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.
| 2025 | Le Pays d’Arto |
| 2025 | Hyacinthe as Reda |
| 2025 | DEMONS TO DIAMONDS |
| 2025 | Brûle le sang as Jacques |
| 2024 | Fracas |
| 2024 | Si on a la nuit as Le bouquiniste |
| 2024 | C'est pas moi as Monsieur Merde |
| 2024 | Roqya as Jules |
| 2024 | Der Junge, dem die Welt gehört as Kasimir |
| 2023 | Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui |
| 2023 | Voix Tonnerre as Prophet |
| 2023 | Le corps du délit |
| 2023 | Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume |
| 2023 | Misérable miracle as Narrator (French) |
| 2023 | Les yeux verts |
| 2023 | L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self |
| 2023 | Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup |
| 2022 | L'effort des hommes as Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | Aymeline as Franco Fontane |
| 2022 | X14 |
| 2022 | Sentinelle sud as Commandant de Royer |
| 2021 | Tralala as Climby |
| 2021 | The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders |
| 2021 | La Nuit des rois as Silence |
| 2021 | Le discours as Le politicien |
| 2020 | Gümüş Patenler as Fourier |
| 2020 | Youri Gagarine as Gérard |
| 2020 | L'étoile bleue as Le Narrateur |
| 2019 | L'Échappée as Jacques |
| 2019 | Figurant |
| 2019 | Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist |
| 2019 | Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal |
| 2019 | The Bra as Kamal |
| 2019 | Maç Zamanı as Barman |
| 2019 | The Mountain as Jack |
| 2019 | Les grands squelettes |
| 2018 | İmparator: Yeraltı Dünyasının Hükümdarı as Maillard |
| 2018 | Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche |
| 2018 | Un peuple et son roi as Marat |
| 2018 | Fan Club as Damien |
| 2018 | Cornélius, le meunier hurlant as Doctor de Chomo |
| 2018 | 3 Tage in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet |
| 2018 | Gece Dünyayı Yuttuğunda as Alfred |
| 2018 | Les scènes fortuites as Himself |
| 2017 | Gray House as Self |
| 2016 | Kazarken: En Creusant as Chiron, le centaure |
| 2016 | Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
| 2016 | Boris sans Béatrice as L'Inconnu |
| 2016 | History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller |
| 2015 | 21 nuits avec Pattie as André |
| 2015 | Eva no duerme as Koenig |
| 2015 | Ben ve Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig |
| 2015 | Graziella as Antoine |
| 2015 | Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz |
| 2015 | Les forêts sombres as Voice |
| 2015 | Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann |
| 2014 | Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam |
| 2014 | Поддубный |
| 2014 | 西遊 as Dragon |
| 2014 | Mr. X as Self |
| 2014 | Ogaden |
| 2013 | Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann |
| 2013 | Adalet İçin as The Theologist |
| 2013 | Biette as Self |
| 2013 | Les Grandes Marées as Marc |
| 2013 | En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self |
| 2013 | Маруся as Clochard |
| 2013 | Fatigués d'être beaux |
| 2013 | Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault |
| 2013 | DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self |
| 2012 | L'Étoile du jour as Elliot |
| 2012 | Kutsal Motorlar as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer |
| 2012 | L'Œil de l'astronome as Jean Kepler |
| 2011 | Le Petit Poucet as The ogre |
| 2011 | My Little Princess as Ernst |
| 2011 | Atlantika |
| 2010 | Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon |
| 2009 | Püha Tõnu kiusamine as Count Korzybski |
| 2009 | Hymn to Merde as Merde |
| 2009 | The Lonely |
| 2009 | Les Williams |
| 2009 | Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice) |
| 2008 | TOKYO! as Merde' (segment "Merde") |
| 2008 | Capitaine Achab as Capitaine Achab |
| 2008 | Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin |
| 2007 | İyi Seneler Londra as Gerrard Ames |
| 2005 | Camping Sauvage as Blaise |
| 2005 | Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as lui-même |
| 2004 | La langue ne ment pas as Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Kayıp Nişanlı as Six-Soux |
| 2004 | Luminal as Ryu |
| 2003 | Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice) |
| 2001 | Married/Unmarried as Love |
| 2001 | Şoför |
| 2000 | La Squale as Le joker |
| 2000 | Promenons-nous dans les bois as Stephane |
| 2000 | İyi İş as Galoup |
| 1999 | Tuvalu as Anton |
| 1998 | Cantique de la racaille as L'auto-stoppeur |
| 1998 | Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel |
| 1998 | Don Juan as Pierrot |
| 1997 | Vahşi Hayvanlar as Emil |
| 1995 | Visiblement je vous aime as Denis |
| 1994 | La Partie d'échecs as Max |
| 1993 | De force avec d'autres as Denis |
| 1991 | Köprü Üstü Aşıkları as Alex |
| 1990 | Mona et moi as Pierre |
| 1989 | Un tour de manège as Berville |
| 1986 | Mauvais Sang as Alex |
| 1985 | Partir, revenir as Simon Lerner's patient |
| 1984 | Boy Meets Girl as Alex |
| 1984 | Viva la vie as Caviar delivery man |
| 1984 | Au-delà du minuit |
| 1983 | L'Homme blessé as Wanderer |
| 1983 | Coup de foudre as Un militaire |
| 1982 | Les Misérables as Montparnasse |
| 1982 | Paris Ficelle as Joe |
| Bloques erráticos as Lucien Le Saint |
| Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader |
| Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante |
| La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur |
| Que demande le peuple |
| Värn as Karl-Göran Persson |
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