Michaël Cohen

Acting

Michaël Cohen

Born

1970-12-13 (55)

Place of birth

Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Michaël Cohen (born December 13, 1970, in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, France) is a French actor, director, and writer who has been active since 1991, accumulating over 50 film and television credits. He also directed two feature films — It Begins with the End (2010) and L'Invitation (2016) — in both of which he also starred, and has worked extensively in French television since the 1990s, including a recurring role in the long-running series Tout pour la lumière (2025, 90 episodes). His most notable film credits include Lucas in Them (2006), Mehdi Jayde in Kandisha (2008), Zoe's Husband in The Art of Love (2011), Simon in Bangkok Revenge (2012), Jacques Chirac in The Law (2014), Jérôme in …

Known for

Astrid & Raphaëlle poster
8.0

Astrid Nielsen works in the library of the judicial police. She has Asperger's syndrome. With an incredible memory, she excels at analyzing files of ongoing investigations. The district commander decides to use it to the fullest, entrusting her with very complex investigations which have remained unsolved to date.

Astrid & Raphaëlle

2020

Tout pour la lumière poster
4.2

Back in her hometown of La Ciotat, a singer who gave up the stage returns to music, and must navigate between family secrets and young talent at the Studio Lumière.

Tout pour la lumière

2025

La Belle Époque poster
7.4

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.

La Belle Époque

2019

Dalida poster
6.6

Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.

Dalida

2017

Maison close poster
6.5

Paris, 1871. This is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel, 'Paradise'. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, former prostitute. She is trapped and forced to enroll in Paradise. Vera is 35 years. She knows that the end of her career as a prostitute is near. She is betting everything on the Baron Du Plessis, her main client, and the only one able to redeem her debt. Hortense is the owner of Paradise. She must take care of her girls and resist pressure from a suburban thug who is charging her money.

Maison close

2010

Puerto Ricans in Paris poster
5.7

NYPD detectives Luis and Eddie visit Paris to help gorgeous French designer Colette catch the black market thief who's ripped off her new handbag design. While Luis' girlfriend Vanessa and Eddie's wife Gloria remain in New York, the hopelessly unhip odd couple stumble through a glamorous high-fashion world brimming with charming cafes, wild nightclubs and corporate treachery.

Puerto Ricans in Paris

2015

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

An Alibi poster
6.2

A group of friends who have known each other for many years meet at Max and Lucie's house to celebrate Lucie's birthday. When they arrive, the three guests discover Max kneeling in front of the body of his wife who has been murdered. He is sure that the police will charge him because everything accuses him. Convinced of his innocence, his friends decide to give him an alibi. But the investigation tightens around Max.

An Alibi

2022

The Rebellious poster
3.2

Paris, France, April 2020. Félix, manager of a luxury hotel, decides to start a clandestine business during the first lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Rebellious

2024

Steel Butterfly poster
NR

Robert, an aging clock-maker, longs to reconnect with his son César in his final days. As César senses the atelier's stopped clocks hold a deeper meaning, he sets out to uncover the truth. Meanwhile, on the Riviera, a shadowy saboteur of timepieces nears exposure, as ambitious young journalist Émilie races to reveal a story she knows could be her greatest.

Steel Butterfly

2025

Belle Enfant poster
4.6

Emily, a whimsical young woman, has long since estranged herself from her dysfunctional family. When she learns of her mother's suicide attempt, she decides to join her, only to discover it was a setup.

Belle Enfant

2024

Dead Man Memory poster
5.3

David, a French police officer, travels to Thailand to meet Ravi – a young boy who claims to have been a criminal named Floyd in his previous life. Alongside his colleague Joanna, David enlists the young child and utilises his expertise to track down the dangerous criminal enterprise Floyd once had ties to.

Dead Man Memory

2026

Bungalow 21 poster
5.7

In 1960, two legendary couples stayed at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Simone Signoret and Yves Montand stayed in bungalow 20: they loved each other, they were beautiful, still young, full of life, at the height of their fame. But Marilyn Monroe, staying in the neighboring bungalow, was an irresistible woman whose relationship with writer Arthur Miller was on the rocks. Simone became friends with Marilyn, while Yves filmed with her, trying to resist her seduction. Unfortunately, Arthur left. The lives of four people are shattered. Neither woman will ever truly recover from this affair, and each will be plagued by doubt. Recorded on January 12 and 13, 2024, at the Théâtre de la Madeleine in Paris's 8th arrondissement.

Bungalow 21

2024

2010s · 17 titles

La Belle Époque poster
7.4

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.

La Belle Époque

2019

Dalida poster
6.6

Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.

Dalida

2017

Puerto Ricans in Paris poster
5.7

NYPD detectives Luis and Eddie visit Paris to help gorgeous French designer Colette catch the black market thief who's ripped off her new handbag design. While Luis' girlfriend Vanessa and Eddie's wife Gloria remain in New York, the hopelessly unhip odd couple stumble through a glamorous high-fashion world brimming with charming cafes, wild nightclubs and corporate treachery.

Puerto Ricans in Paris

2015

The Full House poster
5.7

Antoine, a bachelor party-goer, gets new roommates: Jeanne and her two children.

The Full House

2018

The Art of Love poster
5.9

Several interconnected chapters follow a variety of Parisian couples navigating love, desire, and relationships. Isabelle, frustrated by a year of celibacy, rejects her friend Zoé’s offer to "borrow" her husband and instead impersonates their mutual friend Amélie, who cannot bring herself to sleep with her close friend Boris. Meanwhile, the lonely Achille is stunned when his alluring new neighbor appears at his door in a negligee, proposing an affair. Elsewhere, middle-aged Emmanuelle struggles with an overwhelming attraction to every handsome man she encounters, threatening her marriage, while a young couple wrestles with jealousy. Each chapter delves into the unpredictability of love with humor and poignancy.

The Art of Love

2011

The New Adventures of Aladdin poster
4.7

A pair of losers working at department store plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch into an improvised version of Aladdin.

The New Adventures of Aladdin

2015

The Brand New Adventures of Aladdin poster
4.8

After freeing Baghdad from its terrible ruler, Aladin delays his marriage to the princess until a new dictator arrives to take over the city.

The Brand New Adventures of Aladdin

2018

All That Divides Us poster
5.5

A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends. A vanishing. Blackmail. A clash between two worlds.

All That Divides Us

2017

Bangkok Revenge poster
5.5

Manit witnessed the murder of his parents when he was just 10 years old. The killers shot him in the head, but he miraculously survived. However, the damage to his brain left him unable to experience regular human emotions. A martial arts master saved him and took him in. Twenty years later, Manit has become a master of martial arts himself. He returns to the scene of the crime, seeking justice.

Bangkok Revenge

2011

The Permission poster
4.0

Jeanne, a young modern woman, mourns her brother who died in the front a few months earlier in WW I. She can not bring herself to marry the rich and charming Adrien whom her mother intends for her. A strange feeling prevents her from loving this man who nevertheless nourishes for her strong and sincere feelings. She will nevertheless resign herself - Until the day when Bakary a Senegalese rifleman who had fought until the last moments under the orders of her beloved brother arrives on leave in the family home. The two young people who are all opposed will be irresistibly attracted to each other. Their impossible love will provoke hatred and fury. But this forbidden and secret passion will also release some dark secrets.

The Permission

2015

It Begins with the End poster
4.6

A woman, a man, a summer in Paris. Passion, break ups, reconciliations. A love story in disarray...

It Begins with the End

2010

Vicky poster
3.5

A 30-year-old woman, Victoire, the youngest member of the famous Bonhomme family and the tribe's well-behaved child, finally decides to emancipate herself by discovering alcohol, sex and... her voice. Thanks to Elvis and Banjo, a bar singer, she manages to take flight by singing about love with modesty and sex without taboos, and takes her mother with her, much to the dismay of her father and brother.

Vicky

2016

Les années perdues poster
6.0

For Marie Launey, the nightmare begins when her mother is found, with a weapon in her hand, near her father's corpse. No doubt for the police: Alzheimer's, Catherine killed her husband Jean in a fit of jealousy. Marie is convinced of her innocence, but as her sister Juliette does not fail to remind her, her absence for years perhaps affects her judgment ... And who is really that uncle Daniel recently returned from Brazil that her mother seems to confuse with her husband ? Working as a restorer of paintings, Jean had recently analyzed "The Deposition of Christ," a canvas that proves to be a copy. Had he discovered a traffic in forgers?

Les années perdues

2015

L'Invitation poster
5.5

In the middle of the night, Léo wakes up his best friend Raphaël. His car has broken down an hour away from Paris. No way is Raphaël going to pick him up, that is until the woman of his dreams kicks him out of bed. Once he gets to where Léo is waiting, he discovers there is no breakdown, but what is there waiting for Raphaël?

L'Invitation

2016

The Law poster
6.4

Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014, The Law brilliantly traces three days, in late Fall 1974, of stormy debate in the French National Assembly, around a bill which would make "voluntary termination of pregnancy" legal. Behind this bill stands a lone woman brilliantly played by a remarkable Emmanuelle Devos (also in The Other Son): Simone Veil the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. During these three days of violent debate Veil, a Jew and Holocaust survivor, is spared nothing: political negotiations, solitude, sparring arguments, insults and violence to her family. In spite of all of this, Veil never wavers.

The Law

2014

Mademoiselle Drot poster
6.3

In 1938 a young woman French woman, Benedicte Drot, is having a child and is not married. The child is placed in a religious orphanage, and when her family throws her out she's obliged to work as a governess for family Treives. She is at first horrified when she discovers that the family is Jewish, but when madame Treives is arrested by the the French militia, when leaving the free zone to join her husband in Paris, Benedicte decides to take care of the Familys newborn son and the house they left behind.

Mademoiselle Drot

2010

Croque monsieur poster
1.0

Coco Baisos, a mature woman who likes to lead a big train, finds herself once again a widow, the fifth to be more precise. Bursting with energy and natural optimism, Coco is firmly determined not to be put down by fate. She immediately starts looking for a new companion, preferably a billionaire, so as not to have to give up her habits of luxury and pomp. She would indeed be very unhappy if fate forced her to modify her lifestyle. But the wallets trimmed do not run the streets. This manhunt, longer than expected, will hold many surprises for him ...

Croque monsieur

2016

2000s · 12 titles

Them poster
6.1

Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise. They're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.

Them

2006

One Fine Day poster
5.0

François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck.

One Fine Day

2006

Shall We Kiss? poster
6.2

When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.

Shall We Kiss?

2007

La Petite Jérusalem poster
5.3

An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.

La Petite Jérusalem

2005

I've Been Waiting So Long poster
4.7

A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair with a man whom she hadn't seen in twelve years.

I've Been Waiting So Long

2004

Kandisha poster
5.3

Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a case involving a 14th century Moroccan legend, a vengeful spirit named Kandisha.

Kandisha

2008

What Love Means poster
3.3

The movie, for the most part, charts the AIDS epidemic in France from 1980 – present through the microcosm of a family, but particularly through their gay son Nicolas, who narrates the story.

What Love Means

2008

Family Hero poster
4.8

A story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" ("The blue parrot"). The innkeeper, Gabriel, dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his business to his godchildren : Nino and Marianne, whom father had been taken under Gabriel's wing when he was fifteen years old. After the reading of the will, the fate of "The Blue Parrot" is in their hands.

Family Hero

2006

Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine) poster
5.4

Isabelle Nanty is a Paris concierge, four children to look after and a fifth in gestation with a loutish and uncaring husband who runs off with the girlfried of one of the lodgers in her building. This same lodger called Le Bison has rather strange hours and both he and Dorine ( the concierge ) get on each other's nerves because each makes noise at the "wrong" time for the other ! The fact that their respective mates have run off together nevertheless bring the two together and with Dorine's children getting very attached to Le Bison, there are the makings of an "idylle" between the two of them which the return of the two offending mates fails to break

Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine)

2003

Cavalcade poster
5.2

Leo, an accomplished playboy, neglects his girlfriend and enjoys parties. His girlfriend parts from him and then, when he wants to see her once more, he suffers an accident. He survives, but his whole life is about to change when he becomes wheelchair-bound.

Cavalcade

2005

No artwork available
NR

Julien and Lea have just moved into a new apartment together. They should be happy except that Julien didn’t tell Emilie, the woman he used to live with, he was going to leave her. Urged by Lea, Julien accepts to speak with Emilie but when he arrives at her place, she has already packed her stuff and has mysteriously vanished… Julien goes looking for her.

Émilie est partie

2001

No artwork available
10.0

Marie, a pretty young woman, wanders through the aisles of a futuristic supermarket where everything, from the miracle pill to the virtual man, is for sale. Tonight, she's having a birthday party. She's invited a few old friends and their virtual companions. Everyone is young, beautiful and meek.

Bliss

2001

1990s · 5 titles

L'Opération Corned Beef poster
6.2

The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.

L'Opération Corned Beef

1991

Les Miserables poster
6.6

In WWII France, poor and illiterate Henri Fortin is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.

Les Miserables

1995

La dame aux camélias poster
8.0

The beautiful Parisian courtesan Marguerite Gauthier (Cristiana Réali), who is called a "Lady of The Camellia" because of the preference for these flowers, has many devotees among Parisian aristocrats. He really loves one - young Armand Duval (Michaël Cohen). Under the influence of the beloved father's pleas, and despite himself, he declares to Armand that he no longer loves him. She is suffering from tuberculosis, but if possible, she is in company, and renews contacts with rich devotees. Armand tries to forget about her. One evening, at a party, their paths cross again.

La dame aux camélias

1997

Le Nombril du monde poster
4.7

Tunisia, early thirties, the young and plump Bajou, lives modestly with his parents. One day after a flood, his father suddenly disappears. Thanks to his uncle and his cousin Marcel, he moves with his mother Oumi to work for the wealthy landowner Mr. Scali, a talkative and boastful man.

Le Nombril du monde

1993

The Liars poster
5.2

Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before locating Zac who has since become a homeless street bum in an expensive neighborhood. Marcus sends Zac to a posh hotel. He then sends Daisy, an ambitious secretary and aspiring screenwriter to learn what happened to the great director. It takes a lot of mutual verbal sparring and false turns (which are presented as creatively filmed vignettes that are done using a variety of techniques) from Zac before he finally tells her the truth. The two then decide to turn the story into a film. As they write, Daisy and Zac slowly fall in love. At the same time, Marcus has his hands full trying to avoid some tough Russian Mafiosos who want the money they invested back.

The Liars

1996

Series credits

Astrid & Raphaëlle poster
8.0

Astrid Nielsen works in the library of the judicial police. She has Asperger's syndrome. With an incredible memory, she excels at analyzing files of ongoing investigations. The district commander decides to use it to the fullest, entrusting her with very complex investigations which have remained unsolved to date.

Astrid & Raphaëlle

2020

Tout pour la lumière poster
4.2

Back in her hometown of La Ciotat, a singer who gave up the stage returns to music, and must navigate between family secrets and young talent at the Studio Lumière.

Tout pour la lumière

2025

Maison close poster
6.5

Paris, 1871. This is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel, 'Paradise'. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, former prostitute. She is trapped and forced to enroll in Paradise. Vera is 35 years. She knows that the end of her career as a prostitute is near. She is betting everything on the Baron Du Plessis, her main client, and the only one able to redeem her debt. Hortense is the owner of Paradise. She must take care of her girls and resist pressure from a suburban thug who is charging her money.

Maison close

2010

The Passenger poster
7.0

Mathias Freire, a psychiatrist, and Anaïs Chatelet, a homicide squad captain are connected to each other through a series of crimes inspired by Greek Mythology. United in an investigation they will have to face one another and their own demons.

The Passenger

2015

Ceux de 14 poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ceux de 14

2014

Fear by the Lake poster
6.7

A mysterious and mortally contagious virus threatens the population of Annecy, in southeastern France. A desperate race against the clock envelops to find out where the virus came from and keep it from becoming an epidemic.

Fear by the Lake

2020

Master Crimes poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Master Crimes

2023

Frérots poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Frérots

2021

Blague à Part poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Blague à Part

1998

Gloria poster
6.7

In a small Breton town, by the water, in a close-knit community where everyone knows each other, Gloria, a lawyer and mother of three on maternity leave, sees her daily life shattered when her husband disappears from overnight, without explanation.

Gloria

2021

What Love Means poster
NR

The miniseries, for the most part, charts the AIDS epidemic in France from 1980 – present through the microcosm of a family, but particularly through their gay son Nicolas, who narrates the story.

What Love Means

2008

Le Dernier Seigneur des Balkans poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Dernier Seigneur des Balkans

2005

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