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Mathieu Kassovitz is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Editor and Thanks French born on 3 august 1967 at Paris (France)

Mathieu Kassovitz

Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitz participated to 49 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 9 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Actor

Amélie
Amélie (2001)
, 2h9
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about school violence
Actors Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Isabelle Nanty, Rufus, Claire Maurier, Jamel Debbouze
Roles Nino Quincampoix
Rating82% 4.1472554.1472554.1472554.1472554.147255
Amélie Poulain was raised by eccentric parents who — erroneously believing that she had a heart defect — prevented her from meeting other children. She was home schooled by her mother. She developed an active imagination and fantasy life to cope with her loneliness. After her mother is killed in a freak accident, her father's withdrawal from society worsens. Amélie eventually decides to leave home and becomes a waitress at Café des 2 Moulins in Montmartre, which is staffed and frequented by a collection of eccentrics. Spurning romantic relationships after a few disappointing efforts, she finds contentment in simple pleasures and letting her imagination roam free.

Director

Gothika
Gothika (2003)
, 1h38
Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Ghost films, Serial killer films, Rape and revenge films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Penélope Cruz, Bernard Hill
Rating58% 2.902732.902732.902732.902732.90273
Psychiatrist Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) works at a mental hospital and has a car accident after trying to avoid a girl (Kathleen Mackey) on a road during a stormy night while driving back home. She rushes to try to help the girl. The girl turns out to be a ghost and possesses Miranda's body by burning her after she extends her hand to the girl. Miranda loses consciousness. Miranda next wakes up in the very hospital she works for, but as a patient treated by her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham (Robert Downey, Jr.). Drugged and confused, she remembers nothing of what happened after the car accident. To her horror, she learns that her husband Douglas (Charles S. Dutton) was brutally murdered and that she is the primary suspect. While Miranda copes with her new life in the hospital, the ghost uses her body to carry out messages (most noticeably, she carves the words "not alone" into Miranda's arm), which leads her former colleagues to believe Miranda is suicidal and is inflicting the wounds on herself.

Actor

Munich
Munich (2005)
, 2h44
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Historical, Politic
Themes Films set in Africa, Spy films, Films about religion, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Films about the Olympic Games, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Omar Metwally
Roles Robert
Rating74% 3.7483853.7483853.7483853.7483853.748385
Munich begins with a depiction of the events of the 1972 Munich Olympics and then cuts to the home of Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir, where Avner Kaufman (Eric Bana), a Mossad agent of German-Jewish descent, is chosen to lead an assassination mission against 11 Palestinians allegedly involved in the massacre. To give the Israeli government plausible deniability and at the direction of his handler Ephraim (Geoffrey Rush), Avner resigns from Mossad and operates with no official ties to Israel. His team includes four Jewish volunteers from around the world: South African driver Steve (Daniel Craig), Belgian toy-maker and explosives expert Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz), former Israeli soldier and "cleaner" Carl (Ciarán Hinds), and a Danish document forger named Hans (Hanns Zischler). They are given information by a shadowy French informant, Louis (Mathieu Amalric).

Director

The Crimson Rivers, 1h47
Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Rating69% 3.4501353.4501353.4501353.4501353.450135
Detective Superintendent (Commissaire Principal) Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), an investigator well known in Paris, is sent to the small rural university town of Guernon in the French Alps to investigate a brutal murder. The victim's body is found bound in the fetal position and suspended high on a cliff face, his eyes removed and his hands cut off. Niemans learns that the victim was a professor and the University's librarian, Remy Callois, and he seeks out a local ophthalmologist for an explanation to the removal of the eyes. Dr. Cherneze, once on the University staff, explains that the school's isolation led to in-breeding amongst the professors, with increasingly serious genetic disorders. Recently the trend has reversed, with the local village children becoming ill and the college babies remaining healthy. Cherneze hints that the killer is leaving Niemans clues to their motive by removing the body parts that are unique to each individual - the eyes and hands. Niemans questions the Dean and examines the librarian's apartment, where he finds images of athletic "supermen" juxtaposed with texts on genetic deformities. The Dean's assistant (and son) Hubert translates the title of Callois' Ph.D. thesis as, "We are the masters. We are the slaves. We are everywhere. We are nowhere. We control the crimson rivers.

Actor

La Haine
La Haine (1995)
, 1h38
Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes La banlieue française, Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Mathieu Kassovitz, Benoît Magimel, Omar Sy
Roles Young Skin
Rating80% 4.049824.049824.049824.049824.04982
The film depicts approximately 19 consecutive hours in the lives of three friends in their early twenties from immigrant families living in an impoverished multi-ethnic French housing project (a ZUP – zone d'urbanisation prioritaire) in the suburbs of Paris, in the aftermath of a riot. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), who is Jewish, is filled with rage. He sees himself as a gangster ready to win respect by killing a cop, manically practising the role of Travis Bickle from the film Taxi Driver in the mirror secretly. His attitude towards police, for instance, is a simplified, stylized blanket condemnation, even to individual policemen who make an effort to steer the trio clear of troublesome situations. Hubert (Hubert Koundé) is an Afro-French boxer and small time drug dealer, the most mature of the three, whose gymnasium was burned in the riots. The quietest, most thoughtful and wisest of the three, he sadly contemplates the ghetto and the hate around him. He expresses the wish to simply leave this world of violence and hate behind him, but does not know how since he lacks the means to do so. Saïd – Sayid in some English subtitles – (Saïd Taghmaoui) is an Arab Maghrebi who inhabits the middle ground between his two friends' responses to their place in life.
The Wolf's Call, 1h55
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes French war films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films
Actors François Civil, Omar Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz, Reda Kateb, Paula Beer, Stefan Godin
Roles Alfost
Rating69% 3.476613.476613.476613.476613.47661
Chanteraide est l'une des « oreilles d'or » de la Marine nationale, les spécialistes de la guerre acoustique. Son rôle à bord des sous-marins est essentiel. Pourtant il commet une erreur d'analyse qui manque de coûter la vie à tout l'équipage. En cherchant à la réparer, il se retrouve pris dans un conflit majeur auquel il pourrait bien être la réponse : de ses qualités professionnelles dépend l'ultime espoir de paix.
Another Woman's Life, 1h37
Directed by Sylvie Testud
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Juliette Binoche, Mathieu Kassovitz, Aure Atika, Danièle Lebrun, François Berléand, Vernon Dobtcheff
Roles Paul Speranski
Rating62% 3.1477553.1477553.1477553.1477553.147755
Un jour, Marie, 40 ans, se réveille croyant avoir 25 ans, moment auquel elle a rencontré son compagnon. Les dernières quinze années de sa vie sont effacées de sa mémoire, dont son mariage et la naissance d'un enfant. Elle se retrouve au début d'une nouvelle histoire d'amour avec le père de son fils alors que celle-ci, en réalité, est sur le point de se terminer. Elle n'a que quatre jours pour reconquérir l’homme de sa vie et retrouver ses repères.
The Lookout, 1h29
Directed by Michele Placido
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Mathieu Kassovitz, Daniel Auteuil, Olivier Gourmet, Arly Jover, Francis Renaud, Violante Placido
Roles Vincent Kaminski
Rating56% 2.847822.847822.847822.847822.84782
Mattei is about to arrest a gang of bankrobbers, when an unknown sniper shoots most of the policemen on site under his responsibility.
Amen.
Amen. (2002)
, 2h15
Directed by Costa-Gavras
Origin German
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Théâtre, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays
Actors Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ion Caramitru, Michel Duchaussoy, Ulrich Mühe, Marcel Iureș
Roles Riccardo Fontana
Rating71% 3.5972053.5972053.5972053.5972053.597205
The film Amen. examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur), a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute, designing programs for the purification of water and the destruction of vermin. He is shocked to learn that the process he has developed to eradicate typhus, by using a hydrogen cyanide mixture called Zyklon B, is now being used for killing Jews in extermination camps. Gerstein attempts to notify Pope Pius XII (Marcel Iureş) about the gassings, but is appalled by the lack of response he gets from the Catholic hierarchy. The only person moved is Riccardo Fontana (Mathieu Kassovitz), a young Jesuit priest. Fontana and Gerstein attempt to raise awareness about what is happening to the Jews in Europe but even after Fontana appealing to the pope himself, the Vatican makes only a timid and vague condemnation of Hitler and Nazi Germany.