Biography
Philippe "Bouli" Lanners (born 20 May 1965 in Moresnet-Chapelle, in the Redeemed Cantons near Liège, Belgium) is a Belgian actor, author and film director. He is also known as a painter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bouli Lanners , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Smoke Signals
2024
as José Bové
2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddling related to the tobacco industry. French Member...

Second Tour
2023
as Entraineur de foot
A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is...

A Real Job
2023
as Benjamin's Father
Benjamin is a PhD student without scholarship support. Under the pressure of his parents, and in need of money, he becomes a substitute teacher in a m...

Paint it Gold
2023
as Renzo Nervi
Arthur, a passionate Parisian art gallery owner, represents Renzo, a longtime friend, and radical figurative painter stuck in an existential crisis. S...

The Night of the 12th
2022
as Marceau
Young and ambitious Captain Vivés has just been appointed group leader at the Grenoble Criminal Squad when Clara's murder case lands on his desk. Vivé...

Mad in Belgium
2022
A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved t...

Nobody Has to Know
2022
as Phil
After a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of Isle of Lewis. She will shortly entrust him with hi...

Nobody Has to Know
2022
Writer, Director
After a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of Isle of Lewis. She will shortly entrust him with hi...

Love Song for Tough Guys
2021
as Poussin
In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, lov...

The Summer Holidays
2021
as Cochon / Simon / Facteur (voice)
School is out, and Indian and Cowboy are bored. Watching an old pirate film gets them out of their funk and they decide to build a ship and go off on ...

Bye Bye Morons
2020
as Suze's doctor
When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she...

Delete History
2020
as Dieu
In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s fami...

Amerigo and the New World
2019
as Narrator (voice)
How did America get the Name we Use Today, ... Amerigo Vespucci, ... The name on the Map he had made for the New World, ... An Avid Explorer and Merch...

Notre Dame
2019
as Didier
Maud is an architect and a mother. Due to a misunderstanding, she wins the competition to refurbish the parvis of Notre-Dame. Torn between these respo...

Panique au village : La Foire agricole
2019
as Cochon (voice)
Indian and Cowboy finally pass their exams. Horse buys them tickets for the County Fair. But at the last moment, he slips and comes crashing down on h...

Patrick
2019
as Mon
Patrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture. When...

Real Love
2019
as Mario
Forbach, East of France, today. Mario, a man without much ambition, except where love is concerned, is back to square one after his wife left home. He...

Wide Load
2019
as Patrick Boyard
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary ...

Third Wedding
2018
as Martin
Martin, a homosexual widower and whimsical of fifty years, sees itself propose to contract a marriage white with a Congolese of twenty years, Tamara. ...

Double Plus Ungood
2018
as Lawyer
In 2018, in a country that doesn't exist, Dago Cassandra, a small time crook, returns to his kingdom after fifteen years in exile, invested with a div...

Above the Law
2017
as Danny Bouvy
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...

Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
2017
as Self

Bloody Milk
2017
as Jamy
Pierre, in his thirties, is a breeder of dairy cattle. His life revolves around his farm, his veterinarian sister and his parents whose livestock he t...

Dog
2017
as Max
Jacques Blanchot loses everything: his wife, his home, his job. He gradually alienates himself from the world around him. Until the day when the owner...

Spit’n’Split
2017
Nothing could be cooler than a rock-band on tour. Hordes of screaming fans who want to give up their virginity for an autograph, free drugs in all siz...

Raw
2016
as Truck Driver
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sist...

Heal the Living
2016
as Dr. Pierre Révol
The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.

A Town Called Panic: Double Fun
2016
as Père Noël / Facteur / Simon (voice) (archive footage)
With disarming wit and hilarious visuals, A Town Called Panic: Double Fun revels in the simple setup of three plastic toys sent on increasingly surrea...

Raw
2016
as Le routier
Justine, a lifelong vegetarian, is forced to eat raw meat during her time in veterinary school. From then on, her life turns upside down as she develo...

A Town Called Panic: Back to School Panic!
2016
as Simon (voice)
Indian and Cowboy are about to set off on a magnificent cruise on a luxury liner, but they have made a big mistake. They completely forgot that today ...

The First, the Last
2016
as Gilou
Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...

The First, the Last
2016
Director, Screenplay
Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...

April and the Extraordinary World
2015
as Pizoni (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...

I'm Dead But I Have Friends
2015
as Yvan
Four bearded, hairy rock musicians - and Belgians - bury the singer of their group. Out of friendship and to prove to itself that nothing can stop the...

All Cats Are Grey
2014
as Paul
Paul is a chubby kind-‐hearted amateur detective. Dorothy is an intense upper class teenager. Paul is into quoting Sherlock Holmes and watching Derri...

Nicholas on Holiday
2014
as Mr. Bernique
It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards ...
La part de l’ombre
2014
La part de l’ombre recovers the life of the Hungarian photographer Oskar Benedek, who disappeared the day his exhibition opened; what happened to him?...

A Town Called Panic: Christmas Panic!
2013
as Père Noël / Facteur / Simon (voice)
The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas : the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly. Overex...

Brotherhood of Tears
2013
as Le Hibou
Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives like a ghost and hardly takes care of his only teenage ...

Lulu in the Nude
2013
as Charles
After a job interview gone wrong, Lulu sets sail leaving her husband and three children behind. But being an adventurer is easier said than done.

9 Month Stretch
2013
as Video surveillance policeman
Ariane Felder is pregnant! This is surprising with her being a young hardened judge with strict morals. But what is more surprising is that, accordin...

Tour de Force
2013
as Rémi Pletinckx
François decides to participate in the Tour de France alone, inspiring a wave of media enthusiasm, much to the chagrin of the Tour's pros.

11.6
2013
as Arnaud
In November 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin makes off with nearly 12 million euros, then turns himself over to the authorities a week la...

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012
as Grossebaf
Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.

The Big Night
2012
as Le Vigile
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Ke...

Rust and Bone
2012
as Martial
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a kille...

Headwinds
2011
as Monsieur Bréhel
Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his chil...

The Giants
2011
Director, Writer
Brothers Danny and Zak, ages 15 and 13 ¾, are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is othe...
On the road again, le cinéma de Bouli Lanners
2011
as Self
Documentary about belgian actor and director Bouli Lanners

Nothing to Declare
2010
as Bruno Vanuxem
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.

Kill Me Please
2010
as M. Vidal
Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, c...

Special Treatment
2010
as Xavier Demestre
Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both ta...

Mammuth
2010
as Le recruteur
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is d...

Le vilain : Instantanés
2010
as Nick Korazy

White Snow
2010
as Simon
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...

Chicas
2010
as Maurice
Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organ...

The Villain
2009
as Nick Korazy
With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, ...

The Ordinary People
2009
as Pierrick Barbieri
The Muller company organizes a reception to mark the launch of a new product. During the evening, we discover that this is actually a coaching exercis...

A Town Called Panic
2009
as Facteur / Simon / Vache (voice)
Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll nee...

Louise-Michel
2008
as Michel Pinchon
In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man t...

Eldorado
2008
as Yvan
Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends ...

Eldorado
2008
Director, Writer
Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends ...

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008
as Léon
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they migh...

Asterix at the Olympic Games
2008
as King Aderlas
Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to h...

Hand of the Headless Man
2007
as Mathias
Eva, a 25-year-old woman, is an Olympic diver: a champion. Her father, Peter, is her coach. During a competition, Eva climbs up to the 10-meter platfo...

Cowboy
2007
as Debaest
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...

Avida
2006
as Le patron du zoo
The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to ma...

Locked Out
2006
as Youssouf
Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...

Bunker Paradise
2006
as David d'Ermont de Viard
Friendly and broke, Mimmo dreams of being rich and famous, but for now he's a taxi driver. One evening, he meets John Deveau, a wealthy and perverse m...

Saddam Hussein Is Alive
2006
as Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein is alive and well and he lives in Brussels.

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
as Self

Ultranova
2005
Director, Writer
A 25-year-old real estate agent allows some salacious rumours about his past to run rife to attract the attentions of two women.

A Very Long Engagement
2004
as Chardolot
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ...

When the Sea Rises
2004
as Le patron du marché
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...

25 Degrees in Winter
2004
as (uncredited)
An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had ...

The Return of James Battle
2004
as Chip
James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a ...

Aaltra
2004
as Le chanteur finlandais
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up,...

Madame Edouard
2004
as Gégé
In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn nee...

The Missing Half
2003
as Le directeur de l'institution
Claire and Pierre's marriage hits the skids after Claire, pregnant with twins, feels that one embryo is crushing the other and decides to abort half t...

En territoire indien
2003
as un gendarme
Jean-Claude, a bent night-club owner, on his way escaping to Mexico, unfortunately had an accident with a young couple on a motorcycle. But Cédric has...

Feathers in My Head
2003
as Sergio
Jean-Pierre and his wife Blanche live a quiet but happy life in their small Belgian town. But their world is shattered when their young son goes missi...

Dead Man's Hand
2002
as Eddy
Jean V., a forty-year-old bailiff, practises his profession with talent, but without humanity. He is married to Nicole, a 35-year-old consumer in cris...
Muno
2001
Director

Alien Adventure
1999
as (voice)
The movie begins with an extraterrestrial humanoid species, the Glegoliths, wandering through space in search of a new world. Encountering an unknown ...

Travellinckx
1999
Director, Writer
Didier, 39, an unemployed artist, depressive and hypochondriac, is persuaded he is going to die within one or two months because of the asbestos conta...

The Carriers Are Waiting
1999
as L'entraîneur
Roger Closset is a man who obviously loves his family, though that doesn't always make them feel better. Dad is an obsessive type with a short fuse an...

There Is No Love Without Stories
1998
as Le chauffeur du camien
Monique is a single mother who lives with her son Olivier in a town of North of France.She wanted to have a child and the father went away.Besides Mon...
Le signaleur
1997

Arlette
1997
as Émile le routier
An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover be...
Les soeurs Van Hoof
1996
Director
A delirious introspection of an aspiring traumatisme. Dixit Bouli Lanners.
Non Wallonie, ta culture n'est pas morte
1995
Director

Toto the Hero
1991
80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from...
Les Saigneurs
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Le Palmier
N/A
The Perfect Boyfriend
N/A
The film is set in a world where androids have replaced humans for menial tasks, leading unskilled humans to pretend to be robots in order to get a jo...
Jours de chance
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Le faux soir
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