Benoît Poelvoorde
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1964-09-22
Place of Birth:Namur, Belgium
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Smoking Causes Coughing (2022)
After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory...

Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)
Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick...

Man Bites Dog (1992)
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his...

Narco (2004)
Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best...

Coco Before Chanel (2009)
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar....

Louise-Michel (2008)
In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a...

Adieu Paris (2022)
An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”…...

The Carriers Are Waiting (1999)
Roger Closset is a man who obviously loves his family, though that doesn't always make them feel better. Dad is an obsessive type with a short fuse...

Aaltra (2004)
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end...

The Return of James Battle (2004)
James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a...

The Green Shutters (2022)
The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social...

One Fine Day (2006)
François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected...

Jean-Philippe (2006)
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the...

Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (2001)
In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a...

Hikers (1997)
A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives.

Hikers in Saint-Tropez (2008)
Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to spend the summer...

A Town Called Panic (2009)
Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll...

Beauties at War (2009)
A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.

Podium (2004)
Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and has a son. He used to have another profession: being French star Claude...

Two Worlds (2007)
A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.

The Other Dumas (2010)
Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a...

Akoibon (2005)
A disparate group of people meet at a hotel on a gorgeous and isolated Mediterranean island. Meanwhile, a woman schemes to get even with its owner.

In His Hands (2005)
In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured...

Beating Hearts (2024)
Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the...

Mammuth (2010)
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is...

Park Benches (2009)
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does...

Kill Me Please (2010)
Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in...

Doors of Glory (2001)
A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use...

Dead Weight (2002)
After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.

Laughter and Punishment (2003)
French director Isabelle Doval directs her husband, popular comedic actor José Garcia, in the comedy Rire et Chatiment (Laughter and...

Charlie Says (2006)
The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.

En chantier, monsieur Tanner ! (2010)
Paul Tanner has just inherited a mansion on a vast property. Going there, he noticed that the building was in poor condition and that work had...

The Political Life of the Belgians (2002)
We follow the build-up and training of two opposite Belgian political parties. We see their leaders during meetings, during voting and after when the...

Romantics Anonymous (2010)
What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small...

The Big Night (2012)
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave...

Nothing to Declare (2010)
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

Panique tous courts (2017)
Cowboy and Indian are leaving on a luxury cruise, but they've got caught up. They have totally forgotten that today is back to school day! Goodbye...

My Worst Nightmare (2011)
Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of...

Mama's Lover (1987)
A man discovers his new love interest has a child. When they fist meet it's unclear who is embarrased more, he or the young daughter.

Tied (2013)
A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.

A Wonderful Girl (2023)
Mimi is 29 years old and still dreaming about a job she could get. She meets Paul, a sidelined lawyer, as she decides to seek employment. Together,...

Twice Upon a Time (2012)
Mathias, aboard a ship with his wife, sees a boy with a striking resemblance to himself and is called - Mathias. He then tracks him to a town north...

Normal (2023)
14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis. Whilst William...

A Place On Earth (2013)
Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One...

The art of being happy (2024)
Jean-Yves Machond, a globally unknown and generally unhappy painter, decides one day to change his life. He seeks inspiration in a small Norman town,...

The Big Bad Wolf (2013)
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering...

Zebra Stripes (2014)
José is a football agent who goes to Ivory Coast to spot young talents in football. He is a braggart , who willingly sleeps with Gigi , a...

The Price of Fame (2015)
A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.

3 Hearts (2014)
A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.

Mad in Belgium (2022)
A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who...

No C4 for Daniel Daniel (1987)
A mock trailer for a spy film about a secret agent called Daniel Daniel.

Beware of the Ravens (1989)
Michel has an appointment at the administrative city.

The Brand New Testament (2015)
God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't...

How to Make a Killing (2025)
Michel and Cathy, wed for longer than they can remember, lead a quiet but monotonous life in the mountains. When a bear bursts out in front of...

Family for Rent (2015)
Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, rather introverted man. Rich but alone, he is deeply bored and ends up concluding that what he needs is...

Saint Amour (2016)
Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine...

Savages (2024)
In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin...

The Jews (2016)
Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness,...

A Town Called Panic: Christmas Panic! (2013)
The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas : the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly....

Mr. Manatane's notebooks (2003)
Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of his madness in the complete...

An Indian Tale (2017)
The life of two men changed unexpectedly when Ajith, an Indian sailor who was robbed and lost everything, appears out of nowhere in front of Pierre,...

Sink or Swim (2018)
40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the...

Adoration (2020)
Paul lives with his mother in the private clinic of doctor Loisel, deeply hidden in the woods. Paul likes to roam the forest and observe nature. One...

Les Shadoks et la maladie mystérieuse (2016)
For the Shadoks, panic strikes. A mysterious disease infects these curious creatures. Everyone talks about it, giving their various opinions, but all...

Keep an Eye Out (2018)
Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of...

White as Snow (2019)
Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly...

Raoul Taburin (2019)
If anyone knows anything about bikes, it’s Raoul Taburin, official bicycle dealer of Saint Céron, a lovely village in the South of...

Father & Sons (2019)
Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed...

A Town Called Panic: Back to School Panic! (2016)
Indian and Cowboy are about to set off on a magnificent cruise on a luxury liner, but they have made a big mistake. They completely forgot that today...

Venice Calling (2019)
Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond, because, it seems, he is more...

How I Became a Superhero (2020)
Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere...

Delete History (2020)
In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her...

Panique au village : La Foire agricole (2019)
Indian and Cowboy finally pass their exams. Horse buys them tickets for the County Fair. But at the last moment, he slips and comes crashing down on...

L'Année des Guignols - Du cul, du cul, du cul ! (1996)

My Father's Stories (2021)
Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor...

A Town Called Panic: Double Fun (2016)
With disarming wit and hilarious visuals, A Town Called Panic: Double Fun revels in the simple setup of three plastic toys sent on increasingly...

Just for Laughs (1997)
Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is...

Inexorable (2022)
Desperately seeking inspiration for the follow-up novel to his bestseller "Inexorable", Marcel Bellmer moves in his wife's old family mansion with...

L'Année des Guignols - Les Voleurs de patates (1996)

Do You Do You Saint-Tropez (2021)
Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of...

The Colors of Fire (2022)
February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial...

The Summer Holidays (2021)
School is out, and Indian and Cowboy are bored. Watching an old pirate film gets them out of their funk and they decide to build a ship and go off on...

A Day in the Life of French Cinema (2002)
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors,...

Mr. Manatane's Notebooks (1997)
Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of his madness in the complete...

Represent (2023)
An idealistic educator is inadvertently thrust into the French presidential race.

A Town Called Panic (2002)
Follows the everyday events of Cowboy, Indian and Horse in a small rural town as they go about their lives.

Quotidien (2016)
Quotidien is a French television program presented by Yann Barthès and broadcast from September 12, 2016 on TMC.

C à vous (2009)
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes,...

C à vous (1970)
Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of his madness in the complete...