Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Xavier Gens (born on April 27, 1975 in Dunkirk, France) is a French film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Xavier Gens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Havoc
2025
Second Unit Director
When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.

Surrealistic Nightmares: An In-Depth Look at Walloon Horror Cinema
2025
as Self
After researching the Flemish horror cinema in "Forgotten Scares", director Steve De Roover - with the help of co-director Jérôme Vandewattyne (Spit'N...

Generation Terror
2024
as Himself
Horror bleeds into the 21st Century in an incisive documentary looking back at the late 1990s film industry on a global scale to find out what happene...

The Damned
2024
Co-Producer
Yara, a 25-year-old Moroccan girl who has come to study in Paris, has not left her home for several months, as she has been agoraphobic since childhoo...

Under Paris
2024
Screenplay, Director
In order to save Paris from an international bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears in the Seine...

Mayhem!
2023
Director, Writer, Co-Producer
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 ye...

Houria
2023
Producer
A young woman who is passionate about ballet dancing and experiences a trauma, and then she meets other women who have experienced similar situations ...

The Rock of Ages
2021
Producer
A soldier, which army, which era, unclear. What’s clear is the evil he’s done. Faced with his impending mortality, he fears being judged in the afterl...

Papicha
2019
Producer
Nedjma, an 18-year-old student passionate about fashion design refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Civil War keep her from experiencing a...

Beyond Blood
2019
as Self
High Tension, Inside, Martyrs, Frontier(s) and Them. In the years of 2003 to 2008, those sensational and innovative horror movies were made and left h...

Budapest
2018
Director
Two best friends stuck in boring jobs become bachelor party planners in Budapest.

Hostile
2018
Executive Producer
Juliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only com...

Cold Skin
2017
Director
A young man who arrives at a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his life.

Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
2017
as Self

The Crucifixion
2017
Director
When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in ...

Cell
2016
Executive Producer
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodth...

Where is Rocky II?
2016
Executive Producer
Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic artwork.

The ABCs of Death
2013
Director
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by child...

Among Friends
2012
as Himself
A twisted horror about a dinner party gone wrong. Set against an 80s backdrop, the good time takes a dark turn when one in the group hijacks the eveni...

The Divide
2012
Director
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away a...

Edwige
2011
Producer
Edwige lives alone in a house in Normandy and works as a maid. Her only companion is her loneliness. One day she meets a man in one of the rooms of th...

The Assault
2011
Thanks
December 1994. On Saturday 24th, four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus, bound for Paris, with 227 passengers on board, at the Algiers a...

French Meat
2010
as Self
Documentary on the rise of New French Extremism.

The Incredible Adventures of Fusion Man
2009
Director, Writer
It's a comedy, inspired superhero films. Dan, aka Fusion Man, is about to spend the evening with his boyfriend Marc, but he has to leave to rescue an ...

Lady Blood
2008
as L'homme tabassé
15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lea...

Hitman
2007
Director
A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's ...

Frontier(s)
2007
Director, Writer
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Le bon, la brute et les zombies
2004
as Impaled zombie
Hordes of zombies invade a western town.

The Captive
2000
Assistant Director Trainee
Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her into...

30 Years
2000
Casting Director
A bittersweet drama covering 30 years in the lives of group of friends united by their devotion to the theatre, 30 Ans begins in Paris in 1974, when A...

The Secret Laughter of Women
1999
Assistant Director Trainee
Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful Nigerian si...

Les Kidnappeurs
1998
Unit Manager
Ulysse, a gun-toting hood, gets together a team of four people, including himself, to carry out what he thinks will be a fail-safe heist...

Ronin
1998
Assistant Director Trainee
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembl...

RPM
1998
Assistant Director Trainee
A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.

On Guard
1997
Unit Manager
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a ...

Never Ever
1997
Assistant Director Trainee, Production Assistant
Thomas Murray and Amanda have just moved to Paris. He works for a bank owned by Amanda's father Arthur Trevane. Amanda decides that she does not like ...

Madame Jacques on the Croisette
1997
Assistant Director, Second Unit Director
A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.

Double Team
1997
Assistant Director Trainee
A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and ...

Maximum Risk
1996
Assistant Director Trainee
Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New ...

Condamner a tuer
N/A
Director
An Unfinished Country
N/A
Director
Hungry for recognition, two young American doctors accept the challenge of a residency in the world's largest hospital, where they unexpectedly get en...
The Guns of Christmas Past
N/A
Director
A former hitman for the mob, brought out from hiding when his former best friend and partner is killed. Ebb penetrates the compound of his enemy to ex...

Under Paris 2
N/A
Director
Sequel to Xavier Gens's "Under Paris" (2024), filming planned in 2027.
Lady Chang
N/A
Director, Producer
A former French war photographer who is traumatized by the loss of her team during her last mission and sets off to rebuild her life in a region of So...