Manuel Blanc

Acting

Manuel Blanc

Born 1968-06-12

Acting credits

Persona non grata poster
4.6

José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret.

Persona non grata

2019

Renaître poster
NR

After the death of her young actor husband, Rose, a 60-year-old artist, tries to overcome her grief with the help of her gay friend Ivan. He introduces her to "hot guys" just as she likes them, hoping to revive her taste for life. First off is Rémi, a homeless ex-teacher, then Omar, an undocumented, street living, dancer ready to do anything to get by... With Renaître, Remi Lange, surrounded by a group of friends, offers us a tender and simple film, camp and borderline, a film that navigates between moments of sadness, pleasure, fun and happiness. Queer and cheap but already a cult classic!

Renaître

2025

I Don't Kiss poster
6.2

A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.

I Don't Kiss

1991

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel poster
6.5

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

1996

A Little Comfort poster
6.6

Arnaud and Guillaume are in their last year of high school. Summer is approaching and like any teenager, they're thinking about cigarettes, alcohol and sex. But boys or girls? Future looks so blurry when you're a teenager!

A Little Comfort

2004

Exes poster
4.6

Virginie, a very famous writer, is caught up in her past. A serial killer with inhuman cruelty, Exes, the hero of his first novel, wants to take revenge on her.

Exes

2006

Down in Paris poster
3.2

Richard, a 40-year-old filmmaker conquered by an unexplained anxiety attack, lets go of his current shoot and wanders through nocturnal Paris, in search of answers, solace and inspiration. During this sleepless night, at random encounters, sometimes warm, sometimes disturbing, crossing foreign figures, unknown bodies or familiar faces, Richard will face his fears and question his deep desires... until dawn.

Down in Paris

2022

A Crime poster
4.9

"Un Crime" takes place over a single night, between 10pm and 6am. It takes place in a single setting - a millionaire's apartment in Lyon. The film is about the conflict between two men, alone, face to face in the closed world of the apartment. The first man is a famous lawyer named Dunand. The second is Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel, Dunand's rich client, twenty years his junior. Throughout the night, Dunand tries to track down the truth. Did Frédéric kill his father and mother, in particularly barbarous circumstances ?

A Crime

1993

Alive poster
5.5

After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.

Alive

2002

Capitaines des ténèbres poster
10.0

In 1899, a French military column, led by Captains Julien Chanoine and Paul Voulet, set out to conquer Lake Chad in order to unite the French colonial empire. The two captains were violent and ruthless towards the local populations and their colonial soldiers. The Voulet-Chanoine mission sinks further and further into unknown Niger territory while the lack of food supplies is felt. Little by little, Voulet falls into a megalomaniac delirium.

Capitaines des ténèbres

2006

L'esprit du jeu poster
8.0

Thomas engages in a strange game of billiards with an invisible opponent.

L'esprit du jeu

2001

Le Roi de Paris poster
7.8

Victor Derval is returning home after a performance when he is hailed by Lisa, a young Hungarian woman. Her motives are mysterious; is she simply a star-struck peasant girl, or an ambitious, manipulative aspiring star?

Le Roi de Paris

1995

Before You Leave poster
6.1

A group of friends in their thirties meet for a weekend in a mountain chalet for what will be a sort of review of an era in their lives and their relationships.

Before You Leave

2005

Moi, Abou, menacé de mort poster
NR

In 2029, Europe is under the rule of far-right regimes. In France, the National Party has just come to power. Homosexuality is criminalized across Europe, except in France. Abou, a gay migrant, arrives in Marseille to seek asylum. Left homeless, he endures the violence of life on the streets. When he finally manages to contact the only association authorized by the regime to assist migrants, he is confronted with a brutal reality.

Moi, Abou, menacé de mort

2026

Sex, Okra & Salted Butter poster
6.0

An extramarital affair leads to Hortense’s separation from her very traditional African husband, who is in for a ride as he learns about her love affair, his eldest son’s secret love life, and the responsibilities of single parenthood.

Sex, Okra & Salted Butter

2008

Little Gay Boy poster
4.4

A young gay boy, from his birth to his teenage years, in which he experiments his sexuality and his own boundaries, to the day he finally meets his father. In three acts: Act I — L'Annonciation or The Conception of a Little Gay Boy (2011); Act II — Little Gay Boy, ChrisT is Dead (2012); and Act III — Holy Thursday (The Last Supper) (2013).

Little Gay Boy

2013

No artwork available
3.7

Delphine is 25 years old. She has a passion for swimming and is preparing her lifeguard diploma with great enthusiasm and diligence. She loves Laurent and lives with him at his father's house in the Drôme Provençale. During a competition, she meets David and falls in love with him. He obtains a transfer to Montélimar, where Delphine lives, to be closer to her. But she is pregnant by Laurent.

Je t’aime, je t’adore

2004

1999 Madeleine poster
6.0

1999 Madeleine is the first step in an ambitious project by the French filmmaker Laurent Bouhnik to make one film per year between 1999-2009, recounting the turn of the century in an interweaving narrative pattern. Episode one is about Madeline, a lonely woman obsessed by religion and cleanliness. Her solitary existence leads her to place an advertisement for a man willing to share his life with a 'single, working 35-year-old.' She is a woman of our times who is caught between the paradoxes of modern life and individual needs for communication. The world offers her opportunities to satisfy material needs but, unfortunately, this is to the detriment of her spiritual needs.

1999 Madeleine

1999

Poorly Extinguished Fires poster
8.0

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.

Poorly Extinguished Fires

1994

Exit poster
5.1

A mentally unstable man who doesn't have a firm grip on reality must investigate whether or not he's a serial killer.

Exit

2000

The Blue Island poster
5.3

France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her impoverished aristocrat father Alexandre and adolescent cousin Robinson, the war still seems far away, apart from the fact that Mellie's rich and unpopular fiancé André has been drafted into the army. For Robinson and his friends the same age, including the temperamental Bertrand, the war is merely a game they play in the remoteness of the blue island in the lake.

The Blue Island

2001

Deux poster
5.2

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.

Deux

2002

Mitterrand à Vichy poster
NR

The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A convinced Pétainist, he will become a leading resistance fighter.

Mitterrand à Vichy

2008

Where Horses Go to Die poster
3.0

Daniel is an artist who has lost his desire to paint. An unexpected meeting with three « working girls » one evening marks the beginning of a surreal adventure. Later that night, the wildest dreams and the worst nightmares of his three new muses unravel in his imagination.

Where Horses Go to Die

2017