Maurice Bénichou
Birthday: 1943-01-23
Place of Birth: Tlemcen, Algeria
Biography: 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.
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Amélie
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for hel...
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Caché
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...
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The Great Alibi
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a...
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Adventures of Félix
A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak no...
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Instinct de femme
Young - beautiful - married, fulfilled, Martha is bored. Passive in an active society, she took a fi...
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Paris
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a trans...
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I... For Icarus
Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses...
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Every Jack Has a Jill
Jack is encouraged to take the romantic Paris vacation he won, despite just being dumped by his girl...
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Inju: The Beast in the Shadow
The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome...
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Loser Takes All!
Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to ...
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Omar Killed Me
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her ho...
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Great life
Philosophy teacher in the provincial city of Saint-Etienne, Gregoire is a discreet man of integrity....
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The Rabbi's Cat
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing ...
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Special Delivery
An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that ...
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À la Mode
Fausto enters an orphanage and is initially bullied, but then makes friends with a new bunkmate, Ray...
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Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents
This bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and grat...
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Off and Running
A missed highway exit leads Darry Marzouki, an unemployed magician, to cross paths with Irène Montie...
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The Passenger
When he learns of the death of his older brother Richard, Thomas sets out for Marseilles to identify...
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If You Die, I'll Kill You
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosse...
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Mordbüro
The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization use...
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Paris Does Not Exist
In this film, an artist attending a party smokes some dope and develops the ability to see into the ...
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Cross My Heart
Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is le...
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Au cas où je n'aurais pas la palme d'or
Simon, a forty-year-old filmmaker, is more prone to shooting himself in the foot than he is to shoot...
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Boxes
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things ...
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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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Man Is a Woman
Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, ...
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Sale rêveur
A young man struggling with reality and dreams finds himself caught between his fantasies and the ha...
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Quand on sera grand
At thirty, Simon is juggling with life and it's problems. He is torn between his job as a journalist...
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Candidature
Jean, a young Parisian philosopher, travels to Angoulême to take part in a recruitment competition f...
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The French Calvinists
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes...
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Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
An old man living in an attic in a rundown part of Paris, becomes increasingly lonely and prey to il...
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La Tueuse
Mathilde, despite her nurse's diploma, is a thirty year old struggling when it comes to work. She di...
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Code Unknown
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the fil...
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The Patriots
Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent ...
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The Little Apocalypse
An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some o...
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Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?
David, a Jewish filmmaker in his thirties, is working on a screenplay with autobiographical overtone...
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Little Marcel
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group o...
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Marriage a la Mode
The main character is a woman trapped in the long stifling marriage in a boring province. She has an...
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Time of the Wolf
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This conf...
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Roads to the South
France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic ev...
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Pardon Mon Affaire
On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that st...
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The Question
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", bann...
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Travail du comédien
We follow the rehearsals and the staging work of Bertold Brecht's play 'Dans la jungle des villes' i...
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Le jardinier
This is a surreal comedy is about a factory set in a barren landscape that dispenses a minute portio...
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Ile Flottante
Île flottante is not an island, nor a dessert, but a somewhat unusual cinema, floating, that's for s...
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Animal
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their ...
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