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François Damiens is a Actor, Director and Writer Belge born on 17 january 1973 at Uccle / Ukkel (Belgique)
François Damiens participated to 49 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 10 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Directed by Dany Boon
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Benoît Poelvoorde, Dany Boon, Karin Viard, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Julie Bernard
Roles Jacques Janus
Rating63%
On 1 January 1993, two customs officers, one Belgian and the other French, have to deal with closure of their small customs post situated between Courquain in France and Koorkin in Belgium.
Directed by Éric Lartigau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about the labor movement, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Sign-language films, French Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Karin Viard, François Damiens, Louane, Éric Elmosnino, Roxane Duran, Stéphan Wojtowicz
Roles Rodolphe Bélier
Rating72%
In the Bélier family, sixteen-year-old Paula is an indispensable interpreter for her deaf parents and brother on a daily basis, especially in the running of the family farm. One day, a music teacher discovers her gift for singing and encourages Paula to participate in a prestigious singing contest in Paris, which will secure her a good career and a college degree. However, this decision would mean leaving her family and taking her first steps towards adulthood.
, 1h32
Directed by Benoît "Ben" Stassen
Origin Belgique
Genres Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Mise en scène d'une tortue, Children's films, Reptile
Actors Franck Dubosc, Billy Unger, IU (아이유), Pat Carroll, Kaitlyn Maher, Dino Andrade
Roles Additional Voices (voice)
Rating56%
Sammy and Ray are supervising their new offspring, when seagulls attack them and both Sammy and Ray and two of their grandchildren Ella and Ricky are captured on trawler. While Ella and Ricky are separated and sent to the seabed, Sammy and Ray are taken to an aquarium with Lulu, a lobster with dissociative identity disorder and Jimbo a bug-eyed blobfish. Escape plans are run and tried by the leading seahorse Big D. Ella and Ricky set out with Annabel and Margaret, the pink octopus mother and daughter in order to rescue their grandfathers, getting chased by a pair of barracudas when they get there. After much communication trouble, Ella and Ricky interpret from Sammy that in order to escape the aquarium several squids expel ink into the ventilation system, while all the aquarium inhabitants play dead. Before initiating the escape plan, Sammy and Ray get the tyrannical Big D out of the way. The reluctant aquarium manager opens the emergency doors allowing all sea creatures out to freedom.
Directed by Pascal Chaumeil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes La provence
Actors Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, François Damiens, Julie Ferrier, Andrew Lincoln, Jacques Frantz
Roles Marc
Rating66%
The bulk of the story takes place in Monaco. Charming attractive Alex (Romain Duris), his sister Mélanie (Julie Ferrier), and her husband Marc (François Damiens), operate a unique business for concerned third-party clients—breaking up relationships, but only where the woman is "not knowingly unhappy." The trio concoct elaborate, custom, and sometimes expensive ruses to deceive the women. After each woman has fallen for his act, Alex tells her she has made him come alive again, but that it is too late for him. The women presumably leave their relationships to seek men who make them feel the way Alex has.
Directed by Laurent Tirard
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Le thème des vacances, Children's films
Actors Kad Merad, Valérie Lemercier, Dominique Lavanant, François Damiens, Daniel Prévost, François-Xavier Demaison
Roles Blédurt
Rating61%
Nicholas spends his summer holidays with his is parents and Grandma at the seaside. He quickly makes new friends, including the girl Isabelle who lives in the area, the English pupil Djodjo, the gourmand Fructueux, the righteous Côme and the crybaby Crépin. But just when Nicholas believes he's got everything under control, Isabelle appears. He doesn't understand why she cares so much about him until he becomes suspicious that his parents are trying to set her up as his wife-to-be.
Directed by Jaco Van Dormael
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Black comedy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Poelvoorde, Pili Groyne, Yolande Moreau, François Damiens, Serge Larivière
Roles François
Rating70%
God is real and lives in an apartment in Brussels, which he shares with his meek wife and his 10-year-old daughter Ea, to whom he is emotionally and physically abusive. God is a grumpy sadist who created mankind specifically to have something to torment. He manipulates reality via a personal computer, which he strictly forbids his family from accessing. One day, Ea sneaks into his office and discovers how He has been mistreating humans. This enrages God, who whips Ea with his belt.
Directed by David Foenkinos
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Audrey Tautou, François Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Mélanie Bernier, Joséphine de Meaux, Joséphine de Meaux
Roles Markus Lundell
Rating65%
Nathalie, a young very attractive woman is very much in love with a young very attractive man, François. He proposes and they marry (portrayed in something resembling a ‘dream’ sequence), honeymoon, and are immediately pressured by family to have children. Nathalie takes a new job, hired partially because her new boss is sexually interested in her. One day, François goes out to jog and is killed in a traffic accident. Nathalie is devastated.
Directed by Éric Lavaine
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Kad Merad, Clovis Cornillac, Carole Bouquet, François Damiens, Elsa Kikoïne, Jean-Luc Couchard
Roles Roméro
Rating44%
Michel Boudriau et Kim Houang, deux lieutenants de police, sont amis depuis leur enfance. Michel, naïf et très croyant, est marié et a six enfants. Kim qui a été adopté puis abandonné par des restaurateurs vietnamiens est célibataire et très avare. Les policiers passent des tests d'aptitude. Après des épreuves désastreuses, Kim use de sa séduction pour faire améliorer par l'informaticienne ses notes et celles de Michel. Dans le même temps, en région parisienne se produit une série d’attentats à l’explosif revendiquant une somme de 15 millions d’euros. Le ministre de l’Intérieur enjoint à la directrice de la police Aude Letellier de charger de cette affaire les policiers les mieux notés aux tests d'aptitude : Michel et Kim sont désignés. En rencontrant Aude Letellier, Kim s'éprend de sa secrétaire Angela, qu’il invite aussitôt. Pour conduire Angela, le très économe Kim emprunte une voiture à la police. Il ignore qu’une bombe était placée dans cette voiture en vue d’un prochain attentat. La voiture explose devant le cabinet de la directrice de la police.
Directed by Éric Lavaine
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Bénabar, Franck Dubosc, Jocelyn Quivrin, Anne Marivin, Isabelle Nanty, François Damiens
Roles Chauffeur accident
Rating58%
Luka, chanteur-guitariste du groupe de rock underground Orly Sud pendant les années 1990, devient dix ans plus tard le roi de la nouvelle scène pop-rock française en s'appropriant les chansons d'un carnet bleu tombé d'une housse de basse alors qu'il cherchait des photos de son ancien groupe. Il pense que ce sont les chansons de son ami Thomas, ex-bassiste d'Orly Sud disparu depuis plusieurs années. Or, un jour, Thomas réapparaît... Commencent alors chez Luka trois jours de calvaire durant lesquels il doit lui cacher son immense célébrité. Il décide alors de faire croire à Thomas qu'il est toujours contrôleur à la RATP et que sa maison de luxe et sa Mercedes-Benz appartiennent à son pique-assiette gaffeur de pote Francis, mime colocataire qui éprouve des difficultés à percer et que Luka fait passer pour un « comédien plein de pognon ».
Directed by Katell Quillévéré
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Transport films, Trucker films
Actors Sara Forestier, François Damiens, Adèle Haenel, Corinne Masiero, Paul Hamy, Anne Le Ny
Roles Nicolas Merevsky
Rating67%
Following the death of her mother, Suzanne and her younger sister are raised by their father alone. At the age of 17, Suzanne becomes the mother of a son. Her father and her sister support the both of them. Then Suzanne falls in love with a gangster Julien. She abandons her family to follow Julien to Marseille and ends up in prison. Being released she finds her son Charlie living in a foster family.
François Damiens
Among those, 10 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
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Add to a movie listNothing to Declare (2010)
, 1h48Directed by Dany Boon
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Benoît Poelvoorde, Dany Boon, Karin Viard, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Julie Bernard
Roles Jacques Janus
Rating63%
On 1 January 1993, two customs officers, one Belgian and the other French, have to deal with closure of their small customs post situated between Courquain in France and Koorkin in Belgium.
The Bélier Family (2014)
, 1h45Directed by Éric Lartigau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about the labor movement, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Sign-language films, French Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Karin Viard, François Damiens, Louane, Éric Elmosnino, Roxane Duran, Stéphan Wojtowicz
Roles Rodolphe Bélier
Rating72%
In the Bélier family, sixteen-year-old Paula is an indispensable interpreter for her deaf parents and brother on a daily basis, especially in the running of the family farm. One day, a music teacher discovers her gift for singing and encourages Paula to participate in a prestigious singing contest in Paris, which will secure her a good career and a college degree. However, this decision would mean leaving her family and taking her first steps towards adulthood.
, 1h32Directed by Benoît "Ben" Stassen
Origin Belgique
Genres Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Mise en scène d'une tortue, Children's films, Reptile
Actors Franck Dubosc, Billy Unger, IU (아이유), Pat Carroll, Kaitlyn Maher, Dino Andrade
Roles Additional Voices (voice)
Rating56%
Sammy and Ray are supervising their new offspring, when seagulls attack them and both Sammy and Ray and two of their grandchildren Ella and Ricky are captured on trawler. While Ella and Ricky are separated and sent to the seabed, Sammy and Ray are taken to an aquarium with Lulu, a lobster with dissociative identity disorder and Jimbo a bug-eyed blobfish. Escape plans are run and tried by the leading seahorse Big D. Ella and Ricky set out with Annabel and Margaret, the pink octopus mother and daughter in order to rescue their grandfathers, getting chased by a pair of barracudas when they get there. After much communication trouble, Ella and Ricky interpret from Sammy that in order to escape the aquarium several squids expel ink into the ventilation system, while all the aquarium inhabitants play dead. Before initiating the escape plan, Sammy and Ray get the tyrannical Big D out of the way. The reluctant aquarium manager opens the emergency doors allowing all sea creatures out to freedom.
Heartbreaker (2010)
, 1h45Directed by Pascal Chaumeil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes La provence
Actors Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, François Damiens, Julie Ferrier, Andrew Lincoln, Jacques Frantz
Roles Marc
Rating66%
The bulk of the story takes place in Monaco. Charming attractive Alex (Romain Duris), his sister Mélanie (Julie Ferrier), and her husband Marc (François Damiens), operate a unique business for concerned third-party clients—breaking up relationships, but only where the woman is "not knowingly unhappy." The trio concoct elaborate, custom, and sometimes expensive ruses to deceive the women. After each woman has fallen for his act, Alex tells her she has made him come alive again, but that it is too late for him. The women presumably leave their relationships to seek men who make them feel the way Alex has.
Nicholas on Holiday (2014)
, 1h37Directed by Laurent Tirard
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Le thème des vacances, Children's films
Actors Kad Merad, Valérie Lemercier, Dominique Lavanant, François Damiens, Daniel Prévost, François-Xavier Demaison
Roles Blédurt
Rating61%
Nicholas spends his summer holidays with his is parents and Grandma at the seaside. He quickly makes new friends, including the girl Isabelle who lives in the area, the English pupil Djodjo, the gourmand Fructueux, the righteous Côme and the crybaby Crépin. But just when Nicholas believes he's got everything under control, Isabelle appears. He doesn't understand why she cares so much about him until he becomes suspicious that his parents are trying to set her up as his wife-to-be.
The Brand New Testament (2015)
, 1h53Directed by Jaco Van Dormael
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Black comedy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Poelvoorde, Pili Groyne, Yolande Moreau, François Damiens, Serge Larivière
Roles François
Rating70%
God is real and lives in an apartment in Brussels, which he shares with his meek wife and his 10-year-old daughter Ea, to whom he is emotionally and physically abusive. God is a grumpy sadist who created mankind specifically to have something to torment. He manipulates reality via a personal computer, which he strictly forbids his family from accessing. One day, Ea sneaks into his office and discovers how He has been mistreating humans. This enrages God, who whips Ea with his belt.
Delicacy (2011)
, 1h48Directed by David Foenkinos
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Audrey Tautou, François Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Mélanie Bernier, Joséphine de Meaux, Joséphine de Meaux
Roles Markus Lundell
Rating65%
Nathalie, a young very attractive woman is very much in love with a young very attractive man, François. He proposes and they marry (portrayed in something resembling a ‘dream’ sequence), honeymoon, and are immediately pressured by family to have children. Nathalie takes a new job, hired partially because her new boss is sexually interested in her. One day, François goes out to jog and is killed in a traffic accident. Nathalie is devastated.
Protect and Serve (2010)
Directed by Éric Lavaine
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Kad Merad, Clovis Cornillac, Carole Bouquet, François Damiens, Elsa Kikoïne, Jean-Luc Couchard
Roles Roméro
Rating44%
Michel Boudriau et Kim Houang, deux lieutenants de police, sont amis depuis leur enfance. Michel, naïf et très croyant, est marié et a six enfants. Kim qui a été adopté puis abandonné par des restaurateurs vietnamiens est célibataire et très avare. Les policiers passent des tests d'aptitude. Après des épreuves désastreuses, Kim use de sa séduction pour faire améliorer par l'informaticienne ses notes et celles de Michel. Dans le même temps, en région parisienne se produit une série d’attentats à l’explosif revendiquant une somme de 15 millions d’euros. Le ministre de l’Intérieur enjoint à la directrice de la police Aude Letellier de charger de cette affaire les policiers les mieux notés aux tests d'aptitude : Michel et Kim sont désignés. En rencontrant Aude Letellier, Kim s'éprend de sa secrétaire Angela, qu’il invite aussitôt. Pour conduire Angela, le très économe Kim emprunte une voiture à la police. Il ignore qu’une bombe était placée dans cette voiture en vue d’un prochain attentat. La voiture explose devant le cabinet de la directrice de la police.
Incognito (2009)
, 1h34Directed by Éric Lavaine
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Bénabar, Franck Dubosc, Jocelyn Quivrin, Anne Marivin, Isabelle Nanty, François Damiens
Roles Chauffeur accident
Rating58%
Luka, chanteur-guitariste du groupe de rock underground Orly Sud pendant les années 1990, devient dix ans plus tard le roi de la nouvelle scène pop-rock française en s'appropriant les chansons d'un carnet bleu tombé d'une housse de basse alors qu'il cherchait des photos de son ancien groupe. Il pense que ce sont les chansons de son ami Thomas, ex-bassiste d'Orly Sud disparu depuis plusieurs années. Or, un jour, Thomas réapparaît... Commencent alors chez Luka trois jours de calvaire durant lesquels il doit lui cacher son immense célébrité. Il décide alors de faire croire à Thomas qu'il est toujours contrôleur à la RATP et que sa maison de luxe et sa Mercedes-Benz appartiennent à son pique-assiette gaffeur de pote Francis, mime colocataire qui éprouve des difficultés à percer et que Luka fait passer pour un « comédien plein de pognon ».
Suzanne (2013)
, 1h34Directed by Katell Quillévéré
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Transport films, Trucker films
Actors Sara Forestier, François Damiens, Adèle Haenel, Corinne Masiero, Paul Hamy, Anne Le Ny
Roles Nicolas Merevsky
Rating67%
Following the death of her mother, Suzanne and her younger sister are raised by their father alone. At the age of 17, Suzanne becomes the mother of a son. Her father and her sister support the both of them. Then Suzanne falls in love with a gangster Julien. She abandons her family to follow Julien to Marseille and ends up in prison. Being released she finds her son Charlie living in a foster family.