Jalil Lespert
Biography: Jalil Lespert is the son of actor Jean Lespert, born in 1942 in Rosny-sous-Bois, and Farida Azi, lawyer of Algerian origin born in 1948 in Palestro (today Lakhdaria), in Algeria. He is the older brother of actor Yaniss Lespert. Pushed by his mother, a lawyer, Jalil Lespert began studying law, but he changed his mind when in 1995, Laurent Cantet noticed him and cast him with his father in the short film Jeux de Plage. Subsequently, the young actor reunited with the director to shoot the TV film Les Sanguinaires in 1997. Two years later, Laurent Cantet offered him a new role, this time in the cinema, in the film Ressources Humaines. Thanks to the role of Franck, he was revealed to the general public and won the César for best male actor in 2001. In 2003, he won the prize for best new actor at the Cabourg Film Festival for his role in Vivre me tue by Jean- Pierre Sinapi. From then on, the actor made a series of films (Pas sur la bouche, Le Promeneur du Champ-de-Mars, Virgil, Le petit Lieutenant…). Jalil Lespert also stands out as a director. In 2007, he moved behind the camera and signed the feature film 24 measures. A few years later, he repeated the experience with the adaptation of the novel Contrary Winds, which received a good reception. In 2014, he co-wrote and directed the biopic dedicated to Yves Saint-Laurent, played by Pierre Niney. In 2015, he joined the team of directors of the series Versailles, broadcast on Canal+, which was a great success. He continued the following year with the production of the feature film Iris in which he also starred. Since then, Jalil Lespert has alternated between his career as a director and that of an actor. In 2020, he starred in La terre des hommes by Noël Marandin and L’Enfant rêve by Raphaël Jacoulot. On the private side, Jalil Lespert has shared the life of Sonia Rolland since 2009. The couple has a daughter, Kahina, born in November 2010. From his union with the actress Bérangère Allaux, the actor has two children, a boy named Aliosha and a daughter, Gena. In October 2018, he announced on social networks that he was separated from Sonia Rolland. On December 15, 2020, he formalized his relationship with the widow of Johnny Hallyday, Laeticia, on Instagram. Jalil Lespert is the ambassador of the NGO Plan International (children's rights in developing countries). In 2016, Jalil Lespert was a member of the jury for the 2016 Dinard British Film Festival.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 18, 1976
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Infinity Pool
2023-01-27
Infinity Pool
Overview: While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi, they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror. A tragic accident leaves them facing a zero tolerance policy for crime: either you'll be executed, or, if you’re rich enough to afford it, you can watch yourself die instead.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-27
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The Young Lieutenant
2005-08-31
The Young Lieutenant
Overview: A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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Pa-ra-da
2008-08-28
Pa-ra-da
Overview: The film tells the true story of French clown Miloud Oukili from his arrival in Romania in 1992 (three years after the fall of Ceausescu) to his encounter with the street children of Bucharest, known as «boskettari» who live in the streets and sleep in Bucharest's sewers, eking a living out of petty crime, begging, and prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-28
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Natural Enemy
2004-12-08
Natural Enemy
Overview: Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy's death. The main suspect is the boy's father. Shattered by the suicide of the main witness, Nicolas lets himself get snared by the strange and fascinating influence that the father exerts on everyone around him. Eventually, Luhel discovers the truth about the murder and feels that the law is inadequate to deal with it. As a consequence, he decides to destroy the evidence and keep it a secret.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-08
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Virgil
2005-09-07
Virgil
Overview: Every week, Virgil makes his father Ernest dream by telling him about his boxing exploits during a visit. Every week, Virgil comes to dream by meeting the eyes of Margot, a young woman who is also visiting. This week, Ernest tells her that he is going to get out and that he will finally be able to see Virgil in the ring. There's just one problem: Virgil hasn't boxed in three years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-07
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Blackout
2010-03-31
Blackout
Overview: Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives is making a report on Westerners who have been repatriated from Rwanda, fleeing the massacres. He meets Clément, a student of Hutu origin whose Tutsi fiancée Alice hasn’t been able to leave Rwanda. Antoine convinces Clément to go back with him to look for Alice, and to let him film the journey. Their pact soon becomes untenable as they find themselves thrown into chaos. This is a journey through horror during which a young man’s First World illusions are stripped away as he wakes up to human tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-31
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Human Resources
1999-11-20
Human Resources
Overview: "Good son" Franck returns to his hometown to do a trainee managerial internship in the Human Resources department of the factory where his anxious, taciturn father has worked for 23 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-11-20
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Life Kills Me
2002-05-26
Life Kills Me
Overview: Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling to get by while going on many fruitless job interviews, during which he tries to impress his potential employers by turning his pizza delivery job into a tall tale about revamping the whole pizza chain. But at some point, they always seem to "see through him." He retreats into the boxing ring. His secretly gay brother Daniel also has trouble finding his place in the world. He spends all his time bodybuilding and takes dangerous drugs to enhance his physique. He dreams of being the next Schwarzenegger, but is forced to settle for a demeaning job as a "star" in a Hamburg sex club. Based on Jack-Alain Léger's novel
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-26
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Not on the Lips
2003-12-03
Not on the Lips
Overview: A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage. Meanwhile, a young artist, Charly, pursues Gilberte while Arlette tries to match him with the young Huguette, who loves him. Will Eric play along or try to re-win Gilberte's affection? Can Gilberte play one off against another? And who will manage to kiss whom on the lips?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-03
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The Idol
2002-08-06
The Idol
Overview: An Australian actress forms a spiritual bond with an elderly Chinese chef who lives across from her in a Parisian tenement house.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-06
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Les amateurs
2004-01-14
Les amateurs
Overview: In a suburb of Paris, the clumsy efforts of two friends in their twenties to make themselves loved by two young students.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-14
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The Last Mitterrand
2005-02-16
The Last Mitterrand
Overview: A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-02-16
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Chez Gino
2011-03-29
Chez Gino
Overview: Gino Roma holds a pizzeria for thirty years in Brussels, purchased with money from his wife Simone. His quiet life is turned upside down when he learns of the imminent death of his uncle, godfather of the Mafia, Italian billionaire with a promised big inheritance. Gino must prove to his uncle that he is a formidable godfather reigning on Brussels pizzerias, ordering a director, a documentary to present it as a major mobster. Nothing happens quite as planned: Gino family does not quite agree and the crew is not "open" to Gino orders, taking his new role very seriously, especially as the comedy soon attracts the malevolent eye of a true thug.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-29
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Love and Bruises
2011-09-01
Love and Bruises
Overview: Hua, a woman in her late twenties, goes against her family to become a teacher in Paris. She falls in love with men who physically abuse her. Will she ever find her true love?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-01
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A Butterfly Kiss
2011-06-01
A Butterfly Kiss
Overview: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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Our Happy Lives
1999-05-19
Our Happy Lives
Overview: Six people whose lives are intertwined struggle to find happiness amid broken relationships and painful life changes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-19
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A Considerable Disturbance
2000-03-22
A Considerable Disturbance
Overview: Laurent's fate is to be a soccer superstar. But he happens to fall in love with a Fabienne, 40. He is only 18, and his career is about to fall apart...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-03-22
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Inch'Allah dimanche
2001-12-05
Inch'Allah dimanche
Overview: The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-12-05
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Landes
2013-07-31
Landes
Overview: A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property.In this place,it seems that 1789 never happened and that time stood still:her workers,circa 1920,do not receive any salary and ,like the peasants in the middle ages,have to bring their production to their landlady. But her progressive ideas come up against men still remembering WW1 and against her bourgeois peers.Her foreman ,first bewildered ,is finally won over by his boss' resilience and strength of character.For her own good,the young heiress is too ahead of her time though.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-07-31
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Bella ciao
2000-06-04
Bella ciao
Overview: A man struggles to support his family while remaining true to his ideals in this drama set in Europe during the 1930s. Orfeo Mancini and his wife Nella are a pair of working-class Italians who years ago swore allegiance to the Communist party. With Mussolini on the rise, Orfeo and Nella come to the conclusion that they are no longer welcome in their native land, and they decide to pull up stakes and move to America with their two children. As a result of some confusion en route, the Mancinis end up in Marseilles rather than the United States; needing work, Orfeo takes a job working as a manual laborer for a wealthy landowner. This requires a serious amount of pride-swallowing on Orfeo's part, since his new boss is an Italian expatriate who once courted Nella. The situation becomes all the more difficult for Orfeo when his employer throws his allegiances behind the growing fascist movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-06-04
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Post Partum
2013-06-22
Post Partum
Overview: Luce and Ulysse love each other. They live a full and happy life managing their own little veterinary clinic on the Atlantic coast. Luce is awaiting a happy event. The future looks good. At least at first sight. But when baby Rose arrives, nothing goes as planned. Luce is out of her depth before the constant crying of her baby. Why does the baby cry so? Is she trying to warn her about something? Could it be that the little family is in danger?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-22
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GTMAX
2024-11-19
GTMAX
Overview: When a notorious gang of bikers recruits her brother for a heist, a former motocross champion must face her deepest fears to keep her family safe.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-19
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The Sanguinaires
1997-08-30
The Sanguinaires
Overview: In December of 1999, François organizes a retreat to a small island for himself, some friends, and their children to avoid the craziness of Paris during the turn of the millennium. Things quickly become tense between François and the young man who is the island's caretaker. Boredom and bickering add to the growing foreboding. By the end, will millennial noise in Paris seem mild in comparison to violence in the pastoral retreat?
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-30
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Courts mais Gay : Tome 6
2003-10-01
Courts mais Gay : Tome 6
Overview: A collection of gay short films. The 7 short films are: Poor Girl! [Pov' fille !] (2003); Oedipus N+1 [Œdipe - [N+1]] (2003); Piglets [Ferkel] (1999); Tommy Trips [Thomas trébuche] (1999); Breakfast? [Frühstück?] (2002); Sunday Morning (2001); The Case of O [Le cas d'O] (2003).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-10-01
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De guerre lasse
2014-05-07
De guerre lasse
Overview: Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseilles to get back together with Katia, his former girlfriend. But in the city, relationships have changed...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-05-07
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First Growth
2015-01-27
First Growth
Overview: Winemaker son, Charlie Marshall left Burgundy to become a Parisian renowned winemaker, author of a successful guide whose notes are annually tremble vineyards. But in Côte-d'Or, his father lost the taste of wine and mistakes the family winery rush towards bankruptcy. At first reluctant, Charlie returns to Burgundy. It must his boots and shoes back up his sleeves and become winemaker confront a profession he does not know, under the skeptical gaze of his father. Between unpredictable weather and a delicate variety, Charlie will have to prove to his father that he is worthy of this land passed from generation to generation in their family. It is easy to note a wine, but how do we do a great wine?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-27
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Chaos
Chaos
Overview: Announced remake of the Japanese film Chaos (2000).
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Original Language: en
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In the Shadow of Iris
2016-11-16
In the Shadow of Iris
Overview: The sudden disappearance of a wealthy banker's wife cracks open a dizzying world of secret fetishes, desperate acts and elaborate deceptions.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-16
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Orphan
2017-03-23
Orphan
Overview: A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-03-23
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Tell No One
2006-11-01
Tell No One
Overview: A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Algeria from Above
2015-06-16
Algeria from Above
Overview: Algeria from above is the first documentary made entirely from the sky on Algeria. Through the eye of the famous Yann Arthus-Bertrand this documentary vividly depicts this great country, and its vibrant cultural and natural treasures. From North to South and from West to East, it shows us the entirety of Algeria, lives in the large hectic coastal cities, Atlas mountains, oases of the Sahara or gentle hills of the Sahel. With a rich past that seems to have crossed all civilizations, and a territory where all natural environments amalgamate, Algeria appears here in all its diversity and its unity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-06-16
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The Escape
2018-04-25
The Escape
Overview: An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-25
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Magical Nights
2018-11-08
Magical Nights
Overview: Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-11-08
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Brother
2019-07-31
Brother
Overview: Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of which he does not know the rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-31
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Beasts
2021-08-25
Beasts
Overview: Constance and her fiancé hope to one day take over, modernize and expand her father’s farm, on the verge of bankruptcy, to the large-scale farms that share the land and power. She gains the support of the influential and charismatic Sylvain, their fate quickly lying in his hands... When Sylvain's desire for her steps in the negotiations, Constance must face yet another kind of violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-08-25
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Dreamchild
2020-10-07
Dreamchild
Overview: François and Noémie run a sawmill in the mountains not far from the Swiss border. François has taken over his family's business, making him the fourth generation. He dreams of having a child. After years of failed fertility assistance, they give up on having a baby of their own and turn to adoption. But then François meets Patricia, new to the neighborhood. They begin a passionate affair. Soon after, Patricia gets pregnant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-07
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Oedipus N+1
2003-02-01
Oedipus N+1
Overview: In a nightmarish future, the wealthy elite maintain The Circle, a stratum of society that can use technology for regeneration, although it's unclear if a person is regenerated into reality or if this New Life is a cyber world. Thomas Steiner is regenerated, thanks to his mother, and it seems her goal is for him to lose his homosexuality. He awakens from his regeneration with memories of Kazo, a man he loved. He goes in search of him. But, was Kazo ever real? And what will mother make of this son who leaves the safety of The Circle in search of something else?
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-01
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Summer Games
1995-01-02
Summer Games
Overview: 18 year old Éric, on vacation in the South with his parents, decides to escape the stifling situation especially with his 50 year old father, and join a group of fellow youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-02
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High Pain Management
1999-02-01
High Pain Management
Overview: Laurent, twenty, found, thanks to his father, a first job: security agent in a sports shop. The arrival of the young man disrupts his superior, Thierry, who immediately takes aversion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-01
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With or Without You
2021-09-13
With or Without You
Overview: Alice and Tommaso have been together for fifteen years; they don’t have children, he‘s a musician, she’s an actress. Invited to dinner for an announcement, their friends think it’s going to be a marriage announcement, but instead discover that decided to break up: but without drama or emotional rifts, staying friends with each other. A legitimate but naive ambition. Love stories end, because people change. And no change is, nor can it be, painless.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-09-13
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Tralala
2021-07-16
Tralala
Overview: A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-16
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