Directing

Miguel Courtois

Born

1960-01-01 (66)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

19 titles

Known for

Jusqu'au bout du monde poster
4.5

Virginie, a young woman french, goes to work to the Bresil...

Jusqu'au bout du monde

2013

Killer Kid poster
5.5

After his father is killed, Djilali is sold by his family to a Lebanese terrorist group. After completing a grueling training process alongside five other boys, Djilali is chosen for a special assignment and sent to Paris to live with carefree Arab boy Karim, who is scheduled to meet the French president at a Christmas party. Djilali's mission is to impersonate Karim and kill the president, but his growing friendship with the happy youth gives him pause.

Killer Kid

1994

Skate Or Die poster
4.6

When they happen to witness the murder of a drug dealer in an underground car park, Jerome and Benjamin, teenagers from the suburbs, need all their wits - but more importantly their considerable skateboarding skills - to escape the perpetrators and report what they've seen to the authorities.

Skate Or Die

2008

Wolf poster
6.5

Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ideal candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so.

Wolf

2004

First Snow poster
4.4

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

First Snow

1999

GAL poster
4.8

Two journalists investigate the criminal activities of the GAL (Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación), a secret terrorist organization founded in the eighties and financed by leading figures in the Spanish government and security forces to hunt down and exterminate both members and collaborators of the terrorist gang ETA.

GAL

2006

Behind the camera

Jusqu'au bout du monde poster
4.5

Virginie, a young woman french, goes to work to the Bresil...

Jusqu'au bout du monde

2013

Killer Kid poster
5.5

After his father is killed, Djilali is sold by his family to a Lebanese terrorist group. After completing a grueling training process alongside five other boys, Djilali is chosen for a special assignment and sent to Paris to live with carefree Arab boy Karim, who is scheduled to meet the French president at a Christmas party. Djilali's mission is to impersonate Karim and kill the president, but his growing friendship with the happy youth gives him pause.

Killer Kid

1994

Skate Or Die poster
4.6

When they happen to witness the murder of a drug dealer in an underground car park, Jerome and Benjamin, teenagers from the suburbs, need all their wits - but more importantly their considerable skateboarding skills - to escape the perpetrators and report what they've seen to the authorities.

Skate Or Die

2008

Wolf poster
6.5

Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ideal candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so.

Wolf

2004

First Snow poster
4.4

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

First Snow

1999

GAL poster
4.8

Two journalists investigate the criminal activities of the GAL (Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación), a secret terrorist organization founded in the eighties and financed by leading figures in the Spanish government and security forces to hunt down and exterminate both members and collaborators of the terrorist gang ETA.

GAL

2006

Angel poster
3.7

Léa is a strong person, but when she comes out of prison, she decides to get a fresh start. She would like to forget her cold and aloof father Vittorio Pastore, her young and irresponsible brother Samy for who she went in jail and the Zach's gang, the thug she used to love. But nothing elapses as she expected.

Angel

2001

Une journée de merde ! poster
5.0

This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in Paris and Marc will meet them for dinner to announce the engagement (her father can't stand him), he's bought Sabine a Spitfire, and his most important client is to sign a policy. But, as the day wears on, he's vexed by an incompetent secretary, the unexpected return of a girlfriend he hasn't seen in five years, squatters who use his office at night, the jealous former lover of a flight attendant who lives in the building, and his boss's unexpected return from a Swiss clinic. Will he reach Sabine in one piece?

Une journée de merde !

1999

Operación E poster
6.8

A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Operación E

2012

Operación E poster
6.8

A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Operación E

2012

Goodbye and See You Soon poster
4.6

60-something Henri meets 50-something Lila, and sparks fly - until they both must reconcile their very different lives and backgrounds.

Goodbye and See You Soon

2015

Le Premier Cri poster
6.1

Documentary about births around the different cultures and regions of the world.

Le Premier Cri

2007

Preuve d'amour poster
5.0

A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real killer.

Preuve d'amour

1988

Le piège afghan poster
6.0

A doctor on a French military base in Afghanistan, Nadia, in her thirties, works for the coalition of major Western powers. When she is sent on a mission to a village in a strategic location, her convoy falls into an ambush. Nadia and a soldier of Tajik origin are captured by a group of Taliban led by Abdullah, a Pakistani. The soldier is beheaded, while Nadia is miraculously released thanks to the intervention of a Pashtun leader, Hassan Walli, whom she had met ten years earlier in Paris. Using this friendship, Colonel Leroy of the DGSE asks the young woman to get closer to Hassan, who is seen as a moderate opposed to Al-Qaeda…

Le piège afghan

2011

Féroce poster
5.3

Gilles de Maistre's political thriller Féroce (Ferocious) is about a man seeking revenge. Arab Alain (Samy Naceri) decides to join a fascistic French political party in order to assassinate the leader, Legle (Jean-Marc Thibault). Alain comes to this decision when his girlfriend's brother is murdered after he had defaced some of the party's paraphernalia. To improve the party's public stance on immigrants, Alain is hired as a security guard. Legle's daughter is attracted to Alain, who is tempted enough by the girl to abandon some of his religious convictions.

Féroce

2002

Le cri coupé poster
4.6

In 1869, while investigating gruesome murders, a detective allies himself with a success-hungry newspaper editor.

Le cri coupé

1994

Seconde chance poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Seconde chance

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Voir le pays du matin calme

2011

11-M. Historia de un atentado poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

11-M. Historia de un atentado

2005