Francis Leplay
Also Known As: Francis Leple
Biography: Francis Leplay is a French actor and writer. An alumnus of France's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and Sciences Po, he began acting on television in episodes of the French detective series Julie Lescaut and Navarro. His first film role was in Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's J'ai horreur de l'amour (I Hate Love) in 1997. His career took off in the 2000s, and he soon started acting in films by directors Sofia Coppola, Noémie Lvovsky, Arnaud Desplechin, and Benoît Jacquot as well as in the TV series Spiral. He has also acted in theater productions with directors Denis Podalydès and Lambert Wilson in venues such as Lincoln Center, the Mossovet Theatre, and the Bouffes du Nord. The Éditions du Seuil published two of his novels, 2006's Après le spectacle, a work of autofiction comparing intermittent acting work and romantic uncertainty, and 2009's Samuel et Alexandre, which follows two men staking out the bounds of their friendship. In 2021, Leplay and French-American filmmaker Isidore Bethel co-directed the docufiction hybrid film Acts of Love, which premiered at Hot Docs. Source: Article "Francis Leplay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
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Birthday: July 25, 1967
Age: 57 years old
Gender: Male
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The Good Teacher
Overview: Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control. Allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-03-27
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Kings & Queen
Overview: Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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Intrusions
Overview: Pauline, une riche héritière, a été mariée contre son gré par son père à un de ses employés, François, qui l'avait mise enceinte.Quand, quelques mois plus tard, son mari lui annonce qu'il veut la quitter, Pauline, furieuse, laisse sur le téléphone de ce dernier des menaces de mort.Alexis Target, un ouvrier qui travaille dans la maison de Pauline, entend la jeune femme proférer ces menaces.François meurt, le soir même, dans un accident de voiture.Le jour de l'enterrement, Alexis revient voir Pauline en affirmant qu'il a exaucé son souhait et a tué François.Alexis entre alors par effraction dans la vie de Pauline. Car lui aussi poursuit une vengeance...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-09-03
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Modern Love
Overview: Several couples break up and get back together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-10
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Love Bites
Overview: Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly bodyguards into the office of the host, von Bulow, who won't accept Antoine's admission of lying, gives him $100,000, and promises $900,000 more when led to Jordan. Enticed by the money, Antoine, with the help of his friend Étienne, begins his search. He follows trails through Paris's night scene, gets beaten up and bitten, and meets Jordan's sister, Violaine. After a surreal night, he's hooked on her charms but leery of continuing his pursuit of Jordan. Von Bulow insists. Can he find Jordan, get his reward, and attract Violaine?
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-21
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Zim and Co
Overview: Because of a motorcycle accident, a young man from the poor outskirts of Paris must find a steady job in order to avoid being sent to prison. He gets into more trouble trying to do that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-08-17
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Not My Type
Overview: Marcia, a classy young Parisian singer, is recording an album with her idol Daredjane, a '70s rock icon. When Daredjane dies accidentally, Marcia needs to get approval from Daredjane's rights-holder, Anthony, a suburban market vendor in his thirties, to release their album. But Anthony never liked his distant relative, let alone her music. Their two worlds clash between good and bad taste, sophistication and rudeness, sincerity and lies. Unless love gets in the way...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-22
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Brother and Sister
Overview: 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 this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-20
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Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen
Overview: Chronicle of the last months of Marie-Antoinette.Accused of having conspired against the new republic,with her children taken away and guillotined husband,in a rigged trial as the result of political negotiations and power struggles.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-24
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Ce que vivent les roses
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-09
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Kill Skills
Overview: An assassin accidentally kills his fiancee, who happens to be the daughter of an Israeli gangster. Forced to flee, he starts working with a former mercenary, and they travel all over Europe doing dirty work for a rich industrialist.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-01
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Jealous
Overview: A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-08
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Rai
Overview: Raï is about a gang of youths in a Parisian suburb.This is the multicultural environment in which Mezz, Aziz, Laurent, Nordine, Poisson and the others have grown up. There is no future in Garges-les-Gonesses. Unemployment is high, drugs and violence are a part of everyday life. The opportunity to escape seems nonexistent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-06-28
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The Price to Pay
Overview: Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunching alone every day, one day he decides to invite his chauffeur to join him, and a relationship quickly develops as the two find they have much in common. Are they just cash machines for their wives? Don't they deserve some love in return? Jean-Pierre confiscates his wife's credit card, but things don't turn out exactly the way he'd hoped...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-04-04
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Time Regained
Overview: 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 shaped his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-19
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Only Girls
Overview: After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than the judicial system, like a mutual interest in shoes. Carole allows Tina to crash on her chesterfield... Carole spots a pimp trolling for young girls at a café. Carole failed to put him away the last time, but now, with Tina agreeing to be the bait, she has a chance for better luck... The two find they complement one another well, like champagne and cassis. Carole needs to go to Annecy to crack a crooked casino case. Annecy happens to be Tina's home town... Written by David Carless
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-11
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Clémence
Overview: Clémence is a fulfilled woman, happy with her job as an investigating judge and her family. But everything changes when she learns that her husband, Philippe, is cheating on her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-10-29
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Fils de
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-09-03
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Robespierre
Overview: After a long absence, Max returns to Paris and settles in with his father in the lively Belleville district. He wanders the streets, curious about others, eager to meet new people, but soon finds himself confronted with a profound malaise.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-06
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Jamel Show
Overview: Jamel is given carte blanche at CANAL+ for an hour, the comedian took this opportinity to gather friends and guests for a comedy special to celebrate the end of the millennium.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-12-31
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Les Cowboys
Overview: Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.
Genres: Drama Thriller Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-25
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Overview: A staging of Pierre Corneille's play "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" by Denis Podalydès.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-04
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Nelly
Overview: A high-class prostitute by choice, Nelly Arcan’s colorful life is recreated in a multi-layered and stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing Nelly’s alter egos: the neurotic writer, the vulnerable lover, the call girl and the star. Nelly shocked the literary world with her elegant writing and the lurid details of sex work in her autobiographical first novel, Whore, which became a critically acclaimed bestseller. Despite unprecedented success, Nelly’s remarkable life ended in tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-20
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Bright Days Ahead
Overview: Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-19
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Tomorrow and Thereafter
Overview: Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person who hovers at the edge of madness. It is a story of a unique love between a daughter and her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-27
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Farewell, My Queen
Overview: A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-21
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A Violent Desire for Joy
Overview: Region of Occitania, France, 1792. As the storm of revolution devastates the country, young monk Gabriel and his companions live peacefully in the Franciscan monastery of Saorge, near the Italian border. But everything changes with the arrival of the beautiful Marianne and a military detachment.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-26
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3 Hearts
Overview: A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-09
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Marie Antoinette
Overview: The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-24
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I Hate Love
Overview: Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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Youth
Overview: Juliette, twenty, falls in love. At the same time her father is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-07-02
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Rien dans les poches
Overview: 25 years of the life of Marie, a Parisian party girl, first teenager leaving her mother at 17, then short star of the song, and finally mother of a teenage girl, Esther, who flees as she fled her mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-14
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My Best Part
Overview: Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-28
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Opération Finot
Overview: Charles Finot, a municipal employee, becomes the scapegoat of a local corruption scandal. A wild, wacky escape ensues. When he learns that he has been betrayed by Ada, his colleague and the woman he's in love with, Charles must take matters into his own hands.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-01
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Who You Think I Am
Overview: Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-02-27
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The Clearstream Affair
Overview: Journalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-expanding anti-corruption investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke. Their paths will lead them to the heart of a political/financial intrigue, which will rock the foundations of Europe and the French government itself.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-02-11
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Le Mental de l'équipe
Overview: A staging of Frédéric Bélier-Garcia and Emmanuel Bourdieu's play "Le Mental de l'équipe" by Frédéric Bélier-Garcia and Denis Podalydès. In this comedy, two professional soccer teams go head-to-head. The players observe different tactical schemes proposed by the coach, under the guidance of a psychological trainer, who ensures the team's mental strength.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-02-19
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Ma caméra et moi
Overview: Max has two obsessions: filming God and the girls. His first camera, he drowns him at the age of six while trying to film a friend's "dick". The second, he steals it from a Japanese tourist couple. For the third, he seduces the saleswoman who ends up agreeing to undress. Until one day, understanding that the blind are decidedly more gifted than the sighted, she decides to cheat on him ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-07-10
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Looking for Hortense
Overview: Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a mountain of routine and disenchantment. To help keep Zorica from getting deported, Iva gets Damien to promise he’ll go to his father, a state department official, for help. But Damien and his father have a distant and cool relationship. And this mission is a risky business which will send Damien spiraling downward and over the edge...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-05
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The End of the Iron Age
Overview: In a film consisting entirely of fictitious found-footage, we discover how a young activist, Ulysse, provokes a nationwide cataclysm by stealing a micro-organism developed by a state laboratory: the "mycelium". This microorganism has the ability to degrade all metals and their components, and its spread would risk taking the whole of civilization back to the Stone Age.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-04-02
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