Jalil Lespert

Jalil Lespert

1976-09-18 Paris - France 54 Credits

Biography

Jalil Lespert is the son of actor Jean Lespert, born in 1942 in Rosny-sous-Bois, and Farida Azi, lawyer of Algerian origin born in 1948 in Palestro (today Lakhdaria), in Algeria. He is the older brother of actor Yaniss Lespert. Pushed by his mother, a lawyer, Jalil Lespert began studying law, but he changed his mind when in 1995, Laurent Cantet noticed him and cast him with his father in the short film Jeux de Plage. Subsequently, the young actor reunited with the director to shoot the TV film ...

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Dakar: Race Against the Desert

Dakar: Race Against the Desert

2025

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Drivers prepare and compete to win the notoriously tough off-road Dakar endurance rally in this sporting documentary.

Dakar Chronicles

Dakar Chronicles

2025

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing
GTMAX

GTMAX

2024

as Elyas

6.1
Acting

When a notorious gang of bikers recruits her brother for a heist, a former motocross champion must face her deepest fears to keep her family safe.

Niki

Niki

2024

Producer

6.2
Producing

French-American artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, from the age of 23, is a model and an aspiring actor who is married and has a two year old daughter. Toge...

Infinity Pool

Infinity Pool

2023

as Alban Bauer

6.1
Acting

While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the su...

Falcon Lake

Falcon Lake

2022

Co-Producer

6.9
Producing

A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.

With or Without You

With or Without You

2021

6.6
Acting

Alice and Tommaso have been together for fifteen years; they don’t have children, he‘s a musician, she’s an actress. Invited to dinner for an announce...

Beasts

Beasts

2021

as Sylvain

6.3
Acting

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 ...

Tralala

Tralala

2021

as Benjamin

5.7
Acting

A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary.

Dreamchild

Dreamchild

2020

as François

5.8
Acting

François and Noémie run a sawmill in the mountains not far from the Swiss border. François has taken over his family's business, making him the fourth...

The Fool

The Fool

2019

Director, Screenplay

5.1
Directing Writing

Pontagnac, a married man, tries to seduce Victoire, the wife of his good friend. Little does he know, Victoire has plans of her own to punish her chea...

Brother

Brother

2019

as Igor

6.6
Acting

Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed edu...

Magical Nights

Magical Nights

2018

as Jean-Claude Bernard

6.1
Acting

Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is fou...

The Escape

The Escape

2018

as Philippe

5.5
Acting

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

Orphan

Orphan

2017

as Darius

5.4
Acting

A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually,...

In the Shadow of Iris

In the Shadow of Iris

2016

as Antoine Doriot

5.9
Acting

The sudden disappearance of a wealthy banker's wife cracks open a dizzying world of secret fetishes, desperate acts and elaborate deceptions.

In the Shadow of Iris

In the Shadow of Iris

2016

Director, Adaptation, Dialogue

5.9
Directing

The sudden disappearance of a wealthy banker's wife cracks open a dizzying world of secret fetishes, desperate acts and elaborate deceptions.

Algeria from Above

Algeria from Above

2015

as Self (Narrator)

8.0
Acting

Algeria from above is the first documentary made entirely from the sky on Algeria. Through the eye of the famous Yann Arthus-Bertrand this documentary...

First Growth

First Growth

2015

as Charlie Maréchal

5.9
Acting

Winemaker son, Charlie Marshall left Burgundy to become a Parisian renowned winemaker, author of a successful guide whose notes are annually tremble v...

De guerre lasse

De guerre lasse

2014

as Alex

5.3
Acting

Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, A...

Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent

2014

Director, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre B...

Landes

Landes

2013

as Iban

5.8
Acting

A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electric...

Post Partum

Post Partum

2013

as Ulysse

1.0
Acting

Luce and Ulysse love each other. They live a full and happy life managing their own little veterinary clinic on the Atlantic coast. Luce is awaiting a...

Headwinds

Headwinds

2011

Director, Screenplay

5.8
Directing Writing

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...

Love and Bruises

Love and Bruises

2011

as Giovanni

5.6
Acting

Hua, a woman in her late twenties, goes against her family to become a teacher in Paris. She falls in love with men who physically abuse her. Will she...

A Butterfly Kiss

A Butterfly Kiss

2011

as Paul

5.0
Acting

Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence ...

Chez Gino

Chez Gino

2011

as Oncle Giovanni, jeune

4.4
Acting

Gino Roma holds a pizzeria for thirty years in Brussels, purchased with money from his wife Simone. His quiet life is turned upside down when he learn...

Blackout

Blackout

2010

as Antoine

4.2
Acting

Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives is making a report on Westerners who have been repatriated from Rwanda, fleeing the massac...

Pa-ra-da

Pa-ra-da

2008

as Miloud

6.9
Acting

The film tells the true story of French clown Miloud Oukili from his arrival in Romania in 1992 (three years after the fall of Ceausescu) to his encou...

24 Bars

24 Bars

2007

Director, Writer

3.3
Directing Writing

It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But t...

Tell No One

Tell No One

2006

as Yaël Gonzales

7.2
Acting

A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's al...

Virgil

Virgil

2005

as Virgil

5.0
Acting

Every week, Virgil makes his father Ernest dream by telling him about his boxing exploits during a visit. Every week, Virgil comes to dream by meeting...

The Young Lieutenant

The Young Lieutenant

2005

as Antoine Derouère

6.8
Acting

A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective...

The Last Mitterrand

The Last Mitterrand

2005

as Antoine Moreau

6.5
Acting

A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.

De retour

2005

Director, Writer

2.0
Directing Writing

During the 48 hours following his release from jail, a young man returns to his family and circle of friends.

Natural Enemy

Natural Enemy

2004

as Lieutenant Luhel

4.6
Acting

Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy's death. The main suspect is the boy's father...

Les amateurs

Les amateurs

2004

as Jamel Mezaoui 'J.P.'

4.5
Acting

In a suburb of Paris, the clumsy efforts of two friends in their twenties to make themselves loved by two young students.

Not on the Lips

Not on the Lips

2003

as Charley

5.8
Acting

A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were mo...

Courts mais Gay : Tome 6

Courts mais Gay : Tome 6

2003

as Thomas Steiner

Acting

A collection of gay short films. The 7 short films are: Poor Girl! [Pov' fille !] (2003); Oedipus N+1 [Œdipe - [N+1]] (2003); Piglets [Ferkel] (1999);...

Oedipus N+1

Oedipus N+1

2003

as Thomas Steiner

5.6
Acting

In a nightmarish future, the wealthy elite maintain The Circle, a stratum of society that can use technology for regeneration, although it's unclear i...

The Idol

The Idol

2002

as Philippe

4.9
Acting

An Australian actress forms a spiritual bond with an elderly Chinese chef who lives across from her in a Parisian tenement house.

Life Kills Me

Life Kills Me

2002

as Daniel Smaïl

5.2
Acting

Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. H...

Inch'Allah dimanche

Inch'Allah dimanche

2001

as Bus driver

6.5
Acting

The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in Fra...

Bella ciao

Bella ciao

2000

as Oreste

3.0
Acting

A man struggles to support his family while remaining true to his ideals in this drama set in Europe during the 1930s. Orfeo Mancini and his wife Nell...

A Considerable Disturbance

A Considerable Disturbance

2000

as Laurent

4.5
Acting

Laurent's fate is to be a soccer superstar. But he happens to fall in love with a Fabienne, 40. He is only 18, and his career is about to fall apart.....

Human Resources

Human Resources

1999

as Franck

6.9
Acting

"Good son" Franck returns to his hometown to do a trainee managerial internship in the Human Resources department of the factory where his anxious, ta...

Our Happy Lives

Our Happy Lives

1999

as Étienne

4.4
Acting

Six people whose lives are intertwined struggle to find happiness amid broken relationships and painful life changes.

High Pain Management

High Pain Management

1999

as Laurent

Acting

Laurent, twenty, found, thanks to his father, a first job: security agent in a sports shop. The arrival of the young man disrupts his superior, Thierr...

The Sanguinaires

The Sanguinaires

1997

6.8
Acting

In December of 1999, François organizes a retreat to a small island for himself, some friends, and their children to avoid the craziness of Paris duri...

Summer Games

Summer Games

1995

as Éric

6.4
Acting

18 year old Éric, on vacation in the South with his parents, decides to escape the stifling situation especially with his 50 year old father, and join...

Chaos

N/A

1.0
Acting

Announced remake of the Japanese film Chaos (2000).

Les Couloirs aériens

N/A

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

Chaos

N/A

Director

1.0
Directing

Announced remake of the Japanese film Chaos (2000).

Phénix

N/A

Director, Writer

Directing Writing