Francis Leplay

Actor

July 25, 1967 (58 years)

Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France

Biography

Francis Leplay is a French actor, film director and novelist. An alumnus of France's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and Sciences Po, Leplay began acting on television in episodes of the French detective series Julie Lescaut and Navarro. His first film role was in Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's J'ai horreur de l'amour (I Hate Love) in 1997. His career took off in the 2000s, and he soon started acting in films by directors including Sofia Coppola, Noémie Lvovsky, Arnaud Desplechin, and Benoît Ja…

Filmography

6.9

The Sentinels

Le Ministre de la Guerre, Millerand

1915, WWI. French Private Gabriel is presumed dead. Selected for a top-secret program, he’s given a serum that makes him stronger and faster. To see his family again, he must join the Sentinels, elite soldiers on a mission to end the war.

8.0

Voltaire High

Rene Hermen

It’s the first day of the 1963 school year at Voltaire High! And for the first time, girls and boys will mingle. This first year of coeducation is full of surprises, both for teachers and students.

6.7

Marie Antoinette

Doctor Delivery Provence

A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

7.2

Cristóbal Balenciaga

Lucien LeLong

Cristóbal Balenciaga makes his debut as a designer in Paris, but the designs that set a trend in Spain don't work well in the sophisticated empire of fashion where Chanel, Dior, and Givenchy set the trends. Guided by his obsession with control in all aspects of his life, Balenciaga will define his style and end up becoming the greatest of all.

7.3

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça

plaignant

The daily life of two neighboring families, the Bouley and the Lepic, with literally opposite educational methods. Despite their social and cultural differences, they are friends and do not hesitate to face worries...

7.7

Mitterrand confidentiel

Pierre Pingeot

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7.1

The Money Maker

Victor

In post-war France, Jan Bojarski, a young Polish refugee, became the greatest counterfeiter of all time, the "Cézanne of counterfeit money". For more than fifteen years, this man led a double life, unbeknownst to his family, making counterfeits in a garden shed that were "truer" than the bills issued by the Banque de France... All these years, this peerless counterfeiter managed to avoid being caught by the police, and became the bête noire of Commissaire Mattei in a hunt that, for these two obsessives, turned into a duel.

5.5

3 Hearts

Le médecin

A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.

5.9

Farewell, My Queen

Le comte d'Artois

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.

1.0

L'État de Grace

Cédric Pierrot

L'État de Grace was a French television show that featured France's first female president.

7.4

Frotter, frotter

Lazare Masurel

3 women who have nothing in common and yet will unite around a chambermaids’ strike, doomed from the start, but which will change their lives. Solange, the Malian governess & mother of a family, Fanny, the down-and-out bourgeois woman at the end of her rope, Michèle, the loud-mouthed queer activist.

4.9

Brother and Sister

André Borkman

Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.

5.1

The Cosmopolitans

Philippe

A dramatic comedy about a group of young American expats in Paris searching for love and friendship and an ocean of distance from their past.

6.0

Bright Days Ahead

Le prof d'oenologie

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?

6.5

Who You Think I Am

Serge

Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo.

6.3

Time Regained

Employee Jupien

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.

6.4

The Good Teacher

Mr. Musil

Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control. Allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.

6.4

Les Cowboys

Train man

Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.

5.3

Prime Rush

Guy

The week after the French elections, the President must appoint his prime minister. In exchange for a higher position, ambitious young parliamentary attaché Nino is charged with persuading his longestranged father, a reclusive senator, to accept the post. But Lionel Perrin isn’t the only candidate for the coveted position, and in the race for power absolutely nothing is off-limits… Nino embarks on a high stakes adventure risking everything, his love life and political ambitions alike.

6.9

Kings & Queen

Christian, le félon

Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.