Christian Vadim

Acting

Christian Vadim

Born

1963-06-18 (63)

Place of birth

Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

57 titles

Christian Vadim (born 18 June 1963) is a French actor. He is the son of actress Catherine Deneuve and film director Roger Vadim. He made his film debut in 1983, working with his father in the film Surprise Party, and appeared in Éric Rohmer's Full Moon in Paris the following year. In 1999, he played Bloch in Time Regained (directed by Raúl Ruiz), which also starred his mother Catherine Deneuve. He then worked again with Ruiz on Love Torn in a Dream (2000), Savage Souls (2001), A Place Among the Living (2003), That Day (2003) and Night Across the Street (2012). Source: Article "Christian Vadim" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

2010s · 10 titles

2000s · 15 titles

Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice poster
6.0

The life of Antonio Vivaldi, the great Italian composer and musician of the 17th century.

Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice

2007

That Day poster
6.1

A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.

That Day

2003

Savage Souls poster
4.9

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse soon finds that she can exploit the situation, using her benefactor's naivety and generosity for her own gain..

Savage Souls

2001

Love Torn in a Dream poster
7.8

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.

Love Torn in a Dream

2000

J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend poster
5.7

A dramatic exploration of the life and struggles of the great composer, J.S. Bach, from his orphaning at the age of nine, through his struggles for the freedom to compose music in a restrictive society, to his eventual recognition after death.

J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend

2003

Crime Is Our Business poster
5.9

Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.

Crime Is Our Business

2008

Boire, Fumer et Conduire Vite poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Boire, Fumer et Conduire Vite

2007

A Place Among the Living poster
6.5

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

A Place Among the Living

2003

Le Jeu de la vérité 2 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Jeu de la vérité 2

2007

boire fumer ou conduire vite poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

boire fumer ou conduire vite

2009

Le Jeu de la vérité poster
7.0

Recorded in Theatre de Fontainebleau. The story is about three high school friends in their forties who meet regularly for dinner. One evening, a fourth person is invited, the girl with whom all three were in love in high school. Then begins a part of the Game of Truth where indiscreet questions, sharp spikes and revelations come together. The piece is published by Art & Comedy (2007) and released on DVD.

Le Jeu de la vérité

2005

Family according to Mathieu poster
10.0

What should have been a simple family reunion turns into a settling of scores.

Family according to Mathieu

2002

Don't Worry, Be Happy poster
6.0

With his vitriolic pen, Désiré Loncle, does not make the life of filmmakers easy. But chickens come home to roost, don't they? As a matter of fact, Désiré gets his due punishment when Manu, his girlfriend, kicks him out of home. At a loss, he finds refuge with Alex, a young actor. He is soon joined by Eduardo, an Italian producer, dumped like him by his wife. While Désiré tries to rebuild himself, the three men decide to write a film script that will be the basis of a vehicle for Alex.

Don't Worry, Be Happy

2003

Accords et à cris poster
4.0

Anne Versois is both a psychiatrist and a cellist in a small orchestra. She entrusts her instrument to her friend Delphine and goes to prison to conduct a psychiatric examination of the inmate Victor Marchi. While she is interviewing the accused, Delphine's car explodes. She later learns that the explosion is of criminal origin. It was a bomb that blew up the vehicle.

Accords et à cris

2002

Trench of Hope poster
6.1

While playing football, two children stumble across the grave of a French WWI infantryman who died in the trenches in 1918. His name was Pierre Delpeuch and in the last days of his life he and his comrades shared an extraordinary human adventure. Exhausted, cut off from the front, huddled in their trench, Pierre and four others bravely stood firm. Facing them was another trench containing five similar exhausted and determined Germans. Their only aim was to resist, whatever the cost, until reinforcements arrived.

Trench of Hope

2006

1990s · 8 titles

Time Regained poster
6.3

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.

Time Regained

1999

Open Air poster
8.0

In the early 1800s, Prussian geographer Alexander Von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland launch an expedition to explore the Amazon region, including the Orinoco River, from Venezuela to the border of Portuguese Brazil.

Open Air

1996

La punyalada poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La punyalada

1990

The Stranger From Strasbourg poster
5.4

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive. After Jean-Paul drives away, he picks up a hitchhiker. When the car, stolen by the hitchhiker, explodes, police believe the dead hitchhiker is Jean-Paul. Madeleine takes up with Jean-Paul's brother, Bastien, while Jean-Paul, arriving in Strasbourg, is mistaken for the heir to a fortune. The detective on the case spends more time writing crime novels than investigating real-life crimes.

The Stranger From Strasbourg

1998

Un coup de baguette magique poster
8.0

Jeanne, Achille, and their family belong to the middle class. They have their own house. Their marriage has not always gone smoothly, but they both make up for it. Then they both lose their jobs, and the incredible happens: the house is sold and they become homeless.

Un coup de baguette magique

1997

Mauvaise fille poster
6.0

Rose, 20, lives in Camargue with her brother Vincent, her elder, and her mechanic father who has never recovered from the departure of their mother when they were children. She serves as the wife and mother to both and, tired of this situation, she wants to go to Marseille to find a job, and then live there.

Mauvaise fille

1991

El invierno en Lisboa poster
4.7

Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer.

El invierno en Lisboa

1991

Jealousy poster
3.7

Pierre is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille, an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to her with her oh-so submissive love, and he is playing some games with her head by pretending (usually) to have been playing around with others. Eventually, he encounters another woman who is not so sticky and tells her to buzz off. When they meet some time later, it becomes clear that the relationship meant different things to each of them.

Jealousy

1991

Series credits

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

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

Police Commissioner Moulin poster
7.1

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

Police Commissioner Moulin

1976

Top Gear France poster
6.3

Top Gear France is a french TV show on cars, based on the english original tv show Top Gear. IT is shwon on TNT RMC Découverte and will be hosted by the french actor Philippe Lellouche, the professional racing driver Bruce Jouanny and EDM musician and journalist Yann Larret-Menezo.

Top Gear France

2015

The Unexpected Getaway poster
8.5

In each episode, 3 celebrities who have never met go on a 24-hour break in the countryside. A moment out of time to meet and talk about love, friendship, life with its obstacles and surprises.

The Unexpected Getaway

2012

Princess Marie poster
NR

The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.

Princess Marie

2004

Équipe médicale d'urgence poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Équipe médicale d'urgence

2006

Dangerous Liaisons poster
6.1

Updated adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge set in the modern 1960s world of Parisian high society. The beautiful Madame de Merteuil seeks vengeance against her ex-lover Gercourt when he becomes engaged to her young goddaughter, Cécile.

Dangerous Liaisons

2003

Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes poster
9.0

When Germany invades France, Victoire is 20 years old. The war, the child whom it awaits from Arnaud, the beneficial influence of Natacha, exiled Russian, soft and revolted at the same time, the friendship who links it in Jeannette, the love finally, will make of Victoire a combative and courageous woman. She will know passion. When, become gynaecologist, it meets Gianni, a journalist who will fight at his sides for the emancipation of the women, it will be an adult love. But Gianni, one day, will be erased by understanding that never Victoire will not cease awaiting Nicolas...

Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes

2000

Les Nouveaux Chevaliers du ciel poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Les Nouveaux Chevaliers du ciel

1988

Quand sort la recluse poster
NR

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.

Quand sort la recluse

2019

72 heures poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

72 heures

2005

Behind the camera