Albert Dupontel
Albert Dupontel (born 11 January 1964 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines) is a French actor and filmmaker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Dupontel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Monique
2002
Second tour
A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political novice.
Adieu les cons
A seriously-ill woman tries to find her long-lost child with the help of a man in the middle of a burnout and a blind archivist.
Au revoir là-haut
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost.
Les premiers les derniers
Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...
En équilibre
After a serious accident on a film shoot, Marc, an equestrian, loses all hope to mount back on. His insurance company instructs Florence to handle his case. This film is the story of their meeting.
9 mois ferme
Ariane Felder is pregnant! This is surprising with her being a young hardened judge with strict morals. But what is more surprising is that, according to paternity testing, the child's father is none other than Bob, a criminal from the prosecution charged with an atrocious attack!
Le grand soir
The Bonzini are owners of the restaurant "La Pataterie" in a commercial area. His eldest son, Not, is the punk with more old dog of Europe. His brother, Jean-Pierre, works in a shop. Le Grand Soir, is the story of a family who decides to do the revolution... in his own way.
La proie
A robber escapes from prison with a single objective in mind: to track down his former cellmate, a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on him. A cop is sent after the robber who, despite his best efforts, soon becomes Public Enemy Number One.
Le bruit des glaçons
C'est l'histoire d'un homme qui reçoit la visite de son cancer. " Bonjour, lui dit le cancer, je suis votre cancer. Je me suis dit que ça serait peut-être pas mal de faire un petit peu connaissance... "
Le vilain
With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives.
Paris
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Louise-Michel
What to do when the workers of a factory have been laid off overnight? Louise has an original idea: why not pool the compensation money to hire a hit man and to liquidate the boss? Motion accepted so Louise goes in search of the gem they need and unfortunately comes across Michel, a security specialist.
Deux jours à tuer
Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.
L'ennemi intime
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence
Jacquou le croquant
Jacquou le Croquant is a 2007 French historical film. Set in the Dordogne during the Bourbon Restoration, it tells the story of a young peasant who leads a revolt against an evil nobleman.
Chrysalis
Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter's life at the cost of manipulating her dreams and memories.
Président
Secrets d'Etat, convictions sincères, foules exaltées, train de vie royal, journalistes inquisiteurs, disparitions suspectes : les coulisses du pouvoir ou la vie quotidienne d'un Président. Entre l'amour d'un père pour sa fille et les contradictions d'un chef d'Etat, que reste-il d'essentiel quand on a le pouvoir suprême ?
Odette Toulemonde
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t.
Fauteuils d'orchestre
A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area.
Enfermés dehors
Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...
Avida
Un sourd-muet et deux drogués à la kétamine ratent l'enlèvement du chien d'une milliardaire plantureuse. Elle en profite pour les forcer à réaliser ses dernières volontés.
Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
Le convoyeur
Vigilante, a small armored truck company, is in full crisis mode. Victim of three violent hold-ups in a year, which left no survivors, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy and its employees are extremely worried. Some even suggest a complicity between the robbers and the firm.
Les clefs de bagnole
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Monique
Suffering from depression and marital problems, Alex mistakenly orders a life-size doll, whom he names "Monique". With the help of Monique, Alex turns his life around; however she soon becomes the envy of his friends and wife.
Irréversible
Irréversible is a controversial film from French director Gaspar Noe about the revenge of two men on the rapist of their girlfriend.
Les acteurs
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
Le créateur
Auteur à succès, Darius voit des affiches annonçant sa nouvelle pièce. Soudain pris de panique, il se rappelle qu'il a oublié de l'écrire...
La maladie de Sachs
Confronte a la souffrance, a l'angoisse, a la violence des rapports humains, a tout ce qui rend malade, le docteur Sachs, révolte contre l'arrogance du savoir médical et le sentiment de son insuffisance, tombe malade de lui-même. C'est la maladie de Sachs. Par petites touches, par petites phrases, les patients font le portrait du médecin.
Serial Lover
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé.
Un héros très discret
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.
Bernie
Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted him.
Giorgino
October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. Giorgino finds a village bordered with a treacherous marsh and rumours of wolves.
Chacun pour toi
Georges Flavier, formerly known hairdresser in Paris, live alone since his son died and his wife quit. One night, he saved the life of an anonymous.
Désiré
2050. A pregnant woman is comfortably installed at the delivery machine, but her baby comes out earlier than the doctors anticipated.
La bande des quatre
Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia moves in with the other girls. Soon after, she is attacked on the street outside her home and saved by a mysterious stranger.
Once More
A man sick of his life, decides to leave his wife and find his happiness elsewhere. Along the way he meets a man with whom he falls in love. The film covers a decade of his life, each scene taking place roughly during his daughter's birthday.