Gilles Laurent

Neuilly Yo Mama! (2009)

Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly. ...

Sunny's Time Now (2008)

Retracing the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free jazz revolution. Through a series of interviews with key time witnesses as well as historic and contemporary concert footage, it reassess ...

Imposture (2005)

A literary professor who suffers from writer's block decides to kidnap one of his female students in order to promote her brilliant essay that reminds him of his own work as his own. ...

Victoire (2004)

Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder. ...

The Race (2002)

Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assa ...

Le Créateur (1999)

A playwright of note, Darius developed a drinking problem after his first major hit, and has taken time out from writing his follow-up to go to a clinic and dry out. After his release, Darius finds his producer has hired a leading lady for his next show, b ...

Bernie (1996)

Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted hi ...

Secrets Shared with a Stranger (1996)

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond. ...

Giorgino (1994)

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. ...

Revenge of the Humanoids (1983)

Around the year 3000, Pierrot, Psi and the robot Metro, inhabitants of the planet Omega, are tasked with ensuing space security. When they come under attack, their ship crash-lands on an unknown planet... ...

L'Arme au bleu (1981)

Silver Anniversary (1979)

A couple make the decision, after twenty-five years of marriage, to live separately, so as not to fall into the trap of routine. On their wedding anniversary, Brigitte and François Dupuis announce their decision to separate, to the chagrin of their child ...

A Bag of Marbles (1975)

Set in Paris 1941, two Jewish boys cling to their lives by doing all sorts of odd jobs, stealing and black-marketeering. ...

Le Sagouin (1972)

In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a life of anguish and sadness in a sinister castle. He exasperates his mother who sees in him only the hated re ...

Clock Head (1970)

One night in Paris all the clocks and watches of the whole world stopped except that of a small professor. ...