Direction: Philippe Harel

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Philippe Harel. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Banned Woman

1997 · Movie · 107 min. · France

Direction Philippe Harel

Cast Isabelle Carré · Philippe Harel · Nathalie Conio · Sophie Niedergang

Synopsis This movie is foremost distinguished by the use of a subjective camera, and nearly 100 % of the time consists of close-up of the young girl's face. She is capable of changing her facial mimic so much that she never...

7.0

59 votes

7.0

59 votes

Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle

2001 · Movie · 113 min. · Belgium

Direction Philippe Harel

Cast Benoît Poelvoorde · José García · Daniel Ceccaldi · Sacha Bourdo

Synopsis In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To...

6.5

627 votes

6.5

627 votes

Extension du domaine de la lutte

1999 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Philippe Harel

Cast Philippe Harel · José García · Catherine Mouchet · Philippe Bianco

Synopsis An ordinary computer technician, lacking any ambition or drive, is obliged to take several business trips to the provinces. He's accompanied by a work colleague who's still looking for love despite successive failures in the past. But in a perfectly...

6.4

47 votes

6.4

47 votes

Hikers

1997 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Philippe Harel

Cast Benoît Poelvoorde · Karin Viard · Geraldine Pailhas · Philippe Harel

Synopsis Parisian friends (two brothers and their one-time girl friends) fly to Corsica for a mountain trek guided by the married lover of one of the women. Cora, nearly 30, goes because her psychic says she'll meet a man with a...

5.2

25 votes

5.2

25 votes

Direction Philippe Harel

Cast Julien Collet · Marion Cotillard · Hélène Médigue · Marie Pailhes

Synopsis Raoul is a 20 years old student in Paris. Girls are not interested in him, though he is good-looking. He wonders why. Raoul does not look for a great passion, he only wants to be kissed. We will follow his...

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Tristan

2003 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Philippe Harel

Cast Mathilde Seigner · Jean-Jacques Vanier · Jean-Louis Loca · Sandrine Le Berre

Synopsis Emmanuelle, a young police captain, has been totally focussed on an investigation into a prostitution racket for several months. She is sent out on a new case involving suicide lovers who all share the same similarities: the victims are young...

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Tu vas rire, mais je te quitte

2005 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Philippe Harel

Cast Judith Godrèche · Ariane Seguillon · Coralie Revel · Wladimir Yordanoff

Synopsis The complicated life of a wannabe actress who meets an older writer in the midst of a crisis.

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Un adultère (TV)

2018 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Philippe Harel

Cast Isabelle Carré · Xavier Lemaître · Roxane Arnal · David Stone

Synopsis The tale of duplicitous husband and father Julien, a real estate agent who falls in love with Alice, a young client - who, it turns out, works in Julien's wife Marie's tea shop.

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Les heures souterraines (TV)

2015 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Philippe Harel

Cast Marie-Sophie Ferdane · Mehdi Nebbou · Carolina Jurczak · Eric Savin

Synopsis Mathilde, after 8 years of collaboration, is suddenly being bullied by her superior. After a messy breakup with his girlfriend, Thibault keeps working as an emergency doctor, on autopilot. Today, September 29th, Mathilde and Thibault meet.

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