Melvil Poupaud
Actor
A Summer's Tale (1996)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet
- Once more exploring the fickleness of love, dir. Rohmer involves holidaying student Melvil Poupard in a love–quadrangle of romantic options. In…
Le Divorce (2003)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Leslie Caron…
- Neither romantic escapism nor French farce American–style, this comedy from ‘prestige’ partnership Merchant–Ivory can’t find shape…
Time to Leave (2006)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi…
- Dir. Ozon expands on the theme of death and mourning, first explored in UNDER THE SAND, with this carefully composed, if somewhat underdeveloped male…
Broken English (2007)
- Dir. Zoe Cassavetes
Feat. Parker Posey, Drea De Matteo, Melvil Poupaud…
- The usually zany Parker Posey searches for love in this supple, melancholic romantic comedy, here playing a Manhattan thirty–something as yet…
A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël) (2008)
- Dir. Arnaud Desplechin
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny…
- KINGS AND QUEEN dir. Arnaud Desplechin spins another whirlwind tale of family relations, with Catherine Deneuve the terminally ill matriarch to a…
Broken, The (2008)
- Dir. Sean Ellis
Feat. Lena Headey, Ulrich Thomsen, Melvil Poupaud…
- Spooky, artfully directed thriller, about a woman (Headey) who suspects she’s being followed around London by a murderous…
44 Inch Chest (2009)
- Dir. Malcolm Venville
Feat. Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt…
- Dark comedy with a cuckolded Ray Winstone rounding up his heavy mates and seeking vengeance on his wife's lover.
Mysteries of Lisbon (Mistérios de Lisboa) (2010)
- Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. Adriano Luz, Clotilde Hesme, Maria Joao Bastos…
- Sprawling, utterly beguiling tribute to the power of stories set in 19th century Lisbon where an orphan boy discovers the truth about his birth and…
Black Heaven (L'autre monde) (2010)
- Dir. Gilles Marchand
Feat. Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud
- An innocent young man becomes entangled with a suicidal beauty and is lured into a "Black Hole" – an eerie cyberworld of avatars with deadly…
Laurence Anyways (2012)
- Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye…
- Young French–Canadian actor/director Xavier Dolan stays behind the camera of his third film (made at 23 years of age, no less), an assured…
By The Sea (2015)
- Dir. Angelina Jolie
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent…
- A vainglorious romantic drama that stars Pitt and Jolie as a troubled couple trying to save their relationship while vacationing in coastal France.…
By the Grace of God (Grâce à Dieu) (2018)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud
- Hard–hitting French–Belgian drama about three sexual abuse victims who attempt to the to justice the Catholic priest who was…
One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin) (2022)
- Dir. Mia Hansen-Love
Feat. Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud…
- Lea Seydoux is French movie star royalty but she keeps it real in this sublime film from Mia Hansen–Løve (Bergman Island), one of Europe’s…
Coup de Chance (Stroke of Luck) (2023)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud…
- Woody Allen's 50th movie and first in the French language, about a married Parisian woman who strikes up a romance with an old classmate. Like…