FrameThrower · Actors · Denis Ménochet
Denis Ménochet
4 films · 198 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2016–2023
Born 18 September 1976 · Enghein-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, France
Denis Menochet is a French film and television actor. Menochet is perhaps best known to an international audience for his role as Perrier LaPadite, a French dairy farmer interrogated by the Nazis for harboring Jews, in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds. Elizabeth Weitzman, a film critic for the New York Daily News, praised Menochet's work opposite Christoph Waltz in the opening scene of Inglorious Basterds. Weitzman wrote in August 2009, "The terrific opening, for example, does feature a hailstorm of bullets. What you'll remember best, though, is the haunted silence of actor Denis Menochet, playing a French farmer accused of harboring Jews."
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 198 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2016–2023
- Goya Award for Best Actor2023
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
How their films are shot
Measured across 198 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Denis takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 53% low key — the look of the work Denis takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 198 frames from Denis Ménochet's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.