Cinematography: Alain Marcoen

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Alain Marcoen. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Promise

1996 · Movie · 90 min. · Belgium

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Jérémie Rénier · Olivier Gourmet · Assita Ouédraogo · Frederic Bodson

Plot Hailed by many critics as one of the top ten films of the year, The Promise is the extraordinary story of a boy's ascendance to grace. Under the conscienceless guidance...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

The Son

2002 · Movie · 103 min. · Belgium

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Olivier Gourmet · Morgan Marinne · Isabella Soupart · Rémy Renaud

Plot Olivier (Olivier Gourmet), a Belgian carpenter, and Francis (Morgan Marinne), a young apprentice that a social worker wants to place with him.

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

The Child

2005 · Movie · 95 min. · Belgium

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Jérémie Rénier · Déborah François · Jérémie Segard · Fabrizio Rongione

Plot Sonia (François) and Bruno (Renier), a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son. Jean-Pierre and...

7.1

7K votes

7.1

7K votes

Rosetta

1999 · Movie · 91 min. · Belgium

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Émilie Dequenne · Fabrizio Rongione · Olivier Gourmet · Anne Yernaux

Plot Seventeen-year-old Rosetta lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother and wants nothing more out of life than the simple dignity of a job. She becomes so desperate for...

Max

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

The Kid with a Bike

2011 · Movie · 87 min. · Belgium

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Cécile De France · Thomas Doret · Jérémie Rénier · Fabrizio Rongione

Plot Cyril, almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father who left him temporarily in a children's home. By chance he meets Samantha, who runs a hairdressing salon and...

6.8

9K votes

6.8

9K votes

Two Days, One Night

2014 · Movie · 96 min. · Belgium

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Marion Cotillard · Fabrizio Rongione · Pili Groyne · Simon Caudry

Plot Sandra has only one weekend to visit her colleagues and - with the help of her husband - convince them to sacrifice their bonuses so she can keep her job.

6.8

12K votes

6.8

12K votes

Lorna's Silence

2008 · Movie · 105 min. · Belgium

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Arta Dobroshi · Jérémie Rénier · Olivier Gourmet · Fabrizio Rongione

Plot In order to become the owner of a snack bar with her boyfriend, Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium becomes an accomplice to a diabolical plan devised by...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Unknown Girl

2016 · Movie · 113 min. · Belgium

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Adèle Haenel · Jérémie Rénier · Olivier Bonnaud · Olivier Gourmet

Plot A doctor attempts to uncover the identity of a patient who died after she refused her treatment.

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

Marieke, Marieke

2010 · Movie · 85 min. · Belgium

5.6

74 votes

5.6

74 votes

Abuse of Weakness

2013 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Catherine Breillat

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Kool Shen · Laurence Ursino · Christophe Sermet

Plot An extraordinary collaboration between two legends of French cinema, Catherine Breillat’s brutally candid autobiographical drama stars Isabelle Huppert as a stroke-afflicted filmmaker manipulated by a notorious con man.

5.5

78 votes

5.5

78 votes

600 Miles

2015 · Movie · 85 min. · Mexico

Direction Gabriel Ripstein

Cast Kristyan Ferrer · Tim Roth · Harrison Thomas · Noé Hernández

Plot Arnulfo Rubio (Kristyan Ferrer), a young Mexican, works with a gringo barely older than himself to smuggle weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel. We follow him buying...

5.0

1K votes

5.0

1K votes

Gimme Shelter

2013 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Ron Krauss

Cast Rosario Dawson · Brendan Fraser · Vanessa Hudgens · James Earl Jones

Plot A teenager sets out to find her Wall Street father and is forced into the streets in a desperate journey of survival. Based on a true story.

4.7

238 votes

4.7

238 votes

The World's Racing (S)

1987 · Movie · 11 min. · Belgium

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Jean-Paul Dermont · John Dobrynine · François Duisinx · André Lenaerts

Plot The Dardennes' first fictional effort was this short, dark satire about the modern obsession with speed. Set in the world of local television news, Il court... manages to link the...

4.5

55 votes

4.5

55 votes

The Boat Race

2009 · Movie · 90 min. · Belgium

Direction Bernard Bellefroid

Cast Joffrey Verbruggen · Thierry Hancisse · Sergi López · Pénélope Leveque

Plot Alexandre is fifteen and lives alone with his violent father. Beatings and blows are a staple of Alex's daily life and push the teenager to rebel against everything. To escape...

Not rated

Not rated

Mobutu, King of Zaire

1999 · Documentary · 135 min. · Belgium

Direction Thierry Michel

Plot November 1965. With the help of the CIA, Mobutu launched a coup d'état and seized power in the former Belgian Congo. He renamed the country Zaïre and imposed on his...

Not rated

Not rated

How I Killed a Saint

2004 · Movie · 82 min. · North Macedonia

Direction Teona Strugar Mitevska

Cast Labina Mitevska · Milan Tocinovski · Xhevdet Jashari · Lea Lipsa

Plot A promising début feature tells the story of a young woman returning from America to discover the realities of life in Macedonia, that looks as if it will explode with...

Not rated

Not rated

Do You Remember Revolution?

1997 · Documentary · 116 min. · Belgium

Direction Lorédana Bianconi

Cast Barbara Balzerani · Adriana Faranda · Nadia Mantovani · Susanna Ronconi

Plot In Italy, in the mid-seventies, Adriana, Barbara, Nadia and Susanna were 20 years old when they decided to join the armed struggle and leave behind their social life and their...

Not rated

Not rated

She Is Not Crying, She Is Singing

2011 · Movie · 78 min. · Belgium

Direction Philippe de Pierpont

Cast Erika Sainte · Laurent Capelluto · Marijke Pinoy · Jean-François Wolff

Plot A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car...

Not rated

Not rated

Working Women of the World

2000 · Documentary · 52 min. · Belgium

Direction Marie-France Collard

Plot 'Working Women of the World', a critical and powerful documentary film exposing the treatment of garment production employees will be screened at French Embassy, 11 Barnes Place, Colombo 7. The...

Not rated

Not rated