Isaach de Bankolé
Isaach or Isaac de Bankolé (born 12 August 1957; Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian actor.
De Bankolé was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to Yoruba parents from Benin. His grandparents are from Nigeria. He moved to Paris in 1975 for his last year of lycée and pursued a master's degree in physics and mathematics. He then attended an aviation school and earned a private pilot licence, before a chance encounter with French director Gérard Vergez led him to enroll in the Cours Simon, a Parisian drama school.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6828 |
| Birthday | 1957-08-12 |
| Place of Birth | Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire |
| Also Known As | Isaach De Bankole , Isaac De Bankole, Zachari Bankolé, |
2004
Coffee and Cigarettes
6.923/1058
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while...
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Coffee and Cigarettes
1991
Night on Earth
7.512/1058
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
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Night on Earth
2005
Manderlay
6.906/406
In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of...
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Manderlay
2022
The People We Hate at the Wedding
6.263/211
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenche...
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The People We Hate at the Wedding
2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
7.571/1291
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
1993
Heart of Darkness
5.838/40
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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Heart of Darkness
1999
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
7.337/1416
A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2009
The Limits of Control
6.043/317
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlik...
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The Limits of Control
2005
The Skeleton Key
6.622/2304
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
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The Skeleton Key
2007
The Fifth Patient
6.286/14
John Reilly wakes up in an African Hospital with only fragments of his memory intact. An officer of the local regime, Mugambe, accuses him of being an...
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The Fifth Patient
2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
7.005/7547
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s dea...
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2006
Casino Royale
7.6/11775
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his win...
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Casino Royale
1988
Chocolat
6.897/117
On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrat...
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Chocolat
1986
Black Mic Mac
5.727/22
This is a charming and successful farce from director Thomas Gilou, featuring a witty screenplay co-authored by producer Monique Annaud. When a group...
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Black Mic Mac
2024
The Brutalist
7/1691
When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United...
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The Brutalist
2010
I Am Slave
6.135/37
Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daughter of champion wrestler Bah, is abducted from her...
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I Am Slave
2010
White Material
6.753/176
In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to sustain her family’s coffee plantation. With rebels...
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White Material
2008
The Guitar
5.537/54
The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months...
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The Guitar
1995
The Keeper
5.667/6
Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already i...
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The Keeper
2011
Oka!
3.7/3
The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.
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Oka!
1990
No Fear, No Die
6.1/35
Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restauran...
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No Fear, No Die
1987
Lady Cops
4.675/20
Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp. To take revenge...
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Lady Cops
2004
From Other Worlds
3.929/14
FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her life until she encounters an alien force in her b...
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From Other Worlds
1995
Casa de Lava
7/25
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...
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Casa de Lava
2025
Muganga
7.365/37
Denis Mukwege, a Congolese doctor, pastor and future Nobel Peace Prize laureate, meets Guy Cadière, a Belgian surgeon and atheist. Despite their diffe...
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Muganga
2012
Chaos
5.5/1
Vincent, Marie and their son have just moved from Paris into a farm near a small town in the south of France. He is a history and geography teacher, w...
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Chaos
1989
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
5/5
A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a lazy a...
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How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
2013
Mother of George
5.3/31
A Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn are having trouble conceiving a child - a problem that defies cultural expectations and leads to a shocking decis...
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Mother of George
2008
Machetero
0/0
Post 9/11 definitions, ideas and notions of terrorism are challenged in this highly controversial and experimental film. Machetero is an allegorical n...
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Machetero
1989
Vanille fraise
5.237/19
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
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Vanille fraise
2024
Snakeeater
5.5/4
Against the backdrop of a decaying cityscape, Rick Miner, an off-the-books insurance investigator, is tasked with examining the suspicious death of an...
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Snakeeater
2014
Calvary
7.104/1068
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
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Calvary
2014
Run
5.4/12
Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city...
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Run
2007
Battle in Seattle
6.3/265
Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although...
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Battle in Seattle
1998
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
6.1/24
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here as Bill Willis,...
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
2006
Miami Vice
6.027/1999
A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox C...
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Miami Vice
2001
3 A.M.
5.75/34
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory,...
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3 A.M.
1984
The Syringe
5.067/15
Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets', the...
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The Syringe
1999
Otomo
6/4
The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble and his...
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Otomo
1986
Noir et blanc
4.556/9
Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. He's assigned to a fitness gymnasium for a mon...
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Noir et blanc
2015
The Last Witch Hunter
6.015/3873
The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unle...
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The Last Witch Hunter
2005
Before It Had a Name
3.611/18
A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time....
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Before It Had a Name
2014
Mirage
6.5/11
Francis is an African soccer player whose life comes spiraling down after he fixes a match. Soon, he's on the run, taking shelter at a mountain ranch...
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Mirage
1984
Comment draguer tous les mecs
4.667/3
Like every provincial girl arriving in Paris, Charlotte gets off the train with one idea in mind: to have fun, to flirt, to find a guy at all costs. B...
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Comment draguer tous les mecs
1999
Cherry
6/3
At age 19, a young woman is jilted at the altar. This leads to a declaration that she will swear off men forever. Now 10 years later, she suddenly dec...
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Cherry
2010
Behind Jim Jarmusch
0/0
"Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the set of his movie "The Limits of Control" (starrin...
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Behind Jim Jarmusch
2014
Where the Road Runs Out
5.7/12
George, a scientist living in Rotterdam is growing wary of the world of academia. The sudden death of an old friend is the incentive he needs to retur...
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Where the Road Runs Out
2017
Double Play
3.5/13
Double Play is about anolder man named Ostrik who returns to Curaçao and his childhood after many years abroad. Ostrik reminisces about 1973 and the e...
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Double Play
2016
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
5.525/198
A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new Prime Minister of Israel.
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Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2018
Black Panther
7.364/23605
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Chall...
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Black Panther
2017
Kiss Me!
5.4/66
Claude falls in love with Cécile. She is convinced that she is the woman of her life unlike her mother who knows the tumultuous sentimental life of he...
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Kiss Me!
2000
Bàttu
4.5/2
The star-stubbed cast includes Issac de Bankolè as Saar, a blind beggar, and Danny Glover as a corrupt president. In this often hilarious mix of polit...
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Bàttu
2019
A Violent Man
4.6/10
A struggling mixed martial arts fighter finds himself in a fight for his life after his one night stand is found dead in her home.
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A Violent Man
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life
6/25
On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and is able to rescue one small child from certain dea...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life
1988
Ada in the Jungle
4.333/3
A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.
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Ada in the Jungle
2004
Homework
10/1
Sara, a young ballet dancer, drifts through boredom as a constrained classical dancer until she meets Jean, a West African plumber from the opposite s...
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Homework
2018
Black Is Beltza
5.5/18
New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; bu...
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Black Is Beltza
2019
Shaft
6.529/1886
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he ne...
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Shaft
2021
French Exit
5.628/172
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husb...
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French Exit
2005
Stay
6.627/1534
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and...
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Stay
2003
The Killing Zone
6/2
Killing Zone is the story of an affluent Harlem psychiatrist living an unexamined life until his adoptive father- a doctor who plucked him from a Nige...
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The Killing Zone
2026
The Fence
5.6/5
A vast public works project in West Africa. Horn, the construction site manager, and Cal, a young engineer, share lodging behind the double gates of t...
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The Fence
1986
Taxi Boy
5.5/2
The meeting of Manuel, a lady's dancer, Petrus, an unfortunate gambler, and Corinne, a fast-food waitress. The drifting of three drop-outs, three soli...
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Taxi Boy
2017
Femme Noire
0/0
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Femme Noire
2026
Dune: Part Three
0/0
As Emperor, Paul Atreides grapples with the consequences of his rise to power as political conspiracies and a galaxy-spanning holy war threaten the fu...
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