André Wilms
Birthday: Born in 1947-04-29 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
Deathday: 2022-02-09
André Wilms (April 29, 1947 – February 9, 2022) was a French film and television actor who had also appeared in German and Finnish films. Wilms was the winner of the Best Supporting European Actor award at the 1992 European Film Awards for his work in Aki Kaurismäki's La Vie de Bohème. Description above from the Wikipedia article André Wilms, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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28 minutes
Character: Self
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Aurore
Character: Père Maya
Two children at a crime scene. One is guilty; the other, a witness. 25 years later, one is trying to forget, while the second one will never be able to....
David Lansky
Character: Brunoy, commissaire divisionnaire
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Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Tanguy
Character: Le psychiatre
Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it's time he moves out. He doesn't, so they hatch a plan....
Life Is a Long Quiet River
Character: Monsieur Jean Le Quesnoy
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house....
Brocéliande
Character: Vernet
Chloé, a student specializing in Celtic History, participate in a dig in the forest of Broceliande while a series of murder occurs on the campus. Chloé must soon face the mythical monster behind the string of murder and use her knowledge to make it out of the forest alive ......
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
Character: Lazar / Johnson / Elijah
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home....
Auntie Danielle
Character: Dr. Wilms
Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title character, who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets. Eventually, she moves in with her nephew and his vain wife. Soon, her family is at war with Tatie, and takes off for Greece, leaving her in the care of Sandrine (Isabelle Nanty), an au pair who is as equally bitter as Tatie herself. At first the two don't get along, yet t...
Ricky
Character: Le médecin
When Katie meets Paco, they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born; Ricky, who quickly develops into something wonderful and not so normal....
Europa Europa
Character: Robert
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth....
La Vie de Bohème
Character: Marcel
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise....
Confidence Reigns
Character: Monsieur Burel
Christel and Christoph have no education, no morals - they are working as servants in wealthy homes in order to clean out their hosts. Having decided to combine their talents and efforts, they are starting to work in the the house of Therions - wealthy bourgeoisie of Mulhouse......
Driven round the bend
Character: Serge
Pierre, a serviceman with a strong character, goes back to his childhood housing estate to take over his dying father’s driving school. But things have changed a bit while he’s been away, and the teaching methods are very different. After a rough first encounter, Pierre has to adapt, ditch his prejudices and turn his life around...
Traceless
Character: François Michelet
Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at work, he is married to a picture-perfect wife, has a dream home and money. To top it off, he's charming, healthy and everyone likes him and seems to consider him "a great guy". But beneath the surface, not everything is perfect. Meunier feels some pressure at work, knowing others eye his future position and he and his wife have been unable to have chi...
To Stage the Music - Heiner Goebbels
Character: Self
Heiner Goebbels, an eclectic composer who, in his fifty-year career, has experimented with everything, is also the main figure in this film, which goes over the creative process that led him to conceive A House of Call, his latest symphony....
Iron Horsemen
Character: André
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes....
At Home with the Rozes
Character: Daniel
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary......
Monsieur Hire
Character: Police inspector
A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated....
Torment
Character: Doctor Arnoux
Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head questioning his past choices. Convinced that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins to see every male guest as a potential threat. What follows is Paul's downward spiral into the madness of deranged jealousy where he finally discovers that hell is not a state of mind – hell is himself....
The Last Days of Immanuel Kant
Character: Wasianski
A brief, fictionalized time period in the life of Professor Kant. The story is set in Kant's hometown, Konigsberg; it chronicles his last few years prior to his death in 1804 at the age of 80....
La Lectrice
Character: l'homme de la Rue Saint-Landry
A young woman passionate about reading immerses herself in the adventures of a fictional character who makes reading her profession. As she explores different neighborhoods and wintertime Provence, her imagination blends with reality, revealing the mysteries behind each word....
Le Havre
Character: Marcel Marx
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials pursuing the boy for deportation....
Maigret
Character: Kaplan
In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand what happened to the victim....
Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
Character: Maurice Arreckx
February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition in 1994 to take the town hall of Hyères under the banner of the UDF, Yann Piat methods and a speech that upset both policies, businessmen, and middle....
Robert Mitchum Est Mort
Character: Le Texan/Ströller
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Le Tartuffe
Character: Damis
Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgon orders his daughter to reject her fiancé and marry Tartuffe. First Dorine, the family servant, tries a strategy to avert the marriage; then Orgon's son tries his hand. They anger Orgon, and to prove paternal power, he disinherits his son and makes Tartuffe his heir. Next Orgon's wife tries to bring her husband insight, a stratagem that partially ...
Strange Place for an Encounter
Character: Georges
France is a haughty, bourgeoise wife who is abandoned at the side of the road by her husband after a vicious quarrel. She meets Charles, a doctor. The meeting of the two strangers is the focus of the film, along with their encounters with characters at a truck stop....
The Children's Rebellion
Character: Mr. Alexis
In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would (at the very least) go to prison, regardless of their age. However, people of conscience were beginning to protest against this situation. The story takes place in a prison for children where conditions are particularly harsh. The warden is a thick-head...
Superegos
Character: Curt Ledig
Nick Gutlicht lives of illegally selling valuable books, owes money to a bunch of other crooks and has to hide from them. By chance he ends up in the mansion of the famous, now very old philosopher Curt Ledig, who despite the age related forgetfulness and pathological kitchen phobia resists to move to his daughter. Nick is hired by the family as watchdog. Now Curt can work on a presentation for the upcoming symposium, which anybody thinks he's capable of anymore. Nick thinks he has an excellent...
Sexes faibles !
Character: Gilles Le Chesnay
The La Chesnays live in a castle threatened with destruction to accommodate a TGV line. While Gilles, the husband, agrees to receive compensation, his wife, Maud, fights with the other villagers so that the project does not materialize....
Roses à crédit
Character: M. Donelle
A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself increasingly caught up in acquiring material possessions while the husband prefers a more traditional lifestyle....
The Great White of Lambarene
Character: Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood in his lifetime, at least in the popular imagination. The critical assessment of his life and works in recent years, however, has been slightly more ambivalent. Ba Kobhio Bassek is the first director to examine this medical missionary from a purely African point-of-view....
Petite fille
Character: le père
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Sex, Love & Therapy
Character: Michel Chabrier
Lambert, a recovering sex addict, tries to redeem himself by becoming a marriage counsellor. He stays abstinent for several months, but his alluring assistant's unbridled sexuality tests his resolve....
Stella
Character: Brosseau
During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from deportation. When France is liberated, he has to answer for his past. Hunted, he decides to escape to Spain, but Stella refuses to go with him....
Ordinary Victories
Character: Moret
Marco, in his thirties, is a little lost and tormented at the thought of truly settling. A former war photographer, he no longer wants to cover conflict and is more interested in the world of longshiremen....
Where Is Musette?
Character: self
Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"...
Marie and the Misfits
Character: Cosmo
"Marie is dangerous", Antoine warns. It hasn't stopped Siméon from dropping everything, or, more precisely, letting go the little that he had, to secretly follow her. Oscar, his roommate, a musician with sleepwalking tendencies, and Antoine, a novelist lacking inspiration, quickly follow in his footsteps. Here they all are at the end of the Earth, which is to say, on an island. It's quite possible that these four are linked by something beyond their comprehension. Perhaps simply a taste for adve...
Juha
Character: Shemeikka
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel....
Pause
Character: Fernand
One winter evening, at an empty gas station, young country musician Sami meets beautiful Julia, who has run out of gas. Sami, who’s been living alone in his car since his ex kicked him out, invites Julia back to “his place” for the night....
The Forbidden Room
Character: Surgeon
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love....
Seances
Character:
Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a series of film sequences in unique configurations, potentially hundreds of thousands of new stories are conjured by code. Each will exist only in the moment—no pausing, scrubbing, or sharing—offering the audience one chance to see the generated film. This project, co-created by the ever imaginative Guy Maddin, is a visual discourse on the impact of los...
Americano
Character: L'Allemand
A real estate agent from Paris arrives in Los Angeles to settle his late mother's estate, but a found photograph sends him on an impromptu journey to Mexico to find a woman named Lola....
What Tears Us Apart
Character:
A Chinese couple visits the daughter they gave up for adoption 30 years ago....
Just to Be Sure
Character: Joseph Levkine
Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph....
Hannah
Character: Hannah's Husband
A woman grapples with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment....
The Most Assassinated Woman in the World
Character: Eugène
Set against the backdrop of the infamous Theatre Grand Guignol the story revolves around iconic actress Paula Maxa - the most famous of the Grand Guignol's leading ladies and the titular Most Assassinated Woman, who was graphically slain on stage multiple times a day....
Journey Through China
Character: Richard
Liliane, a provincial nurse in her peaceful fifties, must cope with the accidental death of her son in China. She decides to fly there in order to repatriate the body. This mourning journey will soon turn out to be a trip of discovery of her son whom she didn't see for years and a trip to make a fresh start through the insight of a new culture....
Adventure of Catherine C.
Character: André Leuwen
In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a film shoot in Vienna, Catherine stays with a rich admirer, Fanny Hohenstein. Fanny has a history of many lovers of both sexes, two of whom killed themselves over her....
Marie Curie
Character: Eugène Curie
The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France's male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman....
My Polish Honeymoon
Character: Gilbert Breit
Anna and Adam, a young couple from Paris with Polish Jewish origins, leave for the first time of their lives in Poland. They were invited to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the destruction of the birth village community of Adam's grandfather. If Adam is not very excited about this trip, Anna is excited to discover the land that is also her grandmother's. Finally - from what little she knows. Here they are, looking for their origins in a journey full of surprises, during which they w...
A Piece of Sky
Character: Warden
A woman struggles to acclimate to prison life while her friend organises a labour strike on the outside....
A Jew Must Die
Character: Jacques Chessex
A film based on Jacques Chessex' novel of the same title; featuring André Wilms as Chessex and Bruno Ganz as Arthur Bloch, Swiss Jew killed by Swiss Nazis....
How I Taught Myself to Be a Child
Character: Uncle Louis
Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and humor - and also his own extraordinary ability to shape his realities. Based on the motives of the short story with the same name by André Heller....
Bohemian Eyes
Character: Self
Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää....
Isimeria
Character: Archaeologist
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Up the Mountain
Character: The priest
Hugo, Stan and Bérénice grew up together then grew apart. They were inseparable. Fifteen years later, they meet again as adults. But life has been tough on them. Will they reignite the crazy sparks of their childhood ?...
The Photograph
Character: Kristian
A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement. A misunderstanding regarding the photograph sets off a series of dramatic misunderstandings which trap him in a vicious circle of lies and fantasies....
The Salt of Tears
Character: Luc’s Father
Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets Djemila, a young worker with whom he enjoys a short romance, before returning to his home town and beginning a relationship with Geneviève, whom he has known since childhood. Caught between two passions, Luc runs, resolving to fulfil his father's dreams by devoting himself to his future... until finally, he experiences true love....
Queens of The Field
Character: Papy
After its football team is disqualified for insulting a referee during a major game, a small country town risks losing its funding along with its field. To avoid this disaster, there is only one solution: creating a new team made up exclusively of women to defend the city’s colors! But in a community where football has always been an activity reserved for men, these women’s new status will be sure to shake up the daily lives of the town’s residents…...
Memorable
Character: Louis (voice)
Aging painter Louis and his wife Michelle struggle to cope with Louis' advancing dementia....
Irradiated
Character: Him (voice)
A film about people who have survived the irradiation of war and recommended to those who believe they are immune to it....
Thirsty
Character:
Jacques is broke and the owner of the bar where he spends most of his time kicked him out....
No One's Missing
Character: The father
Suzanne was not keen on returning to this village in which she grew up. It was her brother Anton who insisted that she finally see their father again. Before it 's too late ? Indeed the old man has for some time completely lost his mind. If the reunion promises to be complicated, Anton doesn't know yet that the return of a sister can turn many lives. Starting with his life....
The Kid Tintouin
Character: (Voice)
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Le temps d'un regard
Character: Mr. Jules
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A Castle in Italy
Character: Nathan's Father
Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning....