Niels Schneider

Niels Schneider

Birthday: 1987-06-18

Place of Birth: Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Biography: Niels Schneider (born 18 June 1987) is a Franco-Canadian actor. He gained early recognition for his roles in Xavier Dolan's acclaimed films I Killed My Mother (2009) and Heartbeats (2010), which earned him the Trophée Chopard for Male Revelation of the Year at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In 2013, he starred in Yann Gonzalez's provocative surreal film You and the Night. Schneider's performance in Dark Inclusion (2016) earned him the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2017. He also starred in Of Money and Blood (2023) and appeared in Woody Allen's Coup de Chance (2023).

Movies

Collisions
Collisions

After a violent car crash, alone and unable to move, Henri must face the ultimate fear....

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I Killed My Mother
I Killed My Mother

Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that c...

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South Sentinel
South Sentinel

The journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush in ...

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Before We Collapse
Before We Collapse

In a dystopia Paris, this is about a campaign manager named Tristan who is knocked sideways when he ...

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Everything Is Fine
Everything Is Fine

Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. ...

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Heartbeats
Heartbeats

Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- ...

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Icarus
Icarus

On the island of Crete, a day-dreamy boy named Icarus befriends a mysterious creature with the body ...

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Apaches: Gang of Paris
Apaches: Gang of Paris

Paris, 1884. The lives of three orphaned children wandering the streets dominated by ruthless crimin...

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Atomic Age
Atomic Age

Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a night...

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Chaos
Chaos

Vincent, Marie and their son have just moved from Paris into a farm near a small town in the south o...

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You and the Night
You and the Night

Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will b...

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Opium
Opium

The frustrated loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet at the beginning of the 1920s. The death o...

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La Bataille De Gaulle, film 1 : L'âge de fer
La Bataille De Gaulle, film 1 : L'âge de fer

Part one of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political c...

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La Bataille De Gaulle, film 2 : J'écris ton nom
La Bataille De Gaulle, film 2 : J'écris ton nom

Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political c...

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Cardiocleptomania
Cardiocleptomania

A music video that addresses homophobia in sports....

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Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees

It is through the voice of Salim, newly arrived in Canada, that we follow the journey of six immigra...

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Le petit oiseau va sortir
Le petit oiseau va sortir

Built around 3 portrait sessions where young people become photographers before giving their lives d...

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Spirit of Ecstasy
Spirit of Ecstasy

A gender-questioning stock market trader is determined to make it in the world of finance — not for ...

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The Perfect Boyfriend
The Perfect Boyfriend

The film is set in a world where androids have replaced humans for menial tasks, leading unskilled h...

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Another World
Another World

1915. Louis, aged 17, arrives on Reunion Island to find his father, Count Kerdiguen. He has built hi...

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Coup de Chance
Coup de Chance

Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live i...

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Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider a...

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Miao Shan and the Minotaur
Miao Shan and the Minotaur

A young girl wanders the streets in a foreign country....

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Gemma Bovery
Gemma Bovery

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norm...

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Dark Diamond
Dark Diamond

Pier Ulmann lives from hand-to-mouth in Paris, between construction work and petty theft that he com...

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Dalida
Dalida

Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the ...

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Kokoro
Kokoro

After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just abo...

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Polina
Polina

Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the...

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The Art Dealer
The Art Dealer

A young woman is searching, today, in Paris, the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish fami...

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Voice Over
Voice Over

A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and r...

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Quantum Love
Quantum Love

Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he...

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2 Frogs in the West
2 Frogs in the West

Marie Deschamps has her whole life ahead of her but isn't sure what to do with it. To the disappoint...

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Fatal
Fatal

Fatal... short for Fatal Bazooka, a hardcore bling-bling rapper. A huge music star. Millions of fans...

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Taking the Plunge 2
Taking the Plunge 2

Gaby and Fred are preparing for the world swimming championships which will be held in Quebec City t...

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The Howling: Reborn
The Howling: Reborn

On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he ha...

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Métamorphoses
Métamorphoses

Intimacy and entertainment, melancholy and fury, modesty and drive, birth and disappearance. Four gi...

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Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty

In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day...

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An Impossible Love
An Impossible Love

A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present da...

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The Most Assassinated Woman in the World
The Most Assassinated Woman in the World

Set against the backdrop of the infamous Theatre Grand Guignol the story revolves around iconic actr...

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One Nation, One King
One Nation, One King

„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of hi...

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Curiosa
Curiosa

A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship ...

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The Black Book
The Black Book

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed ...

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Bad Poems
Bad Poems

33-years old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken, after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Pa...

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Phratry
Phratry

Four brothers live in the shadow of their repressive father who claims to be the leader of a sect, t...

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Sibyl
Sibyl

Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot...

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Futura
Futura

Louis is a talented jazz musician who, after giving up music, now makes ends meet by working as a ta...

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Val d'or
Val d'or

Two teenagers meet one Saturday evening to hang out together. While they cross Paris, meetings and d...

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Back Home
Back Home

The prodigal son of a family in turmoil returns home to his French rural home to reconnect with his ...

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Les vacances continuent
Les vacances continuent

Rose (Kate Moran) performs a series of gruesome acts on sleazy men....

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A Brother’s Love
A Brother’s Love

Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brothe...

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Sympathy for the Devil
Sympathy for the Devil

In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform....

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Suzanna Andler
Suzanna Andler

Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation....

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Love Affair(s)
Love Affair(s)

Vacations in the French countryside. Daphne, three months pregnant, finds herself alone to welcome M...

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The Taste of Nothingness
The Taste of Nothingness

The Taste of Nothingness is a meditative exploration of the deliberate self-destruction of a seeming...

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Altered Innocence Vol. 1
Altered Innocence Vol. 1

A vibrant anthology of LGBTQ+ short films and music videos that delve into the complexities of youth...

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The Raptures
The Raptures

At the beginning of the main holidays. Étienne dies, leaving his father, Patrick, and his young girl...

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Haunted Minds
Haunted Minds

A homeless veteran with PTSD gets offered money by his ex-sergeant to be hunted for sport. If he sur...

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Badh
Badh

When police officer Ilias is shot and left in a coma, Alma must reconnect with her former identity a...

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The Unknown
The Unknown

See you soon 40 years old, David Zimmerman is a photographer but no one knows. While he almost never...

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Si tu penses bien
Si tu penses bien

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