
Mathieu Demy
Actor · b. 1972 · Paris, France
Mathieu Demy is a French filmmaker and actor. He is the son of renowned filmmakers Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda. Demy has directed several acclaimed films, including "Americano" (2011), "Lola Pater" (2017), and "Three Songs for Benazir" (2021). Demy began his career as an actor, appearing in several films directed by his parents. He made his directorial debut in 2000 with the short film "The Girl from the Train." His first feature film, "Americano," was a critically acclaimed drama about a young French woman who travels to Los Angeles to find her estranged father. Demy's films are often characterized by their personal and intimate style. He frequently explores themes of family, relationships, and loss. His films have been praised for their emotional honesty and visual beauty. In addition to his work as a director, Demy has also written several screenplays and acted in several films. He is a regular collaborator with his wife, the actress Chiara Mastroianni. Demy is a rising star in French cinema. His films have been shown at major film festivals around the world, and he has won several awards for his work. He is a talented filmmaker with a unique vision, and he is sure to continue to make acclaimed films for many years to come. Demy is a significant figure in contemporary French cinema. His films are personal, intimate, and visually beautiful. He is a talented filmmaker with a unique vision, and he is sure to continue to make acclaimed films for many years to come. IMDb mini bio by: yusufpiskin
Movies24
Movie6.1ComedyDramaAn elderly billionaire woman gives hundreds of millions of euros to a younger gay artist she is close to. Her daughter files a complaint for abuse of a vulnerable person and a scandal erupts.
Movie5.3DramaNineteen-year-old Laura is stressed by her first year at college when money worries distract her from her studies and so, desperate for cash, she answers an online advertisement for intimate companionship that leads her down a dangerous path.
Movie5.9DramaComedyMiss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class and forms a strong bond with five students that eventually takes a dangerous turn.
Club Zero
2023 · 112 votes
Movie7.3DramaTen-year-old Laure isn't like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure and her family move to a new neighbourhood, local girl Lisa mistakes Laure for a boy. Indulging in this exciting new identity, Laure becomes Mickaël, and so begins a summer of long sunny afternoons, playground games and first kisses. Yet with the school term fast approaching, and with suspicions arising amongst friends and family, Laure must face up to an uncertain future.
Tomboy
2011 · 768 votes
Movie4.8ComedyHalf-brothers Galaad and Noé first meet at their father's funeral. They have little in common, apart from an equal share of personal failures. Convinced that the evil eye has been dogging them ever since their father stole a sacred relic, Galaad convinces Noé to act. Suddenly adventurers, the two men set out in search of the stolen object, and in search of the chance that has shunned them until now.
Movie7.7DocumentaryFilmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
Movie6.4DramaSylvie lives with her two children whom she’s raising on her own. One evening, there’s an accident, and her youngest son is removed from her care. Sylvie must subsequently fight to get her son back and to keep herself afloat.
- MovieDramaWar
Based on the true story of celebrated war photographers Gerda Taro and Robert Capa.
Movie6.8FantasyThe interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fourtieth birthday—a milestone she admits to have some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
Movie7.9DocumentaryA pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. With movies like Cléo de 5 à 7, Le Bonheur, Sans toit ni loi, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, she created a quirky, open to the world, sensitive to the disenfranchised, often silly body of work. Always one finger on the pulse, she shook everything up, including cinema itself which she refused to constrict to pure fiction or long-form films.
Viva Varda!
2023 · 7 votes
Movie6.1ComedyFantasyMonsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
Movie7.2DramaMusicThe intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.
Movie5.5DramaRomanceJeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has finally found it with Olivier. However, Olivier reveals he has AIDS and disappears from her life after her profession of love and confession of infidelity.
Movie6.4DramaRomanceA lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?
Kung-Fu Master!
1988 · 74 votes
Movie6.9DocumentaryAgnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Movie6.2ComedyDramaThe municipality of a small Breton village has decided to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees. To their surprise, they receive Fayad family – coming from Syria. They thwart all the clichés that the French expected: they are friendly, refined, educated… So much so that, in this small, humming village, it is no longer clear which side the barbarians are on…
Movie6.0ComedyAvril, an idealistic lawyer dedicated to lost causes, agrees to defend Cosmos, a dog that has bitten three people, leading to the first canine trial. She has no choice but to win the case, as otherwise, her unusual client will be put down.
Movie5.3MysteryThrillerLike every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...
Movie6.6DramaAfter separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh start in L.A. for herself and her son.
Documenteur
1982 · 58 votes
Movie5.0Nicolas Lanson, a young stockbroker, lives a fast life of money and luxury until the day his high-risk initiatives cause the fall of the bank. He flees with a price on his head. On the run, Nicolas meets Charlotte, pregnant for a man who doesn't want her. Although Nicolas isn't her type, Charlotte seduces him once she discovers his identity. Little does Nicolas know, Charlotte is not leading them to see her brother, but an older lover who just happens to be a cop.
Banqueroute
2000 · 4 votes
Movie4.9DramaThriller1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to work with him, and David, his adoptive son, will help him and lead the girl to her father. Chased by William Pound, a strangely poetic psycho, they will defy the dangers of international espionage from Paris to Venice and finally get to Elliot on 11 September 2001.
Movie4.5ComedyRomanceJean-François is a psychoanalyst in love with one of his patients. When she decides to stop therapy, Jean-François at last feels free to seduce the woman. Paralyzed when in front of his object of love, Jean-François accumulates blunders of every kind. He hence turns to Julien, one his patients who is in therapy to overcome his compulsive-obsessive flirting disorder. It's a totally absurd initiative on Jean-François's part. But, even so...
Movie7.4DocumentaryVenturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, angels and ordinary Angelenos.
Mur murs
1982 · 36 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceJeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe. When Franck is arrested, he turns on Jeanne for her naivety; she's stung and seeks attention by making up a story of an attack on a train. Is there any way out for her?
Series7
TV4.8ComedyDramaFour women, a chef, a single mom, an heiress, and a job seeker dig into love and work, with a generous side of midlife crises, in pre-pandemic LA.
On the Verge
2021 · 21 votes
TV6.0CrimeMysteryTen people, five women, five men, are invited to a luxury hotel on a deserted tropical island. They soon realize they are completely isolated, cut off from the rest of the word and all means of communication, which rapidly becomes their worst nightmare.
TV6.2ComedyDramaBurned out and taken for granted, a working mom suspects her partner is cheating, so to win back his attentions, she feigns a medical diagnosis.
TV7.0DramaAn examination of the terrible true events of December 5, 1986, that led to the death of a young student, Malik Oussekine. Centred on his family’s fight for justice, the series explores the enormous impact this high-profile case had on French society.
Oussekine
2022 · 20 votes
TV1.0ComedyFamilyNos enfants chéris : La série
2007 · 2 votes
TV6.5DocumentaryAgnès Varda takes us on a journey of discovery as she travels the globe—from Stockholm to St. Petersburg, Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City to Los Angeles—meeting with friends, artists, and fellow filmmakers.
TV7.9DramaOn January 15, 2004, the Bugaled Breizh, a Breton trawler, sinks off the English coast, killing its 5 sailors. Marie, sister-in-law of one, links the sinking to NATO military exercises. and risks everything to uncover the truth.
37 secondes
2025 · 11 votes