Denis Ménochet
Birthday: 1976-09-18
Place of Birth: Enghein-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, France
Biography: Denis Menochet (born 1977 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise) is a French film and television actor. Menochet is perhaps best known to an international audience for his role as Perrier LaPadite, a French dairy farmer interrogated by the Nazis for harboring Jews, in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds. Elizabeth Weitzman, a film critic for the New York Daily News, praised Menochet's work opposite Christoph Waltz in the opening scene of Inglorious Basterds. Weitzman wrote in August 2009, "The terrific opening, for example, does feature a hailstorm of bullets. What you'll remember best, though, is the haunted silence of actor Denis Menochet, playing a French farmer accused of harboring Jews."
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La Vie en Rose
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's mo...
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The Round Up
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it....
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White Dog
As the country explodes under racial tensions after the assassination of Martin Luther King, writer ...
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Peter von Kant
Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistr...
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Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...
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The Moustache
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He wait...
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The Beasts
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. T...
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Lily Sometimes
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister....
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Special Forces
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminen...
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Autumn
Jean-Pierre is a hit man in Paris. He wants to stop; an incentive is reconnecting to Michelle, a chi...
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The Adopted
Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into th...
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In the House
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature cla...
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Low Profile
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Just a Sigh
In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris....
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Our Heroes Died Tonight
France in the early 60s. Simon, a wrestler, wears a white mask. In the ring, he is known as "The Spe...
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Grand Central
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fia...
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Just Before Losing Everything
Julien is 10 years old. He pretends to go to school but then hides out under a bridge, his backpack ...
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The Volcano
The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull causes major disruptions to travelers' plans ...
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Where Were You When Michael Jackson Died?
Paris, a few days after the death of the King of Pop and a few days before Christmas, he and she hap...
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White Paradise
Samuel, a widower, is taking care of his 7-year-old daughter alone. Overwhelmed and stressed out, he...
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Ablations
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The Darwinners
In a prehistory for operettas that is seemingly doomed never to evolve, a conflicted father and daug...
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Rumours
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Skylab
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Foon
A quasi-musical-comedy which descends into horror, set in the early sixties in a college on the outs...
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Norfolk
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The Program
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The Dancer
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Assassin's Creed
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7 Days in Entebbe
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Custody
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Robin Hood
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to...
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The Emperor of Paris
Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to...
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Joseph et la fille
Joseph has just spent 20 years in prison. After being released, he has only one obsession: to make o...
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Old Boys
In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spec...
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Mary Magdalene
In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for he...
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By the Grace of God
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Trivial
An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is ...
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Only the Animals
Following the disappearance of the glamorous and secretive Evelyne Ducat during a blizzard in the hi...
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The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an...
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You Will Be Mine
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Jeanine (ou mes parents n'ont rien d'exceptionnel)
Jeanine, ten, can't take it anymore from her parents, former hippies, who only think of having fun. ...
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Hannibal Rising
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard...
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Spin the Bottle
When almost thirty-year olds not knowing what to do with their afternoon but playing children's game...
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The Mauritanian
The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanam...
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Beau Is Afraid
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darke...
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Karma
In a village in northern Spain, Jeanne tries to rebuild her life with Daniel, who knows nothing abou...
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Poison d'avril
March 2002, during an election campaign, Simon Barrachet, offensive journalist, took over the newspa...
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Jupiter
Freshly elected, President Paul Archambault must face an unprecedented crisis: his Russian counterpa...
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Ordinary Man
George is a furniture seller. He's a reliable husband and a good father, a loyal friend and a fine h...
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