Connection
Dheepan is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jacques Audiard released in USA on 13 may 2016 with Vincent Rottiers
Dheepan (2015)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listDheepan is a 2015 French drama film directed by Jacques Audiard. The film was partly inspired by Montesquieu's Persian Letters. Featuring novelist, and former Tamil Tiger child soldier, Antonythasan Jesuthasan in the lead role, the film tells the story of three Tamil refugees who flee the civil war-ravaged Sri Lanka and come to France, in the hope of reconstructing their lives. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It has been selected to be shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
Synopsis
Sivadhasan (Antonythasan Jesuthasan), is a Tamil Tiger soldier during the last days of the bloody Sri Lankan Civil war. After the armed conflict resolves, his side loses and he is forced to move to a refugee camp. There he decides to move to France to take a fresh chance at life. However, in order to secure political asylum, he requires a convincing cover story. He is given the passport of a dead man, Dheepan, and pairs with people he barely knows posing as his family. Along with his supposed wife, Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and his supposed 9-year-old daughter, Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby) they get on a ship bound for Paris. Upon arrival, he lands a job as a resident caretaker and starts building a new life in a housing project in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, a northeastern suburb of Paris, which turns out to be another conflict zone for him.Actors
Vincent Rottiers
(Brahim)
Antonythasan Jesuthasan
(Dheepan/Sivadhasan)
Marc Zinga
(Youssouf)
Faouzi Bensaïdi
(Monsieur Habib)
Joséphine de Meaux
(School Principal)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Dheepan
There are 41 films with the same actors, 7 films with the same director, 65818 with the same cinematographic genres (including 8428 with exactly the same 2 genres than Dheepan), 7310 films with the same themes (including 6 films with the same 4 themes than Dheepan), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Dheepan, you will probably like those similar films :
Rust and Bone (2012)
, 2h2Directed by Jacques Audiard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Cétacé, Martial arts films, Films about disabilities, Mise en scène d'un cétacé
Actors Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bouli Lanners, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Françoise Michaud
Rating73%
Alain van Versch, an unemployed father in his mid 20s known as Ali, arrives in Antibes, southern France, to look for work to support his young son, Sam. Having no money, he crashes with his sister Anna, who already has her own share of problems with money and temporary employment.
A Prophet (2009)
, 2h29Directed by Jacques Audiard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Crime
Themes Prison films, La provence, Ghost films, Gangster films
Actors Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb, Hichem Yacoubi, Gilles Cohen
Rating77%
Malik El Djebena, a 19-year-old French youth of Algerian descent, is sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police officers. Alone and illiterate upon his arrival, he falls under the sway of Corsican mobsters, led by Cesar Luciani, who enforces a brutal rule.
May Allah Bless France! (2014)
, 1h35Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama
Themes La banlieue française, Dance films, Films about immigration, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, La précarité, Hip hop films, Films about Islam
Actors Marc Zinga, Gianni Giardinelli, Sabrina Ouazani, Karim Belkhadra, Mireille Perrier
Rating57%
Film adapté du roman autobiographique homonyme d'Abd Al Malik, Qu'Allah bénisse la France raconte le parcours de Régis, noir, enfant d'immigrés, surdoué, élevé par sa mère catholique avec ses deux frères, dans la cité du Neuhof à Strasbourg. Entre délinquance, rap et islam, il va découvrir l'amour et trouver sa voie grâce à la volonté de réussir et d'avoir un avenir meilleur.
The Godfather (1972)
, 2h55Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Tommy Wiseau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Mob film, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, La précarité, Gangster films, Films about marriage
Actors Marlon Brando, Megan Fox, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall
Rating87%
On the occasion of his daughter Connie's wedding, Vito Corleone hears requests in his role as the Godfather, the Don of a New York crime family. Vito's youngest son, Michael, wearing a Marine Corps uniform, introduces his girlfriend, Kay Adams, to his family at the reception. Johnny Fontane, a famous singer and godson to Vito, seeks his help in securing a movie role; Vito dispatches his consigliere, Tom Hagen, to Los Angeles to talk the abrasive studio head, Jack Woltz, into giving Johnny the part. Woltz is unmoved until he wakes up in bed with the severed head of his prized stallion.
The African Doctor (2016)
, 1h36Directed by Julien Rambaldi
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about immigration, Films about racism, La précarité
Actors Marc Zinga, Aïssa Maïga, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Jonathan Lambert, Rufus, Mata Gabin
Rating69%
Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont est un film retraçant l'histoire du père du chanteur Kamini Zantoko. Originaire du Zaïre (l'actuelle République démocratique du Congo), il arrive dans un village où lui, sa femme et ses enfants sont les seuls gens noirs.
The Godfather Part II (1974)
, 3h22Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Mob film, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, La précarité, Gangster films, L'émigration
Actors Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Talia Shire, Morgana King
Rating86%
In 1901, Corleone, Sicily, nine-year-old Vito Andolini’s family is killed after his father insults local Mafia chieftain Don Ciccio. He escapes to New York and is registered as "Vito Corleone" on Ellis Island.
Read My Lips (2001)
, 1h55Directed by Jacques Audiard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Sign-language films, French Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Bernard Alane, Olivia Bonamy, Olivier Perrier
Rating72%
The film is set partially in the business offices and partially in the underworld of Paris. Carla, a lonely woman burdened by lack of respect from her co-workers and her only friend, Annie, begins to change after a younger man enters her life.
, 1h47Directed by Jacques Audiard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Piano
Actors Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh-Dan Pham, Jonathan Zaccaï, Aure Atika, Gilles Cohen
Rating71%
Intense young "tough" Thomas Seyr is a 28-year-old real estate broker involved in shady business deals. His business partners, Fabrice and Sami, spend much of their time ruthlessly chasing squatters and illegal immigrants out of the buildings they have procured and trying to work their way around government housing regulations. Thomas is born to this kind of work; his father, Robert, is also involved in dodgy enterprises and sometimes calls upon Thomas to beat up people who refuse to pay. Tom shows a protective and defensive attitude toward his father who doesn't always appreciate what his son does for him–so much so that when his father introduces his new girlfriend to Tom, Tom undermines her to her face, and insults her to his father, insisting she is an opportunistic "whore." Later, when he tries to enlist her help to watch over his father, she tells him they broke up due to Robert changing his attitude and she is aware of Tom's backstabbing because Robert told her. Robert by this time is in danger from a Russian gangster, Minskov (Anton Yakovlev) who scammed him out of 300,000 Euros and Tom is worried for his safety.
The Marchers (2013)
, 2hDirected by Nabil Ben Yadir
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Films about racism, La précarité, Political films
Actors Olivier Gourmet, Jamel Debbouze, Charlotte Le Bon, Hafsia Herzi, Tewfik Jallab, Vincent Rottiers
Rating62%
In 1983 France, teenaged Mohamed (Jallab) is shot by a policeman, but survives. Rejecting his friends' proposal of violent retribution, he proposes political action inspired by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. With two friends, and support from Dubois (Gourmet), the priest of Minguettes (Lyon), they embark on a non-violent March for Equality and Against Racism between Marseille and Paris.
See How They Fall (1994)
, 1h35Directed by Jacques Audiard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Yanne, Mathieu Kassovitz, Bulle Ogier, Christine Pascal, Yvon Back
Rating65%
Deux histoires complètement opposées vont, par la force des choses, être amenées à se croiser. D'un côté, il y a Simon Hirsch, représentant de commerce taciturne, qui cherche à tout prix à venger son seul ami, un inspecteur de police qui s'est fait tirer dessus au cours d'une enquête. De l'autre, Marx, escroc minable et vieillissant, constamment suivi par Johnny, un jeune paumé qui s'est pris d'affection pour lui et qu'il entraîne dans ses petites combines…