Denis Ménochet

Denis Ménochet

Born: September 18, 1976
in Enghein-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, France
Denis Menochet (born 1977 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise) is a French film and television actor. Menochet is perhaps best known to an international audience for his role as Perrier LaPadite, a French dairy farmer interrogated by the Nazis for harboring Jews, in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds. Elizabeth Weitzman, a film critic for the New York Daily News, praised Menochet's work opposite Christoph Waltz in the opening scene of Inglorious Basterds. Weitzman wrote in August 2009, "The terrific opening, for example, does feature a hailstorm of bullets. What you'll remember best, though, is the haunted silence of actor Denis Menochet, playing a French farmer accused of harboring Jews."

Movies for Denis Ménochet...

Silex and the City
Title: Silex and the City
Character: (voice)
Released: June 1, 2024
Type: Movie
In a prehistory for operettas that is seemingly doomed never to evolve, a conflicted father and daughter disrupt the Stone Age routine. After a tragic-comedy round-trip to the future, they accidentally bring back an Ikea “bent key”, which will at last trigger Evolution, for better or for worse… Writing, religion, politics… who will be capable of putting an end to these disasters?
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Rumours
Title: Rumours
Released: May 18, 2024
Type: Movie
En route to the annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
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Title: Monsieur Spade
Character: Chief of Police Patrice Michaud
Released: January 14, 2024
Type: TV
Detective Sam Spade is pulled out of his tranquil retirement in France to investigate a series of brutal murders.
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Spirit of Ecstasy
Title: Spirit of Ecstasy
Released: November 22, 2023
Type: Movie
A gender-questioning stock market trader is determined to make it in the world of finance — not for the glory or wealth, but because it's leading them on the path to freedom.
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Beau Is Afraid
Title: Beau Is Afraid
Character: Jeeves
Released: April 14, 2023
Type: Movie
A man goes on a journey to visit his mother.
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White Paradise
Title: White Paradise
Character: Samuel
Released: January 4, 2023
Type: Movie
Samuel, a widower, is taking care of his 7-year-old daughter alone. Overwhelmed and stressed out, he decides to isolate in a chalet he was renovating with his wife in the Italian Alps. Indifferent to the anger of locals who help police to hunt down migrants, he comes across a woman who fled Afghanistan. Samuel decides to help her reach the border, thinking it will take them a few hours. But an agressive group of men comes after them…
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White Dog
Title: White Dog
Character: Romain Gary
Released: November 2, 2022
Type: Movie
As the country explodes under racial tensions after the assassination of Martin Luther King, writer Romain Gary, humanist and animal lover, and his wife, star Jean Seberg, civil rights activist, welcome an abandoned dog into their home, trained to jump at the mouths of blacks: a White Dog.
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The Beasts
Title: The Beasts
Character: Antoine
Released: July 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic but for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.
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Peter von Kant
Title: Peter von Kant
Character: Peter von Kant
Released: July 6, 2022
Type: Movie
Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share his apartment and help Amir break into the world of cinema. Several months later, Amir becomes a star. But as soon as he acquires fame, he breaks up with Peter, leaving him alone to face himself.
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The French Dispatch
Title: The French Dispatch
Character: Prison Guard
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: Movie
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
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The Mauritanian
Title: The Mauritanian
Character: Emmanuel
Released: February 12, 2021
Type: Movie
The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release.
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Only the Animals
Title: Only the Animals
Character: Michel Farange
Released: December 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Following the disappearance of the glamorous and secretive Evelyne Ducat during a blizzard in the highlands of southern France, the lives of five people inextricably linked to Evelyne are brought together to devastating effect as the local police investigate the case.
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QT8: The First Eight
Title: QT8: The First Eight
Character: self (archive footage)
Released: October 21, 2019
Type: Movie
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.
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By the Grace of God
Title: By the Grace of God
Character: François Debord
Released: February 20, 2019
Type: Movie
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 children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.
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The Emperor of Paris
Title: The Emperor of Paris
Character: Dubillard
Released: December 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him. When, after an unfortunate event, he crosses paths with the police chief, he makes a bold decision that will turn the ruthless mastermind of the Parisian underworld against him.
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Old Boys
Title: Old Boys
Character: Babinot
Released: June 22, 2018
Type: Movie
In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.
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7 Days in Entebbe
Title: 7 Days in Entebbe
Character: Jacques Le Moine
Released: March 15, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.
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Mary Magdalene
Title: Mary Magdalene
Character: Daniel
Released: March 15, 2018
Type: Movie
In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher named Jesus.
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Custody
Title: Custody
Character: Antoine Besson
Released: February 7, 2018
Type: Movie
In the midst of a divorce, Miriam Besson decides to ask for exclusive custody of her son, in order to protect him from a father that she is accusing of violence. The judge-in-charge of the file grants a shared custody to the father whom it considers abused. Taken as a hostage between his parents, Julien Besson will do everything to prevent the worst from happening.
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Assassin's Creed
Title: Assassin's Creed
Character: Abstergo Güvenlik Müdürü
Released: December 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Through unlocked genetic memories that allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he's a descendant of the secret 'Assassins' society. After gaining incredible knowledge and skills, he is now poised to take on the oppressive Knights Templar in the present day.
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The Dancer
Title: The Dancer
Character: Ruben
Released: September 28, 2016
Type: Movie
A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.
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The Program
Title: The Program
Character: Johan Bruyneel
Released: September 16, 2015
Type: Movie
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.
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Title: Spotless
Character: Martin Bastière
Released: March 16, 2015
Type: TV
In London, the life of Jean, a troubled crime scene cleaner, is turned upside down when his outlaw brother Martin crash lands into his world, entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.
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Norfolk
Title: Norfolk
Character: Man
Released: January 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Set in Norfolk, amidst an idyllic, brooding landscape, an innocent teenage boy and his battle-weary father live a simple life. Days are spent hunting, fishing and daydreaming. Out-of-nowhere, disrupting this tranquility, a mysterious intense figure gives the green light for the father to complete one last mission; he is a mercenary, hired to assassinate a group of revolutionaries holed-up in a remote, disused civil service outpost. A mission that threatens to destroy not just the compound but the love between a father and his son.
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Where Were You When Michael Jackson Died?
Title: Where Were You When Michael Jackson Died?
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2014
Type: Movie
Paris, a few days after the death of the King of Pop and a few days before Christmas, he and she happen to meet in the back seat of a cab. They ride along through the streets, among the city lights, just long enough for an encounter.
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Ablations
Title: Ablations
Character: Pastor
Released: April 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He wakes up in the middle of a field without any memory at all of how he got there. Even stranger is the ugly scar on his back. But what really drives him out of his mind is that the stitches from the operation are still fresh. Has he become the victim of on organ theft? Is he missing a kidney? Pastor starts to put everything in Question; being a father, a husband, a salesman... The only thing he wants is to find out what has happened to him and nothing and nobody will stop him.
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Our Heroes Died Tonight
Title: Our Heroes Died Tonight
Character: Victor
Released: October 23, 2013
Type: Movie
France in the early 60s. Simon, a wrestler, wears a white mask. In the ring, he is known as "The Specter". He suggests to his friend Victor who has just returned from combat to be his adversary in the ring and wear a black mask, and be known as "The Slaughterer of Belleville". But for Victor, still shaken from his experience in combat, this is too much; for once in his life he would like to be the good guy, the one people cheer on. Simon then suggests they switch masks. But it proves less easy to fool the rest of the wrestling crowd...
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The Volcano
Title: The Volcano
Character: Ezechiel
Released: October 2, 2013
Type: Movie
The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull causes major disruptions to travelers' plans around the world. For Alain and Valérie, it's a catastrophe. Because to make it to the small Greek village in time for their daughter's wedding, this divorced couple, whose mutual hatred knows no bounds, will be obliged to set out on the road together.
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Grand Central
Title: Grand Central
Character: Toni
Released: August 28, 2013
Type: Movie
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.
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Just a Sigh
Title: Just a Sigh
Character: Antoine (voice)
Released: April 10, 2013
Type: Movie
In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stranger and, for the most fleeting of afternoons, imagines what the future could hold down a different road.
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Just Before Losing Everything
Title: Just Before Losing Everything
Character: Antoine
Released: January 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Julien is 10 years old. He pretends to go to school but then hides out under a bridge, his backpack filled with clothes. A few kilometers away, 15-year-old Joséphine does the same and waits for the bus.
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In the House
Title: In the House
Character: Rapha père
Released: September 26, 2012
Type: Movie
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
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Low Profile
Title: Low Profile
Character: Yvan Le Doze
Released: July 11, 2012
Type: Movie
There's nothing to keep Yvan in Paris any longer. His wife has left him to live in Thailand. His teenage daughters have chosen to live with his sister Ariane, who is as anxious as she is admirable. Yvan is ready to leave... when beautiful Emmanuelle enters his life. She makes babies as easily as she falls in love, and she's accompanied by Léo, the little boy who Yvan's wife had with another man. Yvan is going to have to change his plans.
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The Adopted
Title: The Adopted
Character: Alex
Released: November 23, 2011
Type: Movie
Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, their simple existence is thrown into disarray when Marie meets and falls in love with Alex, a customer at her bookshop. Lisa is left feeling excluded, and tension develop. But soon an unexpected accident forces all of those involved to reassess the situation and adopt a different position in each other’s lives.
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Special Forces
Title: Special Forces
Character: Captain Lucas
Released: November 2, 2011
Type: Movie
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim – to bring her home alive. This strong, independent woman and these men of duty are thrown together and forced to confront situations of great danger that inextricably bind them – emotionally, violently and intimately.
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Skylab
Title: Skylab
Character: Uncle Roger
Released: September 19, 2011
Type: Movie
It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that the Skylab space station from NASA will fall on their heads this summer. The meeting turns into a crazy weekend full of revelations, love and song.
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Lily Sometimes
Title: Lily Sometimes
Character: Pierre
Released: December 1, 2010
Type: Movie
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.
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Joseph et la fille
Title: Joseph et la fille
Character: Franck
Released: August 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Joseph has just spent 20 years in prison. After being released, he has only one obsession: to make one last heist. To perform this masterpiece, he needs an accomplice. He cannot trust anyone, so decides to prepare Julie, 20 years old. The confusion and uncertainty, however, stand between these two beings so opposite ...
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Adhemar
Released: May 12, 2010
Type: Movie
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
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Jeanine (ou mes parents n'ont rien d'exceptionnel)
Title: Jeanine (ou mes parents n'ont rien d'exceptionnel)
Character: Le père
Released: March 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Jeanine, ten, can't take it anymore from her parents, former hippies, who only think of having fun. In order to gain access to the square and organized life of which she dreams, she secretly registers for a gymnastics competition with the hope of winning the first prize: a place in a sport studies boarding school.
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The Round Up
Title: The Round Up
Character: Corot
Released: March 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
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Inglourious Basterds
Title: Inglourious Basterds
Character: Perrier LaPadite
Released: August 2, 2009
Type: Movie
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
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You Will Be Mine
Title: You Will Be Mine
Character: Copain Yves
Released: March 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Marie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma, a friend of the family who has lived alone since the death of her father. The two young women develop a strange fascination for one another, which soon develops into an intense mutual need...
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Trivial
Title: Trivial
Character: Jean-Luc
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?
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La Vie en Rose
Title: La Vie en Rose
Character: Journalist in Orly
Released: February 14, 2007
Type: Movie
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
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Hannibal Rising
Title: Hannibal Rising
Character: Chief of Police
Released: February 6, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a med student he hones his appetite for the kill.
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Foon
Title: Foon
Character: Harry
Released: November 30, 2005
Type: Movie
A quasi-musical-comedy which descends into horror, set in the early sixties in a college on the outskirts of West Philadelphia. For 15 years, the graduation ball has been the preserve of the Foons - those teenagers who are immersed in weird notions of fun and who describe themselves as "cool". As they prepare for the graduation ball, it is decided to open up invitations to the nerd underdogs. The eternal rivalry between the cool kids and the nerds is played out with colourful costumes and kooky hairdos.
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The Moustache
Title: The Moustache
Character: Serveur
Released: June 9, 2005
Type: Movie
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?
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Autumn
Title: Autumn
Character: The Bodyguard
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre is a hit man in Paris. He wants to stop; an incentive is reconnecting to Michelle, a childhood friend. He's ready to commit himself to her, but she has her own secrets: she sells bomb components to thugs. He hears rumors of a missing briefcase, which he finds in Michelle's flat. He asks no questions, and soon both of them are in trouble with Jean-Pierre's ex-employer and with her bomb buyers. Two other characters complicate the maneuvering: Jean-Pierre's best friend, who's always losing money on the ponies, and the ex-employer's new contract killer, a seemingly fragile woman. Is there any way that Jean-Pierre can protect Michelle and escape with his life? Written by
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Spin the Bottle
Title: Spin the Bottle
Character: Denis
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
When almost thirty-year olds not knowing what to do with their afternoon but playing children's games.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Pierre Michel
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Title: Festival de Cannes
Character: Self (jury)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV