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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Dakar: Race Against the Desert
2025
Director, Writer
Drivers prepare and compete to win the notoriously tough off-road Dakar endurance rally in this sporting documentary.

Dakar Chronicles
2025
Director, Screenplay

GTMAX
2024
as Elyas
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
2024
Producer
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
2023
as Alban Bauer
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
2022
Co-Producer
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
2021
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
2021
as Sylvain
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
2021
as Benjamin
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
2020
as François
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
2019
Director, Screenplay
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
2019
as Igor
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
2018
as Jean-Claude Bernard
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
2018
as Philippe
An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

Orphan
2017
as Darius
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
2016
as Antoine Doriot
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
2016
Director, Adaptation, Dialogue
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
2015
as Self (Narrator)
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
2015
as Charlie Maréchal
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
2014
as Alex
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
2014
Director, Writer
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
2013
as Iban
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
2013
as Ulysse
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
2011
Director, Screenplay
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
2011
as Giovanni
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
2011
as Paul
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
2011
as Oncle Giovanni, jeune
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
2010
as Antoine
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
2008
as Miloud
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
2007
Director, Writer
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
2006
as Yaël Gonzales
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
2005
as Virgil
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
2005
as Antoine Derouère
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
2005
as Antoine Moreau
A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.
De retour
2005
Director, Writer
During the 48 hours following his release from jail, a young man returns to his family and circle of friends.

Natural Enemy
2004
as Lieutenant Luhel
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
2004
as Jamel Mezaoui 'J.P.'
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
2003
as Charley
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
2003
as Thomas Steiner
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
2003
as Thomas Steiner
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
2002
as Philippe
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
2002
as Daniel Smaïl
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
2001
as Bus driver
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
2000
as Oreste
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
2000
as Laurent
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
1999
as Franck
"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
1999
as Étienne
Six people whose lives are intertwined struggle to find happiness amid broken relationships and painful life changes.

High Pain Management
1999
as Laurent
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
1997
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
1995
as Éric
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
Announced remake of the Japanese film Chaos (2000).
Les Couloirs aériens
N/A
Director, Screenplay
Chaos
N/A
Director
Announced remake of the Japanese film Chaos (2000).
Phénix
N/A
Director, Writer