Lucas Belvaux

Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran

Jean-Marie Nizan, Stéphane Bergouhnioux

Mathieu Amalric, Yves Angelo

Les prédateurs - Les rois du pétrole

Lucas Belvaux

Aladin Reibel, Philippe Nahon

Joyeux Noel

Christian Carion

Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…

Allons z'enfants

Yves Boisset

Lucas Belvaux, Jean Carmet

In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.

Les prédateurs

Lucas Belvaux

Aladin Reibel, Claude Brasseur

In 1988, after much cunning political maneuvering, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven become the chief executives at Elf. They discover a company that runs on kickbacks: in exchange for the oil rights, Elf makes handsome but discreet payoffs to the leaders of African nations. With the tacit complicity of President Mitterrand, and with eventual political and personal interests in mind, the new management takes charge of the slush fund. Within months, Sirven, Le Floch-Prigent and his wife Fatima Belaïd fill their pockets with more than they could ever have imagined.

Après la vie

Lucas Belvaux

Dominique Blanc, Gilbert Melki

The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's already precarious ties to Agnes are strained further when he meets and falls for her fellow schoolteacher friend Cecile. With Pascal focused on Bruno and Cecile, Agnes is forced to find a fix on her own.

On the Run

Lucas Belvaux

Lucas Belvaux, Catherine Frot

Après quinze ans passés derrière les barreaux, Bruno, qui prône la révolution prolétarienne, s'évade. Ce dernier veut continuer la lutte, faire sortir ses camarades de prison, libérer les masses du joug capitaliste. Tous ses anciens alliés n'y croient plus, même Jeanne qui s'est mariée et a maintenant des enfants.

La raison du plus faible

Lucas Belvaux

Lucas Belvaux, Claude Semal

In the Belgian town of Liege, in order to buy a moped for the wife of their friend Patrick, three men decide to organise a large-scale hold-up. As expected, nothing goes to plan.

Rapt

Lucas Belvaux

Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny

A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.

Army of Crime

Robert Guédiguian

Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.

Madame Bovary

Claude Chabrol

Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

Nature contre nature

Lucas Belvaux

Lucas Belvaux, Raphaële Godin

Sébastien Chantoux, a psychoanalyst, decides to move to the Creuse. Adapting little by little to the local customs, he joined "Troc'en Creuse", an association that promotes exchange between individuals. He proposes, within this framework, psychoanalysis sessions.

Not My Type

Lucas Belvaux

Émilie Dequenne, Loïc Corbery

Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and bodies as they try to overcome the cultural and social divide between them.

Hurlevent

Jacques Rivette

Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux

In this adaptation of Wuthering Heights set in the south of France in the 1930s, Guillaume wars with his sister Catherine over her affections for their farmhand Roch, of whom he is jealous. A romantic choice, destined for tragic results.

Chicken with Vinegar

Claude Chabrol

Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran

Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.

Il banchetto di Platone

Marco Ferreri

Lucas Belvaux, Jean Benguigui

At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.