François Vincentelli

Acting

François Vincentelli

Born

1974-01-04 (52)

Place of birth

Bruxelles, Belgium

Known for

Acting

Credits

77 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 11 titles

The President's Wife poster
6.3

When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had always worked in the shadow of her husband to make him president. Put aside because she was considered too old-fashioned, Bernadette decided to take her revenge by becoming a major media figure.

The President's Wife

2023

Dealing with Christmas poster
5.5

On Christmas Eve, Greg, a solitary and taciturn police officer, doesn't hesitate to leave his daughter behind to go on a mission. To teach him a lesson, Santa Claus decides to grant his daughter's wish: that her father looks like Richard Silestone, the good-natured and heavily indebted family man from the beloved Christmas movie she adores. While Greg is sent into this improbable world, Richard accidentally lands in the real world and both men realize they have no choice but to complete each other's missions to reclaim their respective lives.

Dealing with Christmas

2023

A Place for Pierrot poster
6.7

Pierrot, 50, is autistic and lives in a care home. His sister Camille, 45, discovers that he is being overmedicated, causing him to regress. Outraged, she decides to take him into her home while she searches for a place that is better suited to his needs. A long quest begins.

A Place for Pierrot

2025

Villa Caprice poster
5.4

Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.

Villa Caprice

2021

Microstar poster
7.0

A struggling beauty influencer, Gabriel Rose dreams of becoming an actor. But he lacks both the talent and the connections. After yet another failed audition, he meets Stanislas, a privileged young man from the upper class, who offers him the chance to launch a jewelry brand. Gabriel sees this as an opportunity to gain access to Parisian high society, where everything seems easy, at least on the surface… Meanwhile, he becomes involved with Pauline, a young political ecology researcher. Torn between two worlds, Gabriel searches for his place between image and reality, the desire for success, and the need for love.

Microstar

2026

Liés pour la vie poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liés pour la vie

2021

Les Farouches poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Farouches

2025

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça - On va marcher sur la Lune poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça - On va marcher sur la Lune

2024

L’effet miroir poster
6.5

Théophile, a successful writer, finally finds inspiration again. His new book shocks people, because many of his close friends recognize themselves in the characters.

L’effet miroir

2024

Amis d'enfance poster
4.2

Pierre and Aline, in their fifties, decide to take advantage of their guest house one last time by inviting friends. It's the turn of Max, Pierre's childhood friend, and his wife Charlotte to be invited. The week promises to be beautiful, between the Avignon Festival and good food and drink. But how can we keep these childhood friendships alive, when the life paths of each of them have diverged over time.

Amis d'enfance

2022

La maîtresse de mon fils poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La maîtresse de mon fils

2024

2010s · 27 titles

The Tourist poster
6.2

American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

The Tourist

2010

Wild Card poster
5.7

When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.

Wild Card

2015

R.A.I.D. Special Unit poster
5.7

The story of a woman who dreams to join an intervention group in the police department called RAID. Unfortunately, she is rather clumsy and both her family (and soon to be family-in-law) and a veteran of the RAID do not approve. However, Johanna is determined to prove them wrong.

R.A.I.D. Special Unit

2017

La Belle Époque poster
7.4

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.

La Belle Époque

2019

The Minister poster
6.4

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.

The Minister

2011

Happiness Never Comes Alone poster
6.1

Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional. Charlotte is a modern and independent woman, but barely has time to care for their three children. While Sacha and Charlotte are, at first glance, two incompatible beings, when they meet soon discover that they are quite complementary and need each other.

Happiness Never Comes Alone

2012

Welcome Aboard poster
5.4

Isabelle, HR of a large cruise company, made the mistake of choosing her boss as a lover. Before embarking on the maiden voyage of the new flagship of the fleet, though, he decided to disembark from their relationship! Some women take their revenge by poison, firearm, or slander. Isabelle chooses Remy a flamboyant, unemployed ne'er-do-well who flunked out in life on land, but after all is said and done, might have better luck at sea... She recruits him as leader of her plot and on this Palace of the Seas, Remy will first prove to be the worst nightmare of the CEO and Richard, the Cruise Director...then, little by little, he will change his life and that of all those who cross his path...

Welcome Aboard

2011

Angel poster
6.3

Once upon a time there was Louise and her friend, the magician. But his last trick left a bitter taste in her mouth. He disappeared in a curtain of smoke… never to appear again. This is too much for the young woman. Devastated by endless grief, Louise is sent to a psychiatric asylum, resigned to the idea that she will swallow pills till the end of her days. Yet nine months later she gives birth to a child who is likely to have a big problem for his future class pictures, since he’s invisible. But Louise doesn’t care. He’s her angel and, wanting to protect him from this cruel world, she decides to keep his existence a secret. Years later, Louise’s angel has grown up. He even managed to find a girlfriend; Madeleine. The two become inseparable, for Madeleine never judges him. And for good reason: she’s blind.

Angel

2016

Murder in Brocéliande poster
6.3

A charred body is found in Brocéliande Forest with a shocked and speechless 13-year-old boy next to it. What is he doing there? How is he involved? Two gendarmes and an unconventional child psychiatrist try to clear up the mystery.

Murder in Brocéliande

2016

Kill Ben Lyk poster
5.5

Someone is murdering all of the Ben Lyks in London! Youtuber, Ben Lyk, decides to gather all of the remaining Ben Lyks to try and figure out exactly what is happening to London’s Ben Lyks.

Kill Ben Lyk

2018

The Secretary Bird poster
7.0

Liz and Hugh Preston have been living a life of perfect harmony for fifteen years — what one commonly calls “happiness.” But this peaceful bliss has gradually led to a certain boredom, prompting one of the spouses to cheat on the other — what one frankly calls “adultery.” But who, in fact, is responsible for this minor disaster? Hugh claims it’s Liz. His wife, on the other hand, has good reason to believe it’s her husband who strayed. Fortunately, Hugh will find a way to defend his love and save their marriage. He’ll use a tactic that seems absurd at first, but ultimately proves effective…

The Secretary Bird

2019

CANAL+'s 30th anniversary poster
6.0

Primetime special to celebrate 30 years of CANAL+.

CANAL+'s 30th anniversary

2014

Her Word Against His poster
5.4

A rape victim faces a dilemma: tell the truth about her assault or stay silent and allow her attacker to be falsely convicted for murder.

Her Word Against His

2018

Des roses en hiver poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Des roses en hiver

2014

Miles from Anywhere poster
6.0

Christina is nearly 30 and lives in the region of Charleroi in Belgium with her boyfriend Marco. After the death of her grandmother, she inherits a house in Corsica. No one in Christina’s entourage knows how her grandmother came to own the house and her family puts pressure on her to sell it. Christina refuses and sets off alone to claim her inheritance, hoping to understand why her grandmother left her the house. Her life will never be the same again...

Miles from Anywhere

2011

Murder on Aix Island poster
5.7

A body is found in a boat adrift somewhere between Fort Boyard and Aix Island. Solène Brach from the mainland police is sent to investigate.

Murder on Aix Island

2017

The Belgian Job poster
5.0

Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers that his candidacy is not accepted because he is Belgian, he and his compatriots decide to take revenge

The Belgian Job

2012

Le Magicien et les Siamois poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Magicien et les Siamois

2015

Tu es si jolie ce soir poster
NR

Prosecutor Vadim, who has an uneasy relationship with his glamorous wife Chanéac, vanishes at the time a psycho is offing club girls to the strains of the "Tu es si jolie ce soir" song.

Tu es si jolie ce soir

2015

Du vent dans les branches de sassafras poster
6.0

John Rockefeller is completely overwhelmed by events: he must simultaneously face the perpetual attacks of "colorful" Indians , the multiple romantic imbroglios which are playing out within his home, the sudden crisis of dementia of his wife and finally the drunken wanderings of the local doctor, Doctor Butler, a man particularly given to drink.

Du vent dans les branches de sassafras

2016

A Burning Desire poster
4.8

Yann and Rose are young, they love and want to have a child. Nine months later ... still no baby in sight. They then show great imagination and try everything ... no matter what it is. But they wish so hardly to be three that, is not likely they finish all alone?

A Burning Desire

2011

Nuit Bleue poster
5.0

A young woman, Antonia, returns to her island of birth, Corsica, after one of her relatives has disappeared at sea. She is torn back and forth between her old love Ettore and the dumb Alexander. The quest for Antonia's place in the masculine environment of armed nationalism is an excuse for all kinds of peregrinations in the spectacular landscape of Cap Corse - a landscape that itself becomes a leading character.

Nuit Bleue

2010

Quadrille poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Quadrille

2013

Entre deux mères poster
6.3

Four-year-old Alice Leroy disappeared on a beach, assumed to have drowned. Eleven years later, Alice reappears.

Entre deux mères

2017

Avenue Louise poster
2.0

Just yesterday, Bernard Dejonghe had everything he needed to be happy. A thriving business, a happy divorce, two part-time children, a beautiful detached villa, and even an automatic lawn mower. Today, Bernard is going through a rough patch. Harassed from all sides and homeless, he has taken refuge with his mother, whose memory is failing, in the old family caravan, parked on site 13 in alley 4 of the forgotten campsite "Le Beau Vallon." Alley 4, which its residents have christened "Avenue Louise." Bernard keeps saying he's only there for one night, but his stay could well be extended. As he rediscovers the place and meets its inhabitants, he will try to find a new lease on life.

Avenue Louise

2018

Vagabondes poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vagabondes

2019

Fat Legs poster
4.0

Anna travels to Paris following John, unintentionally causing tension between her best friend Jean and his partner Philippe.

Fat Legs

2016

2000s · 13 titles

Changing Sides poster
5.4

Ariane and Hugo decide to exchange the lives they lead to escape from their routine, which after ten years of marriage, gives them the feeling of being hamsters in a wheel. She suddenly finds herself at the head of a construction equipment rental company and he tries to take the role of a house calling jewelry salesman...But is life really better when you live it on the other side of the bed?

Changing Sides

2009

Tanguy poster
6.0

Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it's time he moves out. He doesn't, so they hatch a plan.

Tanguy

2001

Les Héritières poster
NR

In 1945, Corsica, an important landowner named Ottavio Della Rocca decides to marry her youngest daughter, Vanina, the son of the Caponi family. Because the old Della Rocca intends to consolidate its power while the Liberation redistributes the cards. Vanina but does not want this union. During the war, she met a jazz musician in Marseille and can not imagine marry another - even to save the family estate. At night, she fled and left the island. Enraged, Ottavio decides to disinherit. But the idea to sell all his property to his two eldest, Antonia and Flavia, do little delights. In fact, he despises blithely ...

Les Héritières

2008

Six-Pack poster
5.7

A serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the US embassy and being in the middle of a french-american economical affair.

Six-Pack

2000

Bunker Paradise poster
5.5

Friendly and broke, Mimmo dreams of being rich and famous, but for now he's a taxi driver. One evening, he meets John Deveau, a wealthy and perverse man, and his gang, who draw him into a world of luxurious parties among the wealthy. Charmed and believing he has made it, Mimmo thinks that this world wants him. In reality, he falls into the perverse trap set by John and his gang for their own amusement.

Bunker Paradise

2006

Agathe contre Agathe poster
1.0

Agathe is turning 30 and has finished her thesis on secret societies in France. A young woman is found dead in the Seine, murdered for a specific ritual. She is an image of Agathe, has the same first name and is similarly dressed. The traces lead to one of the secret societies this included in Agathe's study.

Agathe contre Agathe

2007

The Red Sofa poster
4.0

Marie returns to live in La Rochelle, the city of her childhood, with her husband Marc, a policeman, and meets Nadia. The two young women scour the city's stores, looking for a red sofa. They soon discover one in the store of Maxime, a second-hand dealer. A few days later, Nadia seems tormented when Marie mentions the sofa. During a visit, Marie discovers Nadia's lifeless body.

The Red Sofa

2007

Confidence Reigns poster
4.2

Christel and Christoph have no education, no morals - they are working as servants in wealthy homes in order to clean out their hosts. Having decided to combine their talents and efforts, they are starting to work in the the house of Therions - wealthy bourgeoisie of Mulhouse...

Confidence Reigns

2004

Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance poster
7.0

Haunted by the mysterious death of her son, found drowned, Anna returns to the town where he lived.

Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance

2001

Château en Suède poster
NR

A staging of François Sagan's play "Château en Suède" by Annick Blancheteau.

Château en Suède

2002

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

2009

Romance sans paroles poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Romance sans paroles

2002

Madwoman of God poster
NR

This feature-length film tells the story of the passion between Marie de l’Incarnation, a mid-seventeenth-century nun and God, her "divine spouse." Fusing documentary and acting by Marie Tifo, whom we follow as she rehearses for this demanding role, the film paints an astonishing portrait of this mystic who abandoned her son and left France to build a convent in Canada, where she became the first female writer in New France.

Madwoman of God

2008

Series credits

Scènes de ménages poster
5.9

Scènes de ménages depicts the daily lives of several couples from different generations, illustrating with humor their arguments, tender moments and little idiosyncrasies. Each episode is made up of short sketches, in which the characters exchange scathing retorts and funny situations.

Scènes de ménages

2009

Fort Boyard poster
7.5

A game show set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France. The contestants have to complete in physical and endurance challenges to win prize money.

Fort Boyard

1990

Murders in... poster
7.3

Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

Murders in...

2013

Off Prime poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Off Prime

2007

Galactik Football poster
7.7

The inhabited worlds of the Zaelion Galaxy compete in Galactik Football, a sport analogous to football, but played seven to a side. The game is complicated by the addition of Flux, which enhances a player's attributes such as speed, strength, and agility, or grants special powers such as teleportation. The story follows the fate of an inexperienced Galactik Football team, the Snow Kids, as they aim to compete in the Galactik Football Cup.

Galactik Football

2006

Hard poster
6.3

Hard is a French television series created and produced by Cathy Verney, airing since 9 May 2008 on Canal+ in France, and later internationally. The series focuses on the pornographic movie industry. It is part of the "New Trilogy" collection on Canal+.

Hard

2008

HMC : Habillage, Maquillage, Coiffure poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

HMC : Habillage, Maquillage, Coiffure

2025

Love (and Trouble) In Paris poster
7.0

Julie, 36 years old, unemployed and single, wants to take control of her life: lying and cheating in order to finally meet the perfect man, Max. Who doesn't even know that she exists.

Love (and Trouble) In Paris

2022

Alter Ego poster
6.1

Police captain Déa Versini works with Jimmy. They are inseparable and have formed a perfect partnership on the streets. There is no case they can’t crack! But their relationship is shaken up by the arrival of a new lieutenant, Matthieu Belcourt. Is it possible for them to work as a trio? Unlikely… given that Jimmy is Déa’s imaginary friend!

Alter Ego

2019

Suspectes poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Suspectes

2007

Les Chamois poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Les Chamois

2017

Clara Sheller poster
6.4

Clara Sheller is a French television series created by Nicolas Mercier after the idea of Stéphanie Tchou-Cotta that was aired from 18 May 2005 to 3 December 2008 on France 2. The casting was completely changed between the first and second season, but the characters remained the same. The theme song was written by Mirwais and was called "Naive Song". In the US, Clara Sheller aired on Eurochannel in 2009. and on TV5Monde.

Clara Sheller

2005

Frank Riva poster
7.0

After 25 years in exile, undercover cop Frank Riva comes back in Paris. He faces mob boss Norbert Loggia and his son Maxime, who put a bounty on his head during the French Connection days.

Frank Riva

2003

Peplum poster
6.1

Against the background of decline of the Roman Empire, "Peplum" takes us into the lives of Bravus, a former slave who became adviser to the tyrannical Emperor Maximus. Under pressure, stuck between a professional life stressful and chaotic family life, his days are not looking easy. Indeed, work side Bravus must wet the gown to slow a decline that has a tendency to accelerate under the leadership of the incompetent messy, cruel, capricious and narcissistic Maximus. Personal side, he must face every night his son Caius freshly converted to Christianity, his wife Octavia, foreign to the codes of good Roman society and daughter Lydia sassy which assimilates too well. "Peplum" or how to avoid the burn out in a declining society. The parallel with today can not be a coincidence.

Peplum

2015

Ghosts - Fantômes en héritage poster
8.0

“Ghosts” is about a band of ghosts who cohabit as best in the castle of Mérudeaux. Their “peaceful death” is disturbed on the day when Alison and Nabil, a couple who have just inherited the place, arrive with the firm intention of turning him into a hotel.

Ghosts - Fantômes en héritage

2025

Montmartre poster
6.8

Celeste, a cancan dancer in a Montmartre cabaret, desperately tries to find her brother and sister.

Montmartre

2025

I Love You 2 poster
5.6

At the age of 35, Hector happens to meet his childhood love Louise and falls in love with her all over again. But there's a big problem. He's gay and has been in a loving relationship with a man for several years. His life is turned upside down. He soon realizes that he doesn't want to have to choose between his two loves, Louise and Jérémie. How long can he keep the secret of his double life, the cause of both suffering and joy?

I Love You 2

2018

Faites des gosses poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Faites des gosses

2020

Philharmonia poster
6.2

Hélène Barizet is a gifted conductor with a sulphurous reputation. Named against the advice of management and musicians, she has a season to make her place and save the orchestra. The maestro chooses Selena Riviere, a young virtuoso violinist to help her. But how to transmit when all we want is to break with the past?

Philharmonia

2019

Tombé du ciel poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tombé du ciel

2006

Fête de famille poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fête de famille

2006

Agathe contre Agathe poster
NR

Agathe is turning 30 and has finished her thesis on secret societies in France. A young woman is found dead in the Seine, murdered for a specific ritual. She is an image of Agathe, has the same first name and is similarly dressed. The traces lead to one of the secret societies this included in Agathe's study.

Agathe contre Agathe

2007

Les Farouches poster
NR

At the SRPJ in Lyon, the reserved Captain Victor Farthouat and the fiery Commander Myriam Kerrouche—who cannot stand each other—form the region's most effective duo. While investigating the suspicious death of a young dentist, Victor and Myriam discover that their children are a couple. Although initially stunned, they resolve to keep their private and professional lives strictly separate and, above all, not to let personal feelings spill over into their work. But the fragile balance underpinning their partnership is about to be disrupted...

Les Farouches

2026

Deadline poster
NR

Marion, a nurse addicted to opiates, gets hired in a palliative care unit (USP), to gain access to a pharmacy containing an inexhaustible supply of drugs. She doesn't care about the patients. She's incurred a €15,000 debt with Victor, a dealer inventive when it comes to torturing late payers. Her plan: raid the pharmacy to pay Victor back quickly. However, our heroine hasn't planned for one thing. The USP patients are not blind and have nothing to lose. To fulfill a final wish, some are ready to do anything, even blackmail. So when her scheme is discovered, Marion finds herself caught between the threat of Victor and that of being denounced. Marion will quickly discover that the wishes of the dying are far from easy to fulfill. Forced to put herself at the service of her patients, Marion will gradually reveal the secret of her past. Marion's time will turn into shock therapy as she will find herself confronted with what drugs have deprived her of: a torrent of emotions.

Deadline

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