First film "Les Cles du Paris"

Initial collaboration with filmmaker Matthieu Kassovitz, "Metisse/Cafe-au-lait"

Played supporting role in "Jefferson in Paris"

Re-teamed with Kassovitz for "Le Haine/Hate"

Breakthrough screen role, "L'Appartement"; co-starred future wife, Monica Bellucci

Had title role in "Dobermann"

Co-starred in "Elizabeth"

Had featured role in "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc"; Kassovitz also had supporting role

Played comic role in "Guest House Paradiso"

Re-teamed with Kassovitz to play a detective investigating what turns out to be a serial killer in "The Crimson Rivers"

Co-starred in "Le Pacte des loups/The Brotherhood of the Wolf"

Voiced Monsieur Hood in the animated film "Shrek"

Supported Nicole Kidman in "Birthday Girl"; film also featured Kassovitz

Re-teamed with Belluci in Gaspar Noe's highly controversial "Irreversible"

Cast in the drama "The Reckoning"

Joined the original cast of "Ocean's Eleven" to star in Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Twelve"

Cast opposite Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston in the psychological thriller "Derailed"; directed by Mikael Hafstrom

Played a shepherd who carries out satanic rituals in "Sheitan"

Co-starred with Viggo Mortensen in director David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises"

Portrayed the real-life French gangster Jacques Mesrine in Jean-Francois Richet's "Mesrine"