
Acting
Vincent Macaigne
Born 1978-10-19 · Paris, France
Vincent Macaigne (born 19 October 1978) is a French actor, theatre director and film director. He is also a screenwriter and playwright. Macaigne was raised in Paris, the son of a French businessman and an Iranian-born painter. He has an elder brother, who is a forensic doctor. He attended the CNSAD between 1999 and 2002, and staged his first play in 2004. Throughout the 2000s, he acted in several theatre productions and also wrote and staged a number of plays. He suffered two strokes at just thirty years old, one of which occurred after his 2009 staging of the theatrical adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. In an interview, he said the stroke has had no lasting consequences to his health. His short film What We'll Leave Behind (Ce qu'il restera de nous) won the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and was nominated for the César Award for Best Short Film. In 2014, he received nominations for the César Award for Most Promising Actor and the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor for his role in La Fille du 14 juillet. His directorial feature film debut, Dom Juan, is an adaptation of the play of the same name by Molière. It was screened in the Cineasts of the Present section at the 2015 Locarno International Film Festival. Source: Article "Vincent Macaigne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Acting credits
7.5Ten-year-old Arco lives in a far future. During his first flight in his rainbow suit, he loses control and falls into the past. Iris, a girl his age from 2075, comes to his rescue and tries by any means to help send him back to his own era.
Arco
2025
6.1Eastern France, nowadays. Rémi, who has never recovered from a heartbreak, shares his life with a doll called Audrey. But the day his new coworker, Patricia, arrives at his company, Audrey comes to life. The two women will turn Rémi’s life upside down.
The Doll
2026
7.4When four distant cousins inherit a 19th-century home in Normandy, they decide to visit and examine their family history. No one has lived there since the 1940s, and the cousins are intrigued by all of the items they find there, little things that help them to understand their ancestor, Adèle Vermillard. Jumping back and forth in time, they meet the mysterious Adèle, whose bohemian lifestyle, and her relationships with the leading artists of the time, changes their lives.
Colours of Time
2025
6.1Yannick is a caregiver in a retirement home. Between permanent pressure and budget restrictions, he faces the lack of means with a contagious good mood. But when he is forced to share the dining room with a class of children, the situation becomes complicated. Their arrival, as well as that of his hostess, Aude, will shake up the daily life of everyone, especially the residents.
Big Kids
2023
6.5Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
Maria
2024
This short film is part of the clandestine dialogues of the Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval’s 2015 feature, “Ceremony”.
Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frapper avec un bâton pour écarter les dangers invisibles
2013
6.6Luc goes off on his bicycle to forget his problems. A suit of accidents make him spend the night in a little town of Picardie. He meets Sylvain, who tries to help him, for the best and the worst.
Stranded
2009
3.0Accompanied by his buddy Bruno, Leon waits in this hammam where he made an appointment with a girl met on Internet. From strange meetings to vaporous revelations, our two heroes wait restlessly for the hypothetical coming of the mysterious stranger.
The Lizards
2013
5.4Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors — another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion.
Non-Fiction
2018
6.0As a comet streaks across the Paris sky, lives intersect in a mysterious dance. Two friends roam the city, taking stock of their lives. A young woman reconnects with a father she had long since given up on. Another sells drugs for her brother. Elsewhere, two souls haunted by death cross paths. Meanwhile, actors rehearse a play that strangely mirrors these lives. A portrait of unexpected encounters and the chance events that weave the fabric of our lives.
Comète
2026
7.1Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
The Innocents
2016
7.0Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night… especially once the groom's aerial serenade gets underway.
C'est la vie!
2017
6.3When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn’t know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and work. From this moment, she became more than just a muse for the “painter of happiness”, appearing in more than a third of his work. Together, they reached their artistic fulfillment thanks to a colourful love, different from the standards of their time, nurturing the great mystery around their relationship. Based on a true story.
Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe
2024
Bankrupted after buying a guesthouse which has wrecked their relationship, Jean and Sarah think they’ve found a solution when they learn about a fabulous treasure which is said to be in the area. They set off determined to find it, even if it means falling in love again.
Le Trésor
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NRAdele and May, two American twenty-somethings with different backgrounds and a less than sturdy friendship, travel together to Paris so that Adele can finally unite with the handsome Jacques, an (unbeknownst to the women) reclusive local there who has been courting Adele from across the Atlantic via Instagram. The city is not kind to their relationship.
Faux Amis
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6.2Joan is no longer in love with Victor, but it pains her to feel she is being dishonest with him. Alice, her best friend, reassures her: She herself doesn’t feel passionate about her partner Eric and yet their relationship is smooth sailing. She has no idea he is having an affair with Rebecca, their mutual friend. When Joan finally decides to leave Victor and he disappears, the lives of the three friends and their relationships are turned upside down.
Three Friends
2024
5.8Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
Eden
2014
5.1Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks uncontrollable jealousy in Maud, whose young lover has fallen in love with Claire. Maud decides to get rid of Claire who finds shelter in a farm where she’s allowed to break free from her strict upbringing through encounters with seven “princes.”
White as Snow
2019
4.6For the sake of love, Vincent has followed Barbara to New York. But she wants nothing more to do with him. Obsessed with the idea of winning her back, he decides to see things through to the bitter end...
Stubborn
2015
NRGianina, a young Romanian, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses the role of a maid with an amateur theater troupe in an adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau. She takes care of Louen, her employers’ son, while her own daughter is growing up far from her, in Romania. The maternal absence deepens into a wound but, as Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion begins to take shape.
The Diary of a Chambermaid
2026
NRFive years after ASK Agency closed, debut director Andréa loses her lead actor just days before filming and reunited with her old team — for better or worse.
Call My Agent! The Movie
2026
5.1Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
A Burning Hot Summer
2011
No synopsis available yet.
Miracle
2026
6.2Marguerite has no reason to refuse the church’s annulment of her marriage to Fred. She also has a new partner with whom she has a child. However, to convince the church that their previous marriage was doomed from the start, Marguerite and Fred must examine their shared past.
What is Love?
2026
Behind the camera
4.0Woman hero Dom Juan lives a life full of excesses and love affairs. When he seduces the nun Elvire, but shows no interest in her a short time later, he gets to deal with her vengeful brothers. Dom Juan and his assistant Sganarelle have to flee and set out on a journey full of strange encounters.
Dom Juan & Sganarelle
2015
4.0Woman hero Dom Juan lives a life full of excesses and love affairs. When he seduces the nun Elvire, but shows no interest in her a short time later, he gets to deal with her vengeful brothers. Dom Juan and his assistant Sganarelle have to flee and set out on a journey full of strange encounters.
Dom Juan & Sganarelle
2015
4.6For the sake of love, Vincent has followed Barbara to New York. But she wants nothing more to do with him. Obsessed with the idea of winning her back, he decides to see things through to the bitter end...
Stubborn
2015
4.4Pascal and Pauline are coming back to their parents’ estate. After years of travelling the world, they are no longer in a position to afford the property bills. They confront their childhood friends. Friends coming from less wealthy families and who never left their countryside.
Comfort and Consolation in France
2017
4.4Pascal and Pauline are coming back to their parents’ estate. After years of travelling the world, they are no longer in a position to afford the property bills. They confront their childhood friends. Friends coming from less wealthy families and who never left their countryside.
Comfort and Consolation in France
2017
3.5The tragic story of two brothers grappling with the death of their father. One was loved and the other unfairly neglected by a father who left him nothing. The entire inheritance goes to the favorite son, who needs it less and cares little about money.
What We'll Leave Behind
2012
3.5The tragic story of two brothers grappling with the death of their father. One was loved and the other unfairly neglected by a father who left him nothing. The entire inheritance goes to the favorite son, who needs it less and cares little about money.
What We'll Leave Behind
2012
4.9Vincent has followed the woman he loves to New York. But they're not getting along anymore. Stubborn, he's going to try to do everything to get her back.
Kingston Avenue
2013