Cinematography: Philippe Guilbert

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


Harragas

2009 · Movie · 110 min. · Algeria

Direction Merzak Allouache

Cast Nabil Asli · Seddik Benyagoub · Mohamed Takerret · Lamia Boussekine

Plot Mostaganem, 200km from Algiers on the coast. Hassan, a people smuggler, prepares to take another group of illegal immigrants across to Spain. Four friends and six "burners" from southern Algeria,...

6.8

55 votes

6.8

55 votes

The Carriers Are Waiting

1999 · Movie · 94 min. · Belgium

Direction Benoît Mariage

Cast Benoît Poelvoorde · Morgane Simon · Philippe Grand'Henry · Bouli Lanners

Plot A Story set in the industrial wastelands of Wallonia. Benoît Poelvoorde plays a father who desperately wants his son to win a car for him. To do this the son...

6.7

33 votes

6.7

33 votes

A Kid (Le Fils de Jean)

2016 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Philippe Lioret

Cast Pierre Deladonchamps · Gabriel Arcand · Catherine de Léan · Jean-Pierre Andréani

Plot Mathieu has never known his father. His mother has always told him he was the fruit of a one-night-stand. One morning, in his Parisian flat, he receives a call from...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Maddened by His Absence

2012 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Sandrine Bonnaire

Cast William Hurt · Alexandra Lamy · Jalil Mehenni · Augustin Legrand

Plot Touched to the depths of his being by the death of his child in a car accident nine years earlier, Jacques has lost his bearings. For this loss is all...

6.6

71 votes

6.6

71 votes

Ladies

2017 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Anne-Gaëlle Daval

Cast Florence Foresti · Mathieu Kassovitz · Nicole García · Jonathan Cohen

Plot Lucie is in remission and her illness is almost a distant memory. Her family pushes her to live life to the fullest, and in doing so Lucie meets the charming...

6.3

29 votes

6.3

29 votes

Hidden Diary

2009 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Julie Lopes-Curval

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Marina Hands · Marie-Josée Croze · Michel Duchaussoy

Plot Pregnant and living in Canada, Audrey visits her parents in the small French town of her birth. Over the holiday, she comes to learn the story of the grandmother who...

6.3

44 votes

6.3

44 votes

The Tasting

2022 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Ivan Calbérac

Cast Isabelle Carré · Bernard Campan · Olivier Claverie · Geneviève Mnich

Plot Jacques is divorced and runs a small winery, on the verge of bankruptcy. Hortense, determined not to end up single and involved in the association, walks into his store one...

6.0

81 votes

6.0

81 votes

Henri

2013 · Movie · 105 min. · Belgium

6.0

59 votes

6.0

59 votes

6.0

2K votes

Under the Stars of Paris

2020 · Movie · 86 min. · France

Direction Claus Drexel

Cast Catherine Frot · Dominique Frot · Mahamadou Yaffa · Jean-Henri Compère

Plot Christine (Catherine Frot) is homeless in Paris. On a winter night she finds Suli (Mahamadou Yaffa), an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. Bound by their marginal...

5.9

195 votes

5.9

195 votes

Souvenir

2016 · Movie · 90 min. · Belgium

Direction Bavo Defurne

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Kévin Azaïs · Johan Leysen · Jan Hammenecker

Plot A failed Eurovision singer, forgotten by all and fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with a young aspiring boxer. Together they decide to attempt her comeback.

5.8

36 votes

5.8

36 votes

Red Ants

2007 · Movie · 95 min. · Belgium

Direction Stephan Carpiaux

Cast Déborah François · Frédéric Pierrot · Arthur Jugnot · Julie Gayet

Plot 16-year-old Alex lives with her father Frank in an isolated village in the Ardennes forest. Obliged to support him after the tragic death of her mother, Alex finds herself growing...

5.7

28 votes

5.7

28 votes

Don't Cry Germaine

2000 · Movie · 96 min. · Belgium

Direction Alain de Halleux

Cast Rosa Renom · Dirk Roofthooft · Catherine Grosjean · Benoit Skalka

Plot Based on Claude Jasmin's European bestseller of the same name, Don't Cry Germaine chronicles the often hilarious journey of the Bedard family to their new home in Spain. Following the...

5.7

68 votes

5.7

68 votes

The World of Yesterday

2022 · Movie · 89 min. · France

Direction Diastème

Cast Léa Drucker · Denis Podalydès · Alban Lenoir · Benjamin Biolay

Plot Isabelle de Raincy beat her far-right rival to be elected President of the Republic five years earlier. At the end of her first term, just three days before the first...

5.0

263 votes

5.0

263 votes

You and Me

2006 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Julie Lopes-Curval

Cast Marion Cotillard · Julie Depardieu · Jonathan Zaccaï · Eric Berger

Plot In Paris, Ariane and Lena are sisters. Ariane writes photo novellas for the magazine "Toi et Moi." She's emotional and her long-time boyfriend, Farid, has her in a state because...

5.0

24 votes

5.0

24 votes

Mémoires à vif

2023 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Julie Gali

Cast Anthony Colette · Valérie Decobert-Koretzky · Liv del Estal · Stéphane Freiss

Plot About to inaugurate the commemorative plaque in tribute to the Harkis, the deputy mayor of Valbonne is found dead in a swimming pool. Police commanders Leila Belhassen and Cédric Bonfanti.

4.9

27 votes

4.9

27 votes

Coexister

2017 · Movie · 90 min. · France

4.9

25 votes

4.9

25 votes

With Open Arms

2017 · Movie · 92 min. · France

4.8

650 votes

4.8

650 votes

Qui m'aime me suive!

2019 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction José Alcala

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Catherine Frot · Bernard Le Coq · India Hair

Plot Gilbert and Simone live a restless retreat in a village in the South of France. The departure of Étienne, her neighbor and lover, the lack of money, but especially the...

4.6

118 votes

4.6

118 votes

The Aspern Papers

2018 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Julien Landais

Cast Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Vanessa Redgrave · Joely Richardson · Lois Robbins

Plot Set in Venice in the late 19th century, "The Aspern Papers" tells the story of an ambitious editor (Meyers), who is obsessed by the romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern and his...

4.1

69 votes

4.1

69 votes