The Lost Son is a 1999 crime drama starring French actor Daniel Auteuil

Daniel Auteuil

Daniel Auteuil is a French film, television and theatre actor.-Early life and education:He was born in Algiers, French Algeria.-Career:...

 and set in London. It was directed by Chris Menges

Chris Menges

Chris Menges BSC, ASC, is an English cinematographer and film director. He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers.-Life and career:...

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Plot

Xavier Lombard is a Parisian private detective based in London. His best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a telephone call from an old friend in the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and he quickly finds himself caught up in the underworld of child sex slavery. He guesses that the lost son is dead and shifts his focus to finding and breaking this lucrative business of child trafficking. He gets a reluctant Nathalie to hunt "the Austrian," the shadowy head of the business. Violence erupts quickly, and Xavier soon has little more to lose.

Cast

Daniel Auteuil

Daniel Auteuil

Daniel Auteuil is a French film, television and theatre actor.-Early life and education:He was born in Algiers, French Algeria.-Career:...

Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Kinski

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Katrin Cartlidge

Katrin Cartlidge

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Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds

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Marianne Denicourt

Marianne Denicourt

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Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood

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Billie Whitelaw

Billie Whitelaw

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Cyril Shaps

Cyril Shaps

-Biography:Shaps was born in Highbury, London; he was of Polish ancestry and his father was a tailor.He was a child broadcaster, providing voices for radio commercials at the age of 12. After grammar school and Army service he trained at RADA and then worked for two years as an announcer, producer...

Jamie Harris

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Hemal Pandya

Billy Smyth

Cal Macaninch

Cal Macaninch

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Screenwriters: Mark Mills

Mark Mills

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, Margaret Leclere, Eric Leclere

Producer: Finola Dwyer