Niels Schneider
Niels Schneider (born June 18, 1987) is a French-Canadian actor. He had his breakthrough role in Xavier Dolan's film I Killed My Mother (2009), and gained international recognition in Dolan's Heartbeats (2010). In 2011, he won the Trophée Chopard Award for Male Revelation of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor for his performance in Dark Inclusion (2016). In 2019, he was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. He has been living and working based in Paris for most of his career.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2604 |
| Birthday | 1987-06-18 |
| Place of Birth | Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
| Also Known As | 니엘스 슈나이더, |
2014
Collisions
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After a violent car crash, alone and unable to move, Henri must face the ultimate fear.
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Collisions
2009
I Killed My Mother
7.442/1180
Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distress...
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I Killed My Mother
2022
South Sentinel
5.743/35
The journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush in Afghanistan, has returned to France. Soon mixed up...
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South Sentinel
2023
Before We Collapse
5.432/22
In a dystopia Paris, this is about a campaign manager named Tristan who is knocked sideways when he receives an anonymous letter containing a positive...
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Before We Collapse
2008
Everything Is Fine
5.684/19
Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also ha...
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Everything Is Fine
2010
Heartbeats
7.1/1073
Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Mo...
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Heartbeats
2022
Icarus
6.65/40
On the island of Crete, a day-dreamy boy named Icarus befriends a mysterious creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull named Asterion (ak...
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Icarus
2023
Apaches: Gang of Paris
5.988/129
Paris, 1884. The lives of three orphaned children wandering the streets dominated by ruthless criminals change tragically when they carry out a daring...
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Apaches: Gang of Paris
2012
Atomic Age
4.952/21
Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one di...
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Atomic Age
2012
Chaos
5.5/1
Vincent, Marie and their son have just moved from Paris into a farm near a small town in the south of France. He is a history and geography teacher, w...
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Chaos
2013
You and the Night
5.854/72
Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.
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You and the Night
2013
Opium
4/8
The frustrated loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet at the beginning of the 1920s. The death of Radiguet that sank Cocteau into opium. A story u...
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Opium
2026
De Gaulle: Résistance
7.824/193
June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown gene...
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De Gaulle: Résistance
2026
De Gaulle: Liberté
7.842/177
Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his dev...
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De Gaulle: Liberté
2009
Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
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It is through the voice of Salim, newly arrived in Canada, that we follow the journey of six immigrants who, cramped in a van, earn their living by di...
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Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
2006
Le petit oiseau va sortir
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Built around 3 portrait sessions where young people become photographers before giving their lives during various suicide operations, LE PETIT OISEAU...
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Le petit oiseau va sortir
2023
Spirit of Ecstasy
5.459/49
A gender-questioning stock market trader is determined to make it in the world of finance — not for the glory or wealth, but because it's leading the...
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Spirit of Ecstasy
The Perfect Boyfriend
0/0
The film is set in a world where androids have replaced humans for menial tasks, leading unskilled humans to pretend to be robots in order to get a jo...
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The Perfect Boyfriend
2011
Another World
2.875/4
1915. Louis, aged 17, arrives on Reunion Island to find his father, Count Kerdiguen. He has built himself a new family with Salima, his native partner...
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Another World
2023
Coup de chance
6.196/453
Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled professionally, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris,...
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Coup de chance
2016
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
6/1
Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young C...
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Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2012
Miao Shan and the Minotaur
0/0
A young girl wanders the streets in a foreign country.
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Miao Shan and the Minotaur
2014
Gemma Bovery
6.2/350
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple movi...
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Gemma Bovery
2016
Dark Diamond
5.921/63
Pier Ulmann lives from hand-to-mouth in Paris, between construction work and petty theft that he commits on behalf of Rachid, his only “family”. But l...
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Dark Diamond
2017
Dalida
6.6/275
Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, G...
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Dalida
2016
Kokoro
5.719/16
After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just above the cliffs. Her brother Nathan said to her befo...
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Kokoro
2016
Polina
6.578/122
Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition o...
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Polina
2015
The Art Dealer
3.6/4
A young woman is searching, today, in Paris, the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish family during WWII.
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The Art Dealer
2009
Taking the Plunge 2
4.1/7
Gaby and Fred are preparing for the world swimming championships which will be held in Quebec City this year. Their love will be put to the test when...
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Taking the Plunge 2
2014
Quantum Love
5.725/247
Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he enjoys his wife and family and is content. One ev...
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Quantum Love
2010
Fatal
5.985/673
Fatal... short for Fatal Bazooka, a hardcore bling-bling rapper. A huge music star. Millions of fans, tons of hits, 4 Artist Of The Year Music Awards...
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Fatal
2014
Voice Over
4.6/9
A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation...
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Voice Over
2014
Métamorphoses
0/0
Intimacy and entertainment, melancholy and fury, modesty and drive, birth and disappearance. Four girls, four boys. Eight solitudes told with lyric an...
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Métamorphoses
2010
2 Frogs in the West
5.333/15
Marie Deschamps has her whole life ahead of her but isn't sure what to do with it. To the disappointment of her parents, she drops out of college and...
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2 Frogs in the West
2011
The Howling: Reborn
4.7/148
On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he has long yearned for, reclusive Eliana Wynter. But h...
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The Howling: Reborn
2017
Sleeping Beauty
4.7/13
In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only has one thing on his mind: finding Sleep...
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Sleeping Beauty
2018
An Impossible Love
6.6/239
A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipula...
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An Impossible Love
2018
The Most Assassinated Woman in the World
5.3/100
Set against the backdrop of the infamous Theatre Grand Guignol the story revolves around iconic actress Paula Maxa - the most famous of the Grand Guig...
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The Most Assassinated Woman in the World
2018
One Nation, One King
5.571/177
„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly...
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One Nation, One King
2019
Curiosa
5.8/254
A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Mari...
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Curiosa
2018
The Black Book
5.432/22
The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his...
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The Black Book
2018
Bad Poems
6.444/26
33-years old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken, after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-p...
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Bad Poems
2018
Phratry
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Four brothers live in the shadow of their repressive father who claims to be the leader of a sect, thanks to his rumored healing powers. They come to...
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Phratry
2019
Sibyl
5.7/530
Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a...
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Sibyl
2021
Futura
6.3/7
Louis is a talented jazz musician who, after giving up music, now makes ends meet by working as a taxi driver and dealing cocaine, but ruining his rel...
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Futura
2011
Val d'or
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Two teenagers meet one Saturday evening to hang out together. While they cross Paris, meetings and disappointments are linked and push them to ask the...
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Val d'or
2020
Back Home
5.797/69
The prodigal son of a family in turmoil returns home to his French rural home to reconnect with his family and make sense of their dysfunctions.
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Back Home
2019
A Brother’s Love
6.399/89
Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim’s lif...
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A Brother’s Love
2019
Sympathy for the Devil
7.639/72
In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.
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Sympathy for the Devil
2021
Suzanna Andler
4.8/16
Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, in this new...
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Suzanna Andler
2020
Love Affair(s)
6.28/209
Vacations in the French countryside. Daphne, three months pregnant, finds herself alone to welcome Maxime, her boyfriend François’ cousin. François...
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Love Affair(s)
2007
The Taste of Nothingness
0/0
The Taste of Nothingness is a meditative exploration of the deliberate self-destruction of a seemingly normal teenager and his intimate friend. With h...
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The Taste of Nothingness
2021
Altered Innocence Vol. 1
4/1
A vibrant anthology of LGBTQ+ short films and music videos that delve into the complexities of youth, identity, and desire. This diverse collection sh...
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Altered Innocence Vol. 1
2012
The Raptures
3/3
At the beginning of the main holidays. Étienne dies, leaving his father, Patrick, and his young girlfriend with the pain and loneliness.
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The Raptures
2025
Haunted Minds
5.261/44
A homeless veteran with PTSD gets offered money by his ex-sergeant to be hunted for sport. If he survives a month, he keeps the cash; if he dies, it g...
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Haunted Minds
2025
Agent Zero
5.596/57
When police officer Ilias is shot and left in a coma, Alma must reconnect with her former identity as Badh, a ruthless intelligence operative and skil...
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Agent Zero
2026
The Unknown
5.9/14
Photographer David Zimmerman rarely leaves home until friends bring him to a wild party. He becomes fixated on a mysterious woman and follows her. By...
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The Unknown
2026
Think Good
0/0
When Gil meets Jacques, their love seems irresistible. And when she unexpectedly falls pregnant, he convinces her to start a family. However, their ha...
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Think Good
2024
Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024
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Receiving a César is a defining moment in an actress’s or actor’s career. Eleven actresses and actors take part in a mirror exercise and, years later,...
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Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024
Au nom du père
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