Benoît Magimel

Acting

Benoît Magimel

Born

1974-05-11 (52)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

Benoît Magimel is a French actor. A prolific actor who was 14 when he appeared in his first film, Magimel has starred in a variety of roles in French cinema. For a number of years, he lived with French actress Juliette Binoche, with whom he co-starred in 1999's Children of the Century and later had a daughter, Hana, born in 1999. The relationship ended in 2003.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 16 titles

De Gaulle: Résistance poster
7.8

June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.

De Gaulle: Résistance

2026

The Taste of Things poster
7.1

Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.

The Taste of Things

2023

De Gaulle: Liberté poster
7.8

Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career.

De Gaulle: Liberté

2026

Revoir Paris poster
7.1

Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to move forward, she investigates her memories and retraces her steps.

Revoir Paris

2022

Pacifiction poster
6.2

Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints.

Pacifiction

2022

Peaceful poster
7.1

A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.

Peaceful

2021

Incredible But True poster
6.0

Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.

Incredible But True

2022

No Chains, No Masters poster
6.5

1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the sugar cane plantations. Unlike her disillusioned father Massamba, 16-year-old Mati refuses to keep her head down and accept her fate.

No Chains, No Masters

2024

Saint-Exupéry poster
5.2

The story takes us back to 1930 and centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Argentina. When his best friend who happens to be Airmail’s best pilot Henri Guillaumet disappears in the Andes, Saint-Ex decides to set out in search of him, against all odds. This impossible quest forces him to push beyond his limits, turning his capacity to dream into his greatest strength...

Saint-Exupéry

2024

Jack Mimoun & the Secrets of Val Verde poster
5.3

Two years after surviving alone on the hostile island of Val Verde, Jack Mimoun has become an adventure star. The book recounting his experience is a bestseller and his television show breaks audience records. He is then approached by the mysterious Aurélie Diaz who will bring Jack Mimoun back to Val Verde to train him in search of the legendary sword of the pirate La Buse. Accompanied by Bruno Quézac, the ambitious but reckless manager of Jack, and Jean-Marc Bastos, a mercenary as disturbed as he is unpredictable, our adventurers will embark on an incredible treasure hunt through the jungle of the island of thousand dangers.

Jack Mimoun & the Secrets of Val Verde

2022

Lovers poster
5.3

Set in Paris the story follows Lisa, who, while on vacation with her husband, rekindles a passionate affair with her ex-boyfriend. But that may lead to a murder.

Lovers

2021

Rosalie poster
6.5

France, 1870s. Rosalie is a young woman unlike any other. She hides a secret: she was born with a face and body covered in hair. She’s concealed her peculiarity all her life to stay safe, shaving to fit in. Until Abel, an indebted bar owner unaware of her secret, marries Rosalie for her dowry. Will Abel be able to love Rosalie and see her as the woman she is, once he finds out the truth?

Rosalie

2024

Mi Amor poster
5.9

Romy is a French DJ touring the sun-bleached and club-lit Canary Islands, until her friend vanishes. Met with evasion from locals and the authorities, her search leads her to a magnetic stranger and the sinister proprietors of an exotic animal sanctuary.

Mi Amor

2026

The King of Algiers poster
6.0

Omar, better known as Omar the Strawberry, is an old-fashioned bandit. Forced to flee to Algeria, he makes a living out of petty crime, accompanied by his famous sidekick Roger. After decades of ruling the French criminal underworld, they must come to terms with their new life together, which until now has been one of debauchery and violence.

The King of Algiers

2023

The Birthday Party poster
6.1

Thomas, Nora and their teenage daughter Ida live on remote marshland. Social contact is limited, as they only have one neighbour, Cristina, an Italian painter. As the two households plan a surprise birthday party for Nora, strange disturbances begin to occur and unease rolls over the marsh.

The Birthday Party

2026

Le Marchand de sable poster
6.0

Marked by years of prison, Djo, a parcel delivery man in the Paris suburbs, lives modestly with his mother and daughter. One day, an aunt who has just fled the Ivorian conflict arrives at their home with her three children. In a hurry, Djo manages to find them a place to live. But faced with the growing demand and with the prospect of offering a decent life to his daughter, Djo switches and becomes a sleep merchant.

Le Marchand de sable

2023

2010s · 19 titles

An Easy Girl poster
5.5

Naïma has just turned 16. This summer, she will have to decide what she wants from life if she doesn’t want to miss out. Then her cousin Sofia arrives, with an amazing body and a dangerously seductive lifestyle. Naïma desires only to follow her own path, so long as it leads upwards… Despite the warnings of her best friend Dodo, she and Sofia will live through unforgettable encounters during a long summer that will mark them forever.

An Easy Girl

2019

The Connection poster
7.1

Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.

The Connection

2014

Special Forces poster
6.7

Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim – to bring her home alive. This strong, independent woman and these men of duty are thrown together and forced to confront situations of great danger that inextricably bind them – emotionally, violently and intimately.

Special Forces

2011

Little White Lies 2 poster
6.7

The sequel to Little White Lies ("Les petits mouchoirs"), set 7 years later. The group of friends, which had separated, reunites for the surprise birthday party organized for Max.

Little White Lies 2

2019

Little White Lies poster
7.1

Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.

Little White Lies

2010

150 Milligrams poster
6.8

In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.

150 Milligrams

2016

Lola and the Sea poster
6.4

Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen each other for two years, undertake a journey all the way to the Belgian coast. They realize the outcome of the journey may not be the one they were both expecting...

Lola and the Sea

2019

Traceless poster
6.3

Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at work, he is married to a picture-perfect wife, has a dream home and money. To top it off, he's charming, healthy and everyone likes him and seems to consider him "a great guy". But beneath the surface, not everything is perfect. Meunier feels some pressure at work, knowing others eye his future position and he and his wife have been unable to have children so far. One day, Meunier bumps into a childhood friend, Patrick Chambon (François-Xavier Demaison) and the two resume their friendship, despite Chambon having struggled as a petty criminal.

Traceless

2010

Standing Tall poster
7.1

The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.

Standing Tall

2015

My Way poster
6.4

A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.

My Way

2012

Carbone poster
6.7

In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.

Carbone

2017

For a Woman poster
5.9

After the death of her mother, Anne makes a shocking discovery: an old photograph casts doubt on her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious uncle who lived with her parents after the war. As she lifts the lid on a long forgotten family secret, the young woman learns that her mother once succumbed to an amorous passion that was as intense as it was short-lived...

For a Woman

2013

Memoir of War poster
6.1

In the last days of the Nazi-occupied France, writer Marguerite Duras awaits the return of her husband, Robert Antelme, arrested for being a Resistance fighter and then deported, while she maintains a tense relationship with her ambiguous lover and a dangerous game with a French collaborationist. Even when the Liberation arrives, she must still endure the unbearable pain of waiting.

Memoir of War

2017

We Were Young poster
5.7

Five long-term pals confront ageing and mortality as they enjoy their last weeks together before taking different paths.

We Were Young

2015

Fast Convoy poster
5.5

Málaga, southern Spain. Seven men, divided into four cars, set off with a large drug shipment towards Creil, a city near Paris; a routine mission that will be complicated by a fatal sequence of events.

Fast Convoy

2016

The Counsel poster
6.0

A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him.

The Counsel

2010

The Piano Teacher: Behind the Scenes - Postsync Sessions poster
NR

The following nineteen minutes of footage offer a behind-the-scenes look at the audio postsync sessions for THE PIANO TEACHER and feature director Michael Haneke with actress Isabelle Huppert.

The Piano Teacher: Behind the Scenes - Postsync Sessions

2017

Cafard poster
6.0

August 1914. While Jean Mordant is away winning the title of Wrestling Champion of the World in Buenos Aires, his daughter Mimi is raped by German occupiers in Ostend. Jean swears he will avenge this immoral disgrace. With his coach Victor and young nephew Guido, he enrolls in the prestigious ACM (Armored Car Division). But the heavily-built armored vehicles keep getting stuck in the mud of Flanders. The battalion is hastily transferred to the Eastern front. Jean is devastated by frustration for he has just learned that Mimi is pregnant. But war conditions are ruthless and he and his friends embark on a dramatic journey that ultimately will drag them around the world.

Cafard

2015

Mon pote poster
6.0

The story of a friendship between Victor, owner of a magazine, and Bruno, a car thief.

Mon pote

2010

2000s · 17 titles

The Piano Teacher poster
7.3

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

The Piano Teacher

2001

2 Alone in Paris poster
5.1

A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth.

2 Alone in Paris

2008

Sky Fighters poster
6.1

Two air force pilots prevent a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.

Sky Fighters

2005

The Nest poster
6.5

Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with heading a wide-reaching prostitution network, this formidable criminal is due to stand trial before a European court. During the transfer, killers hired by Nexhep set up an ambush to free their boss but Laborie and her men manage to escape...

The Nest

2002

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse poster
6.1

No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher in the end of the world. A murder victim with the same DNA as Christ. A serial killer mimicking the deaths of the 12 Apostles. Inspector Niemans and a young, rebellious detective team up with a beautiful expert in religion to crack the case before their elusive suspect completes the cycle of terror, paving the way to an even bigger bloody catastrophe.

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse

2004

Intimate Enemies poster
6.4

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

Intimate Enemies

2007

A Girl Cut in Two poster
5.9

A TV weather girl is torn between an older man, a famous married author whom she loves but who won't leave his wife, and a semi-deranged young heir to an industrial fortune who loves her.

A Girl Cut in Two

2007

Inju: The Beast in the Shadow poster
5.0

The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation.

Inju: The Beast in the Shadow

2008

The Flower of Evil poster
6.1

Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.

The Flower of Evil

2003

The King Is Dancing poster
6.5

Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer

The King Is Dancing

2000

Crime Insiders poster
5.8

A Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.

Crime Insiders

2007

Fair Play poster
5.6

A company, where manipulation and harassment is a problem between colleagues, decides to organize a canyoning trip for its employees. The building tensions between co-workers might actually explode during this trip.

Fair Play

2006

Trouble poster
5.6

The photographer and family man Matyas is married and has a happy life with his beloved wife Claire, who is pregnant and near the delivery, and his young son Pierre. Matyas was raised in an orphanage, and he believes his mother died when he was six. However, he receives a correspondence and discovers that his mother has just passed away and that he has a twin brother, Thomas. Matyas does not recall his childhood with his mother and brother and has problems with blood. When Thomas visits his family, Matyas becomes paranoid, believing that his sibling wishes to takeover his family.

Trouble

2004

Possibility of an Island poster
4.4

La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island.

Possibility of an Island

2008

To Mathieu poster
6.0

Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble...

To Mathieu

2001

The Bridesmaid poster
6.3

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

The Bridesmaid

2004

Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer poster
6.7

Serge Toubiana spent a year in the company of Isabelle Huppert. Where she went, he followed. Huppert is an around-the-clock actress so she doesn't need the cinema to exist – she embodies the cinema. When she's not performing, she doesn't exist. From film to film, on stage as on screen, Huppert invites us to survey those inner landscapes of hers that we don't yet know.

Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer

2001

1990s · 5 titles

Series credits

Vivement dimanche poster
3.6

No synopsis available yet.

Vivement dimanche

1998

C à vous poster
6.1

Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.

C à vous

2009

Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma

2023

Beau geste poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Beau geste

2023

Cérémonie des César poster
4.6

The César Awards are cinematographic awards created in 1976 and presented annually in Paris to professionals of the 7th art in various categories to recognize the best French productions. They are often cited as the French equivalent of the Oscars in the United States.

Cérémonie des César

1976

Marseille poster
6.3

The longtime mayor of Marseille is preparing to hand over the reins to his protégé when a sudden and ruthless battle erupts for control of the city.

Marseille

2016

The Hunt poster
7.6

When friends on a hunting trip get into a deadly clash with other hunters, they vow to keep it a secret. But as paranoia sets in—and a ruthless gang seeks revenge—the friends must confront their morality, families, and savage instincts.

The Hunt

2026

The A Talks poster
7.0

In each episode, one of the Nation’s most popular celebrities (actor/actress, singer, TV host, athlete) faces a group of 30 atypical journalists, all with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). All have very different personalities, but one thing in common: a disarming naturalness that is full of truth! Through surprising, unpredictable, sometimes funny or poignant questions, viewers discover celebrities as they have never seen them before! In these questions: no calculations, no traps, but also no taboos and no filters. Faced with these very special interviewers, the guests naturally drop the masks and each meeting becomes a magical moment, out of time, filled with emotion, laughter, poetry and impertinence. The show is also nourished by various artistic sequences (music, poetry, drawing…) delivered by journalists endowed with an unsuspected talent.

The A Talks

2022

Têtàtête(s) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Têtàtête(s)

2023

Le Late avec Alain Chabat poster
8.7

Alain Chabat hosts a brand-new late show for TF1: games, fake ads, stand up, live music and interviews with all the personalities of the entertainment world!

Le Late avec Alain Chabat

2022

It Was the War of Algeria poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

It Was the War of Algeria

2022

Jalna poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Jalna

1994