Olivier Marchal

Olivier Marchal

Born: November 14, 1958
in Talence, Gironde, France
Olivier Marchal (b. November 14, 1958 in Talence, France) is a French actor, director, screenwriter, and a former policeman. In 2005, he was nominated for three César Awards (best director, best film, and best writing), for his film 36 Quai des Orfèvres.

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Presque légal
Title: Presque légal
Character: Didier
Released: July 17, 2024
Type: Movie
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Mort sur la piste
Title: Mort sur la piste
Character: Antoine Palestro
Released: November 4, 2023
Type: Movie
As the first test drives begin for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the body of a pilot is discovered on the track. It was carefully dragged there. Captain Sabrina Nedjard is in charge of the investigation, followed by an American observer from LAPD as part of an international exchange. Their inquiries will lead them to the paddocks and the workshops of a well-known amateur racing team where high stakes disrupt the relationships between an authoritarian father and his children.
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A Chance To Win
Title: A Chance To Win
Character: Marco Bianchoni
Released: May 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Two villages in the south of France have always been bitter rivals, but when a group of asylum seekers arrive in the community, the life of both villages is shaken up and age-old disagreements escalate. Their antagonism reaches its peak with the annual rugby derby played between the two village teams, but this time, with the new outsiders joining as unexpected recruits, the result of the 100th match will be more unpredictable than ever.
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Bonne Conduite
Title: Bonne Conduite
Character: Jean-Claude Lallouette
Released: March 29, 2023
Type: Movie
Pauline has her own way of doing road safety: as a trainer in a point recovery center during the day, she becomes a serial killer of drivers at night.
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Title: Abdoul fait son cinéma
Character: Self - Guest
Released: May 16, 2022
Type: TV
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Meurtres à Blois
Title: Meurtres à Blois
Character: Denis Frécant
Released: January 1, 2022
Type: Movie
During a performance at the Château de Blois, an industrialist is murdered as he plays the role of Henri III. Arthur, the young actor playing the Duke of Guise, becomes prime suspect. Police Captain Alice Deschamps heads the investigation with her ex and Arthur's father, Detective Inspector Denis Frécant.
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Title: Hashtag Boomer
Character: André
Released: November 25, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: The Promise
Character: Pierre Castaing
Released: January 7, 2021
Type: TV
What's the worst that can happen to a police officer? Definitely an unresolved investigation. This is what happens on Boxing Day 1999. Charlotte Meyer, an 11-year-old girl, disappears without a trace. Captain Pierre Castaing, in charge of the investigation, fails to find her. Where did she go? The mystery remains intact ... A few hundred kilometers away, a young investigator finds herself confronted with a similar disappearance ...
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Title: L'addiction s'il vous plait ?!
Character: Self - Guest
Released: July 25, 2020
Type: TV
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Papi Sitter
Title: Papi Sitter
Character: Teddy Bardolino, Camille's maternal grandfather
Released: March 4, 2020
Type: Movie
Franck and Karine are offered a job on a cruise ship they can’t refuse. The only problem: their daughter Camille has to study for her finals but has other ideas of fun in mind instead… No problem! To straighten his daughter out and set her to work, Franck calls on his father André, a retired captain from the national police, hopelessly uptight and rigid. With military discipline, Camille’s finals will be a success! But this is the moment when the second grandfather Teddy, an eccentric and wild former nightclub manager and the total opposite of the strict André, chooses to return after many years abroad... Living together promises to be complicated…
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Ibiza
Title: Ibiza
Character: Pascalou
Released: July 3, 2019
Type: Movie
A mature podiatrist, his girlfriend and her teenage children travel Ibiza to live a crazy holidays.
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Coup d'feu
Title: Coup d'feu
Character: Le père
Released: December 5, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: The Crimson Rivers
Character: Pierre Niemans
Released: November 26, 2018
Type: TV
Old-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases.
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Title: Jacqueline Sauvage : C'était lui ou moi
Character: Norbert Marot
Released: October 1, 2018
Type: TV
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Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me
Title: Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me
Character: Norbert Marot
Released: September 13, 2018
Type: Movie
On Monday, September 10, 2012, Jacqueline Sauvage shot her husband the back three times. She then learned that their son had just committed suicide. And so the most publicized trial in recent years commenced.
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Title: Eyewitness
Character: Milo Ubieta
Released: January 11, 2018
Type: TV
Two teenagers secretly meet up in the forest, only to witness a blood bath. They are seen, but escape trying to keep this as a secret, both in fear of the perpetrator and that their secret is revealed.
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Title: Crimes parfaits
Character: Mathieu
Released: December 19, 2017
Type: TV
Murderers think they have committed the perfect crime. But the investigators will do everything to find the flaw in the Machiavellian plan devised by each killer.
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Mon frère bien-aimé
Title: Mon frère bien-aimé
Character: Etienne Leroy
Released: August 26, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: La Petite Histoire de France
Character: Le père d'Ysabeau
Released: November 28, 2015
Type: TV
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Fastlife
Title: Fastlife
Character: Jeno
Released: July 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Fastlife: always go further, faster, to shine in the eyes of others: this is the motto of Franklin. Franklin is a megalomaniac obsessed by the desire to shine at any price. He will have to choose between becoming a man or continue to live the Fastlife...
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Darling Trap
Title: Darling Trap
Character: Gabriel
Released: January 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Clémence is pathologically jealous. Gabriel has asked her to marry him. To test whether he is faithful, unbeknownst to him she arranges that he crosses paths with beautiful Olivia...
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Title: Vaugand
Character: Richard Vaugand
Released: October 15, 2013
Type: TV
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Paris Countdown
Title: Paris Countdown
Character: Milan
Released: July 24, 2013
Type: Movie
Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their psychotic liaison to prison. Six years later, the men's nightmare begins again when the pyschopath is granted his freedom. Now, not having talked for years, the old friends are united again in order to survive.
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Title: Murders in...
Character: Paul Ventura
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: TV
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
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Un p’tit gars de Ménilmontant
Title: Un p’tit gars de Ménilmontant
Character: Jo
Released: March 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A man leaves prison after a 15-year sentence and returns to his home district to find that it has changed completely, almost beyond recognition. He will find it hard to adjust to a world that is governed by a totally different set of rules...
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On se quitte plus
Title: On se quitte plus
Character: Toni Manzor
Released: October 8, 2012
Type: Movie
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Jo's Boy
Title: Jo's Boy
Character: Robert Cahuzac, aka 'le Chinois'
Released: December 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Grandson of a legendary rugby player, son of a legendary rugby player, and he himself a legendary rugby player, Jo Canavero raises his only son, Tom, in a small village in the Tarn region. To the great displeasure of Jo, thirteen-year-old Tom is as good at math as he is useless on the rugby field. For a Canavero, the legend can't stop there, even if it means setting up a rugby team specifically for Tom, despite the wishes of the whole village and of Tom himself.
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la saison des immortelles
Title: la saison des immortelles
Character: Simon Charroux
Released: May 31, 2010
Type: Movie
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Diamond 13
Title: Diamond 13
Character: Franck
Released: June 21, 2009
Type: Movie
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
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Blame It on Mum
Title: Blame It on Mum
Character: Jacques de Parentis
Released: May 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a business: out of a bankruptcy to get into another, her sister Alice madonnas obsessively paints sad. Annabelle, a nurse in an intensive care unit, tries desperately to save his family pronosticándole the future. When Alice meets by chance Jacques, a lonely police pessimistic explode all family neurosis.
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Anything for Her
Title: Anything for Her
Character: Henri Pasquet
Released: December 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?
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Sunny Spells
Title: Sunny Spells
Released: July 9, 2008
Type: Movie
This is not a chorus film. Well maybe just a little… Avignon Festival - Summer. First, there’s Maud and Alex, who have just broken up but need to pretend to be two love birds on stage. Then there’s the playwright of their play, Richard, who could start to fall in love with Léna, but is still grieving his lost wife. Léna is also grieving her ex but can’t remember why she dumped him. So she sings her blues, on stage, with Louise, who might have a little crush on her sound engineer. Then there’s the famous dancer Kate who sleeps with her assistant Marko, who’s always prefered men. Oh, did we tell you that Kate the dancer and Maud the actress are friends and would love to invite everyone to a party?
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A Police Romance
Title: A Police Romance
Character: Viard
Released: April 15, 2008
Type: Movie
In a small police station, Lieutenant Emilie Carange finds herself sexually attracted to Jamil Messaouden, a young rookie officer. When an old Algerian woman reports that she's seen drug dealers operating in the neighborhood, they find themselves in over their heads in an investigation. Night after night, Emilie's desire grows. The drug investigation gets out of hand and so does Emilie...
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Title: Confidences
Released: March 9, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Chez Maupassant
Character: le maître
Released: March 6, 2007
Type: TV
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Scorpion
Title: Scorpion
Character: De Boers
Released: February 21, 2007
Type: Movie
Featuring a mix of Thai Boxing and Ultimate Fighting, SCORPION has been dubbed The French Fight Club. It stars Jerome Le Banner, who is also known as Hyper Battle Cyborg and The Bulldog of Paris, a true kickboxer, famous for his aggressive style - 43 of his 57 wins have come by knockout.
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Crime Insiders
Title: Crime Insiders
Character: Jean-Guy
Released: January 17, 2007
Type: Movie
A Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.
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Les Innocents
Title: Les Innocents
Character: Dominique Célerin
Released: November 22, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self (guest)
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
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Tell No One
Title: Tell No One
Character: Bernard Valenti
Released: November 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
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L'enfant d'une autre
Title: L'enfant d'une autre
Character: Jérôme
Released: March 14, 2006
Type: Movie
A successful businesswoman thinks she has found her daughter, whom she lost when she was six months old...
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Qui veut la peau d'Olivier Marchal ?
Title: Qui veut la peau d'Olivier Marchal ?
Released: June 24, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary that follows the pre-production and shooting of Olivier Marchal's film: "36, Quai des Orfèvres".
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36th Precinct
Title: 36th Precinct
Character: Christo
Released: November 24, 2004
Type: Movie
The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, which is taken in part from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.
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Les robinsonnes
Title: Les robinsonnes
Character: Fred
Released: March 27, 2004
Type: Movie
Four women ,who have lost their husbands because of a shipwreck, decide to remain on her island and to rehabilitate a fishing boat.They are looking for four mariners ready to work in the island.
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La tresse d'Aminata
Title: La tresse d'Aminata
Released: January 30, 2004
Type: Movie
A child from Senegal is adopted by a French family in the Bretagne soon learns that she is not the only child.
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Title: Police District
Character: Commandant Pierre Rivière
Released: September 6, 2000
Type: TV
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La puce
Title: La puce
Character: Marc
Released: November 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Marion, 14 years old, spends her holidays in Normandy. She meets a man. They see each other again in Paris. Marion makes love, for the first time, with him.
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Title: Quai n°1
Character: Max Urtéguy
Released: February 21, 1997
Type: TV
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Le Dur Métier de policier
Title: Le Dur Métier de policier
Character: 3ème policier
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Low Profile
Title: Low Profile
Character: Inspecteur Petrini
Released: December 8, 1993
Type: Movie
A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Philippe
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Vava
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Inspecteur Mary
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Le chat
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Beuquerat
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Tigres et hyènes
Title: Tigres et hyènes
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie