Alexis Manenti

Acting

Alexis Manenti

Born

1982-02-12 (44)

Place of birth

Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Alexis Manenti (born 12 February 1982) is a French actor and screenwriter, most noted for the 2019 film Les Misérables. He was the winner of the César Award for Most Promising Actor at the 45th César Awards, and the Lumières Award for Best Male Revelation at the 25th Lumières Awards, for his performance. With co-writers Ladj Ly and Giordano Gederlini, he won the Lumières Award for Best Screenplay, and was nominated for the César Award for Best Original Screenplay and the European Film Award for Best Screenwriter.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 32 titles

The Rapture poster
6.7

Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup.

The Rapture

2023

Athena poster
6.6

Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.

Athena

2022

Banger poster
4.8

When cops recruit a has-been DJ to bust a quirky criminal gang with ties to his rival, he spots a chance to mix his way back to the top with a banger.

Banger

2025

Ad Vitam poster
6.2

When he and his pregnant wife are attacked in their home, a former elite agent becomes trapped in a deadly manhunt tied to his own painful past.

Ad Vitam

2025

No artwork available
NR

After leaving prison, Alice takes a job as a waitress in a small cafeteria that sits next to an auto repair garage. She befriends a young man named Milo, who works at the garage, and slowly it becomes apparent that Alice's real reason for getting close to him is deeply personal: Milo is her son.

Milo

2027

Wild Diamond poster
6.4

Liane, 19 years old, daring and fiery, lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus in the South of France. Obsessed with beauty and the need to become “someone”, she sees reality TV as her opportunity to be loved... Fate smiles upon her when she auditions for “Miracle Island”.

Wild Diamond

2024

Fishlove poster
6.0

Daniel, a biologist studying the disappearance of fish, is haunted by paternity. It is by looking for a woman who could be the mother of his children that he will come across a strange fish and discover what he really lacks: love.

Fishlove

2020

Maldoror poster
6.4

When two girls go missing, Paul Chartier, an impulsive young police recruit, is assigned to “Maldoror”. This secret unit has been set up to monitor a dangerous sex offender. When the operation fails, fed up with the limits of the legal system, Chartier embarks on a solitary hunt to bring down the culprits.

Maldoror

2024

The Mohican poster
6.6

Joseph is one of the last coastal shepherds in Corsica. His land is coveted by the underworld for a real estate project but he chooses not to give in. When he leaves the man who came to intimidate him, the godfather’s own son, between life and death, he becomes the prey of a merciless hunt.

The Mohican

2025

Le Faux Soir poster
NR

November 1943, German-occupied Belgium. In the face of grave danger if caught, the Independent Front, a Belgian resistance organization, publishes a spoof edition of Le Soir to satirize the German occupiers and the nation’s main propaganda-controlled newspaper. Le Faux Soir is considered the first act of media hacking in history.

Le Faux Soir

2026

Love According to Dalva poster
7.0

One evening, Dalva is suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.

Love According to Dalva

2023

Hood Witch poster
6.0

A woman earns a living by smuggling exotic animals and illegal goods, developing a mobile app that links users with mystical marabout healers, but one of the user's consultations takes a tragic turn facing a violent backlash.

Hood Witch

2023

Undercover poster
4.9

October 2015. French customs seize seven tonnes of cannabis in the heart of the capital. The same day, Hubert Antoine, a former mole with a shady past, contacts Stéphane Vilner, a journalist at Libération. He claims to be able to demonstrate the existence of State drug trafficking led by Jacques Billard, prominent media figure and high-ranking French police officer. Suspicious at first, the young journalist finally dives into an investigation that will lead him to the darkest corners of the Republic.

Undercover

2022

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent poster
6.4

1993. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

2025

Les Indésirables poster
6.2

A local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb.

Les Indésirables

2023

Too Many Beasts poster
7.1

In the French countryside, wild boars ravaging crops spark an open war between farmers and members of a gentlemen’s hunting club, who feed the game between hunts. Brun, a bankrupt farmer, struggles to keep his farm afloat. When the club’s president pushes him to his limits, Brun shoots him and disappears. A year later, Fulda, a volatile police officer just transferred to the region, leads the investigation. Still struggling after a recent breakup, and as wild boars proliferate across the region, he is pushed to the brink of sanity.

Too Many Beasts

2026

Guardians of the Formula poster
6.8

In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.

Guardians of the Formula

2023

Flesh & Fuel poster
NR

A lonely French trucker's routine life on the road takes an unexpected turn when he encounters a Polish driver. As feelings develop, he struggles to balance his demanding job with a chance at love, determined to make their connection work.

Flesh & Fuel

2026

No artwork available
NR

Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a revolutionary French general. The son of a nobleman, Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, and an African slave, Marie-Cessette Dumas, he became the first and highest-ranking Black leader in the French military and served under Napoleon Bonaparte. But despite his many exploits, which earned him the nickname of “Black Devil,” his role in the French Revolution was underplayed and he was even denied a full pension and legion of honor by Bonaparte.

Dumas: Black Devil

2027

Tomb of Dreams poster
NR

Louis and Lénore have sought refuge in a lonely house by the sea. As in a dream, zombies appear, wandering at nightfall. Do they really exist?

Tomb of Dreams

2026

Enjoy Your Stay poster
NR

To avoid losing custody of her six-year-old daughter in Manila, Luz, an undocumented Filipina cleaner working in a luxury Swiss ski resort, must earn money at any cost – even if it means transgressing her own moral limits.

Enjoy Your Stay

2026

Pieces of a Foreign Life poster
7.3

Woman flees war-torn Syria, leaving family behind. Seeking asylum in Bordeaux, she meets French lawyer who helps her rebuild life. Unexpected relationship forms between them amid her struggle to resettle.

Pieces of a Foreign Life

2026

Karmapolice poster
6.3

After a tragedy, Angelo, an idealistic cop throws himself into the troubled life of his new neighborhood of Château Rouge, Paris. But one case, for which he will sacrifice everything, obsesses him more than the rest.

Karmapolice

2024

The Lifeline poster
6.0

24 December 1916. A truck carrying mail is stopped at a German checkpoint and riddled with bullets. Inside, a man lies dead. Another man and a woman, on a postal mission, claim innocence in the death of their companion and their presence in enemy territory. The radio that had been guiding them had apparently cut out, leaving them stranded in no man’s land. And so, on Christmas Eve 1916, a cross- examination begins to uncover the real reason why enemy postmen and couriers are in the trenches.

The Lifeline

2025

In His Own Image poster
6.3

Fragments of the life of Antonia, a young photographer for a local newspaper in Corsica. Her commitment, her friends, and her loves intertwine with the major political events of the island, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the fresco of a generation.

In His Own Image

2024

Fake News poster
4.1

After stealing a gaming console from migrants, Sébastien tries to sell it to Patrick, a good guy. So far, nothing too serious. But when a rapper straight out of jail, a TV host willing to do anything to go viral and click traffickers get involved... Sébastien and Patrick become France’s most wanted bad guys.

Fake News

2021

No artwork available
NR

A discarded toilet seat is thrown into the river, drifting through La Seine from paris to le havre, two bin collectors, a couple in crisis and three children passionate about fishing magnet will cross its path. no one can stop it and no one can remain unscathed by it. it ends its journey in the sea like so many of our excesses.

Derive

2023

Sororité poster
NR

Djéné is a 45-year-old chambermaid employed by a subcontracting agency, working in a large Parisian hotel with deplorable working conditions. One evening, she discovers one of her colleagues unconscious, a victim of the frantic pace imposed by their managers. Djené decides to bring her colleagues together to make their voices heard.

Sororité

2020

Third Grade poster
10.0

After being constantly bullied at school by her classmate Kevin, 8-year-old Claire discovers that the boy who is giving her hard time is also suffering and might need her help…

Third Grade

2021

Hommes de Bois poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hommes de Bois

2026

Mab an Tarz : fils de l’écume poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mab an Tarz : fils de l’écume

2021

Lady Dallas poster
NR

Lucas lives in a farm in southwest France. For his 17th birthday, his uncle Nico offers him a special surprise : a trip to Lady Dallas.

Lady Dallas

2020

2010s · 19 titles

Les Misérables poster
7.6

Stéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad in Montfermeil, in the suburbs of Paris, France, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel “Les Miserables”. Alongside his new colleagues Chris and Gwada – both experienced members of the team – he quickly discovers tensions running high between local gangs. When the trio finds themselves overrun during the course of an arrest, a drone captures the encounter, threatening to expose the reality of everyday life.

Les Misérables

2019

Orphan poster
5.5

A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine.

Orphan

2017

Mea Culpa poster
6.3

Franck and Simon are both good cops. They work as partners. But their lives take a tailspin when Simon, driving drunk, causes a tragic car wreck. A few years later, out of the police, he is forced to take matters into his own hands when his family is in danger.

Mea Culpa

2014

Marry Me, Dude poster
6.2

Yassine asks his best friend Fred to marry him in order to avoid deportation...

Marry Me, Dude

2017

Just a Breath Away poster
6.3

When a deadly mist engulfs Paris, people find refuge in the upper floors of the buildings. With no information, no electricity and hardly any supplies, Mathieu, Anna and their daughter Sarah try to survive the disaster.

Just a Breath Away

2018

The World Is Yours poster
6.7

To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.

The World Is Yours

2018

Ghettotube poster
NR

Sofiane, a high school student from the projects who is mad about movies, decides to create an internet site where he posts fake news videos in order to make a little money. Carried away by the success of his business, he slowly loses control.

Ghettotube

2015

The Truk poster
6.0

Fresh out of jail, Ulysse has only one idea in mind: making money. Confronted by his depressed mother, Gabrielle, the bills that never stop piling up and his desire to live his life to the full, he makes a plan. With his best friend, David, he travels from rave to rave, selling a mixture of water and Ketamine from their food truck. Together, they hit the road...

The Truk

2018

Stalin's Couch poster
4.0

Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.

Stalin's Couch

2016

The Stopover poster
5.2

At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of decompression leave with their unit at a five-star resort in Cyprus, among tourists. But it's not that easy to forget the war and leave the violence behind.

The Stopover

2016

The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin poster
6.7

During his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award, Nicolas Chauvin – a farmer-soldier, a veteran of the Revolutionary Army and the Napoleonic Wars, “father” of the chauvinism that bears his name – embarks on a monologue and recounts his life story. At the bend of a road, a spectral encounter shocks his (non-)existence.

The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin

2018

The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady poster
4.0

Tired of being a banal architectural ornamental, a sculpture runs from the Louvre to confront real life on the streets of Paris.

The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady

2019

Les Misérables poster
7.0

With a gun at his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento has just joined the Seine-Saint-Denis anti-crime brigade. With his teammates, he develops specific methods.

Les Misérables

2017

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

A Rising Star poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Rising Star

2019

No artwork available
5.6

Every night, a mysterious woman wearing a burka taunts police officers patrolling the projects. Meanwhile, Vince, a former street legend, must face his demons and avoid falling off of the wagon, and back into the streets...

Violence en réunion

2015

9 Fingers poster
6.7

In the middle of the night, Magloire is smoking a cigarette in an abandoned train station when the police shows up for an ID check. He starts running with no luggage, no future until he meets a dying man from whom he inherits a fortune. Magloire is now pursued by a gang. He becomes their hostage, but accomplice too. As he doesn’t anything to lose. Like someone who gets away with everything, someone with no expectations…

9 Fingers

2018

Waiting for Jupiter poster
4.0

Twenty-one-year-old Liane has just learnt that she has been accepted to participate in a reality TV program. Convinced that her real life is about to begin, she gets rid of everything around her in order to radically embrace this great upheaval.

Waiting for Jupiter

2018

Nogochi poster
NR

NOGOCHI is the story of three protagonists who share an extraordinary past. SIBIRI is a young emancipated slave who fails on the African coastline after the wreck of his boat. He’s adopted by a Master Donso Hunter that will teach him all about Africa. He will be chosen by the spirits to carry out an exceptional mission. The magic amulet of their village has been stolen by a French renegade, the Colonel Pierre de Fontenoy. SIBIRI will hunt him down to get the magic amulet back, because if not well used, it’s power can be very dangerous. During the manhunt, they come across WARABA, who since the assassination of her family by the Colonel, has a wound so deep that she has gone back to the wild. SIBIRI, WARABA and the COLONEL struggle for their lives and freedom. They seek revenge, power and a bewitched fetish. But they are yet to know that their destinies are linked…

Nogochi

2019

Undated · 3 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Les Misérables poster
7.6

Stéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad in Montfermeil, in the suburbs of Paris, France, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel “Les Miserables”. Alongside his new colleagues Chris and Gwada – both experienced members of the team – he quickly discovers tensions running high between local gangs. When the trio finds themselves overrun during the course of an arrest, a drone captures the encounter, threatening to expose the reality of everyday life.

Les Misérables

2019

Zanaar poster
2.0

In May 2020, volcanic activity around the world suddenly ceased, without any scientific explanation. On Reunion Island, the director of the Volcanology Observatory believes she has found evidence that the volcano is not dead but merely dormant. A prominent volcanologist and his assistant are sent from mainland France to investigate this hypothesis.

Zanaar

2021

Zanaar poster
2.0

In May 2020, volcanic activity around the world suddenly ceased, without any scientific explanation. On Reunion Island, the director of the Volcanology Observatory believes she has found evidence that the volcano is not dead but merely dormant. A prominent volcanologist and his assistant are sent from mainland France to investigate this hypothesis.

Zanaar

2021

Brick Head poster
NR

In an Eastern town, a young gang leader is terrorizing his neighbourhood. He forces everyone to carry a brick as a sign of submission. One day, an adoles-cent humiliated by the "tyrant" decides to fight back.

Brick Head

2022

Brick Head poster
NR

In an Eastern town, a young gang leader is terrorizing his neighbourhood. He forces everyone to carry a brick as a sign of submission. One day, an adoles-cent humiliated by the "tyrant" decides to fight back.

Brick Head

2022