Jean-Henri Compère

Acting

Jean-Henri Compère

Born

1960-01-01 (66)

Place of birth

Belgium

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

Under the Stars of Paris poster
6.7

Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. Christine understands that he is lost and has been separated from his mother. Bounded by their marginal condition, they embark together on an emotional journey to find Suli’s mother in the underground world of Paris...

Under the Stars of Paris

2021

The Astronaut poster
7.1

An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it.

The Astronaut

2023

Gregor poster
NR

The discovery of a human skull fragment plunges Gregor into a hallucinatory thriller blending violence, power, and extreme fantasies...

Gregor

2026

Les pas perdus poster
NR

The courthouse opens its doors. People seeking freedom, recognition, love, and forgiveness rush inside. They are in transit in the hall of lost steps. But not for long. Today, they will make a choice that will change their lives forever and discover that the quest for self is not without consequences...

Les pas perdus

2024

Kwibuka, Remember poster
NR

Lia, a Belgian-Rwandan basketball player facing the twilight of her career. Twenty years after fleeing the genocide, she is asked to join the Rwandan national basketball team. This journey stirs buried memories of a painful past: exile, family silences and the pain of a fractured identity. Through her eyes, the film explores confrontation between memory and the present, and a nation scarred by tragedy with a contemporary Rwanda brimming with life and creativity.

Kwibuka, Remember

2025

Life-Size Pauline poster
6.0

Pauline juggles life between her kids and her work as a landscape designer where she has to fight for her place amongst her male colleagues. Her life is turned upside-down when her mother tells her that she is going to live abroad and will no longer be able to take care of her children, then becomes chaotic when she is appointed manager of an important project. On all fronts, her life takes a turn for the worse.

Life-Size Pauline

2024

2010s · 12 titles

The Brand New Testament poster
6.7

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...

The Brand New Testament

2015

Summertime poster
6.7

In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.

Summertime

2015

Yves Saint Laurent poster
6.6

A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.

Yves Saint Laurent

2014

Torpedo: U-235 poster
6.4

World War II: Resistance fighters accept a suicide mission to deliver a stolen Nazi submarine carrying atomic uranium. Hunted by Hitler’s army, the crew must outwit the German Navy to bring the cargo safely to America.

Torpedo: U-235

2019

Our Children poster
6.8

Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir. A wedding soon follows, and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father. As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Doctor Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare, and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her.

Our Children

2012

Accomplices poster
NR

Philippe works as a Judge at the criminal court. He has a complicated relationship with his son Hugues. One night Hugues commits a deadly hit and run while driving home drunk. To protect his only son, Philippe chooses to cover up the evidences.

Accomplices

2016

The White Knights poster
5.6

Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to come along with them and handle the media coverage for this operation. Completely immersed in the brutal reality of a country at war, the NGO members start losing their convictions and are faced with the limits of humanitarian intervention.

The White Knights

2015

Lola Pater poster
6.0

When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid became Lola.

Lola Pater

2017

The Anonymous poster
7.9

A counterterrorism task force investigates the 1998 Ajaccio assassination of Claude Érignac, the prefect of Corsica. Based on true events.

The Anonymous

2013

Chambre double poster
NR

Gilles is a doctor. After a procedure, in the middle of the night he ends up in a small hotel in a downtown area. As soon as Gilles enters his room, the hotel receptionist knocks on his door and asks Gilles to help care for a young woman who was badly beaten…

Chambre double

2013

Au moins le sais-tu... poster
NR

Alexandra clears her mind. She runs away to try to overcome the ordeal she is going through. Her pain was unpredictable. Life is just as unpredictable.

Au moins le sais-tu...

2014

Emma Peeters poster
5.7

After 10 years of struggle in Paris, Emma Peeters has to face the facts: she will never be an actress. She decides to commit suicide on her 35th birthday. That is when she meets Alex, a funeral home employee.

Emma Peeters

2018

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 5 titles

Series credits