Olivier Gourmet
25 titles
Filmography
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The Son
(2002)A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.

La tendresse
(2013)A couple, separated for the past 15 years, find themselves together again for the duration of a two day journey to go and get their son, hospitalized in another country after a serious ski accident. What do they still feel for one another, indifference, rancor, jealousy? Or perhaps complicity, friendship and, who knows, love. This light-hearted road movie, which takes us from Brussels to the summit of the Alps, will allow us to discover two profoundly sincere beings for whom we can only feel affection.

Rosetta
(1999)A powerfully affecting, uncompromising portrait of the day-to-day struggles of a Belgian teenager living in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother, Rosetta is the Dardenne brothers most celebrated work to date.

Above the Law
(2017)Gangsters clash with police corruption in this lean crime caper based on the shocking true story of the unsolved mass murders of Brabant, which occurred in Belgium in 1982. When Frank Valken carries out a final, daring robbery, a commando force step in and kills an examining magistrate investigating an important political case. Thanks to rigged evidence, Frank is arrested and wrongly charged for the murder. In the face of intense media pressure, Frank has no choice but to escape and attempt to prove his innocence. A fast-paced, hard boiled Belgian crime thriller written by notorious former gangster François Troukens.

Moloch
In an industrial seaside town, people begin to spontaneously combust. Suicide? Murder? Supernatural phenomenon? Soon, six fiery letters appear on the city walls: MOLOCH.

The Child
(2005)Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.

Read My Lips
(2001)Two outcasts are drawn together by crime and passion in this early tour de force from Jacques Audiard, a noir thriller of unique depth and emotion. Emmanuelle Devos stars as an unappreciated, hard-of-hearing employee whose lonely life gets a jolt of excitement when she hires a new assistant (Vincent Cassel), an ex-con who soon enlists her—and her lip-reading ability—in a risky scheme.

Black Venus
(2010)Baartman was taken from South African home as a 21-year-old and shipped to Georgian London, where she would be caged and exhibited as a freak show.

Violette
(2013)Born out of wedlock early in the last century, impoverished and unloved Violette Leduc (Emmanuelle Devos, Coco Before Chanel) meets Simone de Beauvoir (Sandrine Kiberlain, The Apartment) in post war Saint-Germaindes-Pres. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette’s quest for freedom through writing and on Simone’s conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer. Based on the true story of French novelist Violette Leduc, Violette is directed by Martin Provost (Séraphine).

The Gate
(2014)Cambodia, 1971. While working on the restoration of the Angkor Wat temples, French ethnologist François Bizot is taken prisoner by the Khmer Rouge. Detained in a camp in the middle of the jungle, Bizot is accused of spying for the CIA. His only hope of survival is to convince Douch, the young head of the camp, that he is innocent. While the Frenchman discovers the reality of Khmer Rouge indoctrination, an indefinable bond develops between the prisoner and his jailer...

The Midwife
(2017)Follows the unlikely friendship between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and the estranged, free-spirited mistress of her late father.

Grand Central
(2013)Tahar Rahim stars as a young man compulsively attracted to danger. He becomes a subcontractor at a French nuclear facility, where he is exposed to deadly radiation levels. He is transformed by his passionate and forbidden affair with a woman he meets at the plant.

De Gaulle
(2020)The military and political collapse of France in June 1940 leads General De Gaulle to join Churchill in London while his family makes its exodus.

One Nation, One King
(2018)The key historical moments and people in the early years of the tremendous social and political upheaval that became the 1789 French Revolution.

Daguerrotype
(2016)Unskilled Jean is hired as the assistant to grieving photographer Stéphane. After falling in love with Marie, Stéphane's daughter and muse, the two must hatch a plot to leave Stéphane's haunted world behind them.

The Lookout
(2012)A detective hunts for the marksman who foiled the plan to catch a notorious team of bank robbers.

April and the Extraordinary World
(2015)Paris, 1931. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful invincibility serum when all of a sudden, the parents are mysteriously abducted, leaving their young daughter, April, behind. Ten years later, April is living alone with her precious cat, Darwin, continuing her family's research. But soon, she finds herself at the centre of a bizarre conspiracy.

Chocolat
(2016)From circus to theatre, from anonymity to fame, Chocolat is the incredible true story of how Rafael Padilla Chocolat (Omar Sy), escaped slavery to become the first black stage performer in France. Performing a lead role in a circus pantomime act in Paris, Chocolat shot to stardom with his partner, Charles Footit (James Thiérrée), as the pair's unprecedented double act sent shock waves through conservative Parisian society. However, as their fame grew so did the gambling and discrimination, taking a toll on the duo's friendship and their lives.

The Tiger Brigades
(2006)Tiger Brigades tells the story of Inspector Valentin and his Tiger Brigade men as they battle against corrupt civil servants, anarchist gangsters and Constance, the seductive wife of a Russian prince. Amidst a chaotic and murderous web of deceit and greed, their jobs and very lives are on the line as they race against the clock to protect national security, and perhaps even prevent war.

Red Soil
(2021)When worker health records don’t seem to add up, an occupational nurse begins to find evidence of her chemical plant’s secret toxic waste dumps.