Xavier Mathieu

Acting

Xavier Mathieu

Acting credits

Animal Totem poster
5.8

From Paris–Beauvais Airport to La Défense, with his wheeled suitcase in tow, Darius makes his way on foot through the countryside and the suburbs to complete a mysterious mission—leaving no carbon footprint.

Animal Totem

2025

The Measure of a Man poster
6.6

At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?

The Measure of a Man

2015

Saint Amour poster
5.7

Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. This year, his father suggests they finish it together, but a real wine trail, across the French countryside. Accompanied by Mike, a young, quirky taxi driver, they set off in the direction of France’s major wine regions. Together, they are going to discover not only the wine trails, but also the road that leads back to Love.

Saint Amour

2016

Abbé Pierre - A Century of Devotion poster
6.6

The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.

Abbé Pierre - A Century of Devotion

2023

The Consolation poster
5.9

Victim of vertigo and unexplained discomfort, Flavie, a television host, resolves to consult a psychiatrist. The latter suggests a test of the past that she would have concealed and proposes to browse together a photo-album of her childhood. The cliché of a teenager with a sad look will wake up buried memories ...

The Consolation

2017

Patients poster
7.4

After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a little mobility while others receive the verdict of the handicap for life. Despite everything, hope and friendship help them endure their difficulties.

Patients

2017

The Finishers poster
6.9

Julien, 17, is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy. Despite their love for him, his family is gradually falling apart under the strain of dealing with his disability. In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him in the Ironman race in Nice (French Riviera), a triathlon in which his father has previously competed.

The Finishers

2013

Chroniques d'un indic poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chroniques d'un indic

2025

I Feel Good poster
5.6

He’s lived for too long off his parents. It’s time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his own. One-time gigolo and a borderline bum, he knows what he wants – to become rich and famous. He even has a business plan: tourism combined with cheap plastic surgery. Jacques moves in with his older sister, Monique, who manages an Emmaus village in the south west of France. And before long, the smooth-talking chancer has convinced a group of workers to pool their meagre funds and set out on a trip to a clinic in Bulgaria, where all their dreams of a brighter and more beautiful future will all come true. If only…

I Feel Good

2018

Sœurs et demie poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sœurs et demie

2026

The Horizon poster
8.2

On the northern outskirts of Paris, where housing projects rise out of fields, Adja, 18, burns with the desire to live intensely. While her brother breaks out as a pro soccer player, her best friend blows up as an influencer on social media, and her mother struggles to save her hometown in Senegal, Adja has only a blurred vision of her future. With Arthur, who becomes more than a friend, her political and environmental awareness rises, and Adja joins the fight of her generation.

The Horizon

2022

Remember Us poster
5.7

Felix goes the university and leaves the family home. Perhaps it would be time for Carole and Benoît to think about their relationship. But how to reinvent themselves after 20 years living together? Unless it is already too late.

Remember Us

2019

Illiterate poster
6.8

Leo Cramps, 30, is illiterate. One day, having failed to read instructions, he is the victim of an accident at the factory where he is a worker. Immobilized, he meets his neighbor, a nurse and a single mother passionate about reading.

Illiterate

2018

Quinze kilomètres trois poster
NR

Their teacher, their classmate, their cousin, tell about the drama of two girls who lost this patience of people who don't hope any more. They walked 15 KM 300 to throw themselves form cliffs.

Quinze kilomètres trois

2014

The Contis poster
NR

For the 1,120 Continental workers, the closure of the plant came as a shock! Determined to face up to their destiny, they decide to do battle alone against the mighty multinational. They used every possible means, avoided all the traps and learned a lot about themselves. The human adventure goes beyond news headlines, revealing a tribe facing a challenge where their livelihoods are at stake. Their view of work, society and the crisis is both pertinent and lucid. Part documentary, part fiction, they play their own roles.

The Contis

2013