Niels Arestrup
Birthday: 1949-02-08
Place of Birth: Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
Biography: Niels Arestrup was a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His father was Danish and his mother was French. He has won two César Awards for Best Supporting Actor for De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté and Un prophète, both films where he was directed by Jacques Audiard.
Movies
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virt...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok...
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A Prophet
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor wr...
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The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
At 36, despite all the lovers she has had, amiable Diane de Maufrigneuse, Princess of Cadignan, has ...
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The Big Night
In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group and gets to know Léa, a dedica...
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Farewell
An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of t...
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A Private Affair
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearanc...
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You Will Be My Son
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emil...
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The Future Is Woman
In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, an...
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The Big Picture
Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big ...
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La Rumba
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin Americ...
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Sarah's Key
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported ...
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Memoirs of a French Whore
Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the cha...
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Je Tu Il Elle
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup....
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Small World
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has th...
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Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxuriou...
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Parlez-moi d'amour
Justine and Richard's 15-year relationship ends in separation due to irreconcilable differences with...
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Our Children
Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head o...
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Diesel
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, th...
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One Man's War
Via the New York Times: "...a dialogue between found objects... the remarkably calm, somewhat banal ...
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Divertimento
Zahia Ziouani, 17, dreams of becoming a conductor, while her twin sister Fettouma hopes to be a prof...
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Meeting Venus
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast prod...
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Doux amer
A married woman, Anne Lambert has a child with her lover. But her lover becomes afraid and refuses t...
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Lumière
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. ...
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Tomorrow's Children
The hero of this bleak science-fiction story is a married man who, along with his wife, survives the...
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The French Minister
Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athleti...
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Rewind
Terrorist Paul Mansart, imprisoned in a maximum security prison, overcomes initial reluctance and ag...
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Sincerely Charlotte
In a most unusual, near menage a trois, Charlotte is a terrified young singer who is forced to hide ...
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Diplomacy
On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to des...
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96 heures
Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested ...
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Plus ça va, moins ça va
In Provence, a young woman is found naked and hanged. Inspectors Pignon and Melville lead the invest...
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La Cerisaie
The last vestiges of a family that has gone from cherry season to sorrow... Madame Ranevskaya is a s...
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Among Wolves
An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists an...
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The Dune
Through the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will meet and each o...
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Fragments of Antonin
A psychiatrist who probes the mind of traumatized soldiers attempts to unlock the secret that drove ...
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A Second Chance
Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighte...
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By the Sea
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American wr...
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Délit mineur
A teenager named Guillaume admits to being guilty of his father's murder in order to protect his dea...
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So Long Africa
Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, April 2011. Jacques and Safi arrive from Abidjan, from where the...
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La Femme flic
Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Followin...
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Alone
Jean, the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, t...
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Ville étrangère
An Austrian diplomat assigned to Paris wakes up after having a strange nightmare and finds himself e...
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Return to Montauk
Author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he encounters ...
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Albert Savarus
Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraor...
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See You Up There
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attac...
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Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men
Pierre and Yves, two homosexuals, live a cozy love in a small Breton village until the arrival of An...
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At Eternity's Gate
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting master...
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The Song of Roland
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-centur...
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The Sorceror's Apprentice
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy ab...
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War Horse
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his fathe...
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Stavisky...
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe ...
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La Femme abandonnée
Tired of Parisian life, Louis de Nueil settles in a provincial village to rest from his hectic life....
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Les Derniers Jours de la victime
Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal....
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Villa Caprice
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his cl...
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Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
In eight films, Jacques Audiard has renewed French cinema, without alienating either the critics or ...
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Charlie Dingo
Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (C...
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Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff
Paris, 1945. Élisabeth Wolff spent two years in a concentration camp. At the end of the war, she ret...
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Tauwetter
Unrelenting snowstorms cut off a mountain village from the outside world before tourists and a group...
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Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre
A French adaptation of Tankred Dorst's play "Fernando Krapp hat mir diesen Brief geschrieben", stage...
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La danse de mort
Alice and Edgar, nicknamed "The Captain", lead a rather miserable existence. They are embittered by ...
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Barbablù, Barbablù
An old patriarch at the gates of death, who has been married five times, reunites his family and ind...
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