Philippe Nahon

Philippe Nahon

1938-12-24 Paris, France 92 Credits

Biography

Philippe Nahon (24 December 1938 - 19 April 2020) was a French actor. Nahon is best known for his roles in French horror and thriller films, including I Stand Alone, Humains, Calvaire, Irréversible, The Pack and Haute Tension, and he has been featured as a nameless butcher in three films by Gaspar Noé – Carne, I Stand Alone, and Irréversible (cameo).

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Irreversible: Straight Cut

Irreversible: Straight Cut

2023

as The Butcher

8.0
Acting

The chronological-cut of Gaspar Noe's controversial arthouse thriller, retelling the story of a couple who experience an act of brutal violence that c...

Journaliste(s)

Journaliste(s)

2021

as Hyppolyte

Acting

After the attacks that bloodied Paris, everyone is worried about terrorist acts. A man is running in the middle of the night. He has blood on his face...

Moi, maman, ma mère et moi

Moi, maman, ma mère et moi

2019

as Jeff

5.1
Acting

Benedict missed Mother's funeral. He was stuck in the Eurostar. In the offbeat as always, and a little pitiful, he joined the family home to find his ...

Fornacis

Fornacis

2018

as Owner of the Fornacis Bar

Acting

Anya, a mourning woman, drives to the unknown in her vintage car, a 1961 Facel Vega. Her only traveling companion is a mysterious urn. Consumed by sad...

Me and El Che

Me and El Che

2018

as The photograph

Acting

GO is not just an aging college teacher. He still is the young 18 year-old idealist who dared to engaged in social and political action to defend his...

The Cat's Regret

The Cat's Regret

2018

6.8
Acting

A ten-year-old boy who hates his little brother is punished by his mother and has to spend an afternoon with a scary old man. The boy will learn a les...

Besoin Dead

Besoin Dead

2017

as Father Daniel

Acting

In a church, a future bride dresses in secret. Just before meeting up with her, the best man and the priest discover the city has been invaded by the ...

Mon frère bien-aimé

Mon frère bien-aimé

2016

as Guy Fourvier

6.8
Acting
One Wild Moment

One Wild Moment

2015

as Le voisin

5.8
Acting

Antoine and Laurent, old friends, spend their vacation in Corsica with their respective daughters: seventeen-year-old Louna and eighteen-year-old Mari...

Anton Tchekhov 1890

Anton Tchekhov 1890

2015

as Grigorovitch

5.7
Acting

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchék...

La storia di Cino

La storia di Cino

2014

as Le Chercheur D’or

Acting
ADN, l'âme de la terre

ADN, l'âme de la terre

2014

as Howard

2.0
Acting

Akim is a young uneducated Tunisian born with the gift of healing. Confronted by an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company who seeks to profit from his g...

Horsehead

Horsehead

2014

as Priest

5.3
Acting

Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysi...

Colt 45

Colt 45

2014

as Police Prefect Pradier

5.6
Acting

Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field briga...

Ablations

Ablations

2014

as Wortz

5.0
Acting

Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He w...

14 Million Screams

14 Million Screams

2014

as Le mari

Acting

The movie is called 14 Millions Screams because 14 millions young girls are forced to be married every year. As of today 700 Million women were marrie...

Julia's Curse

Julia's Curse

2014

as Julien

6.2
Acting

When Julia comes back to France, a curse seems to have hit her family. So when Julia's daughter is accused of murder, she decides to investigate by he...

The Marchers

The Marchers

2013

as René Ledu

6.4
Acting

In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for e...

Our Heroes Died Tonight

Our Heroes Died Tonight

2013

as Ferdinand

5.9
Acting

France in the early 60s. Simon, a wrestler, wears a white mask. In the ring, he is known as "The Specter". He suggests to his friend Victor who has ju...

The Informant

The Informant

2013

as Glacose

6.3
Acting

A story centered on a man who works as an informant for the French border patrol.

Tied

Tied

2013

as Le ministre

4.6
Acting

A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.

Autopsy of Delights

Autopsy of Delights

2012

as Gary (voice)

Acting

Gary, breathless, is about to die. In his last confession, the old man begins a painful journey through the darkness of his cruel and morbid past.

In the Name of the Son

In the Name of the Son

2012

as Father Taon

6.1
Acting

When Elisabeth, a woman of faith, host of a radio show on a Catholic radio station, devoted to her family and the suffering of the world, is confronte...

Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred

2012

as Otho

Acting

A pair of twins named Blue and Delilah, separated at birth, meet for the first time at their mother's death bed. Their mother tells the twins that it ...

War Horse

War Horse

2011

as French Auctioneer

7.3
Acting

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey beg...

Belleville Tokyo

Belleville Tokyo

2011

as Jean-Jacques

4.8
Acting

Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissa...

Cannibal

Cannibal

2010

as Le père

4.5
Acting

A lonely man finds a beautiful young woman unconscious and covered in blood while walking through the woods. He starts to fall for her but learns of a...

The Pack

The Pack

2010

as Chinaski

4.6
Acting

In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back fro...

Comme les 5 doigts de la main

Comme les 5 doigts de la main

2010

as Kazan

6.2
Acting

Five brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left the family when he returns, pursued by a gang of smugg...

Mammuth

Mammuth

2010

as Le directeur gâteux de l'hospice

5.8
Acting

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...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

2010

as Professeur Ménard

6.2
Acting

An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and ...

Blackout

Blackout

2010

as Père François

4.2
Acting

Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives is making a report on Westerners who have been repatriated from Rwanda, fleeing the massac...

En chantier, monsieur Tanner !

En chantier, monsieur Tanner !

2010

as Tanner's father

3.9
Acting

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...

Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète

Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète

2010

as Guillaume de Villon

5.0
Acting

Separated at the birth of his mother who has only time to entrust to a member of his family, Guillaume de Villon, when he should have been killed, Fra...

Wandering Streams

Wandering Streams

2010

as Edmond

6.2
Acting

Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe...

Humans

Humans

2009

as Professeur Schneider

4.2
Acting

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...

Contre nature

2008

as The patriarch

6.0
Acting

Aix’s Island, 1930’s. An impossible love story: two cousins, Igor and Claire. Victims of pressure from the community who lives on this isolated Island...

Lady Blood

Lady Blood

2008

as Jo Lamier

3.6
Acting

15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lea...

Eldorado

Eldorado

2008

as Le Collectionneur

6.7
Acting

Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends ...

Dragon Hunters

Dragon Hunters

2008

as Le Seigneur Arnold (voice)

6.5
Acting

Dragon Hunters is a fantastic tale telling the adventures of two dragon hunters: the world has become a vast conglomerate of islands of varying size a...

The Last Deadly Mission

The Last Deadly Mission

2008

as Charles Subra

6.4
Acting

A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be relea...

Vous êtes de la police ?

Vous êtes de la police ?

2007

as Francky Garcia

Acting

A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.

Cowboy

Cowboy

2007

as Le borgne

5.6
Acting

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...

The Second Wind

The Second Wind

2007

as Inspecteur Fardiano

6.0
Acting

Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu ne...

Bloody Current Exchange

Bloody Current Exchange

2007

as Vincent

5.0
Acting

A well dressed old man was waiting on a bed. A telephone rang. A glamorous young lady entered the room. They vaguely introduced themselves and made lo...

Eye for Eye

Eye for Eye

2007

Acting

A cop infiltrates a corrupted party in order to eliminate a "godfather" who is responsible of his old friend's death.

Michou d'Auber

Michou d'Auber

2007

as le cafetier

6.4
Acting

Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the fac...

The Elf Case

The Elf Case

2007

as Alfred Sirven

5.0
Acting

In 1988, after much cunning political maneuvering, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven become the chief executives at Elf. They discover a company...

Elf, Kings of Oil

Elf, Kings of Oil

2007

as Alfred Sirven

Acting

In 1988, supported by François Mitterrand, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent ran for the presidency of Elf. Alfred Sirven, through Christine Deviers-Joncour, intr...

Virgil

Virgil

2005

as Louis

5.0
Acting

Every week, Virgil makes his father Ernest dream by telling him about his boxing exploits during a visit. Every week, Virgil comes to dream by meeting...

Doo Wop

Doo Wop

2005

as Michel

Acting

Ziggy is a freedom loving Parisian often in debts and usually misunderstood by fellow citizens. Though there's a pretty unique karma he has it when se...

Love Is in the Air

Love Is in the Air

2005

as Le père de Ludo

6.5
Acting

Yann Kerbec is a flight instructor: he evaluates pilots’ abilities under extreme conditions on flight simulators. But Yann has a big problem: he is so...

Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône

Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône

2005

as Self

Acting

Since the beginning of the 70s, committed and willing, Philippe Nahon has been exploring the strangest roles and became at the dawn of the 90s, with "...

Calvaire

Calvaire

2005

as Robert Orton

6.0
Acting

A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège whe...

D77

D77

2005

as Le dépanneur

Acting

A deserted secondary road under a blazing sun. A 50 year-old peasant driving a very dirty pick-up truck. The discovery of four corpses along the road.

Dérives

Dérives

2005

Acting

Short movie

Handsome Jack

Handsome Jack

2003

1.0
Acting

For years, Alain and Madeleine, in their fifties, have consecrated all of their time to their small bistro. Devoted to serving their clientele, they a...

L'Enfant du pays

L'Enfant du pays

2003

as Charles

6.5
Acting

This tale of childhood and adolescence is told through brief sequences that take place in the life of a modest family from the Pas-de-Calais region du...

Nickel and Dime

Nickel and Dime

2003

as Roger

5.6
Acting

Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. ...

High Tension

High Tension

2003

as The Killer

6.8
Acting

Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' i...

The Code

The Code

2002

as Simon

5.0
Acting

Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wi...

Irreversible

Irreversible

2002

as Man

7.2
Acting

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Be...

Les Siens

Les Siens

2001

as Le Père/Le Chauffeur de Taxi

Acting

Virilité

2001

as Monsieur Max

5.0
Acting

Thirty-year-old Alexis is a teenager and has no desire to commit himself either professionally or romantically. He succumbs to the charm of Laura who ...

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Brotherhood of the Wolf

2001

as Jean Chastel

6.7
Acting

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the ...

The Outcasts

The Outcasts

2001

as The boss

Acting

Damien and his friends are garbage collectors in a small provincial town. One day, Damien finds a decomposing corpse in the dump where he works, but a...

The Château

The Château

2001

as Pierre

4.8
Acting

Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.

Without Family

Without Family

2000

as Barberin

6.8
Acting

Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is ...

The Crimson Rivers

The Crimson Rivers

2000

as Homme à la station service

6.9
Acting

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 ...

Save Me

Save Me

2000

1.0
Acting

Agatha is a beautiful young woman from Romania who had a brief but passionate love affair with a French surgeon when he visited her country as part of...

Highway Melody

Highway Melody

2000

as Milou

Acting

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 ...

Millevaches (Expérience)

Millevaches (Expérience)

2000

as L'Homme

Acting

A César award nominated short feature.

Prison à domicile

Prison à domicile

1999

as The bowling alley boss

5.2
Acting

Leonie Koutcharev, a top civil servant at the Ministry of Interior, proposes an ideal solution to the problem of overpopulated prisons: put model pris...

The Carriers Are Waiting

The Carriers Are Waiting

1999

as Le responsable

6.4
Acting

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...

Melody for a Hustler

Melody for a Hustler

1998

as L'inspecteur du Havre

2.6
Acting

French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionair...

The Octopus

The Octopus

1998

as Bar boss 2

6.5
Acting

Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire V...

I Stand Alone

I Stand Alone

1998

as The Butcher

7.5
Acting

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. H...

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time

1998

as Le gérant du supermarché

6.0
Acting

The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the presen...

Sodomites

Sodomites

1998

as Un Spectateur

3.8
Acting

Pornographic shortfilm directed in 1998 for a campaign against AIDS, in association with French Ministry for Health. Phallus, a muscular Maciste with ...

Noël en Quercy

Noël en Quercy

1997

as Maurice Lacassagne

7.0
Acting

Seule

1997

Acting
A Self-Made Hero

A Self-Made Hero

1996

as The Général

6.9
Acting

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.

Happiness Is No Joke

Happiness Is No Joke

1995

as André

Acting

What there is of a plot in this drama serves mainly as a vehicle for the exploration of character. In the story, Michel (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) is ...

Guardian Angels

Guardian Angels

1995

as Le chauffeur de taxi

6.1
Acting

A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.

La Haine

La Haine

1995

as Roof Police Chief

8.1
Acting

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 ...

Pigalle

Pigalle

1995

as Lezzi

5.2
Acting

It's a grim world of prostitution, drug dens, transvestites, junkies and murderers. The seediest side of urban life is examined in this tragedy. The f...

Toubab Bi

Toubab Bi

1992

as Le concierge

5.8
Acting

Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by t...

Carne

Carne

1991

as The Butcher

6.8
Acting

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground w...

Solemn Communion

Solemn Communion

1977

as Un syndicaliste

4.5
Acting

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families fro...

Touched in the Head

Touched in the Head

1974

as Jean-Paul, l'ouvrier-boulanger

6.1
Acting

Baker's apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squ...

The French Calvinists

The French Calvinists

1972

as Reboul

6.3
Acting

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed ...

Le Doulos

Le Doulos

1962

as Remy

7.4
Acting

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what sh...