Niels Arestrup
12 titles
Filmography
12 results

The Dune
(2014)When a woman discovers a mystery man on the beach in southwest France, an aging investigator is called upon to uncover his identity.

A Prophet
(2009)From the acclaimed director of The Beat My Heart Skipped, Jacques Audiard brings us the winner of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, France’s official selection for the 2010 Academy awards and winner of the London Film Festival 2009 Award for Best Film. Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving in prison at the age of 19 he is much younger and more fragile than the other convicts. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given a number of “missions” to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader’s confidence in the process. But Malik is brave and a fast learner, daring to secretly develop his own plans…

Diplomacy
(2014)AUGUST 25TH, 1944. THE ALLIES ENTER PARIS. Shortly before dawn, Dietrich von Choltitz (Niels Arestrup - A Prophet), German military governor of Paris, prepares to execute Adolph Hitler's orders to blow up the French capital. Bridges and monuments are all rigged to explode. And yet, Paris is not destroyed.

The Beat That My Heart Skipped
(2005)In this noir thriller, a streetwise Parisian is torn between the underworld of his ruthless and unscrupulous property dealer father and his late concert pianist mother. After meeting a friend of his mother, his musical ambitions are awakened and he takes piano lessons. But which side of him will win through?

Je Tu Il Elle
(1974)Sex, love, food and personal identity become intertwined as a young woman sets out to define herself, her loves and her desires.

Sarah's Key
(2010)An American journalist is captivated by a mysterious story involving a little Jewish girl living in France during the height of WWII.

War Horse
(2011)War Horse centres on the tale of a young Devon farmhand who enters the First World War trenches in search of Joey, his beloved colt. Adapted by the Children's classic by Michael Morpurgo.

Return to Montauk
(2017)It is winter in Montauk, at the far end of Long Island. There are two deck chairs on the windswept beach. The chairs are waiting for two people who have, for a long time, been lost to each other. He is a writer and has come from Berlin. She is a New York lawyer. Many years before, they had a fling, but they were too young to know they had each met the love of their lives. Now they have come back to Montauk, filled with regret and hope. The bodies remember. It feels for them like the next day after the last one they were together. They do not know if it is possible to reverse time. In Montauk, they find out.

By the Sea
(2015)Written, directed and produced by Angelina Jolie Pitt, By the Sea follows a writer (Brad Pitt) and his wife (Jolie Pitt) as they come to terms with issues in their marriage.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(2007)On December 8, 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor in chief of fashion magazine French Elle suffered a massive stroke, leaving him prisoner inside his own body, only able to communicate with the blinking of his left eye. Inside the Diving Bell, as he referred to his body, his memory and imagination, the Butterfly, remained untouched by the tragedy.

At Eternity's Gate
(2018)Goes inside the world and the mind of Vincent van Gogh during his final years in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France as his mental illness took hold.

Farewell
(2009)A Russian intelligence operative (Emir Kusturica) passes classified documents to a French engineer (Guillaume Canet).