Philippe Venault

Jérôme has killed Driss, of Moroccan ancestry, who used to be his best friend. Is it an accident, a drama caused by jealousy or a racist murder? The story of Jérôme's long drift is discovered as the police carry out its investigation.

After the death of their child, a couple move to a new place. The mother start witnessing strange events.

De volta do Afeganistão, jovens militares franceses são mandados a Chipre, a fim de desestressar. Trata-se, na verdade, de esclarecer a morte em circunstâncias ambíguas de um dos companheiros e identificar eventuais estresse pós-traumático.

De volta do Afeganistão, jovens militares franceses são mandados a Chipre, a fim de desestressar. Trata-se, na verdade, de esclarecer a morte em circunstâncias ambíguas de um dos companheiros e identificar eventuais estresse pós-traumático.

Dame de pique is a French TV movie (crime/mystery) directed by Philippe Venault. It was first screened on January 21, 2011 on France 2.

Após um trágico acidente de carro e a perda do bebê que ela estava esperando, Betty procura consolo em um novo emprego, cuidando de um garoto cego em uma casa na montanha. Sua esperança de um novo começo se transforma em um pesadelo quando ela descobre os segredos sombrios que estão nos Alpes.

June 1940. While the Germans advance inexorably on the French territory, the army is in full debacle. While the top brass played "sauve qui peut", a handful of French soldiers desperately resisted on the banks of the Loire. On one side, a company of Senegalese riflemen and a few French soldiers, on the other side, the armored tanks of the Wehrmarcht. An act with no real future, it was considered heroic by some and useless by others. But for their leader, Henri Dragance, there was no alternative but to resist or die.

June 1940. While the Germans advance inexorably on the French territory, the army is in full debacle. While the top brass played "sauve qui peut", a handful of French soldiers desperately resisted on the banks of the Loire. On one side, a company of Senegalese riflemen and a few French soldiers, on the other side, the armored tanks of the Wehrmarcht. An act with no real future, it was considered heroic by some and useless by others. But for their leader, Henri Dragance, there was no alternative but to resist or die.

Long ago, the architect Stuart Pedrell told his family that he was going to the South Seas. However, his daughter Yes has recently received a postcard from her father that comes from a far less exotic place: L'Hospitalet. Carvalho goes to Bellvitge in order to find Yes' father and to discover why he lied to his family. Pedrell never went indeed to the South Seas. He took refuge in Bellvitge where he was murdered.

Istambul, 1967. Two women meet at Avrenos, a tavern in the old city. Nouchi, the brunette, is mourning the death of Bernard de Jonsac, an employee of the French Embassy who recently died. It is Lélia, the blonde, who asked her to come. She wants to understand the ties that bound them both to Jonsac, to understand the strange couple that this desperate dandy formed with Nouchi, the ex-Bulgarian bar girl. Lélia, the middle-class woman from Istanbul, wants to understand at last, ten years after the tragedy that has left her confined to a wheelchair for life...

A young teacher, Pierre, arrives in Africa in the middle of the small French community. Pierre lets himself be won over by the physical and moral torpor that reigns in this micro-society.

Short film part of Paris Vu Par… 20 Years After

Short film part of Paris Vu Par… 20 Years After

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.