Olivier Gourmet

Olivier Gourmet

July 22, 1963 · 63 years old

Olivier Gourmet (born 22 July 1963 in Namur) is a Belgian actor. He won the Best Actor award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for his role in Le Fils by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. He also appeared in La Promesse, Rosetta and L'Enfant. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olivier Gourmet,…

Known For

40 titles
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Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1

Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1

2008 · 2h 13m · Movie

The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life and death as France's Public Enemy No. 1 in the 1970s.

7.4
2
The Unknown Girl

The Unknown Girl

2016 · 1h 53m · Movie

A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.

6.7
3
The Kid with a Bike

The Kid with a Bike

2011 · 1h 27m · Movie

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser agrees to foster him on weekends.

7.4
4
The Young Karl Marx

The Young Karl Marx

2017 · 1h 58m · Movie

The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.

6.7
5
April and the Extraordinary World

April and the Extraordinary World

2015 · 1h 45m · Movie

It's 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

7.3
6
Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

2015 · 1h 58m · Movie

Bored in her marriage to a country doctor and stifled by life in a small town, the restless Emma Bovary pursues her dreams of passion and excitement, whatever they may cost.

5.7
7
Chocolat

Chocolat

2016 · 1h 59m · Movie

The rise and fall of the famous clown Chocolat, the first black circus performer who revolutionised the stagnant circus acts and conquered Paris of the Belle Époque with his exuberance and originality.

6.9
8
The Child

The Child

2005 · 1h 35m · Movie

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.

7.4
9
Read My Lips

Read My Lips

2001 · 1h 55m · Movie

She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

7.3
10
Rosetta

Rosetta

1999 · 1h 35m · Movie

Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother. Moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.

7.4
11
Time of the Wolf

Time of the Wolf

2003 · 1h 54m · Movie

When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.

6.4
12
The Promise

The Promise

1996 · 1h 30m · Movie

Roger uses his son Igor to ruthlessly traffic and exploit undocumented immigrants. When one of the immigrants is killed, Igor is guilt-ridden and wants to care for the dead man's family against his father's orders.

7.7
13
Home

Home

2008 · 1h 38m · Movie

Life for an isolated rural family is upended when a major highway next to their property, constructed 10 years before but apparently abandoned, is finally opened.

6.9
14
Cyrano, My Love

Cyrano, My Love

2018 · 1h 50m · Movie

December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, ...

7.3
15
Néro the Assassin

Néro the Assassin

2025 · 1h 1m · TV Show

Southern France, 16th century. Our hero, a minion in the service of a power-hungry nobleman, is going to have to save his own daughter, who is in danger but whom he barely knows.

6.8
16
The Midwife

The Midwife

2017 · 1h 57m · Movie

Claire is a wonderfully gifted midwife, with a natural talent to deliver babies with the most gentle touch. One day she receives a strange phone call. Béatrice, the extravagant mistress of her deceased father, wants to see her again.

6.7
17
Black Venus

Black Venus

2010 · 2h 39m · Movie

In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity.

6.8
18
SK1

SK1

2015 · 2h 0m · Movie

An investigation by a young inspector who quickly becomes obsessed with stopping a monster.

6.6
19
The Minister

The Minister

2011 · 1h 55m · Movie

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a poli...

6.7
20
The Lookout

The Lookout

2012 · 1h 29m · Movie

A detective hunts for the marksman who foiled the plan to catch a notorious team of bank robbers.

5.7
21
Grand Central

Grand Central

2013 · 1h 34m · Movie

Gary, an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni, Gary discovers that radiat...

6.2
22
Mayhem!

Mayhem!

2023 · 1h 39m · Movie

A model prisoner's leave ends in tragedy when his past resurfaces, forcing him to flee. He starts over in Thailand, until a local criminal coerces him back into crime. After this man attacks his family, he vows revenge.

6.3
23
De Gaulle

De Gaulle

2020 · 1h 48m · Movie

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.

6.1
24
Violette

Violette

2013 · 2h 19m · Movie

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their...

6.9
25
Simone: Woman of the Century

Simone: Woman of the Century

2022 · 2h 20m · Movie

Explores the life of Simone Veil -- the famous French figure who survived the Holocaust and went on to become a leading politician, human rights campaigner, and feminist -- through a series of non-chronological memories

7.0
26
The Tiger Brigades

The Tiger Brigades

2006 · 2h 5m · Movie

The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.

5.8
27
A Wedding

A Wedding

2017 · 1h 38m · Movie

Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.

7.1
28
Tueurs

Tueurs

2017 · 1h 26m · Movie

While Frank Valken makes a fabulous break, a killer squad goes into action and executes all the witnesses. Among the corpses there is that of the magistrate who is investigating the Mad Snipers case. Thirty years later, they seem ...

6.1
29
Safe Conduct

Safe Conduct

2002 · 2h 50m · Movie

In German-occupied France, two filmmakers solve the collaboration dilemma differently.

6.9
30
One Nation, One King

One Nation, One King

2018 · 2h 1m · Movie

The intertwining fates of the historical figures, the men and the women of the 1789 French revolution, as they meet at the newly established Assemblée Nationale.

5.8
31
The Colors of Fire

The Colors of Fire

2022 · 2h 15m · Movie

Paris, 1927. After the death of her father, Madeleine Péricourt should have inherited his financial empire but she fell prey to a conspiracy leading her to ruin. Now she will have her vengeance.

6.6
32
Pars vite et reviens tard

Pars vite et reviens tard

2007 · 1h 56m · Movie

A modern-day Parisian town crier gradually learns that someone is using him to give cryptic warnings of a plague outbreak in the city.

5.6
33
The Royal Exchange

The Royal Exchange

2017 · 1h 40m · Movie

A political marriage is arranged in 1721 between the heir to the French throne, Louis XV, and the young Spanish Infanta. The future union between the Prince of Asturias and a French princess is also planned, but complications arise.

6.7
34
Daguerrotype

Daguerrotype

2016 · 2h 11m · Movie

When an assistant to a daguerreotypy photographer falls in love with the latter's daughter the relationship mirrors the art form as love and pain combine.

5.7
35
Red Soil

Red Soil

2021 · 1h 26m · Movie

An occupational nurse attempts to blow the whistle on toxic waste leaking from a chemical plant.

6.7
36
The Breitner Commando

The Breitner Commando

2019 · 1h 49m · Movie

Colonel Paul Andreas Breitner, a former Indochina warrior, is tasked with navigating Algeria during war to locate his missing former senior officer, Colonel Simon Delignières.

6.2