Biography
Emmanuel Courcol is a French actor, director, and screenwriter born on December 25, 1957.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Marching Band
2024
Director, Screenplay
Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conduc...

The Green Deal
2024
Writer
Carole tries to save the life of her son who has been wrongfully sentenced to death in a rigged trial.

Thank You Guys
2023
Original Film Writer
An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."

Boxer les mots
2022
Director
From November 2018 to May 2019, nine long-sentence inmates from the Meaux-Chauconin penitentiary will take part in a theatrical creation directed by c...

The Big Hit
2020
Director, Screenplay
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to s...

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
2020
Co-Writer
In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for ...

In the Name of the Land
2019
as Notary
Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family. I...

In the Name of the Land
2019
Screenplay
Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family. I...

Ceasefire
2017
Screenplay, Director
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the va...

Face Down
2015
Writer
Samy is a Frenchman accused of smuggling counterfeit money from Bulgaria to France. To avoid jail, he becomes an informer for the French police, joini...

Géraldine je t'aime
2013
Director

All Our Desires
2011
as Le docteur Stroesser
Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunat...

All Our Desires
2011
Screenplay
Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunat...

Welcome
2009
as Le directeur du supermarché
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love w...

Welcome
2009
Writer, Screenplay
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love w...

Don't Worry, I'm Fine
2006
as Doctor from Vigneux
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.

The Light
2004
as Le curé
Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during whic...

The Light
2004
Adaptation, Scenario Writer
Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during whic...

The Pharmacist
2003
as Jacques Desmoines
An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.

Mademoiselle
2001
Writer
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not,...

Zonzon
1998
as Gardien Gilles
In a French prison, three men are coming to terms with the emotional and physical torment which their incarceration brings them. Arnaud is serving a s...

Opération Père Noël
1996
as Père-Noel

The Last Writer
1993
as Le conducteur
Jacques asks a public writer to compose love letters for a beautiful stranger that he pretends he has just met.
Greenland
N/A
Director, Screenplay
Three years after a young girl’s disappearance during a trip to Norway, her passport resurfaces in Greenland. Without telling anyone, her 17-year-old ...