Olivier Gourmet
Date of Birth: 22 Jul 1963
Country: Belgium
Total Credits at Criticker: 73 (Actor)
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Young secretary Carla is a long-time employee of a property development company. Loyal and hardworking, first to arrive and last to leave, Carla is beginning to chafe at the limitations of her career and is looking to move up. But as a 35-five-year-old woman with a hearing deficiency, she is not sure how to climb out of her humdrum life, though she is confident in her own abilities. Into her life comes Paul Angeli, a new trainee she decides to hire... (imdb)
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The first scene, like almost all others, is a fighting scene. A girl, about 18, is sacked from her factory work because her trial period is over. The girl, Rosetta, is quite upset and the cops will have to arrive to get her out. She has her reasons: she lives in a caravan, with her alcoholic mother. She goes looking for work as some go to the war. Treasons, murders are in her mind, if not in her acts. (imdb)
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A divorced carpentry instructor at a vocational training center finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious student. (New Yorker Films)
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An apocalyptic calamity has left the people of Europe struggling to survive amidst drastic shortages of food and water. A couple decides to flee the city to their country house with what meager supplies they can find in hopes of protecting their children. To their surprise and horror they find the house already occupied by another equally desperate family. The ensuing confrontation forever changes their -- setting them adrift in a chaotic, often indifferent world in which their survival hinges on the strained compassion of those they encounter. (Palm Pictures)
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A sweet and genuinely off-beat comedy about a 45-year-old actress (Moreau) traveling from one small town to another with her one-woman shoe "Dirty Business." (New Yorker Films)
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Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno (Renier) lives with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Sonia (François) in Seraing, an eastern Belgian steel town. They live off Sonia's unemployment benefits and the panhandling and petty theft committed by Bruno and his gang. Their lives change forever when Sonia gives birth to their child, Jimmy. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Igor and his father, Roger, are making a decent living renting apartments to illegal immigrants and sometimes working them illegally (among other scams). (imdb)
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A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition. (imdb)
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When a somewhat reclusive book-trader accidentally hits a little girl with his car, leaving her in a coma, he finds himself drawn to see her in hospital, becoming involved with the girl and her mother.
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A 19th Century French Robin Hood. Jacquou is a young farmer's son living in southwest of France (Perigord) in 1815. After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, returning noblemen are persecuting everyone who supported Napoleon or fought as a soldier in his army. The enmity of the cruel and arrogant Count of Nansac causes the death of Jacquou's parents. He is reduced to begging and starving in the cold. His mother's last wish is for him to avenge his father's death.
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In order to become the owner of a snack bar with her boyfriend, Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, becomes an accomplice to a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio. (imdb)
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A modern-day Parisian town crier gradually learns that someone is using him to give cryptic warnings of a plague outbreak in the city. (imdb)
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A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own six children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother for her grandchildren as she never did that for Rita. (imdb)
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Ismahel is forced to leave his wife and daughter behind in Algeria. He seeks refuge in France but stays in contact with his family through letters. Meanwhile a funeral ceremony for a deceased farmers son in rural France forces a family to confront questions of death and faith.
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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.
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The film is a love story which tells the impossible tale of two youths who have never before met. The action unrolls in Paris between 1979 and 1980, in other words it occurs during the collapsing of the bridge. (wikipedia.org)
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Follows police officer Marek, who loses his colleague and best friend during an operation against a drug trafficking network. Transferred to a new department specializing in undercover work, Marek must infiltrate a gang sending large quantities of cannabis resin from the south of Spain to French towns. (movies.yahoo.com)
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Michel, the Belgian son of a paralyzed writer, husband of a Congolese refugee, is an erratic inventor misunderstood by his employer. At age 41, he learns that he was born secretly in a barn in Québec and given up for adoption shortly afterward. Michel goes there and meets a man who drives a car with a technologically advanced hybrid engine. An accident changes their lives forever, and what is uncovered will challenge the very future of the automotive industry. (imdb)
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The life in a Catalan (Southern France) village near the border may be quite boring. A young man who is escaping from his homeland is seeking for something and may find it in this weird place. You see the relationship between the people in the village, their dreams, their past and their perspectives in life. (imdb)
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Forty-year-old François has everything he needs to be happy: a family, work, friends... But a tragic event to do with his business puts into question the principles that rule his life. Will François be able to rouse himself and refuse to accept what he now considers intolerable? (marion-cotillard.org)
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A former war photographer and her physician husband are caught up in a riot when locals in an Andean village vent their unhappiness with contamination from a nearby mine. (imdb)
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An over-protective mother makes her youngest child's life a hell in a obsessive care education.
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The movie relate the events surrounding Coluche's bid for the French presidency in 1981.
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Louis is a twelve year old boy who lives with his parents and older brother in southern Morocco. Louis is very happy until the day his father shares a secret with him
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A Belge-Francophobe customs officer is forced to team up with a Frenchman during the elimination of the Franco-Belge borders in the 90s.
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Writer/director Abdellatif Kechiche's follow-up to The Secret of the Grain tells the true-life tale of Saartjie "Sarah" Baartman (Yahima Torres), aka the "Hottentot Venus," a South African slave who in the early 19th century became a European sensation by starring in revolting London and Paris shows as an exotic, animalistic dark-continent freak. (nick schager)
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A high-end car dealership owner is forced to deal with the Finnish mafia over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
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Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider. (imdb)
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The Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is woken in the middle of the night by his personal private secretary. A bus has crashed into a ravine. He goes there, he has no choice. Thus begins the odyssey of a State official through an increasingly complex and hostile world. Speed, power struggles, chaos, economic crisis...In the frantic chain of events, one emergency replaces another. What sacrifices are men ready to accept? How long will they last in a State that devours those who serve it? (mubi.com)
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A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenant Rossi who served under The Colonel in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as missing in action since 1957. The revelations found in Rossi's diary go far beyond The Colonel's actions in Algeria and give an insight on how dirty Algeria's War for Independence really was. (imdb)
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It is impossible not to be shocked by this movie, focused on a very delicate theme, and on three female characters. An over the top (and very courageous) Isabelle Huppert plays the main role of Danielle, a mother who hates her daughter in a visceral way, and has spent her whole life between indifference and sense of guilt, but incapable of elaborating her suffering condition. (imdb)
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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, played by Léa Seydoux. (mubi.com)
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A detective hunts for the marksman who foiled the plan to catch a notorious team of bank robbers. (imdb)
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Emmanuelle Devos (Kings & Queen) stars in this gorgeously rendered biopic of the acclaimed French novelist Violette Leduc, whose intense and fraught relationship with Simone de Beauvoir (Sandrine Kimberlain) fuelled her fearless, nakedly confessional writing. (tiff.net)
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The film follows Sandra, a young woman assisted by her husband, who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job. (imdb)
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An investigation by a young inspector who quickly becomes obsessed with stopping a monster.
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In 1983 France, teenaged Mohamed is shot by a policeman, but survives. Rejecting his friends' proposal of violent retribution, he proposes political action inspired by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. With two friends, and support from Dubois, the priest of Minguettes, they embark on a non-violent March for Equality and Against Racism between Marseille and Paris. (Wikipedia)
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1941. France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. April, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents. (imdb)
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Times have changed a lot for Franck who is a night watchman. About a decade ago he was a specialized worker. Today he feels bored but would jump at any chance to prove his bravery and courage. (imdb)
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The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.
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A doctor attempts to uncover the identity of a patient who died after she refused her treatment. (imdb)
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One night, on a bridge... a stabbing. There's Julien, a professional footballer whose life is played out between his girlfriend and his father, a firefighter-paramedic, with whom he lives. And there's Pouga, a young rebel who dreams of a "grand life". The film shows the parallel destiny of these two young men who resemble each other but who have never met. They share the same values and a thirst for the absolute. They could be friends. And yet... (cinando.com)
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In may 1940, the German troops enter France. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of a small village of Pas-de-Calais decide on the recommendations of the prefecture, to give up everything to go on the road, fleeing to the coast. Among them, there is Paul, the village mayor. He led the group, seeks to maintain a minimum of order and republican spirit in this nomadic life.
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When an assistant to a daguerreotype photographer falls in love with the latter's daughter the relationship mirrors the art form as love and pain combine. (imdb)
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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. (imdb)
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26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist's son, who investigated 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. (cineuropa.org)
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The movie retraces the French Revolution, the constitution of the new parliament and the condemnation of the King Louis XVI.
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While Frank Valken makes a fabulous break, a killer squad goes into action and executes all the witnesses. Among the corpses is that of the magistrate who is investigating the Mad Snipers case. Thirty years later, they seem to be back. Arrested and faced with media pressure, Frank has no choice but to escape to try to prove his innocence.
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Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity.
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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, in verse, for the holidays. Only concern: it is not written yet. Ignoring the whims of actresses, the demands of his Corsican producers, the jealousy of his wife, the stories of his best friend's heart and the lack of enthusiasm of all those around him, Edmond starts wr
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During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionate love affair. (imdb)
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In 1721, the Regent of France, wanting to seal the peace with Spain, offers to the Spanish King, a marriage between their respective heirs: Louis XV, age 11, and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4-year-old Spanish Infanta (princess). The Regent of France also offers to marry his daughter, Mademoiselle deè Montpensier, 12, to the Prince of Asturias, the 14-year-old heir apparent to the Spanish throne. Everything has been done to expect the best of the children, but nothing will proceed as planned., (imdb
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Acerbic comedy set in a small French town, where Edmond Zweck's funeral business is ailing. One morning, a body finally turns up, and Zweck and his employees Georges and Eddy have some work on their hands. As they set for the graveyard though, this glimmer of hope turns to disaster.
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Jérôme, a senior executive, has just left his company. Determined to never work for nobody else ever again, he attempts to set up his own company, come what may, even ignoring the reluctance of his wife Laura. Ugo, their 11-year-old son, is a tennis player and a promising champion. To reach his goal, he must make it into the Roland Garros national training center. Just like his dad, he's willing to do whatever it takes to make it. (imdb)
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Since Nora attended the trial of Jacques Viguier, accused of the murder of his wife, she is convinced of his innocence. She convinces a tenor of the bar to defend him for his second trial, on appeal. (imdb)
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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.
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Moloch (2020) - TV Series
In an industrial seaside town, strangers burst into flames for no reason. Suicides? Murders? Supernatural phenomena? To find out, Louise, a young journalist, and Gabriel, a psychiatrist, go to investigate. (imdb)
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Franky, an unemployed actor, is carried away by his manager Arsène, in a stolen car for what seems to be an appointment with Franky's idolized director above the Arctic Circle. (imdb)
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Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he's on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. (imdb)
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A sexual revolution starts in an internment center when an empathetic caretaker takes seriously the claim of a quadriplegic rude and nasty man to visit a prostitute. Should we all be granted sexual rights? (imdb)
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Constance and her fiance 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. (imdb)
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Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter's hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet's nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, turns the young girl's life upside down. (imdb)
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An occupational nurse attempts to blow the whistle on toxic waste leaking from a chemical plant.
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A contemporary urban thriller about the bloody journey of a Brussels subway driver. (imdb)
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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.
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Oussekine looks at the terrible events of December 5, 1986, which led to the death of Malik Oussekine, to which no series has ever been devoted. Focusing on his family's fight for justice, it will plunge into the heart of the 1980s to understand the impact that this tragedy had on French society at the time.
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Sam is an exemplary inmate. Within months of his release from prison, he is diligently preparing for his reintegration. While on leave, his past catches up with him and an accident leaves him with only one option: escape. (FILMAFFINITY)
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A few months after May 68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and far-left militant, decides to get a job at Citroën as a production line worker. Like a number of his comrades, he wanted to infiltrate the factory to rekindle the revolutionary fire, but the majority of workers didn't want to hear any more about politics. When Citroën decided to pay back the Grenelle agreements by requiring workers to work 3 hours overtime a week for free, Robert and a few others saw the possibilit
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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. (imdb)
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Thom and Henri have known the joys of marriage but after 35 years together love has turned sour. It’s time for a divorce. (mubi.com)
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Manon, an introverted 16-year-old, has to live with her grandmother Yvonne, a former feminist activist suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Yvonne, confused, mistakes Manon for her daughter. Manon takes on the role of her mother, discovering the history of the women in her family and learning to become one of them.
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