10 Movies Starring Mathieu Kassovitz

Cafè au lait

Cafè au lait

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-12-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Belgium

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (854 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Lola is pregnant. But she does not know who the father is : Jamal, the black muslim, son of diplomats, or Felix, the pennyless jewish messenger. Jamal and Felix meet at Lola's, and the race begins.

See How They Fall

See How They Fall

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-08-31

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (681 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Audiard

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Jacques Audiard

Alain Le Henry

Teri White (novel)

Fullplot:

Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to follow him everywhere (as a puppy) and changed his name to Johnny to please Marx. Of course, Simon's story is related with Marx and Johnny's one. But the thriller is only a pretext for a psychological description of the three main characters.

A Self-Made Hero

A Self-Made Hero

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-09-12

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

107 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (1991 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Audiard

Genres:

DramaComedy

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Franèois Deniau (novel)

Alain Le Henry

Jacques Audiard

Fullplot:

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators.

Assassin(s)

Assassin(s)

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-05-14

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Germany

Runtime:

128 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (1559 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaCrime

Cast:

Writer:

Nicolas Boukhrief

Mathieu Kassovitz

Fullplot:

Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionless thief to be his successor.

Birthday Girl

Birthday Girl

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-02-01

Languages:

English, Russian

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (20718 Reviews)

Director:

Jez Butterworth

Cast:

Writer:

Tom Butterworth

Jez Butterworth

Fullplot:

Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John should have known. Having never been lucky in the game of love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia online. At first, things seem perfect: his new bride Nadia is a gorgeous woman, and although she may not speak much English, her skills in the bedroom more than make up for any communication problems. When Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption and crime.

Amèlie

Amèlie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-02-08

Languages:

French, Russian

Countries:

France, Germany

Runtime:

122 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

8.4 (481311 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Guillaume Laurant (scenario)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet (scenario)

Guillaume Laurant (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Amèlie is a story about a girl named Amèlie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amèlie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amèlie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost", a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. Amèlie then discovers she must become more aggressive and take a hold of her life and capture the beauty of love she has always dreamed of.

Amen.

Amen.

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-02-27

Languages:

English, French, Italian, German

Countries:

France, Germany, Romania

Runtime:

132 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (10178 Reviews)

Director:

Costa-Gavras

Cast:

Writer:

Costa-Gavras

Jean-Claude Grumberg

Rolf Hochhuth (play)

Fullplot:

In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.

Munich

Munich

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-01-06

Languages:

English, German, French, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian, Greek, Russian

Countries:

France, Canada, USA

Runtime:

164 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (166846 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Tony Kushner (screenplay)

Eric Roth (screenplay)

George Jonas (book)

Fullplot:

After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew?

Rebellion

Rebellion

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-11-16

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

136 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1871 Reviews)

Genres:

ActionDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Mathieu Kassovitz (scenario)

Pierre Geller (scenario)

Benoèt Jaubert (scenario)

Serge Frydman (with the participation of)

Philippe Legorjus (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

April 1988, Ouvea island, New Caledonia. 30 policemen held hostage by a group of Kanak separatists. 300 soldiers sent from France to restore order. 2 men face to face: Philippe Legorjus, captain of the GIGN and Alphonse Dianou, head of the hostage takers. Through shared values, they will try to win the dialogue. But in the midst of a presidential election, when the stakes are political, order is not always dictated by morality.

Vie sauvage

Vie sauvage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-10-29

Languages:

French

Countries:

Belgium, France

Runtime:

102 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (254 Reviews)

Director:

Cèdric Kahn

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Okwari Fortin (book)

Shahi'Yena Fortin (book)

Xavier Fortin (book)

Cèdric Kahn (screenplay)

Nathalie Najem (screenplay)

Laurence Vidal (book)

Fullplot:

Paco and Nora once were an ideally matched couple. Both loved nature, nomadic or semi-nomadic life and agreed to raise their children far from the corruption of the consumer society. But Nora, unlike Paco, grew tired of such a lifestyle and left Paco taking their children with her. Paco would not accept what he considered a betrayal, all the more since Nora had obtained custody of the children. Taking advantage of his access to his children, Paco took flight with his two sons, Tsali and Okyesa. Their escape was to last an amazing eleven years...

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