The best Denis Podalydès’s drama movies

Denis Podalydès

Denis Podalydès

22/04/1963 (61 años)
We present our ranking of the best Denis Podalydès’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Denis Podalydès.
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Caché

Caché
7.3/10
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.

Chocolat

Chocolat
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/02/2016
  • Character: Louis Lumière
The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.

See You Up There

See You Up There
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaWar
  • Release: 25/10/2017
  • Character: The Minister (voice)
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema
6.8/10
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

Quiet Chaos

Quiet Chaos
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/02/2008
  • Character: Thierry
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.

Sorry Angel

Sorry Angel
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/05/2018
  • Character: Mathieu
Jacques is a writer living in Paris. He hasn't turned 40 but already mistrusts that the best in life is yet to come. Arthur is a student living in Brittany. He reads and smiles a lot and refuses to think that everything in life might not be possible. Jacques and Arthur will like each other. Just like in a lovely dream. Just like in a sad story.

Camille Rewinds

Camille Rewinds
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 12/09/2012
  • Character: Alphonse Da Costa - le prof de physique
Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and desperate Camille drinks so much liquor at a New Year Eve's party that she falls into an ethylic coma and she finds herself... propelled into her own past! Camille is sixteen again when she wakes up this morning, her parents are not dead anymore and she must go to school, where she will meet her schoolmates and, of course, Eric. Is she going to fall for him again and... be miserable twenty-five years later? Or will she avoid him with the result never having her beloved daughter? Who ever said that time traveling was fun?

The Conquest

The Conquest
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/05/2011
  • Character: Nicolas Sarkozy
A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.

Mr & Mme Adelman

Mr & Mme Adelman
7.3/10
How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small moments of the last century's history.

The Sweet Escape

The Sweet Escape
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/06/2015
  • Character: Rémi
Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.

Safe Conduct

Safe Conduct
6.9/10
The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have to write anything collaborationist. Devaivre is in dangerous political activity. Devaivre also works for the German production company Continental where he is respected. On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting doesn't help how he lives and he is a womanizer which causes him to procrastinate.

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/2012
  • Character: Antoine
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...

La Belle Époque

La Belle Époque
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/11/2019
  • Character: François
Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.

The Officers' Ward

The Officers' Ward
7.4/10
The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever...

Summer Things

Summer Things
6.5/10
Two couple of friends, one very rich the other almost homeless, decides to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother,a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of his father's employee... More, at the end of the summer all of them will join the same party...

The Forest

The Forest
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/07/2014
  • Character: Arkadi
The Forest is both a vibrantly spontaneous and brutally funny family drama, and a glorious tribute to acting and theater - in other words, an Arnaud Desplechin film. With Michel Vuillermoz and Denis Podalydès as the nephew and his friend, Adeline D’Hermy as the niece, and Martine Chevallier in a stunning performance as the sublimely selfish aunt Raissa.

The Children of the Century

The Children of the Century
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/09/1999
  • Character: Sainte-Beuve
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and Sand by a handsome doctor.

Skirt Day

Skirt Day
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/11/2008
  • Character: Labouret
A troubled and emotionally fragile woman finds herself at the center of a firestorm, in this gut-wrenching psychological drama.

Love Is the Perfect Crime

Love Is the Perfect Crime
5.8/10
Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge, isolated chalet that they inherited when they were very young — he carries on one love affair after another with his students. Winter has almost ended when one of his most brilliant students, Barbara, suddenly disappears. Two days later, Marc meets Barbara’s mother, Anna, who wants to find out more about her vanished daughter.

Max & Co

Max & Co
5.9/10
15-year-old Max is in search of his father, the famous troubadour Johnny Bigoude, who disappeared shortly after Max's birth. He reaches Saint-Hilare where Madam Doudou, the old teacher, takes care of him and finds him a job as elevator musician in the fly swatter factory Bzzz & Co. But the factory doesn't run well and half of the village gets fired. To boost the swatter sales, a dangerous scientist creates a mass production of flies. Soon, a thick cloud of insects attacks the village... With courage and determination, Max and his new friend Félicie will do their best to neutralize the insane projects of Bzzz&Co. Will they manage to convince the villagers to help them in this adventure? All together will they stop the scientist's crazy handlings? And will Max find his father?

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