Ivan Franěk

Acting

Ivan Franěk

Born

1964-06-17 (62)

Place of birth

Plzeň, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Known for

Acting

Credits

83 titles

Ivan Franěk (born June 17, 1964) is a Czech actor. After relocating from former Czechoslovakia to France in 1989, he has been active mainly in French and – particularly – Italian film & TV industry. His breakthrough role was lead Tobias Horvath in the Italian romance drama Brucio nel vento (2002), directed by Silvio Soldini and based on the novel Hier by Ágota Kristóf.

Known for

Astrid & Raphaëlle poster
8.0

Astrid Nielsen works in the library of the judicial police. She has Asperger's syndrome. With an incredible memory, she excels at analyzing files of ongoing investigations. The district commander decides to use it to the fullest, entrusting her with very complex investigations which have remained unsolved to date.

Astrid & Raphaëlle

2020

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan poster
6.9

D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan

2023

Dracula poster
7.3

In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.

Dracula

2025

Maigret poster
7.7

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

Maigret

1991

The Great Beauty poster
7.5

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

The Great Beauty

2013

Anti-Mafia Squad poster
7.2

Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.

Anti-Mafia Squad

2009

Film credits

2020s · 15 titles

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan poster
6.9

D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan

2023

Dracula poster
7.3

In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.

Dracula

2025

OSS 117: From Africa with Love poster
5.7

1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission – more delicate, more dangerous and more torrid than ever – he is forced to team up with a young new colleague, the promising OSS 1001.

OSS 117: From Africa with Love

2021

Šipkaři poster
NR

The Darts Players combine black humour, action and a crime plot with a healthy dose of absurdity. Their world is full of characters who have their own agendas, are hiding something and are convinced that they, of all people, have everything under control. The main character, Pepé, believes that this time it will finally work out. All he needs to do is make a few right decisions, find the right people, not panic and, above all, not mess anything up. But his life has never quite gone to plan. When he meets Milánek again after a year, a series of events unfolds that nobody could have foreseen.

Šipkaři

2026

Spyne poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Spyne

2026

Smolu nosíš ty, láska poster
4.2

Monika, a woman in her fifties, feels that she has reached all the important milestones in her life. Her child is grown up and she is very successful in her career as a workaholic. However, she has less and less in common with her husband, and her thoughts are increasingly returning to her youth, when she was not afraid to go off the beaten track and could appreciate the beauty of the moment. Monika decides to discover her adventurous self and enrols in a climbing course organised by Igor. He is the absolute opposite of Monika - a spontaneous and chaotic fool, a lifelong adventurer with no self-reflection and no sense of responsibility, who is mired in problems caused by his carefree lifestyle.

Smolu nosíš ty, láska

2023

Mstitel poster
1.3

Anton is, or rather was, a famous theater actor, but cruel life began to put treacherous obstacles in his way. For example, a chair or a hole, which you idiots should try to overcome after fourteen beers. When the theater director fires him and his wife wants him out of the apartment, Anton takes fate into his own hands. And he starts drinking even more.

Mstitel

2021

L'ultima sfida poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

L'ultima sfida

2025

Animali randagi poster
6.0

Drivers Luca and Toni are driving an ambulance to Serbia to repatriate Emir, a sick man searching for his past. Travelling with them is Maria, his daughter, who hasn’t seen him for years. The journey eastwards lays bare the secrets of four lives, propelling them towards a decisive turning point.

Animali randagi

2024

No artwork available
NR

Emma, a curious and imaginative nine-year-old girl, loves unicorns, spaceships, and Christmas trees. She lives with her quirky family: her mother Sara, a molecular gastronomy enthusiast; her sharp-witted grandmother Loredana; and her stern father Leo, a science teacher worried about the fantasy world Emma inhabits. Emma’s imaginary friend, Mojito, helps her escape reality, but her parents—on the verge of separation—struggle to understand her. Meanwhile, Bob, Leo’s long-forgotten imaginary friend, reappears, trying to reconnect with him before vanishing forever. The story explores Emma’s journey to find a balance between her dreams, reality, and her family dynamics.

Il mio nemico immaginario

2026

La banda dei tre poster
3.5

Take an irascible dwarf whose surname is Piccolo, with an easy trigger and an immoderate passion for Pupo and his songs. Then add an undercover policeman whose surname is Doll who doesn't even dare to declare himself to the woman he is in love with and plays tough disguised as a pseudo-criminal. Then you end up with Silvano, a former drug addict in perennial religious mystical crisis, who steals from apartments to survive, only to leave holy cards to be forgiven for the pain caused.

La banda dei tre

2020

Kde končí láska poster
5.7

Love takes many forms, and Albert, Kateřina, and Gábina are not afraid to go to extremes in their pursuit of it. They fully enjoy casual sex and the feeling of independence, which leads them to a swingers club. They want to have fun and, above all, not worry about anything. Or are they in denial? With each touch, their physical attraction grows into emotional attraction, and whether they like it or not, they reveal their vulnerability.

Kde končí láska

2025

White Flowers poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

White Flowers

2020

Two Words as the Key poster
2.0

Stories about parent-child relationships, fate, and the unknown forces that guide our steps unfold across several continents. A Japanese businessman wants to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned as a child and sets off with her on a journey to the Himalayas. Like him, a single mother in the Czech Republic receives a mysterious letter with important news. A painter and recovering alcoholic meets a beautiful woman and with her an unexpected opportunity for family life. A writer takes his friend and their inner demons on an expedition to the Indonesian jungle. A priest in New York has to deal with strange dreams, and an old man waits for his son to visit him in a remote place somewhere on the Baltic Sea coast. Each of the heroes faces a fundamental change in their lives, and their actions can influence the story of the others. Their separate journeys begin to intertwine and eventually merge into one great story of life.

Two Words as the Key

2023

A New Perspective poster
3.0

Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 year old boy, together with some friends, is searching a thick forest for objects of value. There is a lot of fog. The boy goes off by himself to another part of the wood and stands admiring an antique object he has found at the foot of a tree. His happy expression turns to one of curiosity as he is distracted by some high pitched cries which come and go intermittently.

A New Perspective

2020

2010s · 23 titles

The Great Beauty poster
7.5

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

The Great Beauty

2013

Anna poster
6.7

Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

Anna

2019

Miserere poster
5.9

Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.

Miserere

2013

The Young Karl Marx poster
6.8

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.

The Young Karl Marx

2017

Tulpa - Demon of Desire poster
4.4

Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. Unshackled from repression and guilt, Lisa will do anything with any stranger to attain a higher consciousness. However, when her lovers start getting murdered in shocking ways, Lisa can’t go to the police because the scandal would impact her day job. Foolishly she tries to unmask the assassin herself, with truly nightmarish consequences.

Tulpa - Demon of Desire

2012

The Invisible Boy: Second Generation poster
6.4

Three years later Michele (The Invisible boy) meets his mother and his twin sister. Both have stories and superpowers but their intentions may not be what Michele thinks.

The Invisible Boy: Second Generation

2018

Blood of My Blood poster
5.7

In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Federico’s twin brother, and making him betray his priestly mission. Federico hopes to secure his brother a burial on consecrated grounds. In modern times, Federico Mai, a Minister inspector, knocks on the doors of the very same convent, in order to broker a sale of the property to a Russian millionaire. Unbeknownst to him, a mysterious "Count" lives there.

Blood of My Blood

2015

The Furlough poster
5.6

The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought them behind bars. The characters are described with realism, with their contradictions, their desperation, the temptation of an escape, but the cornerstone of the movie is the sincerity of the positive feelings of each and everyone of them: the love of a father for his son, the love for a woman, for friends, and most of all the pursuit of a lost (if ever had) personal dignity and pride. Four characters of different ages and extractions, three man and a woman: Luigi, Donato, Rossana and Angelo.

The Furlough

2017

Caged poster
5.3

Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared for and kept alive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners soon discover with horror what their kidnappers truly have in store for them.

Caged

2010

Colette poster
6.4

As World War II rages on, Villi and Colette are captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Imprisoned within separate compounds, the lovers must risk their lives to be together again.

Colette

2013

Bloody Richard poster
8.0

Riccardo Mancini is discharged from the forensic psychiatric hospital, where he has spent many long years serving time for a crime shrouded in mystery; now he is determined to wreak revenge and win back power within his crime family.

Bloody Richard

2017

One Life, Maybe Two poster
5.5

You're 20 years old and life is full of endless possibilities. But, on a rainy evening, you bumps into another car and life hasn't been the same anymore. Even though you have everything something keeps on eating you up.

One Life, Maybe Two

2010

Smiles of Sad Men poster
6.2

A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alcohol.

Smiles of Sad Men

2018

L'Histoire d'une mère poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

L'Histoire d'une mère

2017

The Hole poster
5.2

Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.

The Hole

2014

Ritual - A Psychomagic Story poster
4.7

The fragile Lia suffers from a deep depression. Her relationship with her boyfriend Viktor is getting worse and worse and in the last desperate attempt to cure herself, Lia goes to visit her old aunt Agata in her creepy 18th century villa.

Ritual - A Psychomagic Story

2013

Chlorine poster
5.5

Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to look after her ill father and younger brother. It won't be long before Jenny starts pursuing her dreams again.

Chlorine

2015

In carne e ossa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

In carne e ossa

2010

We Believed poster
6.6

1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following decades.

We Believed

2010

Ears poster
7.1

A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragicomic day during which he will be plunged into the folly of the world. One of those days that changes your life forever.

Ears

2016

Islands poster
5.7

Ivan, a drifting immigrant in search of work and dignity, lands on an Italian island only to be met with cruelty and betrayal. Just as hope fades, he finds refuge with Martina—a silent soul who tends bees—and Father Enzo, a gruff priest with a generous heart buried beneath bitterness and stroke. As Ivan becomes part of their fragile household, he brings light to Enzo’s dark days and slowly earns Martina’s trust. But in a town wary of outsiders and family tensions simmering over land and legacy, harmony is hard-won.

Islands

2011

Fuori dal coro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fuori dal coro

2015

Occamova břitva poster
3.3

A married couple unexpectedly find themselves witness to a murder. The perpetrators pay them to remain silent, but also turn them into the main suspects of the crime. The more the two try to distance themselves from the case, the more entangled they become, and so does their relationship

Occamova břitva

2013

2000s · 21 titles

36th Precinct poster
6.9

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.

36th Precinct

2004

Chaos poster
6.4

A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.

Chaos

2001

Anything for Her poster
7.0

Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?

Anything for Her

2008

L'Entente cordiale poster
4.8

The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter...

L'Entente cordiale

2006

L'amore non basta poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

L'amore non basta

2008

Army of Crime poster
6.4

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.

Army of Crime

2009

Vodka Lemon poster
6.5

In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them.

Vodka Lemon

2003

Brucio nel vento poster
6.7

For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One day, he sees Caroline, a former schoolmate from back in Eastern Europe, and falls in love with her, but she's married and has a daughter.

Brucio nel vento

2002

The War in Paris poster
5.5

In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance.

The War in Paris

2002

Deux femmes à Paris poster
7.5

In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter.

Deux femmes à Paris

2000

Una piccola storia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Una piccola storia

2008

Night Bus poster
6.2

Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.

Night Bus

2007

Little Girl Blue poster
5.1

Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, undemanding job as a translator and now even a new dream house ... But she also has a secret that is slowly changing her idyllic life...

Little Girl Blue

2007

Chiara e Francesco poster
5.3

Italy, XIII century. The story of friendship between two young people who dedicated their lives to God and others: St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi. Children of the bourgeoisie and the nobility, respectively, gave up their lives accommodated by a life of sacrifice, humility and proselytizing ...

Chiara e Francesco

2007

No artwork available
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Il silenzio dell'allodola

2005

Darkness poster
4.1

A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.

Darkness

2009

Cuore di donna poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

Cuore di donna

2002

Unknown Hour poster
4.2

Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.

Unknown Hour

2009

Il prossimo tuo poster
NR

Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymous "thy neighbor." A humanity full of differences, but at the same time, with very similar feelings. So similar that their stories appear almost parallel and complementary.

Il prossimo tuo

2009

Premonition poster
6.1

A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.

Premonition

2006

Lost Seamen poster
4.4

Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "Aldébaran", only the Lebanese captain Aziz, the Greek Diamantis and the Turk Nelim are stuck on the boat for a lack of prospects. Aziz doesn't want to return to his wife, Diamantis tries to find a girl he left at the age of 20 and Nelim, young and foolish, just wants to have fun...

Lost Seamen

2003

Series credits

Astrid & Raphaëlle poster
8.0

Astrid Nielsen works in the library of the judicial police. She has Asperger's syndrome. With an incredible memory, she excels at analyzing files of ongoing investigations. The district commander decides to use it to the fullest, entrusting her with very complex investigations which have remained unsolved to date.

Astrid & Raphaëlle

2020

Maigret poster
7.7

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

Maigret

1991

Anti-Mafia Squad poster
7.2

Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.

Anti-Mafia Squad

2009

Crimes poster
7.0

Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)

Crimes

2006

Polda poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Polda

2016

The Red Door poster
7.4

Leonardo Cagliostro, a policeman, dies and decides to stay on Earth in order to find out more about the circumstances of his death and to save his wife, Anna, who's in danger.

The Red Door

2017

Christian poster
7.5

Christian lives in a "city-palace" where he earns his living doing dirty work for LINO, the criminal boss of neighborhood. When stigmata appear on his hands, Christian finds physically impossible to carry out his work, but also discovers he has gained mysterious healing powers to fight against Lino. But MATTEO, a mysterious Vatican postulator in search of signs and confirmations, is tracking him down bringing too close to a truth that could upset his life and that of the whole world.

Christian

2022

Simple Case poster
7.1

The heroes fight in the seemingly idyllic setting of the Karkonosze Mountains, against which the international drug trade takes place. Who will support the nameless avenger and who will stand behind the demonic boss of the local mafia? It's only a seemingly simple matter.

Simple Case

2024

Duch poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Duch

2022

Il Sistema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il Sistema

2016

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nourrices

—

Vysoká hra poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vysoká hra

2020

Vědma poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vědma

2023

Noi siamo leggenda poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Noi siamo leggenda

2023

La scelta di Laura poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

La scelta di Laura

2009

Fallout poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Fallout

2020

Le Cri poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Cri

2006

L'ombra Del Destino poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'ombra Del Destino

2011

Come una madre poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Come una madre

2020

6 x confiné.e.s poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

6 x confiné.e.s

2021

No artwork available
NR

A fire destroys a Romani camp, and a police informant is murdered. This marks the start of the investigation led by District Attorney Margherita Borboni.

Codice Aurora

2012

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Inséparables

2005

La fuggitiva poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

La fuggitiva

2021