Melvil Poupaud

The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While...

Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable...

When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious...

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

Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children, while she's in her thirties, alone with job...

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

Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form,...

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women,...

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

The grueling, emotionally torturous world of French preparatory schools provides the framework for this mystery. The deliberately rigorous courses...

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

An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with...

Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she...

Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that proves positive, a car accident and being fired...

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a...

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

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

Ulysse, a gun-toting hood, gets together a team of four people, including himself, to carry out what he thinks will be a fail-safe heist...

Shimkent hôtel tells the story of a young man who's experienced the failure of a business venture in the Afghan mountains, and who suffers from...

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living...

Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, staying at an isolated villa on the unspoilt part of...

Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back to life through her own self. She goes by the name...

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the...

The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true...

In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of...

Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At...

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

The plot revolves around Bernard – a schoolfriend of Olivier's who is preparing for his bac – discovering he is a bastard and taking this as a...

After studying in Paris, the young doctor François moves to Beauval, where single-family houses are lined up monotonously. He quickly becomes the...

In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose work...

A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season.

When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they...

When aimless Manon begins work at À mon seul désir, a strip club that offers high concept performances, she instantly bonds with her fellow...

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of...

Alice, engaged to Felix, works as an engineer for a freighter whose other workers are males. On board the freighter, she discovers that its captain...

Jonathan, an expert in luxury watches, leads a gray and monotonous life until he meets Eric, a charming conman and dealer in stolen goods. Fascinated...

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

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

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to...

Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled professionally, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of...

Armande Pigeon, a queen of shenanigans in Brussels struggles to make ends meet because she can’t stop gambling on everything, always ending up on...

Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young...

In 1995, producer Françoise Etchegaray recorded the production of A Summer's Tale. The footage remained on the shelf for years until director...

Valentin is lost and penniless. He reunites with his son Joseph after 20 years of absence and plunges him and his wife Alice into total chaos. With...

The first emotions in love with a young man of seventeen: Thomas who understands that his life belongs to him at last. Four young women contribute to...

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

Musical Christmas Special hosted by Benjamin Biolay.

1959. Guilty of a double murder, a man is guillotined. The dead man's head rolls into a basket, from where it recounts a tale.

Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious...

Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek...

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and...

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers...

Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who's struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional...

In the aristocratic society of the seventeenth century, the fate of Marianne child who survived the deadly attack on a convoy.

Inspired by a case of pedophilia in the diocese of Lyon, "Grâce à Dieu" recounts the struggle of former victims to reveal a scandal suppressed by...

A Frenchman stuck in New Orleans has just had a colossal argument. The mother of his infant child has left him wallet-less and with a wailing baby....

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

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have...

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and...

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is...

In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the...

An elliptical, poetic film about an American woman sportswriter who wanders around Paris remembering traumatic experiences in her life.

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has...

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

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist...

An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady...

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

Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the...

Samy is a Frenchman accused of smuggling counterfeit money from Bulgaria to France. To avoid jail, he becomes an informer for the French police,...

20-year-old Margaux makes the acquaintance of 45-year-old Margaux: they have a lot in common – so much so that it turns out they are one and the...

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with...

Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From this sudden intimacy, the murmurs of their little...

Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his...

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the...

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

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

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

Melvil Poupaud short about one crying man and one man in good mood. A companion to his early short "Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal...

What do you dream of when you're 16-years-old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on...

Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill...

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

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

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent...

Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief...

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

Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all...

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

«Melvil» is the name of a character who manoeuvres between cinema and reality, searching for a family, a place to take over, a role to play.

Film based on the novel The Hands of Orlac.

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

A young woman's questions about her partner's possible infidelities and the risks of his "irresponsibility" in the face of prevention.

Violette Toussaint, a cemetery caretaker in a small town in Burgundy, is a unique observer and a compassionate listener. Her peaceful life is filled...

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a...

As he is about to separate from his partner, with whom he lives in Eastern France, 49-year-old Léo learns of the death of his biological father whom...

Three students pass their vacation in Normandie. One day they offer to stay at their house a young painter Remi.

Gabriel became friends with "the most beautiful girl in the world". Obsessed with her, he put aside all his convictions in the hope of pleasing her.

Early 1900s, Argentina. Dick Mahler sneaks onto a ship he believes is bound for India—but ends up in St. Petersburg, Russia, with nothing and no...