Jean-Michel Martial

Acting

Jean-Michel Martial

Born 1952-07-18 · Tananarive, Madagascar

Acting credits

State Affairs poster
5.8

A plane explodes above the Gulf of Guinea. An escort girl is murdered in a Parisian park. Thousands of miles separate these two events, and yet Nora Chahyd, believes there's a connection between them, much to his superiors chagrin. As Nora investigates, getting dangerously close to the powers that be, the murders and betrayals accumulate, and signs point to a state affair at the heart of it all.

State Affairs

2009

Cyrano, My Love poster
7.5

Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.

Cyrano, My Love

2018

It's Not About Love poster
10.0

Raoul Peck directed this French-German-Haitian drama set in Manhattan where medical examiner Chase Dellal (Geno Lechner) isn't happy with the diminishing aspects of her life: Not only does she face political pressures to soft-pedal her testimony, her marriage to a judge (Bob Meyer) is collapsing. Suddenly, new options appear after deposed Haitian politician Dimitri (Jean-Michel Martial) re-enters her life. Playwright Israel Horowitz has a role in this film as morgue cop Timothy.

It's Not About Love

1998

Tresor poster
4.5

Nathalie and Jean-Pierre have been together for five years, to celebrate their anniversary, Jean-Pierre prepare a surprise present for his girlfriend: a cute four month english bullgod. Nathalie loves her present and calls the puppy "Tresor"; her relationship with the dog is close and strong since the begining but causes problems in the couple.

Tresor

2009

Young Mothers in the '70s poster
6.6

In the 1970s, the house of Plessis welcomes young pregnant minors. Even though these unborn children are the fruit of love or rape, in this institution, a single slogan: put these girls in the right way. But the day when the revolt rumbles, the mechanism fails... A story deliberately based on real events.

Young Mothers in the '70s

2016

Belle Maman poster
5.1

At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.

Belle Maman

1999

Sale Destin poster
4.7

Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target of the hitman he hired.

Sale Destin

1987

Friday Night poster
7.0

While visiting her daughter who is studying abroad in France, Claire is thrown into the midst of a city-wide attack. In a place where she doesn't speak the language or know her way around, she's forced to navigate this French metropolis in the dark of night in a desperate search to find her daughter and ensure her safety.

Friday Night

2016

The Exes poster
5.2

In Paris, the City of Love, five very different couples cross paths while dealing with break-ups, exes and new love interests. None of them have anything in common. But everyone is someone else’s ex – and love works in mysterious ways…

The Exes

2017

Rose and the Soldier poster
7.0

Martinique, 1942. Rose, a young teacher, is fired from her job by the Vichy regime of Admiral Robert. Rose seeks to leave the island by boat with a group of fellow dissidents. Her plans are thwarted by the landing on the island of a German officer, and her meeting with Jacques Meyer, the captain of the local navy. A strange confrontation between the German officer, Captain Meyer and rebellious Rose then begins.

Rose and the Soldier

2015

Stringer poster
3.6

Waiting for a lucky break in the movie business, a young Frenchman works as a stringer in New York.

Stringer

1999

Little Nothings poster
6.2

Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.

Little Nothings

1992

La Route des abolitions poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Route des abolitions

2011

1802: The Epopee Inhabitant of Guadeloupe poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

1802: The Epopee Inhabitant of Guadeloupe

2006

The Courage to Love poster
5.6

A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.

The Courage to Love

2005

Bitter Sugar poster
6.8

Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are brought together in the present to re-examine the "Ignace case", about a legendary figure in the history of Guadeloupe who fought against the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte to preserve his freedom. A hero despite himself, Ignace's life and struggle were subsequently consigned to oblivion by his enemies. His treatment has left a bittersweet taste in the mouths of the people of Guadeloupe.

Bitter Sugar

1998

The Man by the Shore poster
6.0

Early 1960s Haiti during 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family has suffered heavily.

The Man by the Shore

1993

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La bugia bianca

2015

Seule poster
10.0

Amélie, a 20-year-old girl, loses both her job as a waitress and her home. Without money, she tries to survive on the streets.

Seule

1997

Siméon poster
6.2

The ghost of a music teacher pushes a young mechanic to start a career in music.

Siméon

1992

Sandra poster
7.0

Sandra, a schoolteacher, would like to control every moment of a life she finds too banal. Even if she seems to have found an ideal in love, she takes two lovers, in the person of Pierre, ordinary but in love, and of Blaise a splendid black photographer.

Sandra

1989