Jonathan Zaccaï

Acting

Jonathan Zaccaï

Born

1970-07-22 (56)

Place of birth

Brussels, Belgium

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

Jonathan Zaccaï (born 22 July 1970) is a Belgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He is the nephew of René Kalisky. His acting credits include The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A Distant Neighborhood, The True Story of My Life in Rouen, The Role of Her Life, They Came Back. He received the Magritte Award for Best Actor for Private Lessons.

Known for

Highlander: The Series poster
7.4

Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.

Highlander: The Series

1992

The Bureau poster
8.2

Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.

The Bureau

2015

Burger Quiz poster
7.4

A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host.

Burger Quiz

2001

Robin Hood poster
6.4

When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.

Robin Hood

2010

Monsieur Spade poster
6.2

Detective Sam Spade is pulled out of his tranquil retirement in France to investigate a series of brutal murders.

Monsieur Spade

2024

Downton Abbey: A New Era poster
7.2

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.

Downton Abbey: A New Era

2022

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Downton Abbey: A New Era poster
7.2

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.

Downton Abbey: A New Era

2022

The Morning After poster
5.7

Fed up with her cheating husband, Louise, 45, takes off for a weekend in Corsica. But after a wild night of unbridled passion with a man who winds up dead, Louise is unwittingly mistaken for his secret, longtime girlfriend by his Corsican fearsome but loving mother.

The Morning After

2020

The Man in the Basement poster
5.6

A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple tries desperately to cancel the sale but to no avail. Worse, Mr. Fonzic becomes a threat to their family as he befriends their teenage daughter on whom he seems to exert a perverted influence.

The Man in the Basement

2021

On the Wandering Paths poster
6.3

Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, travels regularly through the world. Someday, climbing a hotel frontage while drunk, he falls from high and into a deep coma. When he awakes, he has difficulties walking but, against everyone's advices, he decides to walk through France, following forgotten pathways...

On the Wandering Paths

2023

Résistantes poster
6.7

1944. In France, devastated by the German occupation, part of the population resists the yoke of the occupiers, men and women who become heroes despite themselves by becoming active members of the Vaucluse resistance. Mother Madeleine, head of an institute for deaf girls, is one of these heroic women. She hides Jewish children and members of the Resistance in her convent, in defiance of the German threat.

Résistantes

2025

Life Lessons poster
6.3

Noémie, an experienced screenwriter, meets up with Vincent, her first childhood love, at the film school where he is now the director. Through an extraordinary masterclass where intimacy rubs shoulders with the universal and reality flirts with fiction, Noémie will teach Vincent and his students that the art of writing a screenplay is the art of living passionately.

Life Lessons

2023

Les Malvenus poster
5.6

After the trial concerning the inheritance of the family farm, which pits him against his brother, Luc finally fulfills his desire to leave Paris and his job as an engineer to live out his childhood dream: to start a snail farm. Carole, his partner and part-time yoga teacher, enthusiastically welcomes this change. So they leave the city for the countryside. Thrilled to embark on this new adventure, the couple moves into the part of the farmhouse that belongs to Luc, paying little attention to the adjoining part inherited by his brother!

Les Malvenus

2024

Un petit miracle poster
6.0

Nothing goes well for Juliette! The school where she used to teach has burned down, and her unique class will have to be dispatched to the four corners of the department. To avoid this, she proposes a surprising solution: to install her class at the Poppies, the local old people's home, the only place that can accommodate them for the time of the work. For the children as well as for the residents, the cohabitation will not be easy, but will transform them forever. Inspired by a true story.

Un petit miracle

2023

2010s · 20 titles

Robin Hood poster
6.4

When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.

Robin Hood

2010

The White Crow poster
6.6

The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.

The White Crow

2018

Remi, Nobody's Boy poster
7.9

At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its hard sides - he will learn the harsh life of acrobat and sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog capi and of the small monkey Joli-Coeur, his long trip through France, made for meetings, friendships and mutual assistance, leads him to the secret of its origins.

Remi, Nobody's Boy

2018

Sink or Swim poster
6.9

40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.

Sink or Swim

2018

With Love... from the Age of Reason poster
5.5

The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, when she was living in poverty with her mother and brother in a small village in southern France. She decides to go back to her birthplace to get the lawyer to stop the letters, but also to visit her childhood sweetheart and her long-forgotten brother, in order to find peace within herself.

With Love... from the Age of Reason

2010

If You Die, I'll Kill You poster
6.2

In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his fiancee Siba to Paris. She's due to arrive in the next few days. The two men strike up a friendship and when Avdal dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Philippe finds himself left to organize the funeral arrangements. What should he do with the body? Siba arrives in Paris, and soon learns that Avdal has died. She is taken in by a group of Kurdish men and before long she also meets Philippe - all of whom are quite smitten by her beauty. Meanwhile, Avdal's father Cheto, a devout Muslim, comes to Paris to grieve for his son. He intends to force Siba to return to her homeland, but the young woman has now had a taste of freedom.

If You Die, I'll Kill You

2011

A Distant Neighborhood poster
7.0

Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his past, Thomas will not only have to re-live his first love, but also try to understand the reasons for his father’s mysterious departure. Can you change the past by living it again?

A Distant Neighborhood

2010

White Snow poster
5.9

Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.

White Snow

2010

Play It Like Godard poster
3.9

Jean-Christophe Kern, known as JC, is not a teenager like any other: he won the Palme d’Or at the age of 15, the Cesar at 16. This year, he is trying to graduate from high school.

Play It Like Godard

2012

Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder poster
6.2

February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition in 1994 to take the town hall of Hyères under the banner of the UDF, Yann Piat methods and a speech that upset both policies, businessmen, and middle.

Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder

2012

Paper Souls poster
6.2

A funeral-speech writer gets a new lease on life when he meets a widow who commissions him to write a piece for her 8-year-old son.

Paper Souls

2013

Wildcats poster
7.3

Orphan, Oskar lives with Elvis and Fanny Egger, his guardians. Oskar is waiting for one thing, the majority, to finally be able to go to Zimbabwe and start a new life. While Oskar strives to raise money to get there, Elvis takes Oskar's success and makes it cost him to graduate. The balance of power is becoming more and more tense, swinging into a violence that will push Oskar to definitively abandon childhood, and Elvis, to fall the mask of his ambition and his madness.

Wildcats

2017

The Poisoning Angel poster
4.4

In 1800, Brittany is on its knees, overwhelmed by the regime in place and by the omnipotent clergy. It founders in an economic slump without end in sight and, in the middle of all this, a young, suffering girl pushes back as best she can. She is known as the "Poisoning Angel," an isolated child, mistreated by life and rocked by morbid thoughts. She will become one of the world's most notorious serial killers and will sow death, perhaps merely to be looked at and loved.

The Poisoning Angel

2017

Cerise poster
5.5

Cerise is fourteen years old but she looks twenty. Cerise grew up on the outskirts, but now she's exiled to Ukraine. Cerise wears excessive amounts of makeup, but she still has a little girl's dreams. Cerise doesn't know her father, even though she's going to have to live with him. Cerise has only ever thought about herself and now she finds herself in the middle of a revolution.

Cerise

2015

Chambre noire poster
4.9

No synopsis available yet.

Chambre noire

2013

French Dolls poster
4.6

Louise, Sam, Lili. Three women who don't know each other but whom will be forced to meet, get together, and compare themselves to each other by the wild will of evolution.

French Dolls

2014

Sous le figuier poster
6.2

Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are in the midst of an existential crisis. Brought together by Selma, 95 and seriously ill, they will spend a memorable summer on the banks of the Moselle. How ironic that the one whom they had intended to help to die should help them to live...

Sous le figuier

2013

Cornouaille poster
5.5

A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.

Cornouaille

2012

Miséricorde poster
5.6

Thomas, a European, has come to Québec for some recreational fishing on his own. He then embarks on the road leading to the north of Canada, chasing after a black truck that killed the son of a young Amerindian woman. This Swiss cop in exile wants justice to be done. He has, however, other reasons for wanting to do the right thing.

Miséricorde

2016

Je te survivrai poster
4.8

Forty year old Jo is talented a property broker, but a complete catastrophe as a family man, father and husband, and with a neighbor he can't stand. one day he does something he never should have done.

Je te survivrai

2014

2000s · 19 titles

The Beat That My Heart Skipped poster
6.9

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

2005

The Returned poster
5.5

The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.

The Returned

2004

Private Lessons poster
5.1

An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.

Private Lessons

2009

Room of Death poster
6.3

While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discover the body of a kidnapped 12-year blind girl, Melody, in a warehouse near the site of the hit-and-run. They determine that the kidnapper saw the girl's father bringing the ransom to him and also witnessed the hit-and-run and the men stealing the ransom.

Room of Death

2007

The Best Day of My Life poster
5.3

Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.

The Best Day of My Life

2005

A NY Thing poster
3.4

Masquerading as another man, Antoine flies to New York for a three-day stay and promptly falls in love with Alice, who's dating someone else. When that doesn't work out for him, Antoine turns to the city itself for inspiration.

A NY Thing

2009

You and I poster
5.0

In Paris, Ariane and Lena are sisters. Ariane writes photo novellas for the magazine "Toi et Moi." She's emotional and her long-time boyfriend, Farid, has her in a state because he won't propose, won't ask her to live with him, and often is unavailable. Lena is a cellist, quiet and circumspect in life and in her playing. She lives without passion with her boyfriend François; they're talking about having a baby.

You and I

2006

The Rashevski Tango poster
5.3

Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their 'gojim' (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.

The Rashevski Tango

2003

Seaside poster
5.6

Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.

Seaside

2002

Simon Konianski poster
5.5

Simon, 35, has returned to live temporarily with his father. They make life unbearable for each other. To add spice to this situation, Uncle Maurice and Aunt Mala, Ernest's brother and sister, meddle in everything and, notably, try to find a "nice little Jewish girl" for Simon to marry. When Ernest passes away, Simon fulfils his father's last request: bury him in the village where he was born, in the depths of Ukraine. And so Simon finds himself caught up in an event-packed road movie in the company of his paranoid old uncle, his aunt who nags him endlessly about his "Goy dancer", his six-years-old son, his father's body and his ghost, and also a rabbit. Not to mention his ex who hassles him by phone. The journey will be nothing like a cruise down the Nile!

Simon Konianski

2009

A Hell of a Day poster
6.3

Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that proves positive, a car accident and being fired from her job... For Hortense, mobile phone in hand, the frantic quest for sexual satisfaction begins in a traffic jam... For both Luis and Maurice, the unexpected appearance of a loved one pitches them into a world of dreams and nightmares. While some of the characters know each other, others come into contact by chance. One woman profits from all this, the other is shattered. One will have gone looking for trouble, the other will have asked for nothing. There'll be no fatalities.

A Hell of a Day

2001

Vent mauvais poster
4.7

Sent to repair the computers at a supermarket in a town hit by a storm, a technician discovers some unusual things and is faced with difficult decisions.

Vent mauvais

2007

The Role of Her Life poster
6.0

A humble copy editor becomes a personal assistant to her favorite actress and eventually loses herself both in the actress' demands and her own ego.

The Role of Her Life

2004

My Life on Ice poster
5.6

Etienne is crazy about ice skating and videoing his daily life with a digital camera. He records his mother, friends, and geography teacher. Initially his intention is to setup a date between his mother and his teacher, however, he starts to realize that he is infatuated with the teacher himself.

My Life on Ice

2003

In His Hands poster
6.0

In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him. The weird Laurent visits Claire in her office successively, inviting her for drinks and lunch, and they get close to each other. Meanwhile, a serial killer is terrorizing Lille, killing women with a scalpel. Claire feels a great attraction for Laurent, who has an unusual behavior in her apartment. When Claire sees a scalpel in the pocket of Laurent's jacket, she fears him, but still loves him.

In His Hands

2005

No artwork available
6.0

Paris, today. A corrupt businessman, Duchey, returns to France to confront the justice of his country. But his return to his homeland will cause the turmoil of three individuals.

Les parallèles

2004

Little Darling poster
4.5

Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?

Little Darling

2000

La vie des bêtes poster
6.0

A dozen masked individuals ransack a pharmaceutical laboratory and release the animals used as test subjects. The operation is claimed by the Animal Liberation Front. Cédric, a police officer, sets out to track down the mysterious group. That same evening, he seduces Estelle, a young veterinarian who, a few hours later, participates in an animal rights demonstration. She then comes face to face with Cédric, who has come to arrest the activists. Meanwhile, Ghislain, an employee at an industrial pig farm, acts as an informant for the commando's next operation at his company.

La vie des bêtes

2008

Blindfold poster
5.2

Théo returns to the city he had left years before: Martin, with whom he was raised as a brother in a foster family, has just been arrested and accused of the rape and murder of several young women. Theo doesn't believe it.

Blindfold

2008

1990s · 3 titles

Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser poster
7.0

Anthology film based on three short stories by Knut Hamsun, updated to modern times.

Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser

1999

The Children's Rebellion poster
5.6

In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would (at the very least) go to prison, regardless of their age. However, people of conscience were beginning to protest against this situation. The story takes place in a prison for children where conditions are particularly harsh. The warden is a thick-headed martinet who demands complete compliance with the rules, or the children will be brutally dealt with. The assistant warden is a more modern man, and is appalled by the whole institution, but seeks to begin by reforming it. To that end, he has invited a journalist to come and see the conditions that prevail there, in the hopes that she will rouse public opinion against at least this one form of injustice.

The Children's Rebellion

1992

Guilty of Innocence poster
8.0

This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead him to the castle of a wealthy inventor, Alexander Plant. It is here that a strange story is played out, as Maximilian, full of naive illusions and innocent ideals of what it means to be wealthy and noble, quickly loses his innocence. Falling prey to the jaded aristocrats in residence, he is cruelly initiated into their decadent games.

Guilty of Innocence

1992

Series credits

Highlander: The Series poster
7.4

Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.

Highlander: The Series

1992

The Bureau poster
8.2

Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.

The Bureau

2015

Burger Quiz poster
7.4

A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host.

Burger Quiz

2001

Monsieur Spade poster
6.2

Detective Sam Spade is pulled out of his tranquil retirement in France to investigate a series of brutal murders.

Monsieur Spade

2024

Bandi poster
7.7

Following the death of their mother, their pillar of strength and their anchor, eleven siblings aged 7 to 23 try to stay united in the face of adversity. But for some of them, drug trafficking seems to be the only way to survive. A decision far from being unanimously accepted, and one that severely tests the strength of their family bonds.

Bandi

2026

Kabul poster
7.1

Kabul, August 14, 2021. The Taliban are at the gates of the city, and France prepares to evacuate its embassy. But the sudden fall of Kabul the next day rushes all the plans. French, Italian, German, American diplomats and the police must improvise the evacuation of hundreds of Afghans and refugees to the airport. While chaos reaches the city, the Afghans will soon have only two choices: to kneel or to run away.

Kabul

2025

Strangers poster
4.2

Anthology series of stand alone episodes about Americans in Paris and the sometimes tragic and sometimes uplifting relationships, trysts and loves they find there.

Strangers

1996

Unfaithful poster
4.1

The story of Emma Sandrelli, a doctor who is close to her patients and caring mother, whose life is about to explode when she learns that her husband has had an affair with a young woman for several months. Then begins for her a real descent into hell that will lead her very, very far... Adaptation of the British series "Doctor Foster."

Unfaithful

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nourrices

—

Hôtel de la plage poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hôtel de la plage

2014

Bonus Family poster
3.0

Heading up a blended family, Camille and Martin, a loving couple in their forties have just moved in together and their life is anything but plain sailing! With their respective children, sister, parents, as well as ex-lovers, this family constitutes a very crazy tribe, where daily life is filled with happy contradictions.

Bonus Family

2023

Serial Lover poster
4.0

Camille's life changes when the man she loves disappears overnight after emptying his bank account.

Serial Lover

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tour de France

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(S)He poster
NR

(S)HE is the story of a transgender child named Juju, a girl born into a boy’s body. With the onset of puberty, JuJu’s discomfort explodes. Our film follows a child’s struggle to get her parents and friends to accept her true gender, as she transitions from boy to girl. But in this tiny rural town, where everyone knows everyone else, it’s an impossible challenge. Juju will have to move in with her mother while her parents break up. Juju becomes Emma, and sings in a rock band at her new high school. With everyone seeing her as a girl, she’ starts to blossom. But as her popularity grows, social networking sit’s rekindle the nightmare she thought she’d left behind...

(S)He

2020

Intrusion poster
6.9

Renowned pianist Philippe Kessler is preparing for an important recital. But recently, sounds and images seem deformed around him, as if one reality was superimposed on another. Worrying that he is going mad, he gradually withdraws into himself. The evening of the recital, he collapses at his piano...

Intrusion

2015

Behind the camera