Biography
Mathieu Kassovitz (born 3 August 1967) is a French director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for his Cannes-winning drama La Haine. Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Le doc Quotidien - Les baskets et nous
2025
as Self - Guest

Brothers
2024
as Patrice (adulte)
Two young brothers are abandoned by their mother during summer of 1948, they run into the forest and survive there for seven years.

Cannabis : Une enquête de Mathieu Kassovitz et Antoine Robin
2024

Cannabis : Une enquête de Mathieu Kassovitz et Antoine Robin
2024
Author

Rachel's Game
2024
as Sam Zimmerman
Home cook Rachel, a sort of Ma Dalton, has raised her sons Sam and Jeremiah, and her grandson, Nathan, in the cult of conning. From bad plans to petty...

Visions
2023
as Guillaume
An experienced airline pilot, Estelle leads a perfect life between long-haul flights with her loving, protective husband Guillaume. One day, by chance...

The Astronaut
2023
as Alexandre Ribbot
An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first ...

Amélie: The Real Story
2023
as Nino (archive footage)
The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed.

The Accusation
2021
as Prof. Adam Wizman
The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a ...

Him
2021
as Friend
Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany. There he finds an old piano and receives visits ...

Short cuts : La Haine
2021
Original Film Writer
Mathieu Kassovitz's "La Haine" told in a single minute.

Fake News
2021
as Guillaume Kekchoz
After stealing a gaming console from migrants, Sébastien tries to sell it to Patrick, a good guy. So far, nothing too serious. But when a rapper strai...

Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin
2021
as Narrator (voice)
From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story is about a feminist struggle, albeit atypical, fou...

Simply Black
2020
as Mathieu Kassovitz
A failed 40 year old comedian wants to organize the first Black protests in France but meeting with other French celebrities of the Black community wi...

Street Flow
2019
as Dominique
Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.

The Wolf's Call
2019
as Alfost
Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depe...

Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018
as Self
Fan Club
2018
as Narrateur
Making of Happy End
2018
as Self

Sparring
2017
as Steve Landry
Steve Landry, an aging boxer with more losses than wins, accepts to become a sparring partner for an emerging champion in a last-ditch attempt to stay...

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
as Hawker
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the...

Happy End
2017
as Thomas Laurent
A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refu...

Two Snails Set Off
2017
as (voice)
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate t...

Ladies
2017
as Clovis
Lucie is in remission and her illness is almost a distant memory. Her family pushes her to live life to the fullest, and in doing so Lucie meets the c...

Gang of the Caribbean
2016
as The bar owner
A gun to be heard, a pen to make yourself understood. The identical course of four young West Indians men who arrived to Paris in the 70's.

Apocalypse: The Battle of Verdun
2016
as Self - Narrator (voice)
A detailed account of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. Between February and December 1916, the French and German armies relentlessly fough...

Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté
2015
as Self

Nobody from Nowhere
2014
as Sébastien Nicolas / Henri de Montalte
Sebastien Nicolas is a reclusive realtor leading a double life – in his spare time he creates complex disguises based on acquaintances. Combined with ...

Wild Life
2014
as Philippe Fournier (Paco)
The new film by French director Cédric Kahn focusses on Philippe Fournier, a man who lives with his 2 sons, having decided not to give them back to th...

Angelique
2013
as Nicolas / Calembredaine
The incredible destiny of Angélique: a beautiful girl who found in her love for Joffrey Peyrac the strength to fight injustice and submission in a cen...

The Lookout
2012
as Vincent Kaminski
When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices...

Another Woman's Life
2012
as Paul Speranski
When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedr...

Il était une fois... « La Haine »
2012
as Self

Rebellion
2011
as Philippe Legorjus
April 1988, Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia. 30 gendarmes are taken hostage by a group of Kanak freedom fighters. 300 soldiers are sent from France to re-...

Fucking Kassovitz
2011
as Self
A making-of of the chaotic production of Mathieu Kassovitz's Babylon A.D. (2008).

Rebellion
2011
Director, Screenplay, Editor
April 1988, Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia. 30 gendarmes are taken hostage by a group of Kanak freedom fighters. 300 soldiers are sent from France to re-...

Haywire
2011
as Studer
A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

Louise-Michel
2008
as Le propriétaire de la ferme
In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man t...

Babylon A.D.
2008
Director, Screenplay
A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.

Johnny Mad Dog
2008
Producer
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.

Two Worlds
2007
Producer
A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.

Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
2007
Director
A collection of short films by 16 European directors.

Hunting Down the Nazis
2007
as Narrator (voice)
For the first time, a film recounts the story of the long pursuit of Nazis in hiding from 1945 to the present day. Sixty years of investigations, set-...

Ten Years of La Haine
2006
as Self
A documentary tracing the history of La Haine, from the real-life shooting that inspired the screenplay to the film’s success at the 1995 Cannes Film ...

Munich
2005
as Robert
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black Septem...

Just for Kicks
2005
as Self
Just for Kicks is a 2005 documentary film about the sneaker phenomena and history. It includes self confessed "sneakerheads" like Grandmaster Caz, Rev...

Nèg maron
2005
Producer
Two childhood friends, Joshua and Flint, are adrift in boredom in their area of Sainte-Rose, Guadeloupe. They're involved in petty theft and ordinary ...

Gothika
2003
Director
After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that ...

Amen.
2002
as Riccardo Fontana
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that...

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002
as Banquet physiognomist
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

Les Rivières pourpres: L'enquête
2001
as Self
Behind the scenes of Mathieu Kassovitz's 'The Crimson Rivers'

Making of "la scène au scalpel"
2001
as Self
The team behind 'The Crimson Rivers' explains how the autopsy scene was assembled.

Birthday Girl
2001
as Yuri
John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russia...

Amélie
2001
as Nino Quincampoix
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a...

Tarubi, l'arabe strait 2
2001
as Le mec dans la voiture

The Crimson Rivers
2000
Director, Screenplay
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by ...

Jakob the Liar
1999
as Herschel
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German ...

Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences)
1998
as Roland
Seemingly unrelated events connect several people: a young wounded soldier, a nurse, a failed comedian, and a murderer. The film starts literally wit...

The Fifth Element
1997
as Mugger
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

Assassin(s)
1997
as Max
Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionless thief to...

Assassin(s)
1997
Director, Writer, Editor
Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionless thief to...

News from the Good Lord
1996
When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, ...

A Self-Made Hero
1996
as Albert Dehousse
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.

My Man
1996
as 1st client
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or fla...

My Man
1996
Thanks
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or fla...

La Haine
1995
as Young Skin
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news ...

La Haine
1995
Director, Editor, Screenplay
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news ...

The City of Lost Children
1995
as Man on the Street (uncredited)
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

See How They Fall
1994
as Johnny
A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a...

Elle voulait faire quelque chose
1994
Brigitte decides to shoot her first film during the weekend. She begins by covering her flat with 20 kilos of flour, buying a miniature helicopter, a ...

Putain de porte
1994
Four young men try to gate crash a birthday party.

Métisse
1993
as Felix
Lola is pregnant, and she isn’t sure who the father is: Félix, a Jewish delivery boy, or Jamal, a black law student.

Métisse
1993
Director, Writer
Lola is pregnant, and she isn’t sure who the father is: Félix, a Jewish delivery boy, or Jamal, a black law student.

White Nightmare
1992
Director, Writer
Four racists plan to assault a local Arab man, but soon things get out of control.

Assassins...
1992
as Max
Tonight, young Max is learning how to be an assassin...

Assassins...
1992
Director, Writer
Tonight, young Max is learning how to be an assassin...

Fierrot le pou
1990
A young man shoots hoops in an empty gym. He misses constantly. At the other end of the court, a young woman arrives and starts warming up. She rarely...

Fierrot le pou
1990
Director, Writer
A young man shoots hoops in an empty gym. He misses constantly. At the other end of the court, a young woman arrives and starts warming up. She rarely...

Next Year If All Goes Well
1981
as le petit garcon
Isabelle and Maxime are a pair of lighthearted lovers -- that is, until Isabelle gets the itch for motherhood. When she confesses her desire for a chi...

Make Room for Tomorrow
1979
as Mathias Oppenheim
Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he...

The Way of the Wind
N/A
A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.

Avant...mais après
N/A
as Vincent
Louis asks his friend Vincent for advice for his date with a girl. Vincent is funny, endearing and talks about things lightly. The end will certainly ...

The Big War
N/A
Director, Writer
Two rabbits are searching for their families. On their journey, they experience adventures and find even more rabbits who join them in the fight again...