Biography
Philippe Blasband (born 26 July 1964 in Teheran, Iran) is a filmmaker and a writer in French language from Belgium. He is of Jewish origin and lives currently in Brussels. Source: Article "Philippe Blasband" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Complete Filmography

Romantics Anonymous
2020
Original Story
Angélique makes beautiful chocolates, carefully infused with all the emotion that seems to overwhelm her in daily life. Jean-René runs a chocolate fac...

Carpet and Chaos
2016
Writer
While supposedly taking mud baths in Korea, the paterfamilias of a family from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar dies of a sudden heart attack in Brive-la-Gaillar...

Marie's Story
2014
Screenplay
Marie Heurtin is born both blind and deaf. Sister Marguerette wins her trust and teaches her how to express herself.

Angelique
2013
Writer
The incredible destiny of Angélique: a beautiful girl who found in her love for Joffrey Peyrac the strength to fight injustice and submission in a cen...

Vijay and I
2013
Writer
Wilhelm Wilder (Will) is a talented actor stuck on a New York City children's TV show where he portrays Bad Luck Bunny, a hapless green rabbit. Feelin...

Tango Libre
2012
Screenplay
A prison guard is attracted to a woman at his weekly tango class. They meet again when she visits her husband in the prison where he works and he is d...

Romantics Anonymous
2010
Writer
What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate fa...
Motherly
2010
Director, Writer
After the death of her mother (whom she hardly knew), Viviane gets visits from her ghost. Never too late to catch up.

A Distant Neighborhood
2010
Screenplay
Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teen...

Coquelicots
2008
Director
One Christmas day. Three parallel lives. Three individuals in trouble. In one way or another, all of them have to face down their conscience and answe...

Arabian Nights
2007
Writer
Georges's life is turned upside-down when he meets Yamina and decides to help her. While she seems to be persecuted and living in hiding, Georges's re...

Irina Palm
2007
Author, Novel
Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. When one last chance appears, but money is despera...

La Couleur des mots
2007
Director

Gilles' Wife
2004
Writer
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he...

Nathalie...
2003
Idea
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hopin...

The Rashevski Tango
2003
Writer
Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Au...

The Very Merry Widows
2003
Writer
Renée is Laurence's grandmother and she intends to show her how to make rich men fall in love with her, in order to get their life insurance's money. ...

I Always Wanted to Be a Saint
2003
Writer
A teenage girl, Norah (Marie Kremer), living with her depressed father, Jean-Michel (Thierry Lefevre), in Luxembourg, obsesses over the whereabouts of...

Step by Step
2002
Director
The police are questioning Hubert Verkamen, suspected of murdering an entire family. Although he presents himself as an honest businessman, the cops k...

Thomas in Love
2000
Writer
Thomas Thomas is agoraphobic, has a computer-generated girlfriend, and hasn't left his home in years. Can a prostitute convince him to leave cyberspac...

Deuxième quinzaine de juillet
2000
Writer
Felix lives with Monique, an authoritarian woman. He decides his wife to exchange their Blois pavilion for what seems to be paradise: a villa in the s...

An Affair of Love
1999
Writer
A man and a woman meet to fulfill her sexual fantasy.
La dinde
1999
Writer
December 1953. Rosa and Alfred, a young couple of Polish Jews, await the return of Rosa's brother from America. Alfred will take care of the turkey. T...

Max & Bobo
1998
Screenplay
Max is a Sicilian living in Brussels who makes a living as a hairdresser. His flourishing business goes bankrupt when he gets hairdresser's eczema ove...
Bon anniversaire Sergent Bob
1998
Writer
Short film.
Les Vloems
1989
Writer
Short film.