Biography
Benoît Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor, comedian, and filmmaker, born on September 22, 1964, in Namur, Belgium. He first gained recognition with the cult film C'est arrivé près de chez vous (1992), a darkly comedic mockumentary where he played a serial killer with unsettling charm. This film launched his career and established his unique blend of humor and intensity. Throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, Poelvoorde became a staple of Franco-Belgian cinema, starring in comedies like Les Randonneurs...
Known For
Complete Filmography
La Bonne étoile
2025
as Chevalin

How to Make a Killing
2025
as Major Roland Bodin
Michel and Cathy, wed for longer than they can remember, lead a quiet but monotonous life in the mountains. When a bear bursts out in front of Michel’...

The Art of Being Happy
2024
as Yves Machond
Jean-Yves Machond, a globally unknown and generally unhappy painter, decides one day to change his life. He seeks inspiration in a small Norman town, ...

Beating Hearts
2024
as La Brosse
Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the s...

Savages
2024
as Father (voice)
In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to ...

A Wonderful Girl
2023
as Paul
Mimi is 29 years old and still dreaming about a job she could get. She meets Paul, a sidelined lawyer, as she decides to seek employment. Together, th...

Normal
2023
as William
14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis. Whilst William ha...

Ce soir, c'est Palmashow
2023
as Self - Guest

Smoking Causes Coughing
2022
as Lézardin
After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to str...

The Colors of Fire
2022
as Gustave Joubert
February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire o...

The Green Shutters
2022
as Félix
The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social she...

Mad in Belgium
2022
A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved t...

Inexorable
2022
as Marcel Bellmer
Desperately seeking inspiration for the follow-up novel to his bestseller "Inexorable", Marcel Bellmer moves in his wife's old family mansion with his...

Adieu Paris
2022
as Benoît
An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, mast...

My Father's Stories
2021
as André Choulans
Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor t...

The Summer Holidays
2021
as Steven (voice)
School is out, and Indian and Cowboy are bored. Watching an old pirate film gets them out of their funk and they decide to build a ship and go off on ...

Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
2021
as Claude Tranchant
Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France....

How I Became a Superhero
2020
as Monté Carlo
Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere ...

Delete History
2020
as Le livreur Alimazone
In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s fami...

Adoration
2020
as Hinkel
Paul lives with his mother in the private clinic of doctor Loisel, deeply hidden in the woods. Paul likes to roam the forest and observe nature. One d...

Panique au village : La Foire agricole
2019
as Steven (voice)
Indian and Cowboy finally pass their exams. Horse buys them tickets for the County Fair. But at the last moment, he slips and comes crashing down on h...

Venice Calling
2019
as Bernard Chamodot
Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond, because, it seems, he is more b...

White as Snow
2019
as Charles
Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks unc...

Raoul Taburin
2019
as Raoul Taburin
If anyone knows anything about bikes, it’s Raoul Taburin, official bicycle dealer of Saint Céron, a lovely village in the South of France. But Raoul h...

Ce soir, c'est Palmashow
2019
as Self - Guest

Father & Sons
2019
as Joseph
Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed t...

Sink or Swim
2018
as Marcus
40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication...

Keep an Eye Out
2018
as Commissaire Buron
Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a...

An Indian Tale
2017
as Pierre
The life of two men changed unexpectedly when Ajith, an Indian sailor who was robbed and lost everything, appears out of nowhere in front of Pierre, a...

Panique tous courts
2017
as Steven (voice)
Cowboy and Indian are leaving on a luxury cruise, but they've got caught up. They have totally forgotten that today is back to school day! Goodbye tro...

A Town Called Panic: Double Fun
2016
as Steven (voice) (archive footage)
With disarming wit and hilarious visuals, A Town Called Panic: Double Fun revels in the simple setup of three plastic toys sent on increasingly surrea...

The Jews
2016
as Boris
Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the...

Saint Amour
2016
as Bruno
Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. Thi...

A Town Called Panic: Back to School Panic!
2016
as Steven (voice)
Indian and Cowboy are about to set off on a magnificent cruise on a luxury liner, but they have made a big mistake. They completely forgot that today ...

Les Shadoks et la maladie mystérieuse
2016
as (voice)
For the Shadoks, panic strikes. A mysterious disease infects these curious creatures. Everyone talks about it, giving their various opinions, but all ...

The Brand New Testament
2015
as God
God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand...

Family for Rent
2015
as Paul-André
Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, rather introverted man. Rich but alone, he is deeply bored and ends up concluding that what he needs is a family...

The Price of Fame
2015
as Eddy
A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.

3 Hearts
2014
as Marc Beaulieu
A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.

Zebra Stripes
2014
as José
José is a football agent who goes to Ivory Coast to spot young talents in football. He is a braggart , who willingly sleeps with Gigi , a beautiful Af...

A Town Called Panic: Christmas Panic!
2013
as Steven (voice)
The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas : the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly. Overex...

A Place On Earth
2013
as Antoine Dumas
Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One d...

The Big Bad Wolf
2013
as Philippe
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering a...

Tied
2013
as Le banquier
A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.

Twice Upon a Time
2012
as Jean Esnart
Mathias, aboard a ship with his wife, sees a boy with a striking resemblance to himself and is called - Mathias. He then tracks him to a town north of...

The Big Night
2012
as Benoît Bonzini, alias NOT
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Ke...

My Worst Nightmare
2011
as Patrick Demeuleu
Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — bu...

Romantics Anonymous
2010
as Jean-René Van Den Hugde
What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate fa...

Nothing to Declare
2010
as Ruben Vandevoorde
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

Kill Me Please
2010
as M. Demanet
Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, c...

Mammuth
2010
as Le récupérateur de métal
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is d...

En chantier, monsieur Tanner !
2010
as Jean-César Astor
Paul Tanner has just inherited a mansion on a vast property. Going there, he noticed that the building was in poor condition and that work had already...

The Other Dumas
2010
as Auguste Maquet
Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a ...

Park Benches
2009
as Customer at the hook
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every...

A Town Called Panic
2009
as Steven (voice)
Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll nee...

Coco Before Chanel
2009
as Etienne Balsan
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She...

Beauties at War
2009
as Franck Chevrel
A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.

Louise-Michel
2008
as Guy l'ingénieur
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...

Hikers in Saint-Tropez
2008
as Éric Jacquemart
Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to spend the summer together on t...

Asterix at the Olympic Games
2008
as Brutus
Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to h...

Cowboy
2007
as Daniel Piron
Daniel Piron has the blues. His relationship is monotonous, his ideals have vanished, and even his job as a journalist is a joke. The only idea that s...

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

Charlie Says
2006
as Joss
The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.

Jean-Philippe
2006
as Bernard Frédéric, double of Claude François
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed mu...

One Fine Day
2006
as François Berthier
François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to ...

In His Hands
2005
as Laurent Kessler
In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties...

Akoibon
2005
as Jean-Mi
A disparate group of people meet at a hotel on a gorgeous and isolated Mediterranean island. Meanwhile, a woman schemes to get even with its owner.

Narco
2004
as Lenny Barr
Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best f...

The Return of James Battle
2004
as Allan Chiasse
James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a ...

Aaltra
2004
as L'amateur de moto-cross
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up,...

Podium
2004
as Bernard Frédéric
Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and has a son. He used to have another profession: being French star Claude Francois. Now,...

Mr. Manatane's notebooks
2003
as Mr. Manatane
Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of his madness in the complete "Carnets...

Mr. Manatane's notebooks
2003
Idea
Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of his madness in the complete "Carnets...

Laughter and Punishment
2003
as Le prof de secourisme
French director Isabelle Doval directs her husband, popular comedic actor José Garcia, in the comedy Rire et Chatiment (Laughter and Punishment). Vinc...

Le Pied
2003
as Le pied (voice)
This is the terrifying story of a desperate foot. A reluctant accomplice of a man who has fallen into horror, he takes advantage of a moment when the ...
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...
The Political Life of the Belgians
2002
as self
We follow the build-up and training of two opposite Belgian political parties. We see their leaders during meetings, during voting and after when the ...

Dead Weight
2002
as Francis Reggio
After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.

Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle
2001
as Ghislain Lambert
In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a ...

Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle
2001
Writer
In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a ...

Doors of Glory
2001
as Regis Demanet
A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use f...

The Carriers Are Waiting
1999
as Roger
Roger Closset is a man who obviously loves his family, though that doesn't always make them feel better. Dad is an obsessive type with a short fuse an...
Le signaleur
1997
as L'organisateur

Hikers
1997
as Éric Jacquemart
A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives.

Just for Laughs
1997
as L'innocent
Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is be...

L'Année des Guignols - Les Voleurs de patates
1996
as (voice)

L'Année des Guignols - Du cul, du cul, du cul !
1996
as Multiples voix

Modèle déposé
1995
as René Altrus

Modèle déposé
1995
Writer, Director

Man Bites Dog
1992
as Ben
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomp...

Man Bites Dog
1992
Screenplay, Producer, Director
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomp...
Beware of the Ravens
1989
as The director
Michel has an appointment at the administrative city.
Mama's Lover
1987
A man discovers his new love interest has a child. When they fist meet it's unclear who is embarrased more, he or the young daughter.

No C4 for Daniel Daniel
1987
as Daniel Daniel
A mock trailer for a spy film about a secret agent called Daniel Daniel.

No C4 for Daniel Daniel
1987
Director, Writer
A mock trailer for a spy film about a secret agent called Daniel Daniel.
Le Palmier
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Démodé
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