02 December 2026
Philippe "Bouli" Lanners (born 20 May 1965 in Moresnet-Chapelle, in the Redeemed Cantons near Liège, Belgium) is a Belgian actor, author and film director. He is also known as a painter.
Filmography Bouli Lanners
September 2024
Dog on Trial
ComedyDirected by: Laetitia DoschWith: Laetitia Dosch, François Damiens, Bouli LannersAvril, a young lawyer specializing in animal defense, goes to great lengths to save her client, a repeat-offender dog, from capital punishment. This dog helps Avril accept her own human complexity.
May 2024
Une affaire de principe
Directed by: Antoine RaimbaultWith: Bouli Lanners, Thomas VDB, Céleste Brunnquell
November 2023
Second tour
ComedyDirected by: Albert DupontelWith: Albert Dupontel, Cécile de France, Nicolas Marié,...
August 2023
Un Coup de Maître
ComedyDirected by: Rémi BezançonWith: Vincent Macaigne, Bouli Lanners, Bastien Ughetto
August 2022
March 2022
Nobody Has To Know
Drama Directed by: Bouli LannersWith: Bouli Lanners, Michèle Fairley, Julian Glover
December 2019
Notre Dame
ComedyDirected by: Valérie DonzelliWith: Valérie Donzelli, Pierre Deladonchamps,...Maud wins the opportunity to refurbish the iconic Notre Dame. Personal and professional issues stand in comical tension as she goes through an emotional storm.
August 2019
De Patrick
MelodramaDirected by: Tim MielantsWith: Jemaine Clement, Kevin Janssens, Hannah Hoekstra,...Patrick (38) lives with his parents on a naturist campsite. When his father dies he finds himself in charge, but has lost his favorite hammer. His search becomes an existential quest, when a hammer is used in a break-in crime.
March 2019
C'est ça l'amour
MelodramaDirected by: Claire BurgerWith: Bouli Lanners, Justine Lacroix, Sarah HenochsbergForbach, Eastern France. Present day. Since his wife walked out to the family, Mario has raised their two daughters of his own. Frida, 14, blames him for her mother leaving. Niki, 17, dreams of independence. Meanwhile, Mario waits for his wife to come home.
June 2018
Troisièmes Noces
Drama, ComedyDirected by: David LambertWith: Bouli Lanners, Virginie Hocq, Rachel Mwanza,...Martin, a homosexual widower and whimsical of fifty years, sees itself propose to contract a marriage white with a Congolese of twenty years, Tamara. These two beings that everything separates are going to believe in their love against the authorities of migration and to force to pretend.
May 2018
Chien
Drama, ComedyDirected by: Samuel BenchetritWith: Vanessa Paradis, Bouli Lanners, Vincent MacaigneJacques Blanchot loses everything: his wife, his home, his job. He gradually alienates himself from the world around him. Until the day when the owner of a pet shop takes him in.
January 2018
Tueurs
ThrillerDirected by: François Troukens et Jean-François HensgensWith: Olivier Gourmet, Kevin Janssens, Lubna Azabal,...
October 2017
Petit Paysan
DramaDirected by: Hubert CharuelWith: Swann Arlaud & Bouli LannersWhen one of his cows gets sick, a farmer will stop at nothing to save the rest of the herd.
Raw
Horror, Drama Directed by: Julia DucournauWith: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella,...In Justine's family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she's a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life.... Read more...
February 2016
Les Premiers, Les Derniers
DramaDirected by: Bouli LannersWith: Albert Dupontel, Suzanne Clément,...
June 2015
Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis
ComedyDirected by: Guillaume Malandrin & Stéphane MalandrinWith: Bouli Lanners, Wim Willaert, Serge RiaboukineOn the eve of their departure for their first California concert tour, three rock musicians must face the senseless death of their lead singer. Because friendship is stronger than anything, they decide to go on the long-hoped for tour in his honor. Their journey takes an unexpected turn, however,... Read more...
April 2015
Tous les Chats sont Gris
DramaDirected by: Savina DellicourWith: Bouli Lanners, Manon Capelle, Anne CoesensPaul is a detective in his forties. Dorothy is 15 and going through a serious identity crisis. She's up- per-middle class whilst he's an outsider to Brussel's small well-to-do society. The only thing that links them is Paul's knowledge that he is Dorothy's biological father. Over the years, away... Read more...
January 2014
October 2013
La Confrérie des Larmes
ThrillerDirected by: Jean-Baptiste AndreaWith: Jérémie Renier & Bouli Lanners