Denis Lavant
Denis Lavant (born June 17, 1961) is a French film actor known for his distinctive face and the physically demanding aspects of the roles he plays, which often involve slapstick, acrobatics or dance, as well as for his long-standing association with director Leos Carax. Lavant has played the lead role in all but one of Carax's films. Lavant is also known for his starring roles in Claire Denis' Beau Travail and Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, which features Carax in a supporting role.
Beau Travail
as GaloupForeign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of...
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A Very Long Engagement
as Six-SouxYoung Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World...
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Tokyo!
as Merde' (segment "Merde")Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller,...
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Les Misérables
as MontparnasseJean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named...
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Holy Motors
as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / KillerWe follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary...
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Mauvais Sang
as AlexTwo aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit...
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The Emperor of Paris
as MaillardParis, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise...
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Gagarine
as GérardYuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the...
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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The TheologistIn the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a...
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The Lovers on the Bridge
as AlexSet against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a...
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Silver Skates
as Fourier1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with...
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Mister Lonely
as Charlie ChaplinIn Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who...
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After waking up to find himself all alone in an apartment where a massive party was being held...
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Girls with Balls
as BarmanAll girls volley ball team The Falcons end up stranded in the middle of nowhere after their...
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One Nation, One King
as Marat„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those...
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My Little Princess
as ErnstYoung Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet...
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Atlantika
as uncreditedOn April 15, 1912, Jack L., radio operator on a military vessel, reported an SOS signal from the...
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The Bra
as KamalThe Bra tells the story of the lonely and soon to be pensioned train driver Nurlan. On his last...
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Tuvalu
as AntonSet in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the...
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The Wounded Man
as WandererHenri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street...
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Deep in the Woods
as StephaneA group of artists, composed of the young actors Wilfried and Matthieu and the actresses Sophie,...
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The Mountain
as Jack1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of...
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Boy Meets Girl
as AlexParis by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his...
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Going and Coming Back
as Le patient de Simon LernerSalomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called...
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Don Juan
as PierrotSpain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan...
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Hood Witch
as JulesNour makes a living from smuggling exotic animals and illicit products (birds of prey, venom,...
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Night of the Kings
as SilenceA young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its...
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Entre Nous
as Un militaireIn 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany....
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Tralala
as ClimbyA 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he...
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La Squale
as Le jokerDésirée, a black girl, is nicknamed "The Shark" by her friends. This nickname comes from her...
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21 Nights with Pattie
as AndréDuring the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small...
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South Sentinel
as Commandant de RoyerThe journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush...
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Poisson rouge
as Père de GuillaumeAffected by a neurodegenerative disease, Guillaume will finish losing his memory in a...
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3 Days in Quiberon
as Fisherman Poet1981, Quiberon, a small village on the coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit...
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Mr. X
as HimselfThe image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the...
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Me and Kaminski
as Karl-LudwigYoung journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner...
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Captain Ahab
as Capitaine AchabWhen Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of...
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Long Live Life
as Caviar delivery manThe movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to...
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Wild Camp
as BlaiseA tranquil campground in rural France is the backdrop for this erotic sizzler between beautiful...
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Biette
as SelfDocumentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.
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Graziella
as AntoineA soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the...
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The Temptation of St. Tony
as Count KorzybskiA mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he...
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Wild Animals
as EmilTwo Korean ex-pats in Paris are recruited by a French mobster. The duo find themselves at war...
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Melody for a Hustler
as L'auto-stoppeurFrench novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about...
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Figurant
as uncreditedA man follows a group of workers coming for daywork in an industrial area. Soon, he’s stripped...
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Eva Doesn't Sleep
as KoenigIn 1952, Argentina's beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A...
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Austerlitz
as Jacques Austerlitz“You buy a book. You don’t really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost...
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X14
as uncreditedLiz, thirty-something, lives in her appartement in the Paris suburbs with her cat and her robot...
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Married/Unmarried
as LoveObsession and doubt control four friends' relationship.
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Boris Without Beatrice
as L'InconnuLiving somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A...
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The Iron Ivan
as uncreditedHe was called the Champion of Champions. The strength and strong-willed character Poddubniy...
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Mona and I
as PierreMona is the girlfriend of Pierre, who is a member of a rather pathetic rock band in France....
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Corpus Delicti
as uncredited"Corpus delicti": object that materially proves the existence of a criminal offense, a crime....
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Pitchipoï
as Pierre SchulmannJulien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp...
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Aymeline
as Franco FontaneExperience heartbreak, horror and mayhem with Aymeline Valade Once one of the most beloved film...
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Gray House
as SelfA silent fisherman in Texas, a blazing oil field in North Dakota, a mysterious community in...
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Correspondances: Dostoïevski
as readerPierre Dumayet relate the life of Fyodor through his letters, in particular his correspondence...
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Scaramouche Scaramouche
as ScaramoucheOphélie, a very imaginative girl, lives with her father in a mobile home. One day, she is...
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
as Louis-Ferdinand Céline1948 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Denmark, in exile, accused of collaboration with the Nazis...
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It's Not Me
as M. MerdeThis free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author's...
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Cornélius, le meunier hurlant
as Doctor de ChomoAn isolated village welcomes a new miller with open arms. Problem is, the man howls at the moon...
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Miserable Miracle
as NarratorAn animated adaptation from Misérable Miracle by Henri Michaux (1956), on his experiences with...
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The Boy Who Owns the World
as KasimirBasilio lives in an abandoned villa in Sicily with his mysterious elderly mentor Casimir who is...
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Once Around the Park
as BervilleAl and Elsa have been a couple for some time, but the chances that their relationship will be...
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The Chess Game
as MaxIn 19th century, a disillusioned priest helps a young boy drifter who's a chess wunderkind to...
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DRIVE IN Holy Motors
as SelfA making-of documentary of Leos Carax's Holy Motors. Present during the shoot, Salomé catches...
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La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
as uncreditedThis program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour)...
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Morning Star
as ElliotA small circus arrives in a coastal area of the North Sea: the place looks rather eerie and the...
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Le mystère des jonquilles
as SamThe director of a department store is murdered. He is discovered in a park, a bunch of daffodils...
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In the Name of Blood
as Mafia BossIn the working-class neighborhoods of Nice, a pillar of the local Georgian community is...
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My Intelligent Comedy
as HimselfDamien Nadeau-Daneau, a young filmaker, is unable to finish a movie he started with french actor...
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Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
as BezonSeparated at the birth of his mother who has only time to entrust to a member of his family,...
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Human Flowers of Flesh
as GaloupIda lives on a sailing yacht with a crew of five men. While on shore leave in Marseilles, she...
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Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
as Marcel DassaultLate 1950s, the CIA Office in New York after viewing the footage shot by their agent,...
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Journey to the West
as DragonIn 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille...
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Visiblement je vous aime
as DenisA misanthropic Parisian street punk learns some difficult lessons after being captured for...
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After Midnight
as uncreditedA fancy dress ball takes place in a strange palace. The host is unknown. The theme: "your idea...
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Eye of the Astronomer
as Jean KeplerDuring the summer of the year 1610 one of the first telescopes made by Galileo ends up in the...
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Happy New Year London
as Gerrard AmesWhat if the unexpected becomes your faith? Would you lay claim to it and stay or would you run...
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All Effort of Men
as NarratorWhaling has been around for centuries. It seems to be the fruit of man’s violence, destroying...
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Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
as (voice)Cowboys aren't afraid to die. Their death, always spectacular, is the grand finale of a tragic...
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Silent Streams
as uncreditedWomen and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city....
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The Nipple Whisperer
as Maurice SandersMaurice Sanders has a gift. He's a nipple whisperer. Once he was known as "Magic Sandy". But...
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L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
as HimselfDocumentary about French actor Michel Simon.
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Kazarken: As We Dig
as Chiron, le centaureA woman of Turkish ascent, following ancient Anatolian healing rites, dreams her way through...
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Le monde à l'envers
as Yann KerebelRolando Colla made his directorial debut with this Swiss-French-Italian period drama about a...
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Tired of Being Handsome
as uncreditedTwo cowboys look for a bullet in the desert.
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The Blue Star
as Le NarrateurIt all happened on a dark night. The Man was tired of being a stranger, tired of being insulted...
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Hymn to Merde
as MerdeA clip by Leos Carax, inspired by his film "Merde" (part of the feature film "Tokyo!'), with...
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Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Green Eyes
as uncreditedYuri is a sculptor. Since the death of his wife, 17 years ago, he has been working hard to...
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Who the Fuck Are You
as PsychiatristPsychedelic punk drama about one city, one man and his madness.
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Marussia
as ClochardIn cities like Paris there are countless people from Eastern Europe who have forsaken their...
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En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
as SelfDenis Lavant reads long passages from Luis Buñuel's semi-autobiographical "My Last Sigh". From...
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Language Does Not Lie
as Narrator (voice)Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the...
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Dark Forests
as VoiceAt the end of the road lies a track, the very last, a track swamped with the mud of a Siberian...
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The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
as André CusteFrench adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.
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The Traveller
as AlbertoHunting down killers to help bereaved families get justice is more than just a job; it’s a duty...
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Midnight Sun
as Pierre CarnotKahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial...
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