Denis Lavant
Known for: Acting
Born: June 17, 1961
Place of birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Denis Lavant (born June 17, 1961) is a French film actor known for his distinctive face and the physically demanding aspects of the roles he plays, which often involve slapstick, acrobatics or dance, as well as for his long-standing association with director Leos Carax. Lavant has played the lead role in all but one of Carax's films. Lavant is also known for his starring roles in Claire Denis' Beau Travail and Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, which features Carax in a supporting role.
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Filmography
139 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
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Erratics
2026
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In All My Journeys I Am Returning
2026
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The End
2026
4.0
Redoubt
2026
5.0
In the Land of Arto
2025NR
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
2025
6.8
The Stranger
2025
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Sibyl
2025
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Hyacinthe
2025
8.0
Bacon-Freud, face à face
2025
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Demons to Diamonds
2025
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Hotel Fantasma
2025
5.9
In the Name of Blood
2025
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Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino
2024
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Fracas
2024
8.0
Two Night Owls in Paris
2024
7.0
It's Not Me
2024
8.5
The Boy Who Owns the World
2024
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Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
2023
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Thunder Voice
2023
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Body of Crime
2023
6.0
Hood Witch
2023
5.1
Poisson rouge
2023
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Miserable Miracle
2023
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The Green Eyes
2023
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L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
2023
6.0
Human Flowers of Flesh
2023
6.8
All Effort of Men
2022
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Aymeline
2022
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X14
2022
6.0
Tell Me Iggy
2022
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Le discours
2022
5.7
South Sentinel
2022
5.6
Tralala
2021
6.3
The Nipple Whisperer
2021
6.6
Night of the Kings
2021
7.5
Silver Skates
2020
6.6
Gagarine
2020
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The Blue Star
2020NR
The Escapade
2019
6.4
Figurant
2019
7.0
Who the Fuck Are You
2019
6.5
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
2019
4.2
Girls with Balls
2019
5.1
The Mountain
2019
7.0
The Traveller
2019
5.0
Silent Streams
2019
6.0
The Bra
2019
6.3
The Emperor of Paris
2018
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Scaramouche Scaramouche
2018
5.6
One Nation, One King
2018NR
Fan Club
2018
4.8
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
2018
6.3
3 Days in Quiberon
2018
6.0
The Night Eats the World
2018
6.8
My Intelligent Comedy
2018
1.0
Gray House
2017
5.8
Kazarken: As We Dig
2016
7.1
Midnight Sun
2016
5.8
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016
6.5
Boris Without Beatrice
20163.9
History's Future
2016
5.7
21 Nights with Pattie
2015
5.2
Eva Doesn't Sleep
2015
5.9
Me and Kaminski
2015
2.3
Graziella
2015
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Austerlitz
2015
5.1
Dark Forests
2015
5.0
Pitchipoï
2015
4.1
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
2014
3.6
Le mystère des jonquilles
2014
6.0
The Iron Ivan
2014
6.3
Journey to the West
2014
6.1
Mr. X
2014NR
Ogaden
20147.2
Jiminy
2013
5.9
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
2013
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Biette
2013
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Les Grandes Marées
2013
1.0
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
2013
6.3
Marussia
2013
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Tired of Being Handsome
2013
2.0
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
2013
6.0
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
2013
3.5
Morning Star
2012
7.0
Holy Motors
2012
3.3
Eye of the Astronomer
2012
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Square
2012
5.5
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
2011
6.5
My Little Princess
2011
6.2
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
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Atlantika
2011
4.0
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
2010
6.9
The Temptation of St. Tony
2009
5.7
Hymn to Merde
2009NR
The Lonely
2009NR
Les Williams
2009
7.0
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
2009
7.4
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009
6.9
Tokyo!
2008
4.2
Captain Ahab
2008
6.5
Mister Lonely
2008
6.0
Happy New Year London
2007
4.5
Wild Camp
2005
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Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
7.3
Language Does Not Lie
2004
7.3
A Very Long Engagement
2004
5.2
Luminal
2004
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Correspondances: Dostoïevski
2003
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Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
2003
7.0
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
2002
3.7
Married/Unmarried
2001
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Şoför
2001
6.1
La Squale
2000
4.0
Deep in the Woods
2000
7.2
Beau Travail
2000
6.2
Tuvalu
1999
3.2
Melody for a Hustler
1998
10.0
Le monde à l'envers
1998
4.5
Don Juan
1998
5.8
Wild Animals
1997
4.7
Visiblement je vous aime
1995
4.8
The Chess Game
19947.5
De force avec d'autres
1993
7.4
The Lovers on the Bridge
1991
5.4
Mona and I
1990
4.0
Once Around the Park
1989
7.1
Mauvais Sang
1986
6.5
Going and Coming Back
1985
6.7
Boy Meets Girl
1984
6.0
Long Live Life
1984
9.0
After Midnight
1983
5.7
The Wounded Man
1983
6.7
Entre Nous
1983
7.0
Les Misérables
1982
8.5
L'Ombre sur la plage
1982
7.5
Paris Ficelle
1982NR
Que demande le peuple
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La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
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Dante's Divine Comedy
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Makunaíma XXI
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Waster
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7 jours 4000 ans
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
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