David Ayala

Acting

David Ayala

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Known for

Candice Renoir poster
7.2

Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!

Candice Renoir

2013

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie poster
7.4

French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

2009

Clem poster
6.2

Clem follows the life of a young teenager, Clémentine, who becomes a mother at the age of sixteen, at the centre of tensions between her parents and Julien, the father of her child Valentin. It deals with the problems of teenage life and that of a mother with a strong personality.

Clem

2010

The Traveller poster
7.0

Hunting down killers to help bereaved families get justice is more than just a job; it’s a duty for Thomas Bareski, a retired, hotshot police detective eager to reopen unsolved murder cases in a mission to find the culprits.

The Traveller

2019

Paolo poster
5.3

Follow working-class Paolo's unsettling intrusion into the life of Téophane Tolbiac, a young and up-and-coming politician.

Paolo

2026

Minimum Security poster
8.2

Corinne runs Chénoise prison with her unlikely team: By-the-book Jeff, JP who's always been closer to inmates than colleagues, and rookie Stéphanie.

Minimum Security

2026

Film credits

2020s · 27 titles

Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II) poster
NR

Third and final film in the Kaamelott franchise.

Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)

2027

Freedom poster
6.3

Inspired by the true events of one of France's most notorious non-violent robbers, Bruno Sulak, in the 1980s. He led multiple heists, then captured public attention for his many daring escapes from police custody...always to reunite with his beloved lover and accomplice Annie, becoming both France's Public Enemy #1 and an icon of Freedom.

Freedom

2024

Beating Hearts poster
7.2

Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.

Beating Hearts

2024

A Family of Bastards poster
5.7

After the death of his father, Mohamed discovers the living of a step-brother and a step-sister. Together, they must manage the suspicious bar they inherited of linked to criminality, drug traffic and prostitution.

A Family of Bastards

2026

Shepherds poster
7.2

A young Montreal advertising executive, converted to a Provençal shepherd, has various misadventures with a civil servant who has cavalierly quit her job.

Shepherds

2024

The Big Hit poster
7.0

Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.

The Big Hit

2020

Just an Illusion poster
7.3

In 1985 suburban Paris, 12-year-old Vincent lives with his distant older brother and quarrelling parents. Amid laughter and unease, he navigates friendship and first love, while beginning to confront the adult world.

Just an Illusion

2026

Once Upon My Mother poster
7.0

In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family. Roland is born with a club foot that prevents him from standing. Against everyone's advice, she promises her son that he will walk like the others and that he will have a fabulous life. From then on, Esther will do everything in her power to keep this promise. Through decades of trials and miracles of life, this film is the story of a true, funny and moving story, that of an incredible destiny and the greatest love there is: that of a mother for her child.

Once Upon My Mother

2025

Misericordia poster
6.4

Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man's widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie's short stay in the village take an unexpected turn.

Misericordia

2024

Bon Voyage, Marie poster
7.1

An unexpected road trip brings a dysfunctional family together for one last journey with their elder, sparking moments of connection, joy, and reconciliation.

Bon Voyage, Marie

2025

Les K d'Or poster
4.3

Noah, who grew up believing he’s Gaddafi’s secret son, is now a treasure hunter obsessed with finding the Libyan leader’s lost gold, scattered across the Sahel after his death. To reach it, he teams up with Zoulika—formerly Louise—an endearing, unpredictable firebrand freshly out of civic reintegration camp. Their cover: joining forces with Ryan, a 52-year-old conservative, visually impaired late bloomer determined to run the legendary Marathon des Sables. Noah wants his father’s gold, Zoulika wants to slip across the border, and Ryan wants to fulfill a childhood dream. Off they go, heading straight into the Sahel.

Les K d'Or

2026

Kaamelott: The First Chapter poster
6.6

Hidden in Rome, King Arthur is planning his return to oppose the army of his former friend Lancelot.

Kaamelott: The First Chapter

2021

No artwork available
NR

Biopic about the famous French lawyer and politician, Robert Badinter.

Badinter

2027

Hugo poster
6.4

Imbued with Victor Hugo, the actor Robert Zucchini searches for his place between the stage and life. Every evening, he fills theaters by sharing his love of words. Until the day his daughter, whom he hasn’t seen grow up, reappears.

Hugo

2026

Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I) poster
6.0

After reclaiming Kaamelott from Lancelot's tyrannical rule, Arthur spares his life, defying Celtic gods. Knights must prove themselves for Table Round seats while Arthur faces new threats as king.

Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)

2025

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les princes

2027

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Des femmes comme les autres

2027

This Is the Goat! poster
5.4

France, 1640. Lawyer Maitre Pompignac has never won a case: all his clients are dead, either drawn and quartered, impaled or scalded... One day, a young woman comes to him and asks him to defend an inno- cent girl: 11-year-old Roxane, wrongly accused of killing a Marshal of France. Pompignac accepts, with- out realising that Roxane is in fact not an 11-year-old child, but a goat...

This Is the Goat!

2024

Savage Days poster
3.8

Nowadays, in Paris, a student who occasionally prostitutes, a freshman drug dealer, a trader who makes a ton of money... Money, pleasure and ambition are the cement of their relationship. In today’s world, they love and hurt each other.

Savage Days

2021

Authentik poster
6.5

Biopic about French cult hip-hop duet Supreme NTM. A story of Paris suburbs, protests, police brutality that shaped the music of JoeyStarr and Kool Shen.

Authentik

2021

South Sentinel poster
5.7

The journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush in Afghanistan, has returned to France. Soon mixed up in trafficking opium with Mounir, his brother-in-arms who was wounded in the ambush, Lafayette, a foster child, and tormented war hero, chooses a new family and life – a criminal’s life. To escape this vicious circle of violence, Christian has to learn how to love.

South Sentinel

2022

In the Name of Blood poster
5.9

In the working-class neighborhoods of Nice, a pillar of the local Georgian community is murdered. His son Tristan, who aspires to become an orthodox priest, finds himself finds himself alone with his grieving mother. Gabriel, his older brother with a troubled past, reappears from a long exile to make amends by redeeming his family honor.

In the Name of Blood

2025

Hyacinthe poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hyacinthe

2025

Story of Annette Zelman poster
6.1

1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is bright for them. But the deportation of the Jews of France will change their destiny. Upset at the idea of their only son marrying a Jewish woman, Jean Jausion's parents decide to keep young Annette Zelman away from them... and denounce her to the Gestapo. The machine was launched, but it was too late. Annette was deported to Auschwitz on June 22, 1942.

Story of Annette Zelman

2022

‎Chroniques D'un Indic poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

‎Chroniques D'un Indic

2025

Les Bois assassins poster
7.3

Malik Dahmani, a brilliant but hot-headed police captain from the Paris region, who, after exposing police brutality, is forced to go into hiding in the Cévennes mountains to lay low. But stuck in this Cévennes valley, which is too peaceful for his liking, as if time had stopped... Malik is going round in circles and can only think about going home. Then a body is discovered in the forest. Our cop finds himself having to investigate alongside Gaëlle, a local police lieutenant, who, like the inhabitants of this remote area, seems keen to preserve its secrets.

Les Bois assassins

2024

Diego poster
7.0

Vanessa, 21, lives with her brother Diego, 20, who has a disability, and their father Antonio, a strong-willed Gypsy man. The happy, well-oiled routine of this trio is disrupted by Diego’s sexual awakening. While Antonio is proud to introduce his son to a virile form of masculinity, Vanessa realizes that her brother prefers men.

Diego

2025

2010s · 3 titles

Series credits

Candice Renoir poster
7.2

Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!

Candice Renoir

2013

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie poster
7.4

French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

2009

Clem poster
6.2

Clem follows the life of a young teenager, Clémentine, who becomes a mother at the age of sixteen, at the centre of tensions between her parents and Julien, the father of her child Valentin. It deals with the problems of teenage life and that of a mother with a strong personality.

Clem

2010

The Traveller poster
7.0

Hunting down killers to help bereaved families get justice is more than just a job; it’s a duty for Thomas Bareski, a retired, hotshot police detective eager to reopen unsolved murder cases in a mission to find the culprits.

The Traveller

2019

Paolo poster
5.3

Follow working-class Paolo's unsettling intrusion into the life of Téophane Tolbiac, a young and up-and-coming politician.

Paolo

2026

Minimum Security poster
8.2

Corinne runs Chénoise prison with her unlikely team: By-the-book Jeff, JP who's always been closer to inmates than colleagues, and rookie Stéphanie.

Minimum Security

2026

Lucky Luke poster
6.2

Lucky Luke, the legendary lone cowboy, must team up with Louise, a fearless young woman searching for her missing mother. Together, they face the dangers of the Wild West, ally with old enemies like the Daltons or Billy the Kid - and learn to get along. This quest may reveal a far greater threat and lead Luke back to the origins of his legend.

Lucky Luke

2026

Of Money and Blood poster
7.7

The scam of the century, which occurred in France and Europe between 2008 and 2009. Billions gone up in smoke on the new financial market of "carbon quotas" invented to fight against global warming. The association of Belleville crooks with a trader from the wealthy neighborhoods, tracked by an obsessive investigator. When human passions are unleashed beyond simple interest. Based on the investigative book by Fabrice Arfi.

Of Money and Blood

2023

Syndrome [E] poster
6.5

He is Franck Sharko, a crabby cop at the end of his rope. She is Lucie Henebelle, a lieutenant on the anti-crime squad obsessed with evil. Sharko and Lucie investigate top-secret scientific experiments and programs.

Syndrome [E]

2022

Johnny Biloute poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Johnny Biloute

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Land of Blood and Wisdom poster
6.8

1557, The Wars of Religion threaten France. Behind the ramparts of the castle of Mespech, surrounded by a dangerous, hostile and intolerant world, the Siorac family fights for its survival and its convictions.

Land of Blood and Wisdom

2024