Christian Sinniger

Acting

Christian Sinniger

Born

1947-10-28 (78)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Known for

Das Boot poster
7.0

An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.

Das Boot

2018

Police Commissioner Moulin poster
7.1

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

Police Commissioner Moulin

1976

Research Unit poster
8.2

The Section de recherches is a special unit of the Gendarmerie nationale, responsible for the most complex cases. In Bordeaux (from 2006 to 2013) and then in Nice (since 2014), child abductions, disappearances, heinous or sexual crimes are the daily lot of the investigators in this research unit. In the search for witnesses, the team is authorised to extend its investigations beyond France's borders.

Research Unit

2006

The Art of Crime poster
6.7

Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.

The Art of Crime

2017

Case 137 poster
6.9

When Internal Affairs officer Stéphanie investigates a young man severely injured during a chaotic Paris demonstration and finds no police misconduct, the routine case hits close to home upon her discovering the victim is from her native town.

Case 137

2025

Joséphine, Guardian Angel poster
6.0

Josephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears with a click of her fingers.

Joséphine, Guardian Angel

1997

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

Case 137 poster
6.9

When Internal Affairs officer Stéphanie investigates a young man severely injured during a chaotic Paris demonstration and finds no police misconduct, the routine case hits close to home upon her discovering the victim is from her native town.

Case 137

2025

Big Kids poster
6.1

Yannick is a caregiver in a retirement home. Between permanent pressure and budget restrictions, he faces the lack of means with a contagious good mood. But when he is forced to share the dining room with a class of children, the situation becomes complicated. Their arrival, as well as that of his hostess, Aude, will shake up the daily life of everyone, especially the residents.

Big Kids

2023

Fille de paysan poster
6.5

Joel and Murielle Pécourneau, their two daughters, Emilie, 15, and her little sister Lola, form a united family of farmers, despite the debts that accumulate to save their farm. Until the day when, while trying to help out a neighbor, they receive a substantial fine for "illicit" sale of a chicken at 10 euros... This news puts the Pécourneau family under even more pressure. As a last resort to lift the fine, they really start raising poultry, taking out a new loan at the bank. But a new European regulation cut their hopes short and put them in extreme difficulty once again. While her father's life is on hold and the future of the farm is greatly threatened, Emilie decides to publicize her story, mobilizing as many people as possible around her parents' cause. Will Emilie, a farmer's daughter, succeed in saving her family?

Fille de paysan

2022

2010s · 7 titles

Gemma Bovery poster
6.2

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.

Gemma Bovery

2014

By the Grace of God poster
7.1

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.

By the Grace of God

2019

The Vets poster
6.5

In the heart of Morvan, Nico, the last vet in the area, struggles to save his patients, his clinic, and his family. When Michel, his partner and mentor, announces his retirement, Nico knows that the hard part is yet to come. "Don't worry, I've found the next generation" Except that ... The next generation is Alexandra, a 24-hour graduate, brilliant, misanthropic, and not at all willing to return to bury herself in the village of her childhood. Will Nico manage to make her stay?

The Vets

2019

The Artist and the Model poster
6.1

In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee.

The Artist and the Model

2012

Film Socialisme poster
5.9

A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.

Film Socialisme

2010

Fair is Fair poster
4.8

Condamné pour un crime qui n'était, selon lui, qu'un accident, Constant réussit à s'évader de la prison où il purge sa peine... Après une fuite aveugle, livré à tous les hasards, Constant finit par échouer dans un coin perdu, près des berges désertes d'un canal.... Se cachant sur une péniche à l'abandon, Constant tente de reprendre son souffle, accalmie de courte durée... Dès l'aube, Sylvia une pétillante jeune femme qui a reconnu l'homme traqué, lui propose un implacable marché : assassiner (puisqu'elle le pense être un tueur professionnel) Jeanne, sa mère adoptive sinon elle le dénonce à la police ! Piégé, Constant ne peut qu'accepter cette périlleuse " mission ". Mais bien loin de tuer Jeanne, Constant la sauve d'un suicide annoncé.

Fair is Fair

2010

La Dernière Caravane poster
10.0

On a small building site lost in the middle of nowhere, three workers receive an impromptu but dreaded visit from a representative of their employer.

La Dernière Caravane

2012

2000s · 10 titles

Wasabi poster
6.7

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.

Wasabi

2001

The Demon Stirs poster
3.9

Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with another woman. Annoyed, Anne sets out to find potential lovers.

The Demon Stirs

2005

The Legend of Princess Parva poster
7.2

The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villainous Malaw killed the island’s ruler and deprived the Crown Prince Shiva of the throne. The insidious Malaw had the prince locked up in a dungeon in the palace’s underground labyrinth, and he announced to the Kiam residents that he would kill Shiva if they only tried to rebel. Then the Old Sage Swami, aided by programmer Agni, came into contact with the Light of Crystal. That’s what he called a girl named Parva, who embodied radiant innocence and was born of the same astral combination as Prince Shiva. Only she and her love could save the prince and bring peace back to the island of Kiam.

The Legend of Princess Parva

2003

Comme deux gouttes d'eau poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Comme deux gouttes d'eau

2008

Vatanen's Hare poster
5.8

A reporter who's soon to receive the Journalist of the Year Award hits a young hare on his way home. He gets out of the car to see if it's ok, but the hare runs off deeper into the forest, taking him on adventure of self-discovery.

Vatanen's Hare

2006

Papa et Maman s'ront jamais grands poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Papa et Maman s'ront jamais grands

2003

A Parting Shot poster
5.4

A rebellious teenager and a "border-line" young nurse will learn to tame each other and get a fresh start in life...

A Parting Shot

2007

Marie's Children poster
6.7

During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.

Marie's Children

2002

Marie-Line poster
5.4

A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for laziness and no tolerance for employees who do less than a perfect job. But Marie-Line's bosses are in the midst of a money crunch and they've cut back on her budget, so when several of her employees quit, she has to find new cleaners willing to work for a lower wage. Marie-Line soon finds new workers willing to work hard for low pay, but there's a catch -- most of them are illegal aliens, smuggled into France from Africa, Albania, or the Middle East, and when police begin asking questions about Marie-Line's new cleaners, she has to scramble to cover for them.

Marie-Line

2000

Zapping Family poster
7.7

A French family comments on what's on TV tonight.

Zapping Family

2005

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits

Das Boot poster
7.0

An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.

Das Boot

2018

Police Commissioner Moulin poster
7.1

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

Police Commissioner Moulin

1976

Police Commissioner Moulin poster
7.1

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

Police Commissioner Moulin

1976

Research Unit poster
8.2

The Section de recherches is a special unit of the Gendarmerie nationale, responsible for the most complex cases. In Bordeaux (from 2006 to 2013) and then in Nice (since 2014), child abductions, disappearances, heinous or sexual crimes are the daily lot of the investigators in this research unit. In the search for witnesses, the team is authorised to extend its investigations beyond France's borders.

Research Unit

2006

The Art of Crime poster
6.7

Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.

The Art of Crime

2017

Joséphine, Guardian Angel poster
6.0

Josephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears with a click of her fingers.

Joséphine, Guardian Angel

1997

Dark Stories poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

Dark Stories

2019

Heidi, 15 poster
NR

Heidi has grown up and is now a teenager. She lives with her grandfather in the mountains, refusing to leave. But when a real estate project threatens a forest in the area, she agrees to move to the city to continue her studies at high school, where she hopes to better fight the project. In the city, she will be confronted with an urban lifestyle she is unfamiliar with and will have to overcome many challenges

Heidi, 15

2007

Franck Keller poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Franck Keller

2003

Deux justiciers dans la ville poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Deux justiciers dans la ville

1993

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