Didier Bourdon, Lorànt Deutsch, Lionnel Astier

A former french President, Nicolas, decides to persuade another one, François, to campaign together in order to return to the front stage of politics.

Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Jean Dujardin, Grégory Gadebois, Doria Tillier