Maurice Bénichou
Maurice Bénichou (23 January 1943 in Tlemcen, French Algeria – 14 June 2019) was a French actor. His best known roles include three collaborations with director Michael Haneke (Code inconnu, Le Temps du Loup, and Caché), and a part in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie. He has also played in Peter Brook's 1989 film version of The Mahabharata. Source: Article "Maurice Bénichou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for...
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Caché
as MajidA married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
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Code Unknown
as The Old ArabA series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the...
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The Patriots
as YuriAriel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an...
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Paris
as Le PsyPierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a...
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The Rabbi's Cat
as The Rabbi (voice)The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with...
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I... For Icarus
as Robert Sanio, l'homme à la caméraFollowing the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee...
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Pardon Mon Affaire
as GonthierOn an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something...
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Time of the Wolf
as M. AzoulayWhen Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This...
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The French Calvinists
as uncreditedA few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the...
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Every Jack Has a Jill
as le Réceptionniste de l'Hôtel FavardJack is encouraged to take the romantic Paris vacation he won, despite just being dumped by his...
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Omar Killed Me
as Maître VergèsIn the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of...
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Inju: The Beast in the Shadow
as L'agent d'Alex FayardThe writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the...
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The Great Alibi
as Commandant GrangeLike every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion...
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À la Mode
as LucienFausto enters an orphanage and is initially bullied, but then makes friends with a new bunkmate,...
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Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?
as AlbertDavid, a Jewish filmmaker in his thirties, is working on a screenplay with autobiographical...
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Man Is a Woman
as Rosalie's fatherSimon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One...
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Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents
as BernardThis bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and...
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The Question
as Vincent1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic",...
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Loser Takes All!
as VaudierSerge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks...
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The Little Apocalypse
as ArnoldIn this cynical comedy, an renowned, out-of-work, unpublished “underground” writer from formerly...
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Mordbüro
as Léo StoychevThe neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization...
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The Passenger
as JosephWhen he learns of the death of his older brother Richard, Thomas sets out for Marseilles to...
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Boxes
as MaxAnna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of...
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Roads to the South
as GarcíaFrance, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a...
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If You Die, I'll Kill You
as L'employé de la morgueIn Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison,...
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Special Delivery
as AntoineAn unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël...
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Little Marcel
as GarciaA homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome...
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Marriage a la Mode
as LeporelloThe main character is a woman trapped in the long stifling marriage in a boring province. She...
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Candidature
as uncreditedJean, a young Parisian philosopher, travels to Angoulême to take part in a recruitment...
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Great life
as KowalskiPhilosophy teacher in the provincial city of Saint-Etienne, Gregoire is a discreet man of...
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Adventures of Félix
as FishermanA charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the...
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Paris Does Not Exist
as uncreditedIn this film, an artist attending a party smokes some dope and develops the ability to see into...
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Cross My Heart
as The neighbourYoung Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he...
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Au cas où je n'aurais pas la palme d'or
as Le rabbin / Maurice BénichouSimon, a forty-year-old filmmaker, is more prone to shooting himself in the foot than he is to...
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Quand on sera grand
as uncreditedAt thirty, Simon is juggling with life and it's problems. He is torn between his job as a...
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Instinct de femme
as uncreditedYoung - beautiful - married, fulfilled, Martha is bored. Passive in an active society, she took...
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