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Tchéky Karyo (born October 4, 1953) is a Turkish-born French actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tchéky Karyo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Steel Butterfly
2025
as Robert
Robert, an aging clock-maker, longs to reconnect with his son César in his final days. As César senses the atelier's stopped clocks hold a deeper mean...

Faster
2025
as Le Duc
A former racer returns to the sport through a racing academy, where she meets Will. As they fall for each other, they become rivals competing for the ...

Immortel Nougaro
2024
as interprete

The Killer
2024
as Tessier
Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by...

Serial Driver
2023
as Jean-Yves Lapick
Pauline has her own way of doing road safety: as a trainer in a point recovery center during the day, she becomes a serial killer of drivers at night.

Romantique
2022
as Pascal
After disappearing overnight, a man reappears and discovers that he is the father of a little girl. This time he will do his best.

Tell Me Iggy
2022
as Self
This new intimate documentary looks at the extraordinary journey of the 75-year-old American rocker, who has come back from everything, and especially...

The Life Before
2021
as André
A French short film about a harrowed father-daughter relationship

Vicky and Her Mystery
2021
as Bruno
Stéphane decides to move to the beautiful mountains of Cantal in order to reconnect with his 8-year-old daughter, Victoria, who has been silent since ...

Christmas Next Door
2021
as Georges, le mari de Nicoletta
On Christmas Eve, we want everything to be perfect, yet things often go sideways. The holidays are a reality check for everyone, whether life is looki...

A Mermaid in Paris
2020
as Camille
A man rescues a mermaid in Paris and slowly falls in love with her.

Charon
2020
as L'homme

Mary Magdalene
2018
as Elisha
In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radi...

Belle and Sebastian 3: The Last Chapter
2018
as César
12 year-old Sebastian has decided not to follow his father and Angelina to Canada, deciding to stay in the alps to watch over Belle who has now become...

I Didn't Shoot Jesse James
2017
as Bob Ford
Some of the most well-worn tropes of the American western are upended in this delightfully deadpan tale starring the great Tchéky Karyo as a world-wea...

Daydreams
2017
as Marc
Axèle is a photographer, Camille is a writer. They have been awarded an arts residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome. Camille is accompanied by her hus...

Wild Tales From The Village
2016
as Narrator
A year in the life of an extraordinary village hidden away in the French countryside.

L'araignée rouge
2016
as Simon Delaunay

Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues
2015
as César
September, 1945. Sebastian impatiently waits for the return of his friend Angelina, whom he has not seen for two years. When the plane carrying the yo...

Through the Air
2015
as Armand Cavelle
Vincent, a former air rifle champion lives a quiet life with his wife and his daughter. Despite his happy family life he ends up with economic problem...

Les brigands
2015
as Old Man
Karl Escher, the son of a prominent banker, was accused of embezzlement and forgery at the bank and went to prison for three years. After his release,...

De guerre lasse
2014
as Armand
Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, A...

Belle and Sebastian
2013
as César
Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a gia...

Le Roman d’un trader
2013
as le directeur général

Jappeloup
2013
as Marcel Rozier, French team coach
A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star ...

Pieces of Me
2013
as Edern
A crazy father old before his time, a tyrannical, sick mother, a sister who disappeared four years ago and me, Erell, who films everything, all the ti...

Morning Star
2012
as Heroy
A small circus arrives in a coastal area of the North Sea: the place looks rather eerie and the audience is quite scarce. But despite all of this, the...

The Extraordinary Voyage
2011
Thanks
An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece A Trip t...

A Gang Story
2011
as Serge Suttel
After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of al...

Special Forces
2011
as Admiral Guezennec
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched t...

Coup d'éclat
2011
as Mérendon
Fabienne is a police officer. She does her job well but is gradually growing tired of the dehumanized nature of her work : arresting undocumented alie...

Requiem for a Killer
2011
as L'Arménien
Lucretia is a killer for hire. Specialised in poisoning and passionate about opera, she'll have to fulfill a difficult contract in the heart of the Sw...

The Way
2010
as Captain Henri
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for in...

Among Us
2010
as Walter
An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning i...

A Previous Engagement
2009
as Alex Belmont
When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first lo...

A Man and His Dog
2009
as Le guitariste
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.

L'Affaire Bruay-en-Artois
2008
as Le Juge Marceau

Vampire Party
2008
as Le duc de Journiac
Best friends and hardcore partiers Sam, Alice and Prune have scored invitations to 'Medici Night', the legendary VIP bash held every year at a remote ...
The Resistance: Live Free or Die
2008
as Narrator (voice)
La Résistance , is a French television film (docu-fiction) in 2 parts: First part: Live free or die and a Second part: When it was necessary to save t...

Les Cerfs-volants
2007
as Ambroise
Normandy, 1934. Ludo, raised by his uncle Ambroise, a kite maker, befriends little Lila. For five years he loses sight of her, but when they meet agai...

Boxes
2007
as Jean
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 ...

The Lark Farm
2007
as Aram
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes...

Jacquou the Rebel
2007
as Le chevalier
In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruel...

The Gravedancers
2006
as Vincent Cochet
After a night of drunken exploits, Allison, Harris, and Kira are chased and terrorized by the ghosts of a child pyromaniac, an ax murderer, and a rapi...

S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre
2005
as Louis Routier

D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
2005
as Le cardinal de Richelieu
Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure based on Alexandre Dumas' unrivaled tale of ...

Old Goriot
2004
as Vautrin
A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victori...

A Very Long Engagement
2004
as Captain Favour
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ...

Ne quittez pas !
2004
as Raveu
Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds.

Taking Lives
2004
as Leclair
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scot...

Renegade
2004
as Uncle
U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily ad...

The Core
2003
as Serge
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapid...

Utopia
2003
as Hervé
Adrian (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is a young man who has spent years running away from himself, constantly changing city and work, looking for people to rel...

The Good Thief
2002
as Roger
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.

Kiss of the Dragon
2001
as Richard
Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murd...

The King Is Dancing
2000
as Molière
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and...

The Patriot
2000
as Jean Villeneuve
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the s...

Saving Grace
2000
as Jacques Chevalier
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husba...

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
as Jean de Dunois
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberat...

My Life So Far
1999
as Gabriel Chenoux
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor hus...

Like a Fish Out of Water
1999
as B. B.
A seductive femme fatale (Monica Bellucci) and two con men -- one cool as ice, and one who just likes to "ice" his victims -- enlist a mild-mannered, ...

Wing Commander
1999
as Cmmdre. James 'Paladin' Taggart
In the mid-27th century, the Terran Confederation is at war with the vicious alien Kilrathi Empire. When the Kilrathi capture a crucial navigational d...

Babel
1999
as Nemrod
An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coe...

Let There Be Light!
1998
as Harper
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

In and Out of Fashion
1998
as Self (archive footage)
An biography of William Klein, Parisian-based American photographer which strings together his abstract paintings, mould-breaking reportage, inventive...

The Thousand Wonders of the Universe
1997
as Professor Larsen
A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and the subsequent disappearance of 12,000 inhabitants ...

Dobermann
1997
as Inspecteur Sauveur Cristini
The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robb...

Addicted to Love
1997
as Anton
Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee...

Habitat
1997
as Hank Symes
In order to combat the damage caused by the depletion of the ozone layer, maverick biologist Hank Symes unleashes his most ambitious experiment to dat...
Les liens du cœur
1996
as Silas Marner

To Have and to Hold
1996
as Jack
An Australian widower living in New Guinea starts a relationship with a woman very similar to his much-beloved wife, but their life together turns out...

Albergo Roma
1996
as Federale Apolloni

Foreign Land
1996
as Kraft
During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ...

Passaggio per il paradiso
1996
as Renato

Follow Your Heart
1996
as Ernesto
The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begin...

GoldenEye
1995
as Dmitri Mishkin
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world...

Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
as Goddard
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through...

Crying Freeman
1995
as Detective Netah
A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yak...

Bad Boys
1995
as Fouchet
Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a...

Moon Shadow
1995
as Lorenzo

Zadoc and Happiness
1995
as Zadoc
Small, hunchbacked and unlucky, Zadoc dreams of finding love. Chased from his village, he is propelled towards the unknown.

The Black Angel
1994
as Paul Delorme
Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her la...

Nostradamus
1994
as Nostradamus
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, afte...

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994
as Mr. Jacques, the 1st projectionist
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, w...

Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
1993
as Phillip (archive footage)
Just Like That: A receptionist in a large firm cheats on her voyeuristic lover with a delivery boy who has a crush on her. Another Woman's Lipstick: A...

And the Band Played On
1993
as Dr. Willy Rozenbaum
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

L'Atlantide
1992
as Lieutenant Morhange
A mythical land who must be discover. Or invented. In an impressive library, two old men. One is a great Polish archaeologist at the end of his work. ...

1492: Conquest of Paradise
1992
as Martín Alonso Pinzón
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.

Sketch Artist
1992
as Paul Korbel
A sketch artist for the police helps a witness recall who she saw leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his wife. Not willin...

On Guard
1992
as Jean Vergier
In this earnest drama, a rural schoolteacher who has become a strong advocate for ecological awareness and is a committed opponent of hunting in the l...

Too Close to the Gods
1992
as Henri Georges
Ramses is a "life organs" smugler and a millionaire. He wishes to have the tower of Babel rebuilt and hires a detective to find the architect who disa...

Isabelle Eberhardt
1991
as Slimene
The true story of explorer, journalist and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, originally from Switzerland. She moved to Annaba in Algeria in 1897 with her mot...

Husbands and Lovers
1991
as Paolo
Stefan finds that he can no longer tolerate the arrangement of his cheating wife ... he, the husband, gets her during the week and her lover gets her ...

High Art
1991
as Hermes, the Knife master
Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers whe...

Vincent and me
1990
as Vincent van Gogh
While sketching one day, 13 year old Jo encounters a mysterious art dealer who buys a few of her drawings and commissions her to do some more. Some ti...

La fille des collines
1990
as Vincent
When Tom returns from the army in the summer of 1958 to his country, the Pyrenees, he never thought he would meet an 18-year-old girl who is causing t...

Au coeur de Nikita
1990
as Self
A documentary that captures some moments on set of filming of Luc Besson's "Nikita".

La Femme Nikita
1990
as Bob
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by ...

Corps perdus
1990
as Eric Desange
Set in Buenos Aires. A man is called upon to identify and evaluate an unfinished and enigmatic painting thought to be the work of the famous painter, ...

Australia
1989
as Julian Pierson
Following a stint as a WWII fighter pilot, Belgian-born Edouard falls in love with an Indonesian woman, has a daughter with her and immigrates to Aust...

The Bear
1988
as Tom
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

Sorceress
1987
as Etienne de Bourbon
Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local...

Spiral
1987
as Kino
Whilst spending a few days on the Côte d’Azur with his friends, Jérôme meets Simorre, a strange young woman who will have a profound impact on him. Jé...

États d'âme
1986
as Bertrand
In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is ...

Blue Hell
1986
as Franck
Ned, a petty criminal, falls into the trap laid by Frank, a sadistic cop who, after having beaten him, takes him home. But Frank's wife Lily helps Ned...

L'Unique
1986
as Michel
A famous rock singer is being overtaken. Vox, the album and live producer of the singer, prepares a real revolution with the help of a scientist. With...
Grottenolm
1985
as Gerome Holm
A group of people meet on board an ambulance aircraft. They are all looking for a mysterious young man for different reasons. A "psychological-poetic"...

Mad Love
1985
as Micky
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neuro...

Le Matelot 512
1984
as The scarred one / André
Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.

Full Moon in Paris
1984
as Remi
Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.

Rita Ritter
1984
as Man
A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of ...

The Outsider
1983
as Francis Pierron
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of ...

Shadow Dance
1983
as Xavier
The French intelligence agency plants Xavier, a former militant leftist, into a fascist organisation called Janus, against whom Xavier bears an old gr...

La Balance
1982
as Petrovic
A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
1982
The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also i...

Toute une Nuit
1982
Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and reject...

The Return of Martin Guerre
1982
as Augustin
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused...

The Sword of Thyrus
N/A
as Maardin
An intense journey of a knight guided by a sorcerer to follow his destiny and save the lands from a power hungry King and defeat the evil Black Angel ...

Fraîche
N/A
as Alex
Anne, 58, hosts a radio literary show and leads a quiet, well-established family life. Yet one day, she violently attacks the young woman who offers h...