Martine Rapin

Costume & Make-Up

Martine Rapin

Martine Rapin is a Costumer Designer known for The Fifth Element (1997), District B13 (2004) and The Transporter (2002).

Known For

The Fifth ElementThe Fifth Element · 1997
The Fifth Element
★ 7.61997
MovieScience FictionAction
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
The TransporterThe Transporter · 2002
The Transporter
★ 6.72002
MovieActionCrime
Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.
Angel-AAngel-A · 2005
Angel-A
★ 7.02005
MovieRomanceComedy
A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together... but is their meeting purely coincidence?
Taxi 2Taxi 2 · 2000
Taxi 2
★ 6.32000
MovieActionComedy
A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.
Michel VaillantMichel Vaillant · 2003
Michel Vaillant
★ 5.42003
MovieActionDrama
Michel Vaillant is # 1 of pilots, undisputed champion in rallying in all circuits in the world. His success arouses admiration and envy. Ruth Wong, director of Team Leader, is determined to break his streak and avenge the memory of his father, founder of Leader. She is capable of anything to achieve her goal.
District B13District B13 · 2004
District B13
★ 6.82004
MovieActionThriller
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
InsideInside · 2007
Inside
★ 6.72007
MovieHorror
Months after a tragic accident, Sarah, a young pregnant woman, must spend Christmas Eve alone in her house before giving birth the next day. But in the middle of the night, a creepy visitor knocks at her door willing to do anything to get what they want, setting off a night of pure terror.
SubwaySubway · 1985
Subway
★ 6.51985
MovieActionThriller
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.

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Monsieur BatignoleMonsieur Batignole · 2002
Monsieur Batignole
★ 7.02002
MovieComedyDrama
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.

Costume Design

BonsoirBonsoir · 1994
Bonsoir
★ 4.11994
MovieComedy
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.

Costume Design

Le fils de PaulLe fils de Paul · 1995
Le fils de Paul
★ 7.01995
MovieDrama
Clément, a young entrepreneur, is a happy father: married to the beautiful Alex, he is also the happy father of "Petit-Bonheur", his son. Despite his 30 years, he can't live without his father, Paul, a musician and widower, with whom he has a very close relationship. In addition to this exclusive relationship, the latter also takes care of his grandson on a regular basis. Two points which are not without provoking a certain jealousy in Alex. One day, "Petit-Bonheur", under Paul's care, falls down a staircase. At the hospital, where the child undergoes X-rays, Clément can't stand the wait for the exams and reprimands his father harshly. After this incident, the news is fortunately good: "Petit-Bonheur" has nothing serious and finds with joy the arms of his parents. Clément then realizes that his father has disappeared.

Costume Design