Xavier Beauvois
Also Known As: 자비에 보브와, 泽维尔·布瓦
Biography: Xavier Beauvois ( born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His film Don't Forget You're Going to Die was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. His film Of Gods and Men received the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as France's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Xavier Beauvois, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Auchel, Pas-de-Calais, France
Birthday: March 20, 1967
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Gender: Male
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Drift Away
Overview: Laurent, a young brigade commander in a gendarmerie in a small town in Normandy is planning his wedding with Marie, his partner and mother of his daughter. He loves his job despite facing social misery on a daily basis. One day, a farmer who might try to kill himself runs away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-03
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The Young Lieutenant
Overview: A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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Villa Amalia
Overview: Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-08
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North
Overview: The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-19
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Ponette
Overview: After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping her mother will somehow come back. Confused by the religious explanations provided by adults, and challenged by the cruel taunts of a few children at school, little Ponette must make her way through her emotional turmoil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-09-25
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Twice Upon a Time
Overview: Mathias, aboard a ship with his wife, sees a boy with a striking resemblance to himself and is called - Mathias. He then tracks him to a town north of France to discover that the boys parents are exactly like his parents, only to know that his life is payed over again just 30 years post. He then chooses to be the guest in his own life, while he has a life to live at hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-13
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Lovers
Overview: In a rural French town, a 15-year-old closeted gay boy breaks free from his idolization of his older and ostensibly free-wheeling half-sister, learning to trust himself and become independent.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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The Killer
Overview: Leo Zimmermann, a business man from Paris dotes on his daughter. He proposes a strange offer to his killer when he is in town to execute Zimmermann.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-09
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Don't Forget You're Going to Die
Overview: Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty, he tries everything he can to avoid it, eventually launching into a hedonistic lifestyle—out of control with drugs, alcohol, and nightclubs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-01-03
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Life's Little Treasures
Overview: This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-12
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The Wind of the Night
Overview: A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation. After an affair with the married Hélène, the young man tries to escape her obsessions on a road trip with Serge, a taciturn relic of the 60s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-03
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Early One Morning
Overview: Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office. As he waits for the inevitable police assault, this ordinary man looks back over his life and the events that led him to commit such an act.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-05
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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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Marie-Octobre
Overview: After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-15
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Making Of
Overview: Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting to protect their factory from being relocated. But nothing goes as planned... His producer Viviane wants to rewrite the ending and is threatening to cut the budget; his own crew goes on strike; his personal life is in shambles; and to make things worse, his lead actor Alain is an egocentric jerk. Joseph, an extra who wants to get into the film industry, agrees to direct the making of and shoot the behind-the-scenes. He takes his role very seriously and starts following around the crew, capturing all this mess... What follows is proof that the making of can sometimes be far better than the film itself!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-01-10
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Meeting with an Angel
Overview: Judith, a young nurse, is so meek in front of her husband Roland, that she can't manage to tell him that she has lost her job. When he learns this, he starts to follow her...He discovers that in a secret life, she is another mysterious and sublime person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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In a Rush
Overview: Ada was settled in her life, she was pleased with it, or thought she was. She was one half of a couple who seemed happy, she'd had a child, was even due to get married, and wham... she met Paul... And this Paul was writer to boot, who lived alone with his grown daughter, had an exceedingly intrusive mother, and had the unfortunate idea of losing his father when this story had hardly got off the ground... Life started to gather speed. It was about time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-19
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Day and Night
Overview: Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also accompanies them. There, Alexandre meets the strange lady-oracle Sonia (Lauren Bacall). As the film opens, the melancholy Alexandre is visited by the sensuous actress Laure (Arielle Dombasle) and her producer Raoul Fillipi (Karl Zero) who is going to make a movie of one of Alexandre's best-loved books. Laure is determined to play the part of the heroine and is willing to resort to seduction to get it. At the same time, Ariane is involved in a passionate affair with French-Mexican seismologist Carlo (Xavier Beauvois). While all of these characters wrangle and tangle with their different agendas, the local residents prepare for a violent revolution. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-02-12
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Turf
Overview: This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-02-13
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The Sky Above Paris
Overview: Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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Daniel Asleep
Overview: The love uncertainties of a young homosexual in search of himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-06-25
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Bodybuilder
Overview: Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men haven't seen each other for several years.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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House of Pleasures
Overview: The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-21
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Disparus
Overview: Sex, avant-garde art, and Communist ideology are at the heart of this compelling historical drama. The film opens just as the Soviet Empire crumbles in 1989. As Louise mourns the death of her lover, she discovers the journal of Alfred Katz, an earnest Jewish radical and erstwhile poet who disappeared in 1938. With the aid of a history professor, Louise unravels what happened to Katz. In the feverish climate of pre-WWII Paris, Katz reveals himself as both a fervent Trotskyite and an unabashed romantic. At a party thrown by the noted surrealist Andre Breton, he meets Mila, a beautiful part-time model, part-time whore. As soon as he falls for her, he learns of her other lover Felix, a fervent Stalinist. Bored with politics, Mila eventually marries Katz. Soon betrayal and politics catch up with the poet.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-05-15
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Let the Sunshine In
Overview: Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-27
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Chocolat
Overview: Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-02-03
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Jean Douchet, Restless Child
Overview: Three young cinephiles follow Jean Douchet, question his friends and former students. This documentary reveals the man and his critical philosophy, a part of the history of Cahiers du Cinema and this art of loving to which he has devoted his existence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-31
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Maryline
Overview: A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-15
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Paris Pigalle
Overview: Paris, 1982. Franck and Serge are police investigators in charge of making a good catch in the Parisian porn industry. In order to infiltrate the mafia, they take over a peep show in Pigalle riddled with debts. In attempt to jump start the business, they begin to produce short porn films.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-19
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Go, Toto!
Overview: A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. The arrival of Toto the marcassin at Madeleine's house, Vincent's trip to India and his troubles with the monkeys, or Joseph's dreams provoked by the continuous pressure machine, are three stories that Pierre will share and that in one way or another summon up our relationship with the animal, with this other neighbor
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-04
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Django
Overview: The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-26
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Overview: This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-25
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À bicyclette
Overview: A young man being schizophrenic remission is seen taken by an obsession for bikes. He remembers a childhood where they exit traumatized by his inability to pedal. Nevertheless, he tries again to ride a bike and fall. It ends at the hospital. Two amazing fellows will then take over and help him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Jean Douchet ou l’art d’aimer
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-01
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24 Bars
Overview: It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But the act comes to a tragic end. Left stunned, Helly meets Marie, who takes her in, on her way to the coast. There they encounter Chris. All three will end the night together. It’s their last move in joy and perdition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-05
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Female Agents
Overview: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
Genres: War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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The Summer House
Overview: A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with her daughter for a few days of vacation. Amidst her family, friends and the house staff, Anna has to handle her fresh break-up with her partner and the writing of her next film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-01
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The Witnesses
Overview: Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-07
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A Castle in Italy
Overview: Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-30
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Sailing Home
Overview: Passionate about sailing, Jean-Paul is going through a rough patch. Up to his ears in debts, he pulls away from his family. Determined to take his life back in hand, he signs up for Virtual Regatta, the online version of Vendée Globe boat race. To enhance his impression of being a “real” skipper, Jean-Paul holes up for 3 months on his boat in his garden. His voyage, unlike any other, will allow him to reconnect with his family and, even more, with himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-13
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The Chameleon
Overview: The amazing true story of Frédéric Bourdin, who after having plundered all the centers for runaway minors and deliquents in Europe, even thought he has come of age, now passes himself off as Nicholas Barclay, a 13-year-old American who had vanished three years ago. To his astonishment, Nicholas's family welcomes him like their son, leaving Interpol and the FBI aghast. It is the beginning of a race against time for the investigators, family and Bourdin. But who is manipulating whom? And who is Frederic Bourdin in reality?
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-23
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Disco
Overview: Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his son refuses to send him their son for the holidays unless he can offer him a real vacation, not just going to bars of the French port city of Le Havre. Penniless, the only way he can see his son is by winning a dance contest organized by his friend Jackson, with the prize of a vacation to Australia for two.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-02
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Disco
Overview: Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his son refuses to send him their son for the holidays unless he can offer him a real vacation, not just going to bars of the French port city of Le Havre. Penniless, the only way he can see his son is by winning a dance contest organized by his friend Jackson, with the prize of a vacation to Australia for two.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-02
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