Isaach de Bankolé
Birthday: 1957-08-12
Place of Birth: Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Biography: Isaach or Isaac de Bankolé (born 12 August 1957; Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian actor. De Bankolé was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to Yoruba parents from Benin. His grandparents are from Nigeria. He moved to Paris in 1975 for his last year of lycée and pursued a master's degree in physics and mathematics. He then attended an aviation school and earned a private pilot licence, before a chance encounter with French director Gérard Vergez led him to enroll in the Cours Simon, a Parisian drama school.
Movies
Night on Earth
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night....
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Coffee and Cigarettes
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who al...
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Manderlay
In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if sl...
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The People We Hate at the Wedding
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a f...
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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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Heart of Darkness
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers t...
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob....
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The Limits of Control
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While ...
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The Skeleton Key
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery...
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The Fifth Patient
John Reilly wakes up in an African Hospital with only fragments of his memory intact. An officer of ...
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from interveni...
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Casino Royale
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker g...
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Chocolat
On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French wo...
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Black Mic Mac
This is a charming and successful farce from director Thomas Gilou, featuring a witty screenplay co-...
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The Brutalist
When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild hi...
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I Am Slave
Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daugh...
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White Material
In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to s...
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The Guitar
The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her jo...
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The Keeper
Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, midd...
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Oka!
The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Centr...
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No Fear, No Die
Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an...
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Lady Cops
Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute...
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From Other Worlds
FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her...
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Casa de Lava
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a c...
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Muganga
Denis Mukwege, a Congolese doctor, pastor and future Nobel Peace Prize laureate, meets Guy Cadière, ...
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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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How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious aut...
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Mother of George
A Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn are having trouble conceiving a child - a problem that defies c...
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Machetero
Post 9/11 definitions, ideas and notions of terrorism are challenged in this highly controversial an...
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Vanille fraise
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner....
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Snakeeater
Against the backdrop of a decaying cityscape, Rick Miner, an off-the-books insurance investigator, i...
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Calvary
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closin...
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Run
Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as...
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Miami Vice
A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detecti...
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Battle in Seattle
Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Confer...
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3 A.M.
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of t...
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-l...
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The Syringe
Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs a...
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Otomo
The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. Howeve...
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Noir et blanc
Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and sho...
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The Last Witch Hunter
The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among...
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Before It Had a Name
A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York cou...
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Mirage
Francis is an African soccer player whose life comes spiraling down after he fixes a match. Soon, he...
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Comment draguer tous les mecs
Like every provincial girl arriving in Paris, Charlotte gets off the train with one idea in mind: to...
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Cherry
At age 19, a young woman is jilted at the altar. This leads to a declaration that she will swear off...
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Behind Jim Jarmusch
"Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the...
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Where the Road Runs Out
George, a scientist living in Rotterdam is growing wary of the world of academia. The sudden death o...
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Double Play
Double Play is about anolder man named Ostrik who returns to Curaçao and his childhood after many ye...
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Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a polit...
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Black Panther
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to s...
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Kiss Me!
Claude falls in love with Cécile. She is convinced that she is the woman of her life unlike her moth...
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Bàttu
The star-stubbed cast includes Issac de Bankolè as Saar, a blind beggar, and Danny Glover as a corru...
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A Violent Man
A struggling mixed martial arts fighter finds himself in a fight for his life after his one night st...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life
On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and ...
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Ada in the Jungle
A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago....
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Homework
Sara, a young ballet dancer, drifts through boredom as a constrained classical dancer until she meet...
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Black Is Beltza
New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque ...
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Shaft
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the tr...
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French Exit
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite France...
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Stay
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to dia...
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The Killing Zone
Killing Zone is the story of an affluent Harlem psychiatrist living an unexamined life until his ado...
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The Fence
A vast public works project in West Africa. Horn, the construction site manager, and Cal, a young en...
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Taxi Boy
The meeting of Manuel, a lady's dancer, Petrus, an unfortunate gambler, and Corinne, a fast-food wai...
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