Smoke Signals (
2024) | IMDb:
0
2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddling related to the tobacco industry. French Member of the European Parliament José Bové, maverick politician and prominent figure of the environmental party, suspects a setup by the tobacco manufacturer Swedish Match, potentially involving the President of the European Commission, José Barroso. Standing alone against all odds, he decides to investigate and unravel this story, which shook the foundations of the entire European institutions.
Starring:
Thomas VDB
,
Bouli Lanners
,
Céleste Brunnquell
,
Wim Willaert
,
Lisa Karlström
,
Nelly Henrion
A Real Job (
2023) | IMDb:
6.8
Benjamin is a PhD student without scholarship support. Under the pressure of his parents, and in need of money, he becomes a substitute teacher in a middle school. Without training nor experience, and facing a declining public educational system, he discovers how tough this job can be. Hopefully, his supportive and committed colleagues will lead him to take a fresh look at the profession.
Starring:
Vincent Lacoste
,
François Cluzet
,
Louise Bourgoin
,
William Lebghil
,
Adèle Exarchopoulos
,
Lucie Zhang
Bye Bye Morons (
2020) | IMDb:
6.7
When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.
Starring:
Virginie Efira
,
Albert Dupontel
,
Nicolas Marié
,
Jackie Berroyer
,
Philippe Uchan
,
Bastien Ughetto
Notre Dame (
2019) | IMDb:
5.4
Maud is an architect and a mother. Due to a misunderstanding, she wins the competition to refurbish the parvis of Notre-Dame. Torn between these responsibilities and love issues, she will go through an emotional storm.
Starring:
Valérie Donzelli
,
Pierre Deladonchamps
,
Thomas Scimeca
,
Bouli Lanners
,
Virginie Ledoyen
,
Isabelle Candelier
Directed by:
Valérie Donzelli
Patrick (
2019) | IMDb:
6.7
Patrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture. When Patrick loses his campsite hammer, his quest to retrieve it takes him to the farthest corners of the camping grounds.
Starring:
Kevin Janssens
,
Pierre Bokma
,
Hannah Hoekstra
,
Jemaine Clement
,
Bouli Lanners
,
Jan Bijvoet
Directed by:
Tim Mielants
Raw (
2016) | IMDb:
7
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.
Starring:
Garance Marillier
,
Ella Rumpf
,
Rabah Nait Oufella
,
Laurent Lucas
,
Joana Preiss
,
Bouli Lanners
Heal the Living (
2016) | IMDb:
6.8
The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.
Directed by:
Katell Quillévéré
April and the Extraordinary World (
2015) | IMDb:
7.2
It’s 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Starring:
Marion Cotillard
,
Philippe Katerine
,
Jean Rochefort
,
Olivier Gourmet
,
Marc-André Grondin
,
Bouli Lanners
Brotherhood of Tears (
2013) | IMDb:
5.7
Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives like a ghost and hardly takes care of his only teenage child Juliette. One day, by pure chance, he finds a suspicious but extremely well paid job: his daily mission consists of delivering a briefcase exactly where he is told. The only rule being to never open it. These deliveries will bring him to meet weird people in strange places. Gradually, his cop instinct resurfaces...
Starring:
Jérémie Renier
,
Audrey Fleurot
,
Mélusine Mayance
,
Bouli Lanners
,
Antoine Basler
,
Fabrice Michel
Directed by:
Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (
2012) | IMDb:
5.3
Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.
Starring:
Édouard Baer
,
Gérard Depardieu
,
Guillaume Gallienne
,
Vincent Lacoste
,
Valérie Lemercier
,
Fabrice Luchini
Rust and Bone (
2012) | IMDb:
7.4
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Starring:
Marion Cotillard
,
Matthias Schoenaerts
,
Armand Verdure
,
Céline Sallette
,
Corinne Masiero
,
Bouli Lanners
Nothing to Declare (
2010) | IMDb:
6.4
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
Starring:
Benoît Poelvoorde
,
Dany Boon
,
Julie Bernard
,
Christel Pedrinelli
,
Joachim Ledeganck
,
Jean-Paul Dermont
Directed by:
Dany Boon
Produced by:
Mammuth (
2010) | IMDb:
6.1
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...
Starring:
Gérard Depardieu
,
Yolande Moreau
,
Isabelle Adjani
,
Benoît Poelvoorde
,
Philippe Nahon
,
Bouli Lanners
White Snow (
2010) | IMDb:
5.4
Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
Starring:
Olivier Gourmet
,
François Cluzet
,
Louise Bourgoin
,
Jonathan Zaccaï
,
Bouli Lanners
,
Sasha Queille
Chicas (
2010) | IMDb:
5
Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The reunion goes wildly wrong and the family's craziness overtakes.
Starring:
André Dussollier
,
Emmanuelle Seigner
,
Bouli Lanners
,
Mara Guil
,
Ivan Barbot
,
Antonio Gil
Directed by:
Yasmina Reza
Produced by:
The Villain (
2009) | IMDb:
6.3
With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. Her ingenious methods provoke her boy's admiration, but he fights back with sneaky traps and underhand tricks when Maniette tries to force him to do the right thing just once in his life.
Starring:
Albert Dupontel
,
Catherine Frot
,
Bouli Lanners
,
Nicolas Marié
,
Bernard Farcy
,
Christine Murillo
Directed by:
Albert Dupontel