Biography
Daniel Auteuil (born 24 January 1950) is a French actor. His starring role in Jean de Florette brought him international recognition, and he has since become one of the best-known, best-paid and most popular actors in France. Through films such as Caché, Mon meilleur ami, Le bossu and Après vous..., he has since gained greater international recognition. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Auteuil, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

A Private Life
2025
as Gabriel Haddad
When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the death of one of her patients she is deeply troubled. Convinced that it was murder, she decides...

An Ordinary Case
2024
as Maître Jean Monier
Jean Monier is a disillusioned lawyer, appointed to defend Nicolas Milik, a man accused of murdering his wife. While everything points to his guilt, M...

An Ordinary Case
2024
Co-Producer, Director, Screenplay
Jean Monier is a disillusioned lawyer, appointed to defend Nicolas Milik, a man accused of murdering his wife. While everything points to his guilt, M...

Gaëtan Roussel : Création éclect!que aux Francofolies de La Rochelle
2024
as Self

Love Boat
2024
as Franck
To overcome their financial problems, Justine, her husband and their whole group of friends organize a fake romantic cruise for Franck, a big investor...

A Silence
2024
as François Schaar
Astrid is the wife of an acclaimed lawyer. Silenced for 25 years, her family balance suddenly collapses when her children initiate their search for ju...

to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
2023
as Georges Laurent (archive footage)
An omnium-gatherum of film, poem, and song excerpts contextually juxtaposed in an attempt to explore masculinity, alienation, and identity in a post-i...

halcyon / aimer
2023
as Georges Laurent (voice)
a short film

The New Toy
2022
as Philippe Étienne
Samy lives happily with his wife, Alice, in a poor urban housing project amongst friends and neighbours. For his son’s birthday, the richest man in Fr...

Farewell, Mr. Haffmann
2022
as Joseph Haffmann
Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a tale...

Daniel Auteuil - Déjeuner en l'air
2021
as Self

Le Parti du cinéma
2021
as Self (archive footage)

La Belle Époque
2019
as Victor Drumond
Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love ...

Le Malade imaginaire
2019
as Argan

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
2019
as Self - Actor
A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Dani...

Just the Three of Us
2019
as Gilbert
Gilbert and Simone live a restless retreat in a village in the South of France. The departure of Étienne, her neighbor and lover, the lack of money, b...

Remi, Nobody's Boy
2018
as Signor Vitalis
At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its ...

The Other Woman
2018
as Daniel
When Daniel and Isabelle invite Patrick and his new flame, Emma, to dinner, it’s with some misgivings. After all, Patrick has just dumped his ex-wife ...

The Other Woman
2018
Director
When Daniel and Isabelle invite Patrick and his new flame, Emma, to dinner, it’s with some misgivings. After all, Patrick has just dumped his ex-wife ...

Le Brio
2017
as Pierre Mazard
After an incident, a brilliant professor known for his outbursts is forced to mentor the student he wronged for a speech contest.

The Confessions
2016
as Daniel Roché
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that...

In Her Name
2016
as André Bamberski
In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germ...

Les Naufragés
2016
as Jean-Louis Brochard
A shady businessman ,about to be arrested after ruining his country (and more) ,has to get away from his native France ;he meets a dry cleaner,William...

Our Women
2015
as Paul
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up ...

Among Friends
2015
as Richard
Three longtime friends set off on a boat trip with their romantic partners, but inclement weather, jealousy and confessions, will put to test their fr...

La Folle Histoire de François Pignon - De La chèvre au Dîner de cons
2015
as Self

La Renaissance de Claude Sautet
2014
as Self

Before the Winter Chill
2013
as Paul
They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple: Paul is a respected surgeon and Lucie cooks and gardens exquisitely. But now, in the autumn of his...

Fanny
2013
as César Olivier
"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love a...

Fanny
2013
Writer, Director
"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love a...

Marius
2013
as César Olivier
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of th...

Marius
2013
Writer, Director
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of th...

Jappeloup
2013
as Serge Durand, father of Pierre
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 ...

Il était une fois… « La Reine Margot »
2013
as Self

The Lookout
2012
as Mattei
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...

Blood from a Stone
2012
as Georges Pierret
The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees.

The Well Digger's Daughter
2011
as Pascal Amoretti
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because o...

The Well Digger's Daughter
2011
Director, Writer
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because o...

Fair is Fair
2010
as Constant
Condamné pour un crime qui n'était, selon lui, qu'un accident, Constant réussit à s'évader de la prison où il purge sa peine... Après une fuite aveugl...

Someone I Loved
2009
as Pierre
One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his ...

La Traversée du désir
2009
as Self
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

Me Two
2008
as Jean-Christian Ranu
80's pop icon Gilles Gabriel is about to make a comeback in the French music scene, until he accidentally hits Ranu, a slightly nutty accountant, when...

Daddy Cool
2008
as Philippe Le Tallec
The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.

The Last Deadly Mission
2008
as Schneider
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...

The Second Wind
2007
as Gustave Minda, dit 'Gu'
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...

The Dinner Guest
2007
as Gérard
Fifty years old, three years past of unemployment, benefits decreasing very quickly... Gerard is at the end of the rope when a position is offered him...

Conversations with My Gardener
2007
as The painter, aka 'Dupinceau'
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to ma...

My Best Friend
2006
as François Coste
Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. S...

Napoleon and Me
2006
as Napoleone Bonaparte
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man...

L'Entente cordiale
2006
as Jean-Pierre Moindrau
The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter...

Face 'Caché'
2006
as Self
A documentary on the shooting of Michael Haneke's movie 'Hidden' (Caché). Including interviews with Michael Haneke, Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteui...

The Valet
2006
as Pierre Levasseur
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by in...

Caché
2005
as Georges Laurent
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that...

To Paint or Make Love
2005
as William
An affluent, middle-aged couple's uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, young...

One Stays, the Other Leaves
2005
as Daniel
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his...

36th Precinct
2004
as Leo Vrinks
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is direct...

Under a False Name
2004
as Daniel
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

Why (Not) Brazil?
2004
as Self
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book ada...

Nos amis les flics
2004
as Toussaint
Une bande de jeunes voyous inoffensifs vivote de petits coups. Après un braquage loupé, ils se trouvent dans l'impossibilité de régler leurs dettes au...

After You
2003
as Antoine Letoux
Antoine works in a bar in Paris. One evening on his way home from work, he intervenes when a man tries to commit suicide. He feels strangely guilty ab...

The Car Keys
2003
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

Red Knight
2003
as Guillaume de Montauban, dit Dragon Rouge
11th Century AD. In a world that burns with the heat of battle, a world torn apart by Crusades, one knight traverses the desolate wastes laid bare by ...

Small Cuts
2003
as Bruno
Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëlle and his young girlfriend Nathalie, his political...

The Adversary
2002
as Jean-Marc Faure
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist J...
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...

Vajont
2001
as Nino Biadene
On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the high...

The Closet
2001
as François Pignon
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.

Sade
2000
as Marquis de Sade
A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.

The Widow of Saint-Pierre
2000
as Jean, le capitaine
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in ...

The Escort
1999
as Pierre
Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make en...

The Lost Son
1999
as Xavier Lombard
Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a ...

The Girl on the Bridge
1999
as Gabor
It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone...

On Guard
1997
as Lagardère
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a ...

Lucie Aubrac
1997
as Raymond Aubrac
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of L...

Death in Therapy
1996
as Antoine Rivière
Antoine Rivière, a highly-reputed psychoanalyst, is visited by a new patient, Edouard Berg. When Berg claims to have killed his own wife, the doctor s...

Thieves
1996
as Alex
In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his young son. Flashbacks reveal the relationships among Ivan and his brot...

The Eighth Day
1996
as Harry
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful ...

Pereira Declares
1995
as Dr. Cardoso
Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil wa...

A French Woman
1995
as Louis
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a PO...

One Hundred and One Nights
1995
as Self - in Cannes
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all ...

La Séparation
1994
as Pierre
In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laure...

Queen Margot
1994
as Henri de Navarre
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble ...

My Favorite Season
1993
as Antoine
Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not ...

A Heart in Winter
1992
as Stéphane
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be ...

My Life Is Hell
1991
as Abargadon
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervene...

The Elegant Criminal
1990
as Pierre-François Lacenaire
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while...

L'Amuse-gueule
1989
as Yan Ducoudray

Mama, There's a Man in your Bed
1989
as Romuald Blindet
A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to ...

A Few Days with Me
1988
as Martial Pasquier
After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. He must navigate unexpe...

Manon of the Spring
1986
as Ugolin Soubeyran, aka "Galinette"
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots ven...

Jean de Florette
1986
as Ugolin Soubeyran, nephew of Papet
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring w...

The Nonentity
1986
as le journaliste
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner,...

Love on the Quiet
1985
as Marc Delmas, lawyer and husband of Jeanne
A lawyer hires a call girl after learning his wife has invited her lover to move in; the husband and wife separate and the two new couples live side-b...

Palace
1985
as Lucien Morland
1944. Lucien, a fighter in the Free French Forces, is taken prisoner by the Germans. He is sent to a prison camp and then becomes a pianist in a palac...

The Syringe
1984
as Inspecteur Vincent
Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets', the...

Wild Animals
1984
as Christopher "Berg" Bergham
Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he...

Petit Con
1984
as Jeannot
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.

The Informer
1983
as Bertrand
The girlfriend of an associate of a gangland boss, is persuaded by a police detective to inform about her lover's associates.

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
1982
as Jean-Baptiste Lumet, aka Lum
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...

Apprends-moi, Céline
1982
as Guillaume

For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now
1982
as Sam
After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in...

Keeping Everyone Up
1982
as Yves
A homeless street musician meets an attractive woman by chance and keeps following her until he persuades her to let him stay in her place.

The Under-Gifted In Vacation
1982
as Baptiste Laval dit Bébel
A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she...

Men Prefer Fat Girls
1981
as Jean-Yves
Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.

Clara and Chics Types
1981
as Mickey
Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in...

Le Garçon d’appartement
1980
as Yves
Yves is a young man too lazy to work encrusted in a young girl he met on the street and no longer wants to leave the apartment she is sharing with one...

Le Garçon d’appartement
1980
Director
Yves is a young man too lazy to work encrusted in a young girl he met on the street and no longer wants to leave the apartment she is sharing with one...

The Lady Banker
1980
as Duclaux
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with sma...

The Under-Gifted
1980
as Baptiste Laval, dit "Bébel"
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students thi...

Dumb But Disciplined
1979
as Alain, bidasse
Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance.

Us Two
1979
as Un voyou
Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has...

Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
1979
as Jean-Bernard Morel, cousin of Pierre
Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...

Rape of Love
1978
as Daniel
Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trau...

Monsieur Papa
1977
as Dédé
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.

The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
1977
as Rémy
In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seem...

Let's Make a Dirty Movie
1976
as Alex
A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie.

Act of Aggression
1975
as Natacha's fiancé (uncredited)
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge.

L'Adhésion
1975
as Man whose wife join the PCF
Nagasaki
N/A
Au temps pour nous
N/A
as Igor
Behind the scenes of an ambitious staging of the opera The Marriage of Figaro, an accusation of sexual assault emerges, upsetting the balance of the c...
La nuit
N/A
Crime No Punishment
N/A
La nuit
N/A
Director, Screenplay