Denis Ménochet

Denis Ménochet

1976-09-18 Enghein-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, France 50 Credits

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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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Karma

2026

Acting

Plot under wraps.

The Darwinners

The Darwinners

2024

as (voice)

4.1
Acting

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

Rumours

2024

as Sylvain Broulez

4.9
Acting

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

Beau Is Afraid

2023

as Jeeves

6.7
Acting

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

White Paradise

2023

as Samuel

6.5
Acting

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

White Dog

2022

as Romain Gary

7.0
Acting

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

The Beasts

2022

as Antoine

7.5
Acting

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

Peter von Kant

2022

as Peter von Kant

5.7
Acting

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

The French Dispatch

2021

as Prison Guard

7.0
Acting

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

The Mauritanian

2021

as Emmanuel

7.4
Acting

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

Only the Animals

2019

as Michel Farange

6.7
Acting

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

QT8: The First Eight

2019

as self (archive footage)

7.2
Acting

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

By the Grace of God

2019

as François Debord

7.1
Acting

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

The Emperor of Paris

2018

as Dubillard

6.3
Acting

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

Old Boys

2018

as Babinot

6.6
Acting

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

7 Days in Entebbe

2018

as Jacques Le Moine

5.8
Acting

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

Mary Magdalene

2018

as Daniel

6.3
Acting

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

Custody

2018

as Antoine Besson

7.5
Acting

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

Assassin's Creed

2016

as Abstergo Güvenlik Müdürü

5.4
Acting

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

The Dancer

2016

as Ruben

6.6
Acting

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

The Program

2015

as Johan Bruyneel

6.4
Acting

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

Norfolk

Norfolk

2015

as Man

6.0
Acting

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

6.0
Acting

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

Ablations

2014

as Pastor

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...

Our Heroes Died Tonight

Our Heroes Died Tonight

2013

as Victor

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 Volcano

The Volcano

2013

as Ezechiel

5.6
Acting

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

Grand Central

2013

as Toni

5.6
Acting

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

Just a Sigh

2013

as Antoine (voice)

6.2
Acting

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

Just Before Losing Everything

2013

as Antoine

7.2
Acting

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

In the House

2012

as Rapha père

7.2
Acting

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

Low Profile

2012

as Yvan Le Doze

6.0
Acting

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

The Adopted

2011

as Alex

6.9
Acting

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

Special Forces

2011

as Captain Lucas

6.7
Acting

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

Skylab

Skylab

2011

as Uncle Roger

6.1
Acting

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

Lily Sometimes

2010

as Pierre

5.7
Acting

After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.

Joseph et la fille

Joseph et la fille

2010

as Franck

Acting

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

Robin Hood

2010

as Adhemar

6.4
Acting

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)

Jeanine (ou mes parents n'ont rien d'exceptionnel)

2010

as Le père

Acting

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

The Round Up

2010

as Corot

7.5
Acting

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds

2009

as Perrier LaPadite

8.2
Acting

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

You Will Be Mine

2009

as Copain Yves

5.0
Acting

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

Trivial

2007

as Jean-Luc

4.2
Acting

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

La Vie en Rose

2007

as Journalist in Orly

7.4
Acting

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

Hannibal Rising

2007

as Chief of Police

6.2
Acting

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

Poison d'avril

2007

as L'ingénieur du son

Acting

March 2002, during an election campaign, Simon Barrachet, offensive journalist, took over the newspaper and a television station seeks to impose its v...

Foon

Foon

2005

as Harry

3.4
Acting

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

The Moustache

2005

as Serveur

6.1
Acting

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

Autumn

2004

as The Bodyguard

5.2
Acting

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

Spin the Bottle

2004

as Denis

Acting

When almost thirty-year olds not knowing what to do with their afternoon but playing children's games.

Jupiter

N/A

as Paul Archambault

Acting