Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

Acting

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

Born

1986-03-06 (40)

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (born 6 March 1986) is an Argentine actor. A polyglot, he is best known for his role in the French film BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017), which earned him a César and a Lumières Award. Biscayart was born in Buenos Aires to a mother of Basque and Italian descent and a father of Spanish-Andalusian descent. His grandmother is from Biarritz. He trained at the Buenos Aires School of Fine Arts. Source: Article "Nahuel Pérez Biscayart" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Persian Lessons poster
7.6

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.

Persian Lessons

2020

Marcians poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Marcians

2017

See You Up There poster
7.8

In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.

See You Up There

2017

One Year, One Night poster
5.9

Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep scar on both their lives and each tries to cope.

One Year, One Night

2022

Killer Women poster
6.0

Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.

Killer Women

2005

BPM (Beats per Minute) poster
7.7

Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.

BPM (Beats per Minute)

2017

Film credits

2020s · 14 titles

Persian Lessons poster
7.6

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.

Persian Lessons

2020

One Year, One Night poster
5.9

Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep scar on both their lives and each tries to cope.

One Year, One Night

2022

My New Friends poster
5.6

Police officer Lucie’s solitary daily life is disturbed by the arrival of a young couple and their little girl who move in next door. As she grows fond of them, she discovers that the father is an anti-police activist.

My New Friends

2024

No Love Lost poster
6.1

A single father, Étienne, is preparing for his daughter Rosa to leave home, but his life is upended when he sees his long-lost wife, Valérie, on TV, forcing a confrontation with the past.

No Love Lost

2023

Narciso poster
10.0

Paraguay, 1958. The charismatic Narciso returns from Buenos Aires with rock ’n’ roll in his veins. Under the suffocating military regime, his radio show becomes a music sensation and a symbol of freedom.

Narciso

2026

Kill the Jockey poster
6.7

Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now is determined to find him, dead or alive.

Kill the Jockey

2024

La mitad de Ana poster
7.2

Son confesses to his mother, Ana, that he does not feel like a girl; he is a boy. Confused and blocked, Ana will decide to stop in order to observe and understand him and, in the same way, to understand herself. Ana and Son are two sides of the same coin: a mother who does not take care of herself, of her own identity, and a boy in search of his identity with all his strength.

La mitad de Ana

2025

The Employer and the Employee poster
6.5

The employer is a young man who apparently has everything going on for him except one pressing concern: his baby’s health. The employee is looking for a job to support his newborn too, so does not hesitate when the first decides to hire him to work in his lands. Both will meet their needs by helping each other. But one day an accident happens. This unexpected event will strain the ties between them, endangering the fate of the two families.

The Employer and the Employee

2021

The Intruder poster
5.9

Inés works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. While on an idyllic trip she suffers a traumatic episode that she can’t recover from. She has trouble sleeping and experiences very vivid nightmares as strange sounds begin to emerge from inside her. Awake, Inés feels suddenly surrounded by people that seem to come from her dreams.

The Intruder

2021

Nine Auras poster
5.5

This documentary revives the story of "Nueve Reinas" and the legacy of its creator, Fabián Bielinsky. After years of perseverance, his script became a phenomenon: more than 1.2 million viewers, critical acclaim, and remakes in Hollywood and India. He then surprised fans with The Aura, a thriller that established him as a versatile director, before his sudden death. Actors and crew will return to the original locations, while his family and previously unseen footage reveal the man behind the artist.

Nine Auras

2025

Stronger Than the Devil poster
4.3

Valentin is lost and penniless. He reunites with his son Joseph after 20 years of absence and plunges him and his wife Alice into total chaos. With JP, Mila and Gigi, the devil had better watch out...

Stronger Than the Devil

2026

Sleep with Your Eyes Open poster
5.7

A coastal city in Brazil. Kai arrives from Taiwan for holidays with a broken heart. A broken air conditioner sends her into Fu Ang’s umbrella store. He could become a friend, but the rainy season doesn't arrive and his shop disappears. While looking for Fu Ang, Kai discovers the story of Xiaoxin and a group of Chinese workers in a posh skyscraper. Kai finds herself strangely mirrored in Xiaoxin’s tale.

Sleep with Your Eyes Open

2024

The Glass Menagerie poster
6.0

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

The Glass Menagerie

2021

The Sentinel poster
NR

A French soldier, gently bent at the waist, a rifle lodged in his mouth. The rifle fires. Whether he dies or dreams is left unresolved, the decision deferred to the viewer.

The Sentinel

2026

2010s · 24 titles

See You Up There poster
7.8

In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.

See You Up There

2017

BPM (Beats per Minute) poster
7.7

Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.

BPM (Beats per Minute)

2017

Grand Central poster
5.6

A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.

Grand Central

2013

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe poster
6.5

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

2016

42 One Dream Rush poster
6.0

An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a 42-second short inspired by a dream. Produced by 42 Below vodka, the collection blends surreal, poetic, and experimental visions into a mosaic of oneiric cinema.

42 One Dream Rush

2010

If You Saw His Heart poster
4.2

Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crime and the path to redemption.

If You Saw His Heart

2017

They Are All Dead poster
6.0

Just by watching Lupe stuck at home in her robe and slippers, no one would will guess that in the 80's she was a rock star. Gone are the times of concerts, fame and success. Agoraphobia does not let her leave home. She depends entirely on Paquita, his mother, a superstitious Mexican, with a huge heart, which not only takes care of his daughter but also her teenage grandson. The problem is that Paquita is running out of time and she doesn't want to leave without getting her daughter back.

They Are All Dead

2014

All Yours poster
5.2

A penniless Argentine male escort meets a solitary, lonely Belgian baker who wants to help him leave the world of prostitution, explores intimate gay relationship.

All Yours

2014

Duras and Cinema poster
10.0

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.

Duras and Cinema

2014

Before poster
4.7

Nacho was a happy 21-year-old guy, with a great family, friends and girlfriend. But a year later he's not the same guy: he lives alone and he doesn't care anymore about anyone. He's lost and desperate, tortured by what happened a year ago.

Before

2010

Patagonia poster
5.6

Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through the Argentine autumn.

Patagonia

2010

Deep in the Woods poster
5.3

A wanderer named Timothee arrives in a French village in 1865 pretending to be deaf and mute. He uses tricks to hypnotize a beautiful young woman named Josephine and takes advantage of her until he is arrested and tried for his crimes.

Deep in the Woods

2010

Peach poster
NR

How are biographies charted? How is identity constructed? Can we relive our past, reinvent it, rearrange or recycle it? Can we really know who we are if we ignore where do we come from?

Peach

2014

Cerro Bayo poster
5.9

In a small town near the mountains of Argentina, Juana tries to commit suicide but ends up in a coma instead, to the great pain of her daughter Marta. Her other daughter Mercedes comes from Buenos Aires but is less interested in her mother's condition than in possibly getting her money. Marta's husband has a great offer for a piece of land owned by Juana, but can't do anything while she is in a coma.

Cerro Bayo

2011

No artwork available
NR

A marriage enters into crisis due to a “health” issue. They have decided to quit smoking and their lives, more or less ordered, slide towards disaster. Or is quitting smoking not a vice like any other?

No fumar es un vicio como cualquier otro

2011

I Could See a Puma poster
5.0

The accident leads a group of young boys from the high roofs of their neighborhood, passing through its destruction, to the deepest of the earth.

I Could See a Puma

2011

Left Foot Right Foot poster
4.2

The loss of youth and innocence can be played for comedy or tragedy. The stunning black-and-white cinematography and hypnotic electric guitar that fill "Left Foot Right Foot", as portentous as they are beautiful, are a pretty clear indication which side of the coin photographer Germinal Roaux intends to focus on in his first feature.

Left Foot Right Foot

2013

Sick Sick Sick poster
3.2

Silvia is an introspective young girl who is not interested in the daily routine between family and school. Everything abruptly changes when Artur arrives unexpectedly in her class, after being banned from several other schools. Silvia is amazed by the vitality of the boy, who actually suffers from a serious illness – hemophilia. The two immerse themselves in an intense and brief coexistence, interrupted by an accident in which Artur’s bleeds to death. Silvia gets sick and sees her life turn into a strange nightmare. The mourning gradually becomes an obsession, and obsession becomes a goal – Silvia will do anything to bring him back to life.

Sick Sick Sick

2019

That I'm Falling? poster
5.0

Searching for a seed, a young man emerges from the underground where he hangs out with his friends. They all embark on a long digestive trip.

That I'm Falling?

2013

Agadah poster
4.8

A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings - Alphonse, a young Waloon officer, rides through the Murgia to reach his regiment in Naples but soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over ten days. A range of situations in stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provide entertainment on an epic scale. The two men's destiny intertwined, it is difficult to know who's real between the two and who belongs to the other's mind. This is a journey for both of them which Alphonse will continue, uncertain in the end, if his experiences were real or a dream.

Agadah

2017

Becks letzter Sommer poster
5.0

Robert Beck failed as a musician and works frustrated as a teacher - until he learns about his gifted student Rauli. A musical genius: He sings and plays guitar like a young god. Beck is motivated to help Rauli to become a successful and published musician to fulfill his own long-held dreams of a music career.

Becks letzter Sommer

2015

Lulú poster
7.0

Two young urchins turn the streets of Buenos Aires into their own magical playground, in this vibrant portrait of young love.

Lulú

2016

The Future Perfect poster
6.2

A smart and innovative look at the possible futures of a young Chinese immigrant to Buenos Aires, told in the stilted language of an elementary Spanish textbook.

The Future Perfect

2017

Alas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Alas

2010

2000s · 10 titles

The Aura poster
7.0

A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…

The Aura

2005

The Signal poster
NR

An actress goes to Canal Siete's studios to act on a TV version of Chéjov's "The Seagull". As the leading actor doesn't appear, an assistant must take his place.

The Signal

2007

Silencios poster
NR

Eloísa is an elderly woman and a widow who runs a children's soup kitchen with her friend. Juan, his grandson, lacks the presence of his parents, uses cocaine, steals money from his family, his sister suffers from eating disorders and became obsessed with his neighbor across the street, Inés, whom he harasses on the phone.

Silencios

2009

Glue poster
5.7

A teenage summer in a small town in the desert, a dysfunctional family, a rock band, a can full of glue, two boys, one girl, loads of tongue kisses, dry heat, wind in Patagonia, existential angst... A teenage story in the middle of nowhere.

Glue

2006

Cheese Head poster
5.9

It tells the story of four Jewish boys during a few summer days at the country club where their parents take them, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in 1993. Within the club, the four define themselves as outsiders, since they do not participate in the sports activities that are practiced there, and therefore do not fit into the logic that governs the place, being permanently bothered and mocked by the rest of the children of their age.

Cheese Head

2006

Tatuado poster
10.0

Paco knows that his mother died of a terminal illness when he was barely two years old, that his father, Alvaro, has remarried after a long period of mourning, and that his newborn sister will be with him for life. He has a strange tattoo on his forearm, and he knows it was his mother's last message before she left for the first time, because now he knows that death was a step after abandonment.

Tatuado

2005

Blood Appears poster
5.3

The story follows the struggles of Arturo, a cab driver who has to find $2000 within 24 hours; his older son, Ramiro, who left home four years ago, has just phoned from Houston asking for urgent help. However, Arturo's wife Irene keeps their savings away from Arturo's reach.

Blood Appears

2009

El regreso de Peter Cascada poster
NR

Peter Cascada is a singer who returns to his hometown after 23 years, invited to the centennial celebration of the town club. His return will bring him big surprises, since a lot has changed during his absence.

El regreso de Peter Cascada

2006

Proxima salida poster
7.4

The stories of five railroad workers who have been sacked as a consequence of the economic crisis.

Proxima salida

2004

Lugones Family poster
6.0

Argentine history during the 20th century discovered by two teenagers, who investigate the lives of members of four different generations of the Lugones family.

Lugones Family

2007

Series credits

Marcians poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Marcians

2017

Killer Women poster
6.0

Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.

Killer Women

2005

Epitaphs poster
7.2

Epitafios is a 2004 13-episode, Argentinian crime fiction TV mini-series with the tagline: El Final Está Escrito ... The End Is Written. The series, which takes place in an unnamed South American city, was shot in Buenos Aires. The series was produced by HBO Latin America and Argentinian TV/film company Pol-Ka Producciones. It was written by Marcelo Slavich and Walter Slavich and directed by Alberto Lecchi and Jorge Nisco. Although all of the actors were Argentinian, a neutral Spanish was used instead of the local Rioplatense Spanish, avoiding colloquialisms such as the local vos in favor of the more common tú. The series debuted in Australia on SBS in May 2007 under the title If The Dead Could Speak. It premiered in Poland on Cinemax on November 6, 2008. In Germany, it premiered on November 6, 2009 on pay TV channel FOX under the title Epitafios - Tod Ist Die Antwort.

Epitaphs

2004

Donne assassine poster
6.0

True crime anthology series about female murderers.

Donne assassine

2008

Amas de casa desesperadas poster
1.3

Amas de Casa Desesperadas is an Argentine television series, that debuted on Canal 13 on August 30, 2006. Set in the fictional Manzanares Street, a suburb surrounding Buenos Aires, the series follows the lives of four housewives and the domestic problems and daily mysteries surrounding their husbands, friends and neighbors, which can be more sinister than they appear. The series' tone combines elements of drama, comedy, mystery, farce, soap opera and satire. Based on the American television series, Desperate Housewives, it was developed for Argentina by Buena Vista International and Pol-Ka Producciones. The show’s first season was broadcast by Canal 13 on Argentina, and also by other networks on Uruguay and Paraguay. On October 2006, Canal 13 renewed Amas de Casa Desesperadas for a second season, that will start filming on August 2007.

Amas de casa desesperadas

2006

Conflictos en red poster
9.0

Family life at the beginning of your career does not bode well at all. Everyone wishes the newlyweds a long and happy love, but no one has any idea what will happen in a year or two! As a result, after three years of marriage, Pablo and Flor separate. Pablo will lose interest in his beloved and decides to share his happiness with Lucía. However, Flor tries with all her might to bring her man home. The attempts are in vain. Flor soon meets another man: Lautaro, whom she marries. It would seem that everything is fine again, but old love returns to haunt the main characters. She returns again and again.

Conflictos en red

2005

Hermanos y detectives poster
8.3

An administrative police officer, Franco Montero, receives as an inheritance the care of a half-brother that he did not know. Lorenzo Montero, a child prodigy with an IQ of 200 who changes his way of life and his work. The eleven-year-old's intelligence puts Franco and his assistant Gustavo Mansilla in charge of the homicide division. By deducing and exploring the three, they solve the most striking cases.

Hermanos y detectives

2006

Sol Negro poster
7.8

Sol Negro was an Argentine television miniseries that aired on the América TV channel in late 2003. The plot focuses on the story of a young man who is admitted to a neuropsychiatric hospital to evade prison, and revolves around his insertion in the circle of inmates of the hospital and a complicity network to take away his share of a family inheritance.

Sol Negro

2003

Aquí no hay quien viva (Argentina) poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aquí no hay quien viva (Argentina)

2008

Sangre Fría poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sangre Fría

2004

No artwork available
NR

The Ministry of Time, a newly established government department, is gathering ‘expats’ from across history in an experiment to test the viability of time-travel. Commander Graham Gore (an officer on Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 Arctic expedition) is one such figure rescued from certain death – alongside an army captain from the fields of the Somme, a plague victim from the 1600s, a widow from revolutionary France, and a soldier from the seventeenth century.

The Ministry of Time

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