
Acting
Christian Vadim
Born 1963-06-18 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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.
Acting credits
6.5To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.
The Man Who Sold His Skin
2021
4.9At 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
6.0With 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
5.6In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
Valentin Valentin
2015
6.8Feeling suffocated by a possessive boyfriend, work and suburban life, a young woman starts spending the weekends in her Paris apartment in order to reclaim some of her lost freedom.
Full Moon in Paris
1984
8.0In 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
6.3In 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La punyalada
1990
6.0Rose, 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
5.1No synopsis available yet.
Le Jeu de la vérité
2014
4.440-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler, who lives day by day, alongside is wife Anne.
Le Voyage en pyjama
2024
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Le Jeu de la vérité 2
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Un nouveau départ
2016
5.9After 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
5.9A 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
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Papasss
2024
5.9Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
Crime Is Our Business
2008
5.8Madeleine 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.
L'Inconnu de Strasbourg
1998
7.8A 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
5.0Adventures of a group of youngsters set in a provincial French city in the 1950's.
Surprise Party
1983
5.7A 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
4.0Anne 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
5.6A romance between a student of a college of high class and a cadet of the nearby Naval Academy.
College
1984
5.2In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art agent, art dealer, conspirator and master of blackmail.
The Worst Man in London
2024