Jalil Lespert Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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

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,...

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...

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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