Biography
After studying at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, Dominique Pinon moved to Paris where he enrolled at the Cours Simon acting school. His introducing appearance in cinema took place in 1981 in the movie Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix. Pinon is considered to be a theatre actor in first place, with constant on-stage acting since 1985. Until today, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli, Valère Novarina and numerous others. His career in cinema, counting more than 80 movies t...
Known For
Complete Filmography
You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?
2025
as Edgar
Welcome to the grim world of Hugo Drowak. A misanthrope, boozer, and stinking old good-for-nothing. We invite you on a fanciful journey replete with r...
La vie avec un idiot
2025
as Vladimir (voice)

Memoir of a Snail
2024
as Percy Pudel (voice)
Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of...

At the End of the Day
2024
as Le médecin
In an increasingly crazy world, Lino, who has decided to leave everything behind, will come to realise that, at the end of the day, everything that ha...

She Loved Blossoms More
2024
as Logo
Hoping to bring their dead mother back to life, three brothers build a time machine in this visually decadent, bizarre and altogether mesmerizing head...

Apaches: Gang of Paris
2023
as Gueule de Bois
Paris, 1884. The lives of three orphaned children wandering the streets dominated by ruthless criminals change tragically when they carry out a daring...

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

A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
2022
as Le détective privé
An actress, Céline, is hired by the famous director Milan Zodowski to star in a mysterious film shooting in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. She arrives ther...

Hamlet Within
2022
A radical cinematic investigation into the myth of Hamlet, the avenging prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare's creature; his origins and his unendin...

Bigbug
2022
as Igor
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots...

Emma Bovary
2021
as Homais
1857. A courtroom. The prosecutor and defense counsel prepare to face off. Between them: Gustave Flaubert, the man on trial. Madame Bovary is charged ...

Pierre & Jeanne
2021
as Le notaire
Family Roland lives in Etretat. Jeanne, the youngest, inherits Mr Marechal's fortune, a friend of the parents. Pierre the elder brother, bogged down i...

A Perfect Enemy
2021
as Jean Rosen
Famed architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to the Paris Airport by a chatty girl named Texel Textor who needs a ride. He obliges and afte...

Dernière Station
2021
as Le pompiste
A customer fills up at an isolated gas station, then he sprinkles his car with gasoline and threatens the attendant with a lighter. The customer wants...

Jo
2019
as L'Inspecteur Ducros
A writer plots to murder a blackmailer.

Dark Stories to Survive the Night
2019
as Jean Luc
What if Demons, the Living Dead, Evil Dolls, Djinn and other Extra-terrestrial creatures came to haunt our apartments, houses, cafes, museums and othe...

Spread Your Wings
2019
as Pichon
Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his fathe...

I Love My Mum
2019
as French Restaurant Manager
A mother and son duo get inadvertently shipped in a container from London to Morocco with nothing but their pajamas. The adventure takes them through ...

Anna
2019
as Monk Dominic
French monk Dominic is sent to Kyiv, pretending to be a photographer for a French fashion magazine. He has to make a photo inside Ukraine's oldest Cat...

Magnetick Pathways
2019
as Raymond Vachs
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.

Cyrano, My Love
2018
as Lucien
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two child...

O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
2018
A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years.

White Fang
2018
as Beauty Smith (voice)
A loyal wolfdog’s curiosity leads him on the adventure of a lifetime while serving a series of three distinctly different masters.

Based on a True Story
2017
as Raymond
Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place,...

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...

Vive la crise !
2017
as Noël
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless.

Somewhere Beautiful
2017
as Magazine Editor
Two emotionally charged love triangles collide as Elena accompanies her photographer husband on a work trip, falling for the sublime beauty of Patagon...

La DorMeuse Duval
2017
as Basile Matrin
In a village by the Meuse river, located near the French-Belgian border, a factory storekeeper named Basile Matrin leads a dreary life with his wife, ...

Max & Leon
2016
as Michel
In this WW2 epic comedy – in the vein of “La Grande Vadrouille” – our two heroes, Max and Léon, two lazy and partier pals, will try by all possible me...

A Love You
2015
as Serge
After a drunken evening and an unforgettable night with a total stranger, Manu wakes up alone to find a message on his arm giving him an appointment i...

The Price of Desire
2015
as Fernand Leger
Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was a leading light in the modern design movement. This graceful portrayal of her later...

Soulless 2
2015
as Bernard
Max Andreev thought the best place to start a new life would be at the other end of the world. What he didn't know, is that you can't outrun your past...
OXI, an Act of Resistance
2014
as Investigator
The popular resistance to the current Greek economic crisis explored and expressed through the ethical and political writings of Ancient Greece.

Brèves de comptoir
2014
as Taxi 2
A small, old-fashioned cafe in a suburban square, opposite the cemetery, the Hirondelle. Every day at half past six, the customers dance with their st...

My Old Lady
2014
as Monsieur Lefebvre
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the v...

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013
as Two Clouds
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and ...

Serial Teachers
2013
as L'inspecteur d'académie
With only 12 percent of its pupils obtaining their baccalaureate, Jules Ferry High School is the worst school in France. The Inspector of Schools has ...

La Guerre du Royal Palace
2012
as Colonel Otto Strudel
Between September 1940 and August 1944, luxury hotels are requisitioned by the Germans as staff headquarters, giving the hotels' employees a ringside ...

The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm
2012
as L'inspecteur Lamentin
Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. She lives in an orphanage in Burgandy.

Holidays by the Sea
2011
as Homme caravane
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.

Madame Sans Gêne
2011
as Fouché
A historical comedy-drama by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau, concerning incidents in the life of Catherine Hübscher, an outspoken 18th-century laun...

Crédit pour tous
2011
as Gobert
While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he lives in, bailiffs swarm. Gobert will organize res...

Specky Four-Eyes
2010
as Narrator
A young boy is made to wear corrective glasses but refuses so that his imagination of the world around him can roam.
Un pied dans le crime
2010
A judge is called upon to judge a crime of which he is the guilty party. This case of conscience, whether or not to confess his crime, is the pretext...

What War May Bring
2010
as Maurice Lemoine
A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passi...
Colère
2010
as Mougin, le sorcier
The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Many dead and wounded. Two citizens investigate the ...

Mumu
2010
as Père de Roger
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous ...

Murphy's Law
2009
as Rudy
After four years in jail, Elias is doing his rehabilitation in an hospital as stretcher bearer. In five hours, his parole will be completed. He will m...

Micmacs
2009
as Fracasse
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a...

Humans
2009
as Gildas
A team of several researchers travel to the Swiss Alps to investigate a scientific discovery on human evolution. The trip, however, turns into a deadl...

Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
as Jean Baptiste
The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.

An Organization of Dreams
2009
as Inspector
A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

A Day at the Museum
2008
as Simon
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin,...

The Clown
2008
Everybody's afraid of zombies... But try to imagine your self waking up from the dead... How would you feel?

Fin de partie
2008
as Hamm

The Oxford Murders
2008
as Frank
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symb...

Dante 01
2008
as César
Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole sur...

Moon in a Bottle
2007
as Pascal Rossignol
Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are ...

Midsummer Madness
2007
as Toni
St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get together to build bonfires, drink and have a good time. A...

L'Acte inconnu
2007
A staging of Valère Novarina's play "L'Acte inconnu" by himself.

Crossed Tracks
2007
as Pierre Laclos / Louis
The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes fro...

When Evil Calls
2006
as Detective Ringwald
When Evil Calls centers around the mysterious appearance of a text message that grants the students of Wilburn High School their wildest desires.

Dikkenek
2006
as Stef
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fa...

Your Name is Justine
2005
as Oncle Goran
While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work he...

Camping à la ferme
2005
as Rodolphe Peretti
Six jeunes en difficulté de la banlieue parisienne débarquent au fin fond de la campagne française, escortés par leur éducateur. Ils doivent montrer l...

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
as Self

L'Hiver sous la table
2005
as Dragomir

Ze Film
2005
as Le SDF
A poor kid nicknamed Kubrick loves movies and dreams about being an award winning director. One day, he stumbles upon a movie shoot, gets confused wit...

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
as His Excellency's Fop
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of seve...

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

Darkhunters
2004
as Charlie Jackson
Walking the Earth as an undead spirit has Charlie Jackson in a quandary. Unable to interact with his family, Charlie feels he's been forsaken by God. ...

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

Hellbreeder
2004
as Detective Weiss
Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival of th...
Le bon, la brute et les zombies
2004
as Petit cowboy
Hordes of zombies invade a western town.

Entrusted
2003
as Henri Lafont
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-o...

At Home with the Rozes
2003
as le lieutenant
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has ...

Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure
2003
as Fredy Mazas
In the Headquarters of the T.I.A. (Terminal Intelligence Agency), someone has stolen Professor Bacterio's most dangerous invention, the D.O.T. (Demora...

Parts of the Family
2003
as Shocked Woman Watching TV (uncredited)
Beyond the front door of an old, decrepit house is buried a horrible and tragic past. One horryfing and gory night a family of four is brutally hacked...
Dead or Alive
2002
as The Butcher
Crime short starring Dominique Pinon and Bernard Montiel.

Beautiful Memories
2001
as Robert
Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her...
Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver!
2001
as P'tit gars
Two violent bank-robbers hide in a hotel room. Traditionally, she celebrates by having sex with her partner after a heist, but this one prefers playin...

Amélie
2001
as Joseph
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...

Sabotage!!
2000
as Armani
June, 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte, surrounded by enemies, is about to play his definitive part in history. He has spent his whole life creating a mystiqu...

Highway Melody
2000
as Jacky Carpe
A man discovers he's no longer as close to his ear as he once was in this absurdist comedy. Jeff is minding his own business when a phonograph record ...

The Pilot
2000
as Pilot
A short science fiction comedy directed by Oliver Seiter.

Like a Fish Out of Water
1999
as Melvin
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, ...

Quasimodo d'el Paris
1999
as Trouillefou
The location is the town of El Paris. When ten-year-old boy Quasimodo shows signs of deformity, his well-to-do parents place him in the charge of the ...

Alien Resurrection
1997
as Vriess
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises...

Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen
1997
as Adrien
After a 10-year absence, 27-year-old Amelie returns home to suburban Paris and the decaying motorcycle-dealership/junkyard where she was raised. Her h...

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

A Saturday on Earth
1996
as Le brigadier Morel
A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire ...

La Gotera
1996
as 'Pastel de Fer'
A man is in his flat and he has a leak on his ceiling, suddenly the ceiling caves in and a dead man falls through unsure of what to do he tries to tak...

The City of Lost Children
1995
as The Diver / The Clones
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

KO Kid
1994
as K.O Kid
An unequal battle between a small and skinny boxer, and a big and great boxer. The film is a mixture of animation and live action, a little surreal, ...

Loonies at Large
1993
as Angel
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been loc...

My Name is Victor
1993
as Bernard
No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements ove...

Août
1992
as Eugène Blouzette
The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart.

Les arcandiers
1991
as Bruno
In this surreal comedy, Tonio works very hard for every bit of ill-gotten cash he can get his hands on, but he remains a poor criminal in both senses ...

Delicatessen
1991
as Louison
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low sup...

25 décembre 58, 10h36
1991
as Dominique
Two children are cycling in a street of the Butte Montmartre, one of them falls and kills himself on the spot. The witnesses of the tragedy meet again...

1871
1990
as Napoléon III
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
1990
as Man
Dominique Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes."

The French Revolution
1989
as Drouet
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt p...

The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988
as Wojtech
Andreas Kartak, a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris, is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local churc...

The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
1988
as Albert
A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.

Frantic
1988
as Wino
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicat...

Le Rêve du Phenix
1988
"...The budget was 500,000 francs, financed by the Ministry of Culture, the OCTET agency in Populus [...] On this occasion, we created a production co...

Devil's Paradise
1987
as Gato
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes...
Rückfahrt in den Tod
1986
as Fred
Paul Kranz, the manager of a TEE that had just arrived from Hamburg, received terrible news in Paris. His wife Ruth is in a coma after a serious traff...
Sauve-toi, Lola
1986
as Jean-Pierre
Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as ...

Cent francs l'amour
1986
as Tom
Jeremy, a young art photographer, needs money to finance an exhibition of his work. He turns to Maurice, a lonely bachelor who will do almost anythin...

Follow My Gaze
1986
as Frédéric
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. A...

Betty Blue
1986
as Surfer
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

Zina
1985
as Pierre
Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Pri...

La Baston
1985
as Marcel Noblet
After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son is mortally ill and in desperate need of expensive...

Going and Coming Back
1985
as Villager
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot the...

The Telephone Always Rings Twice
1985
as Monsieur Pichon
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "te...

Dream One
1984
as Monkey
Based on Winsor McCay's comic strip, a little boy embarks on a dream-like adventure. Also known as Dream One.

Mint Tea
1984
as Roger
A young Algerian in Paris has not been as successful as he claims in letters home, and when his mother unexpectedly arrives for a visit of several mon...

Ghost Dance
1983
as Salesman/Guide
Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and th...

The Moon in the Gutter
1983
as Frank
A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.

Car Cemetery
1983
as Ybar
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without b...

If I Were 1000 Years Old
1983
A long time ago, on a French island, a group of villagers saved a girl from being sacrificed by the local lord. To this day the place is cursed. Myste...

Enigma
1982
as Madman (uncredited)
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent ...

Shot Pattern
1982
as Daniel Verlot
A Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train. As the revenge-mi...

The Return of Martin Guerre
1982
as Antoine
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...

La Chanson du mal-aimé
1982
Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.

Noisy Neighbours
1982
as Musician
A grotesque, frenetic and musical short film from Jérome Lefdup, Dominik Barbier, and Larry Flash.

Merlin ou le cours de l'or
1982
as Le fils
A little tale both cruel and nostalgic but determinedly comic, on the theme of triumphant jealousy.

Diva
1981
as Le curé
Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day...

La Découverte
1980
as The young painter
To make his neighbor no longer eye his wife, Paulo decides to put on the wall in front of his house a painting representing New York. A waste of time,...
Gilles et Louise
N/A
Go West!
N/A
as Maslo the Bellboy
1976: In order to leave the Soviet Union, the Mishkins undergo a "marriage of convenience" with their Jewish neighbors. But the trick only works at th...

Coffeehouse Mysteries
N/A
as Waiter
Varying characters in historical and local transformations recount cheerful mystical stories of the city where death found its home. It is about prima...
Violette
N/A
Violette Toussaint, a beloved cemetery caretaker, lives a peaceful life filled by conversations with quirky workers and the many visitors who share wi...