Maurice Bénichou
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1943-01-23
Place of Birth:Tlemcen, Algeria
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Also Known As:André Bénichou

Amélie (2001)
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is...

Caché (2005)
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings...

The Great Alibi (2008)
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this...

Adventures of Félix (2000)
A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak northern coastal town of Dieppe. He lives...

Instinct de femme (1981)
Young - beautiful - married, fulfilled, Martha is bored. Passive in an active society, she took a first step by serving as a "guinea pig" to her...

Paris (2008)
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he...

I... For Icarus (1979)
Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.

Every Jack Has a Jill (2009)
Jack is encouraged to take the romantic Paris vacation he won, despite just being dumped by his girlfriend. His trip soon devolves into chaos and...

Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008)
The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer...

Loser Takes All! (2004)
Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he...

Omar Killed Me (2011)
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has...

Great life (2009)
Philosophy teacher in the provincial city of Saint-Etienne, Gregoire is a discreet man of integrity. He strives to instill the fundamentals of wisdom...

The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's...

Special Delivery (2002)
An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they...

À la Mode (1993)
Fausto enters an orphanage and is initially bullied, but then makes friends with a new bunkmate, Raymond. He is apprenticed to Mietek, a tailor in...

Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents (1993)
This bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and grateful French men and women, the promise of Russian...

The Passenger (2005)
When he learns of the death of his older brother Richard, Thomas sets out for Marseilles to identify the body. Having collected his brother’s...

If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011)
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track...

Mordbüro (1997)
The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization used by ordinary working folk to rid the city of...

Paris Does Not Exist (1969)
In this film, an artist attending a party smokes some dope and develops the ability to see into the future and the past. He returns to his apartment...

Cross My Heart (1991)
Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is less talkative and more withdrawn. When those...

Au cas où je n'aurais pas la palme d'or (2011)
Simon, a forty-year-old filmmaker, is more prone to shooting himself in the foot than he is to shooting films. After losing a bet, he shaves off his...

Boxes (2007)
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives...

Man Is a Woman (1998)
Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his...

Sale rêveur (1978)
A young man struggling with reality and dreams finds himself caught between his fantasies and the harshness of everyday life. As he drifts through...

Quand on sera grand (2000)
At thirty, Simon is juggling with life and it's problems. He is torn between his job as a journalist at "Tobacco Monthly", his girlfreind Christine...

Candidature (2001)
Jean, a young Parisian philosopher, travels to Angoulême to take part in a recruitment competition for the National Education. On the bus, he...

The French Calvinists (1972)
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers,...

Beneath the Rooftops of Paris (2007)
An old man living in an attic in a rundown part of Paris, becomes increasingly lonely and prey to ill-health.

Reportage sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques (1970)

Code Unknown (2000)
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris,...

The Patriots (1994)
Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After...

The Little Apocalypse (1993)
An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a...

Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ? (1982)
David, a Jewish filmmaker in his thirties, is working on a screenplay with autobiographical overtones. His girlfriend, Anna, with whom he lives,...

Little Marcel (1976)
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer....

Marriage a la Mode (1973)
The main character is a woman trapped in the long stifling marriage in a boring province. She has an affair with a traveling photographer, follows...

Time of the Wolf (2003)
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful...

Roads to the South (1978)
France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his...

Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)
On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous...

The Question (1977)
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected...

Travail du comédien (1974)
We follow the rehearsals and the staging work of Bertold Brecht's play 'Dans la jungle des villes' in 1972 by the company Théâtre de...

Le jardinier (1981)
This is a surreal comedy is about a factory set in a barren landscape that dispenses a minute portion of water to stragglers carrying pans as...

The Mahabharata (1990)
One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter...

Between Land and Sea (1997)
At the beginning of the 20th century, the arrival of a man on the Breton coast near Saint-Malo fills him with awe as he observes the devoted,...