Biography
Olivier Gourmet (born 22 July 1963 in Namur) is a Belgian actor. He won the Best Actor award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for his role in Le Fils by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. He also appeared in La Promesse, Rosetta and L'Enfant. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olivier Gourmet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Complete Filmography

Squealers
2025
A group of young activists breaks into a slaughterhouse, aiming to expose the owners for processing meat unfit for consumption. Armed with cameras, th...

Colours of Time
2025
as Claude Monet 1895
Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. ...

Fanon
2024
as Darmain
Frantz Fanon, a French psychiatrist from Martinique, has just been appointed head of department at the psychiatric hospital in Blida, Algeria. His met...

Turtles
2024
as Henri Janssens
Henri and Thom live together in Brussels and have been in perfect love for 35 years, or so it seems. Since Henri retired as a policeman, nothing has g...

Retrotherapy
2024
as Alain
Yvonne loses her mind and confuses her teenage granddaughter, Manon, with her deceased daughter. Manon plays the role of the mother she never knew, re...

Mayhem!
2023
as Narong
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...

The Asembly Line
2023
as Klatzman
A few months after May '68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a far-left activist, decides to get a job at Citroën as a line work...

The Colors of Fire
2022
as Charles Péricourt
February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire o...

Simone: Woman of the Century
2022
as Antoine Veil (1974 - 2006)
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic po...

On the Edge
2022
as Police Commissioner
One night, Leo, a Spaniard working in Brussels as a subway driver, sees a young man on the edge of the platform, just before he falls onto the tracks.

Eugénie Grandet
2021
as Félix Grandet
Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious...

Beasts
2021
as Bernard
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 ...

Red Soil
2021
as Stéphane Perez
Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the sta...

The Voyages of Matisse, Chasing Light
2020
as Matisse (voice)
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Matisse's birth and of the exhibition at the Center Pompidou which will be dedicated to him in 2020, this ...

De Gaulle
2020
as Paul Reynaud
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, ...

The Breitner Commando
2019
as Colonel Delignières
1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Al...

Conviction
2019
as Maître Eric Dupond-Moretti
Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering h...

Cyrano, My Love
2018
as Constant Coquelin
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two child...

Those Who Work
2018
as Frank
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,...

One Nation, One King
2018
as Uncle
„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly...

The Royal Exchange
2017
as Regent Philippe d'Orléans
After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate...

Above the Law
2017
as Frank Valken
Frank Valken, high-flying robber, has just made a final masterful break. At least that’s what he believes… Ideal suspects, Valken and his gang find th...

Grand Froid
2017
as Edmond Zweck
In a small town lost in the middle of nowhere, Edmond Zweck's funeral business is on the wing. The company now has only two employees: Georges, Zweck'...

Upstream
2017
as Homer
Homer and Joé trace the rivers of Croatia aboard a small boat. In spite of being fifty years old each one, none of them knew of the existence of the o...

The Midwife
2017
as Paul
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she ...

The Young Karl Marx
2017
as Pierre Proudhon
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has...

A Wedding
2017
as André
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 we...

Daguerrotype
2016
as Stéphane
An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

The Unknown Girl
2016
as Lambert, the son
Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, af...

L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères
2016
as Cardinal Hugolin
The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1226.

Chocolat
2016
as Joseph Oller
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Fo...

April and the Extraordinary World
2015
as Paul (voice)
It’s 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist...

Come What May
2015
as Paul
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 rec...

The Scent of Mandarin
2015
as Charles
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 passionat...

Madame Bovary
2015
as Monsieur Rouault
The classic story of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor in 19th century France, who engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt...

Il était une fois... « Rosetta »
2015
as Self
Thirty-eighth documentary in the "Un film et son époque" series. It retraces the genesis, shooting and unexpected success of "Rosetta", a film by Belg...

The Night Watchmen
2015
as Franck
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 an...

SK1
2015
as Bougon
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.

40-Love
2014
as Jérôme
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, com...

The Gate
2014
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 latt...

Two Days, One Night
2014
as Jean-Marc
Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an ...

The Marchers
2013
as Dubois
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for e...

Violette
2013
as Jacques Guérin
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relation...

Grand Central
2013
as Gilles
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.

The Anonymous
2013
as Le Bris
A counterterrorism task force investigates the 1998 Ajaccio assassination of Claude Érignac, the prefect of Corsica. Based on true events.

La tendresse
2013
as Frans
This is the first film by Hänsel based entirely on her own script and gives a wise and loving significance to the concept of personal and anecdotal. W...

The World Belongs to Us
2012
as Freddy
On a bridge, one night, a stabbing. There is Pouga. And there is Julien. The film shows the parallel destiny of these two young men who look alike wit...

The Lookout
2012
as Franck
When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices...

Hénaut Président
2012
as Thierry Giovanni

The Minister
2011
as Bertrand Saint-Jean, Minister of transport
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no ...

The Kid with a Bike
2011
as The Bar Owner
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.

Robert Mitchum Est Mort
2011
as Arsène
Washed-up actor Franky Pastor and his kleptomaniac, ex-rocker manager Arsene steal a car and embark on a “last-chance” road trip to the Polaris Film F...

Final Balance
2011
as Moret
Benoît, leads a happy and uneventful life. One day, his private detective father mysteriously disappears. Benoît is going to discover he has the shado...

My Wife's Romance
2011
as Chollet
When Paul dies, he leaves his wife Eve with a mountain of debt. As the police begin their investigation into Paul’s death, Eve is supported by a lawy...

Nothing to Declare
2010
as Priest of Chimay
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

Black Venus
2010
as Réaux
The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of...

White Snow
2010
as Grégoire
Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is p...

Altiplano
2009
as Max
In the Andes, a Belgian doctor and his photojournalist wife become ensnared in a native tribe's struggle with a mining company.

Park Benches
2009
as Maurice Begeard
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every...

Pour un fils
2009
as Omer

Angel at Sea
2009
as Le père
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...

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
2008
as Commissioner Broussard
After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media at...

Home
2008
as Michel
Along with her husband and three children, Marthe lives in an eden of her own creation, nearly isolated from the rest of the world. The arrival of a ...

Mesrine: Killer Instinct
2008
as Commissioner Broussard
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by ...

Coluche
2008
as Jacques Betruger, impresario
French comedian Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, announces - for laughs - his candidacy for the 1981 French presidential elections.

Go Fast
2008
as Jean-Do Paoli
Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting t...

Lorna's Silence
2008
as The Policeman
Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, C...

L'Affaire Ben Barka
2008
as Antoine Lopez, « Savonnette », chef d'escale à Orly et agent du SDECE

Hidden Love
2007
as Morris
A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.

Cowboy
2007
as Himself / En personne
Daniel Piron has the blues. His relationship is monotonous, his ideals have vanished, and even his job as a journalist is a joke. The only idea that s...

Madonnas
2007
as Jérome Vassé
A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the...

Have Mercy on Us All
2007
as Joss Le Guern
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is fou...

Jacquou the Rebel
2007
as Le curé Bonal
In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruel...

Poison d'avril
2007
as Charles
March 2002, during an election campaign, Simon Barrachet, offensive journalist, took over the newspaper and a television station seeks to impose its v...

The Colonel
2006
as Le colonel Raoul Duplan
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 a...

Congorama
2006
as Michel Roy
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child w...

The Tiger Brigades
2006
as Inspector Marcel 'Le Colosse' Terrasson
The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.

My Son
2006
as Father / Le père
Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a ...

Burnt Out
2006
as François Durrieux
François Durrieux, a man in his forties, married to Clémence and father of Benjamin, has been employed for years by the firm DSBO. In order not to los...

Ordinary Man
2005
as Le curé
George is a furniture seller. He's a reliable husband and a good father, a loyal friend and a fine handyman. One day on the motorway, he cracks up and...

The Child
2005
as Policier
Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son. The carefr...

The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005
as Robert Darzac
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shoc...

Trouble
2005
as Le père
The photographer and family man Matyas is married and has a happy life with his beloved wife Claire, who is pregnant and near the delivery, and his yo...

The Ax
2005
as Machefer
A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.

The Girl from the Chartreuse
2005
as Etienne Vollard
Eight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When ...

The Bridge of Arts
2004
as Jean-Astolphe Méréville
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.

Bad Spelling
2004
as Pierre Massu, director of the college
At a French boarding school for troubled youth in the early 1970's, the Headmaster and his wife decide that their son Daniel, who is fifteen years old...

When the Sea Rises
2004
as Koslowski
An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him...

Adieu
2004
as François
Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him ...

Everybody Is a Killer
2004
as Martial, le flic
A psychoanalyst gives a strange advice to a mechanic whose marriage is falling apart: to take the blame for a murder, any murder, to impress his beaut...

A Wonderful Spell
2004
as le médecin-chef
Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming fl...

Time of the Wolf
2003
as Koslowski
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learn...

Where Is Madame Catherine?
2003
as Eric
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 some...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003
as Robert Darzac
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the titl...

Once Upon an Angel
2002
as Mr. Faivre
A grief-stricken man who just lost his mother has a one night stand with a maid. What he doesn't know is that she's a virgin. He returns to his sad wo...

A Piece of Sky
2002
as Joanna's Lawyer
A woman struggles to acclimate to prison life while her friend organises a labour strike on the outside.

The Son
2002
as Olivier
A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and street...

A Moment of Happiness
2002
as Le père de Betty
Philippe, 25, arrives one morning in Arcachon, where his sister lives. He is a young man with no ties, someone people easily confide in. He works seas...

Safe Conduct
2002
as Roger Richebé
During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the V...

Read My Lips
2001
as Marchand
She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

The Milk of Human Kindness
2001
as Dr. Gérard Cafarelli
A woman, scared by motherhood and her new born baby, runs away from her home and family to find a shelter at her upstairs neighbour's place.

Day Off
2001
as Denis Pelloutier
Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, tw...

De l'histoire ancienne
2001
as Fabien
Guy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little. When he dies,Guy, his brother and his sister have ...
Petite soeur
2001
as Le père
Juliette is fourteen years old, she adores her father. He prefers Anna, his eldest daughter, whom he feels may be slipping away from him. Out of love,...

Nationale 7
2000
as René
In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellio...

Princesses
2000
as Guy in the bar in Brussels
Johan has three children with different women. Two adult daughters: Sophie and Virginie, and a young son in Amsterdam. Loïc gave Johan diamonds of a c...

Save Me
2000
Agatha is a beautiful young woman from Romania who had a brief but passionate love affair with a French surgeon when he visited her country as part of...

Toreros
2000
as Pedro
After having been in jail, Manuel becomes a bullfighter following dangerously his father's steps.

Peut-être
1999
as Jean-Claude
Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ce...

Rosetta
1999
as Patron
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is de...

The Journey to Paris
1999
as Tarzan
Shy and still living with his mother, a highway cashier one day decides to finally live his craziest dream: to visit Paris.

L'héritier
1999
A man, a woman, a child. It could have been different story. But there was civil war, scores to settle and fear. Choices had to be made. This is the s...

Melody for a Hustler
1998
as Le dépanneur
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionair...

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
1998
as Bernard
A group of mourners travels by train to bury a recently deceased artist in Limoges. As they journey, secrets and desires unfold, with relationships sh...
Le signaleur
1997

La Promesse
1996
as Roger
Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling ...

The Eighth Day
1996
as Father in restaurant
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful ...
Hostel Party
1990
as Luc
How to take revenge on the person who murdered you...
Juste avant la chute
N/A
Ses Bras sont des serpents
N/A
Anthony, a young gendarme with the IGGN, the gendarmerie's police force, infiltrates the platoon of Major Jansen, a corrupt officer who is none other ...
Cap Farewell
N/A
Toni, a young 24-year-old woman who is released from prison, finds herself having to return home to live with her mother Betty, with whom relations ar...
La guerre des prix
N/A
as Fournier