Matthias Schoenaerts

Matthias Schoenaerts

1977-12-08 Antwerp, Belgium 64 Credits

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Matthias Schoenaerts (/ˈʃoʊnɑːrts/ SHOH-narts, Dutch: [ˈmɑtjɑs ˈsxunaːrts]; born 8 December 1977) is a Belgian actor. He made his film debut at the age of 13 in Daens (1992), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He is best known for his roles as Filip in Loft (2008), Jacky Vanmarsenille in the Oscar-nominated Bullhead (2011), and Ali in the BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated Rust and Bone (2012), for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor. He pla...

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Supergirl

Supergirl

2026

as Krem of the Yellow Hills

Acting

While Superman was sent to Earth and raised by incredibly loving parents, Kara was left on Krypton. For the first fourteen years of her life, Kara liv...

The Old Guard 2

The Old Guard 2

2025

as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker

6.2
Acting

Andy and her team of immortal warriors fight with renewed purpose as they face a powerful new foe threatening their mission to protect humanity.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

2022

as Detective Lem Getweiler

6.1
Acting

In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plo...

Zuur

Zuur

2021

Acting

The ultimate confrontation between the acid-mutilated Kim and her ex-boyfriend, revolving door criminal Kasper. The latter hopes for a reduction of th...

Brothers by Blood

Brothers by Blood

2020

as Peter Flood

5.8
Acting

Peter and Michael, raised on the streets of Philadelphia, are the children of Irish mob members, forever linked by the crimes of their fathers. 30 yea...

The Old Guard

The Old Guard

2020

as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker

7.1
Acting

Four undying warriors who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immorta...

The Laundromat

The Laundromat

2019

as Maywood

6.0
Acting

When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.

A Hidden Life

A Hidden Life

2019

as Captain Herder

7.2
Acting

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

The Mustang

The Mustang

2019

as Roman Coleman

6.9
Acting

While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates...

The Mustang

The Mustang

2019

Associate Producer

6.9
Producing

While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates...

Kursk

Kursk

2018

as Mikhail Averin

6.6
Acting

Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew...

Close Enemies

Close Enemies

2018

as Manuel Marco

5.9
Acting

Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belo...

Red Sparrow

Red Sparrow

2018

as Vanya Egorov

6.5
Acting

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School...

Racer and the Jailbird

Racer and the Jailbird

2017

as Gino 'Gigi'

6.0
Acting

When Gino meets racing driver Bénédicte, it's love at first sight. But Gino has a secret. The kind of secret that can endanger their lives.

Our Souls at Night

Our Souls at Night

2017

as Gene

6.6
Acting

Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes...

The Danish Girl

The Danish Girl

2015

as Hans

7.6
Acting

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as L...

A Bigger Splash

A Bigger Splash

2015

as Paul De Smedt

6.2
Acting

An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daugh...

Disorder

Disorder

2015

as Vincent

5.7
Acting

An ex-soldier with PTSD is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he's out of town.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

2015

as Gabriel Oak

7.0
Acting

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep ...

A Little Chaos

A Little Chaos

2015

as Andre Le Notre

6.3
Acting

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, ...

Suite Française

Suite Française

2015

as Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk

7.3
Acting

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they...

The Loft

The Loft

2014

as Philip Trauner

6.4
Acting

For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead bo...

The Drop

The Drop

2014

as Eric Deeds

6.8
Acting

Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where f...

Antwerp - The City Game

Antwerp - The City Game

2014

as Self

Acting

"De Pleintjes" is a documentary about Antwerp's street football culture. Rough areas such as Het Kiel, Borgerhout, Deurne and Stuivenberg are the back...

Blood Ties

Blood Ties

2013

as Anthony Scarfo

6.1
Acting

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard

Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard

2012

as Self

10.0
Acting

A lengthy and detailed examination of the making of the 2012 film Rust and Bone, directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Marion Cotillard and Matthia...

Death of a Shadow

Death of a Shadow

2012

as Nathan Rijckx

6.7
Acting

Soldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shad...

Death of a Shadow

Death of a Shadow

2012

Associate Producer

6.7
Producing

Soldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shad...

Rust and Bone

Rust and Bone

2012

as Alain 'Ali' van Versch

7.2
Acting

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a kille...

The Gang of Oss

The Gang of Oss

2011

as Ties van Heesch

6.3
Acting

Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town of Oss in the 1930s. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.

The President

The President

2011

as Boyko

4.2
Acting

A political comedy about an illegal Moroccan who makes it to President of the Netherlands. As we follow his unlikely rise and self-sought fall, Joes l...

Bullhead

Bullhead

2011

as Jacky Vanmarsenille

7.1
Acting

A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader.

Injury Time

2010

as Van Dessel

Acting

Three Antwerp football fans are in Belgian Wallonia. After one of them is severely beaten up by a group of rival fans, Sid wants to leave immediately...

The Pack

The Pack

2010

as The Gothic Sham

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...

Pulsar

Pulsar

2010

as Samuel Verbist

5.5
Acting

Samuel works in Brussels as a pharmaceutical delivery man. His gorgeous girlfriend Mireille heads off to New York to intern at a prestigious architect...

My Queen Karo

My Queen Karo

2009

as Raven

5.0
Acting

Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. Every...

Afterday

Afterday

2009

as Jef

Acting

Emma is in a happy relationship with Jef. But she still meets up with her good friend Thomas to share a strange secluded weekend.

Loft

Loft

2008

as Filip Willems

6.9
Acting

Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there a...

Tunnelrat

Tunnelrat

2008

as John Atkins

5.0
Acting

Two enemy soldiers get locked up in a tunnel below the World War I front. Sharing the same fate, they need each other to survive.

Left Bank

Left Bank

2008

as Bobby

5.7
Acting

When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery about the fate of the previous tenant.

Nadine

Nadine

2007

as Cornee

5.4
Acting

A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extreme actions.

The Muse

The Muse

2007

Acting

An introverted young poet struggles with a writer's block and meets a mysterious girl, who reminds him of Monica Vitti.

Black Book

Black Book

2006

as Joop

7.4
Acting

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Love Belongs to Everyone

Love Belongs to Everyone

2006

as Dennis

6.0
Acting

Shy, gentle half-wit Dennis, whose only obsession is train-spotting, is released early on account of good behavior after a rape sentence. His parents ...

Retour

2006

as Maxime

Acting

It's summer and Maxime, a cycling enthusiast, is on holiday. The weather is great and country roads are perfect for cycling. But Maxime's holidays are...

The One Thing to Do

2005

as Edward Monskii

7.0
Acting

Edward Monskii, is in a very bad shape, and Botter Gaarman, obviously tired, are in the terrace of a coffee of a Mediterranean city, ready for a long ...

The End of the Ride

2005

as Samuel

Acting

Samuel is sick. It is hard to refuse a sick man anything. So he gets what he wants, as usual. Although his friends aren't thrilled when he asks them t...

Exit

2005

as Anthony

Acting

A Christmas tale about a man who suffered a severe traumatic childhood and lives a secluded life, in a small dwelling, abandoned by society. On a Chri...

Another Day

2005

as Man

9.0
Acting

Short film without dialogue about the intimacy between lovers

Daughter

2005

as Matthias

Acting

Marie waited years for her father to return, after he left with the words: "I'll call you"; then she met Mattias.

Gender

Gender

2004

2.0
Acting

On June 3rd 1968, Factory member Valeria Solanas shot three bullets in Andy Warhol's chest. Solanas' extreme feminism and Warhol's eccentric entourage...

A Message from Outer Space

2004

as Frits

Acting

Frits, a lonesome, unworldly astronomer, is in pursuit of extraterrestrial life in order to find true friendship, which he does not find on Earth. Whe...

Ellektra

Ellektra

2004

as DJ Cosmonaut X

4.8
Acting

Ellektra is a story about comfort. The main character Sam finds real comfort and is released from her virtual comfort, drugs. Her true comfort is the ...

I Want Something And I Do Not Know What

2004

as Jaap

Acting

In 1941, Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman living in occupied Amsterdam, starts a psychoanalysis with Julius Spiers, a disciple of Jung specializing...

Any Way the Wind Blows

Any Way the Wind Blows

2003

as Chouki

6.8
Acting

Antwerp, early June. On a sweltering Friday, eight people dream of a different life. There is wind and music, police and paranoia, gossip and arguing....

See

2003

as Man

Acting

A man suffers visual impairment due to brain injury.

Girl

Girl

2002

as Oscar

4.0
Acting

Muriel moves from a small village to the big city of Brussels, hoping to start an independent life working as a museum guide. She rents a room from La...

The Blue Rose

The Blue Rose

2002

as Lover

Acting

Hans is an imaginative young boy whose life is forever changed by a summer job as a postman. During his responsible task, delivering a registered lett...

Priest Daens

Priest Daens

1992

as Wannes Scholliers

7.1
Acting

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vo...

Le faux soir

N/A

Acting

Phénix

N/A

as Johnny Hallyday

Acting
The Way of the Wind

The Way of the Wind

N/A

as Peter

Acting

A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.

Violette

N/A

Acting

Violette Toussaint, a beloved cemetery caretaker, lives a peaceful life filled by conversations with quirky workers and the many visitors who share wi...

Ruin

N/A

Acting

In the rubble of Germany following World War II, a newly released Jewish camp prisoner forms an alliance with a German soldier as they both seek reven...