Melvil Poupaud — Actor (21)
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The Heart's Root (2000)
A Raiz do Coração WikiData IMDb TMDB
Paulo Rocha actor: Luis Miguel Cintra / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: A Raiz do Coração / La Racine du cœur …
Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.
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Souvenir (1996)
Souvenir WikiData IMDb TMDB
Michael H. Shamberg actor: Melvil Poupaud / D. Stanton Miranda …
An elliptical, poetic film about an American woman sportswriter who wanders around Paris remembering traumatic experiences in her life.
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The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985)
L'Éveillé du pont de l'Alma WikiData IMDb TMDB
Raúl Ruiz actor: Michael Lonsdale / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: L'Éveillé du pont de l'Alma / L'éveillé du pont de l'Alma
This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.
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Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
Combat d'amour en songe WikiData IMDb TMDB
Raúl Ruiz actor: Melvil Poupaud / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: Pugna d’amore in sogno / Combate de Amor em Sonho …
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
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Heads or Fails (2025)
Aimer perdre WikiData IMDb TMDB
Lenny Guit / Harpo Guit actor: Maria Cavalier-Bazan / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: Aimer perdre
Armande Pigeon, a queen of shenanigans in Brussels struggles to make ends meet because she can’t stop gambling on everything, always ending up on the wrong side of luck. When she teams up with Ronnie one night, everything changes — they win it all. And when you hit a winning streak, you have to know when to stop.
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By the Grace of God (2019)
Grâce à Dieu
François Ozon actor: Melvil Poupaud / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: Grazie a Dio / Gud være lovet …
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.
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By the Grace of God (2019)
Grâce à Dieu
François Ozon actor: Melvil Poupaud / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: Grazie a Dio / Gud være lovet …
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.
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City of Pirates (1984)
La Ville des pirates
Raúl Ruiz actor: Hugues Quester / Anne Alvaro …
other title: La villa dei pirati / A Cidade dos Piratas …
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
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Summer of 85 (2020)
Été 85
François Ozon actor: Félix Lefebvre / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: Estate '85 / Verão de 85 …
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.
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In Bed with Victoria (2016)
Victoria IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Justine Triet actor: Virginie Efira / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: Tutti gli uomini di Victoria / Victoria …
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.
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The Lover (1992)
L'Amant
★ 7.9 7 ratings
Jean-Jacques Annaud actor: Jane March / Tony Leung Ka-fai …
other title: L'amante / Elskeren …
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.
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A Summer's Tale (1996)
Conte d'été
★ 7.8 6 ratings
Éric Rohmer actor: Melvil Poupaud / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: Un ragazzo, tre ragazze - Racconto d'estate / Sommer …
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.