Olivier GourmetFilmography

Public Enemy No. 1, Part 2

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Samuel Le Bihan, Gérard Lanvin

Synopsis: The true story of one of Europe's most infamous and charismatic criminals comes to a close in this drama based on the life and crimes of Jacques Mesrine. Picking up where L'Instinct de Mort left off, L'Ennemi Public No. 1 begins as Mesrine (Vincent Cassel) returns to France after an exile in Read More

Angel at Sea

Actors: Martin Nissen, Anne Consigny, Olivier Gourmet

Altiplano

Actors: Jasmin Tabatabai, Magaly Solier, Olivier Gourmet

Pour un Fils

Coluche, l'Histoire d'un Mec

Actors: François-Xavier Demaison, Léa Drucker, Olivier Gourmet, Laurent Bateau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Alexandre Astier, Denis Podalydès, Valérie Crouzet

Synopsis: To the French, Michel "Coluche" Colucci (1944-86) was not merely a household name but a veritable institution. A stocky, goofy comic who often turned up in big screen farces such as L'Aile Ou la Cuisse (1976) and Inspecteur la Bavure (1980) , Colucci gained notoriety for his emotionally rocky and Read More

Go Fast

Actors: Roschdy Zem, Olivier Gourmet, Jean-Michel Fête, Jil Milan

Synopsis: Recalling such prior efforts as Maurice Pialat's 1984 Police and Bob Swaim's 1982 La Balance, Gallic director Olivier van Hoofstadt's relentlessly tense and violent action thriller Go Fast plunges into the violent and dangerous world of French metropolitan police. Roschdy Zem stars as Marek, a cop Read More

Le Silence de Lorna

Actors: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione

Synopsis: An Albanian woman living in Belgium finds her dreams of opening a snack bar with her boyfriend leading to tragedy after she agrees to marry a Russian Mafioso in order to gain citizenship. All Lorna wanted was to start a small business with her loving boyfriend, but in order to make that happen she Read More

Pars vite et Reviens tard

Actors: José Garcia, Lucas Belvaux, Marie Gillain, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: The bleakest and most claustrophobic nightmare of many a European actualizes in director Régis Wargnier's apocalyptic thriller Pars vite et reviens tard (AKA Have Mercy on Us All). Not long after his abandonment by his girlfriend, French police captain Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is confronted by a Read More

Public Enemy No. 1, Part 1

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Gérard Lanvin, Samuel Le Bihan, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: This tough-as-nails, crime-themed docudrama constitutes the second installment in a four hour, two-part biopic on the doings of infamous French thug Jacques Mesrine (1936-79), officially regarded for many years as "Public Enemy #1" in Gaul. Here, he is played to the hilt by Vincent Cassel, who Read More

Jacquou le Croquant

Actors: Gaspard Ulliel, Leo Legrand, Marie-Josée Croze, Albert Dupontel, Tchéky Karyo

Hidden Love

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Greta Scacchi, Mélanie Laurent, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: Acclaimed actress Isabelle Huppert stars in this downbeat tale of a suicidal mental patient trapped in an endless maze of despair following the death of her only child. Initially raised in an acrid household, later locked into a dicey marriage, and ultimately saddled with a daughter she never Read More

L'Enfant

Actors: Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: After learning he has a newborn son, a small-time thief attempts to go straight - but not until his amorality is pushed to its breaking point - in this social-problem drama from writer-directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. Eighteen-year-old Sonia (Déborah Francois) has just given birth Read More

Le Pont des Arts

Actors: Natacha Régnier, Adrien Michaux, Denis Podalydès, Olivier Gourmet, Alexis Loret

Synopsis: The lives of two troubled souls unexpectedly intersect in this ambitious drama from French auteur Eugène Green. Sarah (Natacha Régnier) is a gifted operatic vocalist who has been cast in a production of Monteverdi's Lamento Della Ninfa that's being recorded for release on LP. While Sarah's talents Read More

When the Sea Rises...

Actors: Yolande Moreau, Wim Willaert, Jackie Berroyer, Jacques Bonnaffé

Synopsis: When the Sea Rises... is the first film written and directed by actress Yolande Moreau (who also stars in the film) and cinematographer Gilles Porte (who also shot the film). Moreau stars as Irène, who is traveling the north of France performing her one-woman show. In the stage show, Irène plays a Read More

My Son

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Victor Sévaux, Olivier Gourmet, Marie Kremer, Emmanuelle Riva

Synopsis: A good-natured adolescent struggles to find himself as his controlling mother attempts to bind him with her love in director Martial Fougeron's emotionally claustrophobic family drama. Julien (Victor Sévaux) is a handsome and smart young man who would make any mother proud. Though he may be fairly Read More

The Colonel

Actors: Olivier Gourmet, Robinson Stévenin, Cécile De France, Charles Aznavour, Bruno Solo

Synopsis: A man of principle is led down a sinister path in the name of patriotism in this drama co-written by the legendary political filmmaker Costa Gravas. Colonel DuPlan is a powerful but elderly officer in the French military who is found murdered in his flat after appearing on a television talk show Read More

Congorama

Actors: Olivier Gourmet, Paul Ahmarani, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Gabriel Arcand, Lorraine Pintal

Synopsis: Two men who live in different nations on different continents discover how closely their fates have followed the same path in this drama from filmmaker Philippe Falardeau. Belgian engineer Michel Roy (Olivier Gourmet) looks after his ailing father Herve (Jean-Pierre Cassel) with the help of his Read More

The Tiger Brigades

Actors: Clovis Cornillac, Diane Kruger, Edouard Baer, Olivier Gourmet, Stefano Accorsi

Synopsis: As World War I looms ever closer on the horizon, an elite police task force organized by Minister of the Interior Georges Clemenceau (aka "The Tiger") mobilizes to apprehend the gang responsible for the first motorized hold-up in French history. The year is 1912, and despite operating in the Read More

The Ax

Actors: José Garcia, Karin Viard, Olivier Gourmet, Ulrich Tukur, Yvon Back

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Actors: Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Michel Lonsdale, Olivier Gourmet

Trouble

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Natacha Régnier, Olivier Gourmet, Hannah Novak

La Petite Chartreuse

Actors: Olivier Gourmet, Marie-Josée Croze, Bertille Noel-Bruneau, Marysa Borini, Yves Jacques

The Time of the Wolf

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Maurice Bénichou, Lucas Biscombe, Patrice Chéreau, Béatrice Dalle

Synopsis: On the heels of his award-winning, emotionally devastating 2001 drama The Piano Teacher, German filmmaker Michael Haneke weaves this disturbing tale of a family forced into a harrowing confrontation with a group of strangers set against the backdrop of a global apocalypse. In the aftermath of an Read More

Pour le Plaisir

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, François Berléand, Nadia Farès, Olivier Gourmet, Lorant Deutsch

Les Fautes d'orthographe

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Olivier Gourmet, Damien Jouillerot, Franc Bruneau, Anthony Decadi

Synopsis: A budding misfit finds his troubles are just beginning when he's sent to a school run by his mom and dad in this comedy from France. Daniel (Damien Jouillerot) is the overweight and socially inept son of Pierre (Olivier Gourmet) and Genevieve (Carole Bouquet), a couple who run a boarding school Read More

The Son

Actors: Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart, Remy Renaud, Nassim Hassaini

Synopsis: This downbeat drama by acclaimed Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne bears a thematic and formal resemblance to their previous works, La Promesse and the Palme D'Or winner Rosetta. Dardenne brothers' regular Olivier Gourmet is in every frame as the stern Olivier, a carpenter who Read More

Le Mystere de la Chambre Jaune

Actors: Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Michel Lonsdale, Pierre Arditi, Claude Rich

Where Is Madame Catherine?

Actors: Dominique Marcas, Eduardo Noriega, Mireille Perrier, Pierre Berriau, Jérémie Lippmann

Safe Conduct

Actors: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Christian Berkel, Marie Gillain, Charlotte Kady

Synopsis: During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate; some filmmakers and technicians simply went along with what their new leaders demanded in hopes keeping themselves and their families safe, while others sought to subvert the messages of Read More

Read My Lips

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivia Bonamy, Olivier Perrier

Synopsis: A woman looking for love finds a man who leads her into a life of crime in this thriller. Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) is a woman in her mid-twenties who works as a secretary in a real estate office. More cute than pretty, Carla is shy by nature, and the fact that she has a hearing problem has made Read More

Peau D'Ange

Actors: Morgane More, Guillaume Depardieu, Magalie Woch, Karine Silla, Hélène de Saint Père

Synopsis: Actor Vincent Perez makes his feature-film directorial debut with the romantic drama Once Upon an Angel, which he cowrote with his wife, Karine Silla, and Jerome Tonnerre. Young Angèle (Morgane Moré) sets out to find work in order to ease the burden for her poor, debt-ridden parents and finds a Read More

Une Part du Ciel

Actors: Séverine Caneele, Sofia Leboutte, Josiane Stoleru, Naima Hireche, Annick Keusterman

Synopsis: The harsh realities of prison life are parallelled with the day-to-day drone of factory work in director Bénédicte Liénard's dramatic study in compromise. Serving time in prison for an unspecified violent crime related to her employment at the factory, Joanna (Séverine Caneele) experiences the Read More

Mercredi, Folle Journee!

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Olivier Gourmet, Isabelle Carré

Synopsis: The foibles of a group of genial eccentrics scattered through the city of Nantes set the stage for this comedy-drama, taking place during one particular Wednesday. Martin Socoa (Vincent Lindon) is a well-meaning loser juggling more than his share of problems when, after a marathon card game, he Read More

Nationale 7

Actors: Nadia Kaci, Olivier Gourmet, Lionel Abelanski, Chantal Neuwirth

Synopsis: A group of medical therapists gets a new perspective on a patient's well-being in this drama with comic accents from France. Rene is a man in his early fifties who worked hard and led an active life until he was stricken with a degenerative disease that is slowly destroying his muscle tissues. Read More

Sauve-Moi

Actors: Roschdy Zem, Rona Hartner, Karole Rocher, Jean-Roger Milo, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: Two people brought together by fate find it's not easy to live on love in this drama with a sharp sociopolitical subtext. Agatha (Rona Hartner) is a beautiful young woman from Romania who had a brief but passionate love affair with a French surgeon when he visited her country as part of a Read More

Un Moment De Bonheur

Actors: Isild Le Besco, Malik Zidi, Vincent Bonnafous, Catherine Davenier, Olivier Gourmet

Le Lait de la tendresse humaine

Actors: Patrick Bruel, Marilyne Canto, Dominique Blanc, Sergi López, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: A woman discovers that the joys of parenthood are not making her especially happy in this dark comedy/drama. Christelle (Marilyne Canto) is a new mother who isn't dealing well with the anxieties of caring for her child. One day, she suffers a severe panic attack while alone with the baby, and her Read More

De l'historie ancienne

Actors: Olivier Gourmet, Brigitte Catillon, Martine Audrain, Jocelyne Desberchere

Rosetta

Actors: Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yernaux, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: From the directors of the critically acclaimed La Promesse (1996) comes this stark portrayal of a young woman coming of age at the edge of social oblivion. Rosetta (Émilie Dequenne) lives in a tiny, beat-up trailer without toilets or running water with her alcoholic, irresponsible, and utterly Read More

Peut-être

Actors: Romain Duris, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Géraldine Pailhas, Vincent Elbaz, Riton Liebman

Synopsis: What if you could step 70 years into the future from a portal in your bathroom? French director Cedric Klapisch asks this question and many others in this oddball sci-fi flick. The film opens at a wild Buck Rogers-themed New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1999. After smoking a requist amount of Read More

Je Suis Vivante Et Je Vous Aime

Actors: Jerome Deschamps, Dorian Lambert, Agnes Soral, Yvette Merlin, Alain Cauchi

Cantique de la Racaille

Actors: Yvan Attal, Virginie Lanoue, Yann Collette, Banaissa Ahaouari, Samy Naceri

Synopsis: French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but Read More

Le Bal Masqué

Actors: Peter Van Den Begin, Pascale Bal, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Natacha Amal, Filip Peeters

Synopsis: Former radio reporter/photographer/TV director Julien Vrebos made his feature directorial debut with this Belgian-Dutch-German thriller inspired by the unsolved murder of 34 people by the Nivelles Gang during the '80s. The convoluted plot begins when the assassination of diplomat and double-agent Read More

Nadia et les hippopotames

Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Marilyne Canto, Thierry Frémont, Philippe Fretin, Najd Hamou-Medja

Synopsis: The third feature of former documentarist Dominique Cabrera, who is known for his 1997 feature L'autre coté de la mer, this film exposes the oppressive and stifling aspect of society. Single mother Nadia is surviving on welfare while transport strikes are paralyzing France in December 1995. While Read More

La Promesse

Actors: Assita Ouedraogo, Rasmane Ouedraogo

Synopsis: A young man born into criminal circumstances is forced to deal with his conscience in this drama from Belgium. Roger (Olivier Gourmet) is a corrupt businessman who smuggles illegal aliens into Antwerp and protects them from the law in exchange for working with his construction company. However Read More

The Eighth Day

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Sadoyan, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: Two men with seemingly nothing in common become unlikely friends in this drama from France. Harry (Daniel Auteuil) is a salesman working for a large but faceless corporation, where he's become a success at the expense of his personal life. His wife Julie (Miou-Miou), frustrated by his lack of Read More