22 Movies Starring Vincent Cassel

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.

La Haine

La Haine

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-02-23

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (92008 Reviews)

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Fullplot:

The film follows three young men and their time spent in the French suburban "ghetto," over a span of twenty-four hours. Vinz, a Jew, Saèd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up in these French suburbs where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. During the riots that took place a night before, a police officer lost his handgun in the ensuing madness, only to leave it for Vinz to find. Now, with a newfound means to gain the respect he deserves, Vinz vows to kill a cop if his friend Abdel dies in the hospital, due the beating he received while in police custody.

The Apartment

The Apartment

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-10-02

Languages:

French, English, Japanese

Countries:

France, Spain, Italy

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (10989 Reviews)

Director:

Gilles Mimouni

Fullplot:

Max is on his way to Tokyo. He lives in Paris and likes to flirt but has decided to get married. By chance, he seems to have seen Lisa, his greatest love, in a cafe. Max forgets everything, his trip to Tokyo and his fiance. Obsessed with meeting Lisa he finds out where she lives and hides in the apartment. However, a different girl, called Alice, finds Max in the flat. Alice looks quite similar to Lisa, and they have sex. To complicate matters further, Alice is also the girlfriend of Max's buddy Lucien and Lisa is followed by an older man.

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.

The Crimson Rivers

The Crimson Rivers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-09-27

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (46039 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Christophe Grangè (novel)

Jean-Christophe Grangè (screenplay)

Mathieu Kassovitz (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Parisian murder detective commissioner Pierre Niemans is called to Gueron, a self-sufficient, prestigious university in a mountain valley, to investigate the murder on 32-year old professor and librarian Rèmy Caillois, whose corpse was found 50 meters high on a steep mountain side, naked, horribly covered in bruises and bleeding wounds, the result of some five hours of bestial torture including quasi-surgical amputation of hands cauterized to prevent bleeding to death- and eyes. Guernon is a closed society of virtually incestuous scientists, de facto succeeding to their parents' posts; the eye-doctor, formerly on the staff, says hereditary genetic diseases are the price of such elitism, but in recent years spread to the simple farming families. Inspector Max Kerkerian examines two crimes in the town: a school break-in with theft of old photos and archive papers as well as a graveyard desecration of Judith Herault, the daughter of local nun Andrèe, who lives in a dark cell since 15 years and mumbles the demons who made an attempt of both of their lives have returned to prevent the child endanger their secret. As both police investigations continue, the loner sleuths meet; secrets and other corpses are found, till it all ties together.

Read My Lips

Read My Lips

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-07-26

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (10363 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Audiard

Cast:

Writer:

Jacques Audiard

Tonino Benacquista

Fullplot:

Young secretary Carla is a long-time employee of a property development company. Loyal and hardworking, first to arrive and last to leave, Carla is beginning to chafe at the limitations of her career and is looking to move up. But as a 35-five-year-old woman with a hearing deficiency, she is not sure how to climb out of her humdrum life, though she is confident in her own abilities. Into her life comes Paul Angeli, a new trainee she decides to hire. Paul is 25 years old and completely unskilled, but Carla covers for him when the need arises because of his other qualities - he's a thief, fresh out of jail and very good-looking. It's a case of good meeting bad.

Renegade

Renegade

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-02-11

Languages:

English, Athapascan languages, German, French, Spanish, Apache languages

Countries:

France, Mexico, UK

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.2 (8998 Reviews)

Director:

Jan Kounen

Cast:

Writer:

Matthieu Le Naour (screenplay)

Alexandre Coquelle (screenplay)

Gèrard Brach (screenplay)

Louis Mellis (screenplay)

Jan Kounen (screen story)

Gèrard Brach (screen story)

Jean Giraud (comic book)

Jean-Michel Charlier (comic book)

Carlo De Boutiny (early collaboration)

Matt Alexander (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Cassidy Pope

Fullplot:

Alledged wayward adolescent Louisiana gentleman Michael 'Mike' Blueberry is dumped by his family with a Wild West uncle. The brute's only 'motivation' is a stick. After a nearly fatal encounter in the brothel with Wallace 'Wally' Sebastian Blount, Mike is left for dead in the desert. A Chiricuahua (Apache) medicine man's family finds, nurses and initiates him. After the shaman's death, Mike returns and becomes the town's honest 'deputy' marshal. Gold fever strikes, with staged Indian brutalities to allow rivaling fiends to invade their sacred mountains.

Irreversible

Irreversible

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-05-22

Languages:

French, Spanish, Italian, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (78256 Reviews)

Director:

Gaspar Noè

Fullplot:

Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything.

Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1

Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-11-19

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Canada

Runtime:

133 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (21818 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Abdel Raouf Dafri (scenario)

Abdel Raouf Dafri (adaptation)

Jean-Franèois Richet (adaptation)

Fullplot:

The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats - from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks.

Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1

Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-11-19

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Canada

Runtime:

133 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (21862 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Abdel Raouf Dafri (scenario)

Abdel Raouf Dafri (adaptation)

Jean-Franèois Richet (adaptation)

Fullplot:

The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats - from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks.

Black Swan

Black Swan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-12-17

Languages:

English, French, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(505565 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Mark Heyman (screenplay)

Andres Heinz (screenplay)

John J. McLaughlin (screenplay)

Andres Heinz (story)

Fullplot:

Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.

Adrift

Adrift

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-05-01

Languages:

Portuguese, French

Countries:

Brazil

Runtime:

97 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (2111 Reviews)

Director:

Heitor Dhalia

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Heitor Dhalia

Vera Egito (collaborating writer)

Fullplot:

It is the 80's, and fourteen year-old Filipa is spending her vacation at Bèzios with her father, Mathias, her alcoholic mother, Clarice, and her two younger siblings in their beach house. When Filipa feels that the relationship of her parents is deteriorating, she snoops in her father's office. There she finds pictures of Mathias with his American lover èngela hidden in a drawer of his desk. When Mathias and Clarice announce to their children that they are not going to live together for a period, the confused Filipa believes that èngela is the responsible for the separation of her parents and discovers that the marriage of Mathias and Clarice is built on a bed of lies.

Lascars

Lascars

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-06-17

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Germany

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1017 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Tony and Jose are best friends and petty crooks, but tension strikes the duo when Jose falls for the rich Clemence and wants to go straight.

Mesrine Part 1: Killer Instinct

Mesrine Part 1: Killer Instinct

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-10-22

Languages:

French, English, Arabic, Spanish

Countries:

France, Canada, Italy

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (24657 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jacques Mesrine (book)

Abdel Raouf Dafri (scenario)

Abdel Raouf Dafri (adaptation)

Jean-Franèois Richet (adaptation)

Fullplot:

Mesrine: Killer Instinct -- the first of two parts -- charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit. Thirty years after his death, his infamy lives on. Mesrine was helped along the way by beautiful and equally reckless Jeanne Schneider (Cécile de France), a Bonnie to match his Clyde. Mesrine made up his own epic, between romanticism and cruelty, flamboyance and tragedy.

A Dangerous Method

A Dangerous Method

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-11-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Germany, Canada, Switzerland

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (74215 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Christopher Hampton (screenplay)

Christopher Hampton (play)

John Kerr (book)

Fullplot:

Suffering from hysteria, Sabina Spielrein is hospitalized under the care of Dr. Carl Jung who has begun using Dr. Sigmund Freud's talking cure with some of his patients. Spielrain's psychological problems are deeply rooted in her childhood and violent father. She is highly intelligent however and hopes to be a doctor, eventually becoming a psychiatrist in her own right. The married Jung and Spielrein eventually become lovers. Jung and Freud develop an almost father-son relationship with Freud seeing the young Jung as his likely successor as the standard-bearer of his beliefs. A deep rift develops between them when Jung diverges from Freud's belief that while psychoanalysis can reveal the cause of psychological problems it cannot cure the patient.

The Monk

The Monk

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-07-13

Languages:

French

Countries:

Spain, France

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (2827 Reviews)

Director:

Dominik Moll

Cast:

Writer:

Matthew Lewis (novel)

Dominik Moll (screenplay)

Anne-Louise Trividic (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Madrid, in the seventeenth century. Abandoned at the doorstep of a monastery, Ambrosio has been brought up by the Capucin Friars. After becoming a friar himself, he becomes an unrivaled preacher whose sermons draw crowds and earn him the admiration of all. Admired for his extreme rigor and absolute virtue, Ambrosio is certain he is safe from any temptation. But Satan has not said his final word...

Our Day Will Come

Our Day Will Come

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-09-15

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (2735 Reviews)

Director:

Romain Gavras

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Romain Gavras (scenario and dialogue)

Karim Boukercha (scenario and dialogue)

Fullplot:

The outcast red-haired teenager Rèmy is bulled at school and lives with his estranged mother and sister in France. The also red-haired psychiatrist Patrick befriends Rèmy and helps him to release his repressed hatred and sexuality. When Rèmy sees a picture of red-haired people in Ireland, he forces Patrick to travel with him to his dreamland.

Trance

Trance

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-03-27

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

UK, USA, France

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(85621 Reviews)

Director:

Danny Boyle

Cast:

Writer:

Joe Ahearne (screenplay)

John Hodge (screenplay)

Joe Ahearne (story)

Fullplot:

A fine art auctioneer mixed up with a gang joins forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. As boundaries between desire, reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur the stakes rise faster than anyone could have anticipated.

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2016-01-20

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Germany

Runtime:

112 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (8887 Reviews)

Director:

Christophe Gans

Cast:

Writer:

Sandra Vo-Anh (scenario and dialogue)

Christophe Gans (scenario and dialogue)

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (book)

Fullplot:

An unexpected romance blooms after the the youngest daughter of a merchant who has fallen on hard times offers herself to the mysterious beast to which her father has become indebted.

Partisan

Partisan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-10-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (235 Reviews)

Director:

Ariel Kleiman

Fullplot:

Alexander who, raised to see the world through Gregori's eyes, is starting to think for himself.

Tale of Tales

Tale of Tales

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-05-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

Italy, France, UK

Runtime:

125 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1961 Reviews)

Director:

Matteo Garrone

Cast:

Writer:

Giambattista Basile (book)

Edoardo Albinati (screenplay)

Ugo Chiti (screenplay)

Matteo Garrone (screenplay)

Massimo Gaudioso (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The film serves as Garrone's English-language debut and will interweave three separate story strands bookended by brief bits in which Italians Alba Rohrwacher and Massimo Ceccherini will play a street circus family. In one tale Salma Hayek will play a jealous queen who forfeits her husband's life. In another, Vincent Cassel plays a king whose passion is stoked by two mysterious sisters.

Mon roi

Mon roi

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-10-21

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

130 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (139 Reviews)

Director:

Maèwenn

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Etienne Comar (screenplay)

Maèwenn (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio. Why did they love each other? Who is this man that she loved so deeply? How did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion? For Tony, a difficult process of healing is in front of her, physical work which may finally set her free.

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