Émilie Dequenne

Acting

Émilie Dequenne

Born August 29, 1981 · Belœil, Belgique

Died March 16, 2025 · aged 43

Émilie Dequenne (29 August 1981 – 16 March 2025) was a Belgian actress. She first gained attention for playing the title character in the film Rosetta (1999), which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She then went on to star in many films such as Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), The Light (2004), The Girl on the Train (2009), Our Children (2012), Not My Type (2014) and This…

Known For

SurviveSurvive · 2024
Survive
5.92024
MovieScience FictionThriller
A couple celebrates their son’s birthday in the middle of the ocean on their boat. A violent storm hits and it brings up hungry creatures from the depths and they fight for their survival.
CloseClose · 2022
Close
7.82022
MovieDrama
Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.
Brotherhood of the WolfBrotherhood of the Wolf · 2001
Brotherhood of the Wolf
6.72001
MovieAdventureHorror
In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
See You Up ThereSee You Up There · 2017
See You Up There
7.82017
MovieDramaCrime
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.
Mr. Blake at Your Service!Mr. Blake at Your Service! · 2023
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
6.42023
MovieComedyDrama
Since his wife's death, Andrew Blake is depressed. In an ultimate impetus, he leaves London to go back to France, in the house he met her. This journey through happy days memories won't go as planned.
To Each His Own CinemaTo Each His Own Cinema · 2007
To Each His Own Cinema
6.52007
MovieComedyDrama
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
L'AméricainL'Américain · 2004
L'Américain
3.02004
MovieComedy
Francis Farge, alias "The American" could have remained a man like the others but a strange obsession animates him: he feels American body and soul.
MöbiusMöbius · 2013
Möbius
5.72013
MovieDramaThriller
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.

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Henry Dunant: Red on the CrossHenry Dunant: Red on the Cross · 2007
Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross
5.12007
MovieDramaTV Movie
Henry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria; when the colonists are thirsty, he returns determined to convince the firm and emperor Napoleon III to build a dam for them. After his Uncle, Dr. Hubert Dunant, diagnoses him not with Algerian typhus, just malaria, also his first meeting -dropping drawers in hospital for a shot- with nurse Cécile Thuillier, and meeting his careerist brother Daniel's fiancée, Léonie Bourg-Thibourg, daughter of the firm's boss, the board approves his plan. On his way to the emperor, who didn't even concede to receive him, Henry gets stuck in Castiglione, part of the Austrian province Lombardy which French troops came to 'liberate'; his Geneva friend Dr. Louis Appia saves his life by presenting him to suspicious Austrian troops as his medical assistant...

Cécile Thuillier