List of the best Jean-Pierre Dardenne movies: Rosetta(1999), The Kid with a Bike(2011), Lorna's Silence(2008), The Unknown Girl(2016), Young Ahmed(2019), L'Enfant(2005) ... ...
Drama
France|Belgium
1999
95 Minutes
Émilie Dequenne Jean-Pierre Dardenne Fabrizio Rongione Anne Yernaux Olivier Gourmet
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Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
Drama
Belgium|France|Italy
2011
87 Minutes
Cécile de France Jean-Pierre Dardenne Jérémie Renier Fabrizio Rongione Olivier Gourmet Thomas Doret Egon Di Mateo Baptiste Sornin Samuel De Rijk Carl Jadot Claudy Delfosse
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hair-dresser agrees to foster him on week-ends.
Drama
Belgium|France|Italy|Germany
2008
95 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Dardenne Arta Dobroshi Jérémie Renier Fabrizio Rongione Alban Ukaj Morgan Marinne Olivier Gourmet Anton Yakovlev Grigoriy Manukov Mireille Bailly
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Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie - he needs... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Belgium|France
2016
113 Minutes
Adèle Haenel Jean-Pierre Dardenne Olivier Bonnaud Jérémie Renier Louka Minnella Christelle Cornil Nadège Ouedraogo Olivier Gourmet Pierre Sumkay Yves Larec Ben Hamidou
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A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.
Drama
Belgium|France
2019
84 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Dardenne Olivier Bonnaud Myriem Akheddiou Idir Ben Addi Victoria Bluck Claire Bodson Othmane Moumen Cyra Lassman Nadège Ouedraogo
A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.
Drama
2005
95 Minutes
Jérémie Renier Jean-Pierre Dardenne Déborah François Jérémie Segard Fabrizio Rongione Olivier Gourmet Stéphane Bissot Mireille Bailly Anne Gerard Bernard Marbaix Frédéric Bodson
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A directionless couple (Jérémie Renier, Déborah François) must deal with life-changing responsibilities when they have a child out of wedlock.