Biography
Denis Menochet (born 1977 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise) is a French film and television actor. Menochet is perhaps best known to an international audience for his role as Perrier LaPadite, a French dairy farmer interrogated by the Nazis for harboring Jews, in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds. Elizabeth Weitzman, a film critic for the New York Daily News, praised Menochet's work opposite Christoph Waltz in the opening scene of Inglorious Basterds. Weitzman wrote in Augus...
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Complete Filmography
Karma
2026
Plot under wraps.

The Darwinners
2024
as (voice)
In a prehistory for operettas that is seemingly doomed never to evolve, a conflicted father and daughter disrupt the Stone Age routine. After a tragic...

Rumours
2024
as Sylvain Broulez
En route to the annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods and face increasing peril whil...

Beau Is Afraid
2023
as Jeeves
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odys...

White Paradise
2023
as Samuel
Samuel, a widower, is taking care of his 7-year-old daughter alone. Overwhelmed and stressed out, he decides to isolate in a chalet he was renovating ...

White Dog
2022
as Romain Gary
As the country explodes under racial tensions after the assassination of Martin Luther King, writer Romain Gary, humanist and animal lover, and his wi...

The Beasts
2022
as Antoine
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and resto...

Peter von Kant
2022
as Peter von Kant
Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidon...

The French Dispatch
2021
as Prison Guard
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student ri...

The Mauritanian
2021
as Emmanuel
The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a ...

Only the Animals
2019
as Michel Farange
Following the disappearance of the glamorous and secretive Evelyne Ducat during a blizzard in the highlands of southern France, the lives of five peop...

QT8: The First Eight
2019
as self (archive footage)
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda...

By the Grace of God
2019
as François Debord
Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with chi...

The Emperor of Paris
2018
as Dubillard
Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him. When...

Old Boys
2018
as Babinot
In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughte...

7 Days in Entebbe
2018
as Jacques Le Moine
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers ...

Mary Magdalene
2018
as Daniel
In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radi...

Custody
2018
as Antoine Besson
Miriam and Antoine have recently separated. While she’s willing to permit their 17-year-old daughter Josephine to decide living arrangements for herse...

Assassin's Creed
2016
as Abstergo Güvenlik Müdürü
Through a technology that unlocks the generic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is a descendant of an ancient ...

The Dancer
2016
as Ruben
A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle E...

The Program
2015
as Johan Bruyneel
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. ...

Norfolk
2015
as Man
Set in Norfolk, amidst an idyllic, brooding landscape, an innocent teenage boy and his battle-weary father live a simple life. Days are spent hunting,...
Where Were You When Michael Jackson Died?
2014
as Self
Paris, a few days after the death of the King of Pop and a few days before Christmas, he and she happen to meet in the back seat of a cab. They ride a...

Ablations
2014
as Pastor
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...

Our Heroes Died Tonight
2013
as Victor
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 Volcano
2013
as Ezechiel
The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull causes major disruptions to travelers' plans around the world. For Alain and Valérie, it's a ca...

Grand Central
2013
as Toni
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.

Just a Sigh
2013
as Antoine (voice)
In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stran...

Just Before Losing Everything
2013
as Antoine
Julien is 10 years old. He pretends to go to school but then hides out under a bridge, his backpack filled with clothes. A few kilometers away, 15-yea...

In the House
2012
as Rapha père
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French te...

Low Profile
2012
as Yvan Le Doze
There's nothing to keep Yvan in Paris any longer. His wife has left him to live in Thailand. His teenage daughters have chosen to live with his sister...

The Adopted
2011
as Alex
Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, thei...

Special Forces
2011
as Captain Lucas
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched t...

Skylab
2011
as Uncle Roger
It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that ...

Lily Sometimes
2010
as Pierre
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.

Joseph et la fille
2010
as Franck
Joseph has just spent 20 years in prison. After being released, he has only one obsession: to make one last heist. To perform this masterpiece, he nee...

Robin Hood
2010
as Adhemar
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Rober...

Jeanine (ou mes parents n'ont rien d'exceptionnel)
2010
as Le père
Jeanine, ten, can't take it anymore from her parents, former hippies, who only think of having fun. In order to gain access to the square and organize...

The Round Up
2010
as Corot
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

Inglourious Basterds
2009
as Perrier LaPadite
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throug...

You Will Be Mine
2009
as Copain Yves
Marie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma, a friend of ...

Trivial
2007
as Jean-Luc
An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is he...

La Vie en Rose
2007
as Journalist in Orly
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a c...

Hannibal Rising
2007
as Chief of Police
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses...

Poison d'avril
2007
as L'ingénieur du son
March 2002, during an election campaign, Simon Barrachet, offensive journalist, took over the newspaper and a television station seeks to impose its v...

Foon
2005
as Harry
A quasi-musical-comedy which descends into horror, set in the early sixties in a college on the outskirts of West Philadelphia. For 15 years, the grad...

The Moustache
2005
as Serveur
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither s...

Autumn
2004
as The Bodyguard
Jean-Pierre is a hit man in Paris. He wants to stop; an incentive is reconnecting to Michelle, a childhood friend. He's ready to commit himself to her...

Spin the Bottle
2004
as Denis
When almost thirty-year olds not knowing what to do with their afternoon but playing children's games.
Jupiter
N/A
as Paul Archambault