Xavier Beauvois
Birthday: 1967-03-20
Place of Birth: Auchel, Pas-de-Calais, France
Biography: Xavier Beauvois ( born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His film Don't Forget You're Going to Die was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. His film Of Gods and Men received the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as France's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Xavier Beauvois, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Drift Away
Laurent, a young brigade commander in a gendarmerie in a small town in Normandy is planning his wedd...
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The Young Lieutenant
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide burea...
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Villa Amalia
Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her mu...
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North
The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom ...
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Ponette
After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette stru...
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Twice Upon a Time
Mathias, aboard a ship with his wife, sees a boy with a striking resemblance to himself and is calle...
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Lovers
In a rural French town, a 15-year-old closeted gay boy breaks free from his idolization of his older...
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The Killer
Leo Zimmermann, a business man from Paris dotes on his daughter. He proposes a strange offer to his ...
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Don't Forget You're Going to Die
Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include h...
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Life's Little Treasures
This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few ...
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The Wind of the Night
A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation. Afte...
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Early One Morning
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and ...
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Farewell, My Queen
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of ...
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Marie-Octobre
After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again dur...
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Making Of
Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting ...
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Meeting with an Angel
Judith, a young nurse, is so meek in front of her husband Roland, that she can't manage to tell him ...
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In a Rush
Ada was settled in her life, she was pleased with it, or thought she was. She was one half of a coup...
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Day and Night
Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic l...
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Turf
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother)...
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The Sky Above Paris
Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else....
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Bodybuilder
Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up wit...
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House of Pleasures
The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living ...
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Disparus
Sex, avant-garde art, and Communist ideology are at the heart of this compelling historical drama. T...
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Let the Sunshine In
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last....
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Chocolat
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after for...
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Jean Douchet, Restless Child
Three young cinephiles follow Jean Douchet, question his friends and former students. This documenta...
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Paris Pigalle
Paris, 1982. Franck and Serge are police investigators in charge of making a good catch in the Paris...
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Go, Toto!
A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. The arrival of Toto the mar...
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Django
The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Pa...
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les P...
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À bicyclette
A young man being schizophrenic remission is seen taken by an obsession for bikes. He remembers a ch...
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24 Bars
It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier...
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Female Agents
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...
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The Summer House
A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered f...
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The Witnesses
Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic....
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A Castle in Italy
Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, ...
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Sailing Home
Passionate about sailing, Jean-Paul is going through a rough patch. Up to his ears in debts, he pull...
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The Chameleon
The amazing true story of Frédéric Bourdin, who after having plundered all the centers for runaway m...
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Disco
Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a so...
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Disco
Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a so...
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The Price of Fame
A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ranso...
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