Melvil Poupaud

What do you dream of when you're 16-years-old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself.

Dir. François Ozon · With Félix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Philippine Velge

The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.

Dir. Xavier Dolan · With Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

Dir. Éric Rohmer · With Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon

When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.

Dir. Valérie Donzelli · With Virginie Efira, Melvil Poupaud, Dominique Reymond

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.

Dir. François Ozon · With Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud

When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.

Dir. Arnaud Desplechin · With Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Jane March, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Frédérique Meininger

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.

Dir. Maïwenn · With Maïwenn, Johnny Depp, Benjamin Lavernhe

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

Dir. Mia Hansen-Løve · With Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud

Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.

Dir. François Ozon · With Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.

Dir. Jean Becker · With Vanessa Paradis, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau

Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled professionally, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris, and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, former classmate Alain, she's immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and grow closer.

Dir. Woody Allen · With Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud

Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who's struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. At a friend's wedding she reconnects with Vincent, an old friend, and Sam, an old client. Her life is about to take a new turn.

Dir. Justine Triet · With Virginie Efira, Vincent Lacoste, Melvil Poupaud

The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust.

Dir. Sean Ellis · With Lena Headey, Ulrich Thomsen, Melvil Poupaud

Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.

Dir. Malcolm Venville · With Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Ian McShane

Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.

Dir. Angelina Jolie · With Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent

Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.

Dir. Arnaud Desplechin · With Melvil Poupaud, Marion Cotillard, Golshifteh Farahani

Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.

Dir. James Huth · With Jean Dujardin, Melvil Poupaud, Sylvie Testud

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

Dir. James Ivory · With Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close