Melvil Poupaud

Melvil Poupaud

Birthday: 1973-01-26

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Biography: Melvil Poupaud (born 26 January 1973) is a French actor, author and filmmaker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvil Poupaud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Broken
The Broken

The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of hers...

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Time to Leave
Time to Leave

Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to li...

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A Christmas Tale
A Christmas Tale

When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Chri...

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Le Divorce
Le Divorce

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a p...

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Broken English
Broken English

Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has childr...

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Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke

Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town....

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Towards Zero
Towards Zero

Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seem...

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A Summer's Tale
A Summer's Tale

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends—and...

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Crime Is Our Business
Crime Is Our Business

Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie....

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Those Were the Days
Those Were the Days

The grueling, emotionally torturous world of French preparatory schools provides the framework for t...

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Feelings
Feelings

Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues....

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Black Heaven
Black Heaven

An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" - a dar...

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Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional

Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on h...

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A Hell of a Day
A Hell of a Day

Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that ...

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City of Pirates
City of Pirates

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, trav...

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Eros Therapy
Eros Therapy

A husband wants to win back his wife, even though she has been living with her lesbian lover for six...

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Hideaway (Le refuge)
Hideaway (Le refuge)

Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day...

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Les Kidnappeurs
Les Kidnappeurs

Ulysse, a gun-toting hood, gets together a team of four people, including himself, to carry out what...

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Shimkent Hôtel
Shimkent Hôtel

Shimkent hôtel tells the story of a young man who's experienced the failure of a business venture in...

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Elisa
Elisa

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of...

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The 15 Year Old Girl
The 15 Year Old Girl

Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, sta...

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Marcello Mio
Marcello Mio

Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back t...

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Love Torn in a Dream
Love Torn in a Dream

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A grou...

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Laurence Anyways
Laurence Anyways

The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence wh...

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The Dark Room
The Dark Room

In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wish...

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Diary of a Seducer
Diary of a Seducer

Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of p...

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Genealogies of a Crime
Genealogies of a Crime

An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to st...

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The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters

The plot revolves around Bernard – a schoolfriend of Olivier's who is preparing for his bac – discov...

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The Edge
The Edge

After studying in Paris, the young doctor François moves to Beauval, where single-family houses are ...

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Ballet aquatique
Ballet aquatique

In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean ...

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Archipel
Archipel

A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay...

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Just the Two of Us
Just the Two of Us

When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly,...

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My Sole Desire
My Sole Desire

When aimless Manon begins work at À mon seul désir, a strip club that offers high concept performanc...

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Jeanne du Barry
Jeanne du Barry

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in ...

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Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey
Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey

Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman: she works as an engineer on a frei...

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The Rules of Art
The Rules of Art

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Duras and Cinema
Duras and Cinema

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her...

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44 Inch Chest
44 Inch Chest

Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he ...

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Lines of Wellington
Lines of Wellington

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napole...

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By the Sea
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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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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Heads or Fails
Heads or Fails

Armande Pigeon, a queen of shenanigans in Brussels struggles to make ends meet because she can’t sto...

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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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The Making of A Summer’s Tale
The Making of A Summer’s Tale

In 1995, producer Françoise Etchegaray recorded the production of A Summer's Tale. The footage remai...

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Stronger Than the Devil
Stronger Than the Devil

Valentin, a man with a shady past but who is trying to turn over a new leaf, reunites with his estra...

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Under the Stars
Under the Stars

The first emotions in love with a young man of seventeen: Thomas who understands that his life belon...

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The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm
The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm

Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. ...

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Benjamin Biolay - Christmas Show
Benjamin Biolay - Christmas Show

Musical Christmas Special hosted by Benjamin Biolay....

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Mad Love
Mad Love

1959. Guilty of a double-murder, a man is beheaded. At the bottom of the basket that just welcomed i...

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The Great Game
The Great Game

Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino ...

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A Lost Man
A Lost Man

Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a Fr...

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Fado, Major and Minor
Fado, Major and Minor

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anyth...

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Three Lives and Only One Death
Three Lives and Only One Death

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fai...

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In Bed with Victoria
In Bed with Victoria

Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who's struggling to raise her two daughters. She is c...

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La Vie de Marianne
La Vie de Marianne

In the aristocratic society of the seventeenth century, the fate of Marianne child who survived the ...

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Il était une fois... « Grâce à Dieu »
Il était une fois... « Grâce à Dieu »

Inspired by a case of pedophilia in the diocese of Lyon, "Grâce à Dieu" recounts the struggle of for...

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The Argument
The Argument

A Frenchman stuck in New Orleans has just had a colossal argument. The mother of his infant child ha...

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Bruce Springsteen – The America whisperer
Bruce Springsteen – The America whisperer

The life of Bruce Springsteen has been told many times, from the angle of the adored rock star, Amer...

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Time Regained
Time Regained

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded...

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Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the...

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The Insomniac on the Bridge
The Insomniac on the Bridge

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel L...

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Innocent Lies
Innocent Lies

In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate t...

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Souvenir
Souvenir

An elliptical, poetic film about an American woman sportswriter who wanders around Paris remembering...

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The Lover
The Lover

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon....

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Shooting Stars
Shooting Stars

A mobster is determined to find the drugs his mistress stole from him before running off with a youn...

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The Heart's Root
The Heart's Root

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old to...

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The Lady in the Portrait
The Lady in the Portrait

An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband...

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Dans un miroir
Dans un miroir

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is ...

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Golden Youth
Golden Youth

Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enj...

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Face Down
Face Down

Samy is a Frenchman accused of smuggling counterfeit money from Bulgaria to France. To avoid jail, h...

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When Margaux Meets Margaux
When Margaux Meets Margaux

20-year-old Margaux makes the acquaintance of 45-year-old Margaux: they have a lot in common – so mu...

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By the Grace of God
By the Grace of God

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who...

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Silent Streams
Silent Streams

Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From th...

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Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens

Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer'...

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An Officer and a Spy
An Officer and a Spy

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life impr...

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Hillbilly Chainsaw Massacre
Hillbilly Chainsaw Massacre

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Speed Racer
Speed Racer

Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his ...

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Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au cœur
Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au cœur

Melvil Poupaud short in 5 chapters about different guys reading farewell letters....

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Qui es tu Johnny Mac?
Qui es tu Johnny Mac?

Melvil Poupaud short film noir about an alcoholic detective and a killer....

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Qui es tu Johnny Mac?
Qui es tu Johnny Mac?

Melvil Poupaud short film noir about an alcoholic detective and a killer....

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Quelque chose
Quelque chose

Melvil Poupaud short about one crying man and one man in good mood. A companion to his early short "...

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Summer of 85
Summer of 85

What do you dream of when you're 16-years-old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A be...

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15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour
15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour

Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What b...

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3 Jours...
3 Jours...

An arrogant parisian guy is stuck in a small village for 3 days waitng his car being repaired....

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Souvenirs and Evocations
Souvenirs and Evocations

A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema....

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One Fine Morning
One Fine Morning

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old ...

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The Young Lovers
The Young Lovers

Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40...

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Qui a tué Johnny Mac?
Qui a tué Johnny Mac?

20 years later Melvil Poupaud returns to his short "Qui es-tu Johnny Mac?" and replay the story of a...

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Brother and Sister
Brother and Sister

Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than ...

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Pronobis
Pronobis

Philippe lives in his deceased parents' large flat. He hides a dark secret there, wich a girlfriend ...

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The Hands of Orlac
The Hands of Orlac

Film based on the novel The Hands of Orlac....

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Melvil
Melvil

«Melvil» is the name of a character who manoeuvres between cinema and reality, searching for a famil...

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Richard III
Richard III

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne....

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Bavardages en sida mineur
Bavardages en sida mineur

A young woman's questions about her partner's possible infidelities and the risks of his "irresponsi...

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Violette
Violette

Violette Toussaint, a cemetery caretaker in a small town in Burgundy, is a unique observer and a com...

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Mysteries of Lisbon
Mysteries of Lisbon

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the di...

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Le cas Dajkovic
Le cas Dajkovic

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Un peu avant minuit
Un peu avant minuit

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