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Olivier Gourmet has 37 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Mesrine: Public Enemy #1.
Heaven Will Wait
2016
Drama
Simone: Woman of the Century
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Prime Video · Included
Mayhem!
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 29%Hulu · Included
Rosetta
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Max · Included
The Kid with a Bike
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%AMC+ · Included
The Young Karl Marx
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Prime Video · Included
Conviction
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 47%Prime Video · Included
After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media attention and public adoration, Mesrine becomes increasingly paranoid and isolated, leading to a dramatic confrontation with the law that ultimately seals his fate as the nation's most infamous public enemy.
Dir. Jean-François Richet · With Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
Dir. Olivier Dahan · With Elsa Zylberstein, Rebecca Marder, Élodie Bouchez
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.
Dir. Alexis Michalik · With Thomas Solivérès, Olivier Gourmet, Mathilde Seigner
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.
Dir. Franck Ekinci, Christian Desmares · With Marion Cotillard, Philippe Katerine, Jean Rochefort
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.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart
United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their family history by retracing their ancestor's steps.
Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler, Vincent Macaigne
Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.
Dir. Costa-Gavras · With José Garcia, Karin Viard, Ulrich Tukur
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.
Dir. Roschdy Zem · With Omar Sy, James Thierrée, Clotilde Hesme
Sam is a professional boxer about to get released from prison. While on parole, his past catches up with him and he has no choice but to flee. Five years later, he has rebuilt a simple life on an exotic island in Thailand with his wife and her daughter, but when he gets blackmailed by a dangerous local godfather, he must embark on a dangerous drug smuggling mission which results in a tragedy. Now he has only one purpose: to seek merciless vengeance.
Dir. Xavier Gens · With Nassim Lyes, Loryn Nounay, Olivier Gourmet
Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad. He wants to keep the promise, but the price would be to betray his father.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Jérémie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Assita Ouedraogo
She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Dir. Jacques Audiard · With Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Émilie Dequenne, Olivier Gourmet, Fabrizio Rongione
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Cécile de France, Thomas Doret, Jérémie Renier
A poor young Belgian mother wants her petty thief of a boyfriend to be gainfully employed to raise their newborn child, but he has other ideas.
Dir. Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne · With Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Olivier Gourmet
as Robert Darzac
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?
Dir. Bruno Podalydès · With Denis Podalydès, Jean-Noël Brouté, Claude Rich
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
Dir. Raoul Peck · With August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps
Along with her husband and three children, Marthe lives in an eden of her own creation, nearly isolated from the rest of the world. The arrival of a construction vehicle, however, pierces their tranquil, hermetic existence—before long a disused highway has been re-opened, and the family finds their home situated in the midst of rush-hour traffic. While the privileges of clean air, quietude and privacy are thus denied them, Marthe remains determined to stay no matter the cost.
Dir. Ursula Meier · With Isabelle Huppert, Adélaïde Leroux, Madeleine Budd
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.
Dir. Frédéric Tellier · With Raphaël Personnaz, Nathalie Baye, Olivier Gourmet
Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor’s office, and fearing a miscarriage of justice, she convinces a leading lawyer to defend him during his second trial, on appeal. Together, they will put up a tenacious fight against injustice.
Dir. Antoine Raimbault · With Marina Foïs, Olivier Gourmet, Laurent Lucas
Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal who brokered the deal.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione
February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire of which she is the heiress. But she has a son, Paul, who with an unexpected and tragic gesture will place her on the path to ruin.
Dir. Clovis Cornillac · With Léa Drucker, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alice Isaaz
In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...
Dir. Laurent Boutonnat · With Gaspard Ulliel, Marie-Josée Croze, Albert Dupontel
Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, after the police can't identify the young woman.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier
The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche · With Yahima Torres, André Jacobs, Olivier Gourmet
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.
Dir. Stephan Streker · With Lina El Arabi, Sébastien Houbani, Babak Karimi
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 politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.
Dir. Pierre Schoeller · With Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman
After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate an era of peace and prosperity that will heal the economies of both nations: his intention is to build a solid network of marriage alliances that will involve four children of very different ages who know nothing of betrayals and power games…
Dir. Marc Dugain · With Lambert Wilson, Anamaria Vartolomei, Olivier Gourmet
as Inspector Marcel 'Le Colosse' Terrasson
The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.
Dir. Jérôme Cornuau · With Clovis Cornillac, Diane Kruger, Édouard Baer
When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves.
Dir. Michele Placido · With Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on the scene. Béatrice is a capricious and selfish woman, Claire's exact opposite.
Dir. Martin Provost · With Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve, Olivier Gourmet
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