The Beat That My Heart Skipped

"Can music tame the raging soul?"

6.9(460 votes)

2005

1h 47m

MusicDramaCrime

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.

Watch Trailer

Available on

Watch Now

Production

Budget:$6,400,000

Revenue:$9,293,785

Companies:

Why Not Productions

Sédif Productions

France 3 Cinéma

Languages

Original:fr

Spoken:

FrenchVietnameseRussianEnglishMandarin

Cast

Romain Duris

Thomas Seyr

Niels Arestrup

Robert Seyr

Jonathan Zaccaï

Fabrice

Gilles Cohen

Sami

Linh-Dan Pham

Miao Lin

Aure Atika

Aline

Emmanuelle Devos

Chris

Anton Yakovlev

Minskov

Mélanie Laurent

Minskov's Girlfriend

Agnès Aubé

Woman

Etienne Dirand

Old Man

Denis Falgoux

Metreur

7.0

Movie

The Giants

2011

Brothers Danny and Zak, ages 15 and 13 ¾, are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money, they decide to rent out the house to a local drug dealer, but things don't go exactly as planned...

6.0

Movie

Pardonnez-moi

2006

Expecting her first child, actress Violette decides to dive deep into her dysfunctional family's history by filming a documentary about them.

5.7

Movie

Cartagena

2009

Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified, he interviews for Muriel, who hires him to cook and care for her against her better judgment. Initially out of his depth, Leo slowly wins Muriel's trust. As Muriel teaches him to read, he forces her to confront the joys beyond her window.

5.0

Movie

Drone

2022

A malfunction at a CIA press event causes a Predator drone installed with an ethical AI personality to go rogue as it attempts to understand its purpose in the world.

7.0

Movie

Osmosis

2004

Abel awash in his conquests phone numbers, Remi raises metaphysical questions about his look, Lucia movie fan obscure authors while its Fab him is he loves boxing. Between party, laundromat and small cafe in the sun chronicle their friendship and their complicity.

5.8

Movie

Cocktail Molotov

1980

"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening somewhere where they are not. Swindled out of their car and virtually broke, they hitchhike back to Paris, hoping to arrive in time for some of the excitement.

5.3

Movie

I Melt with You

2011

Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they made when they were young.

6.8

Movie

The White Diamond

2004

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.

5.8

Movie

Half a Chance

1998

Alice Tomaso gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo and Julien, one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one belonging to the Russian mafia, and arrives at her destination with a gang of thugs out looking for her and the car.

6.5

Movie

Time to Leave

2005

Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.