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Gilles Lellouche

Gilles Lellouche

4 films · 315 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20032023

Born 5 July 1972 · Savigny-sur-Orge, Essonne, France

Gilles Lellouche is a French actor and director. Most known for his performances in Tell No One (2006), Mesrine (2008), Little White Lies (2010), The Players (2012), The Connection (2014), C'est la vie! (2017), In Safe Hands (2018) and BAC Nord (2020). For his performances, Lellouche was nominated for numerous acting César Awards, including twice for Best Actor for In Safe Hands and BAC Nord.

As filmmaker, he directed Sink or Swim (2018) and Beating Hearts (2025), for which he was nominated twice for the César Award for Best Director.

Lellouche was born in Savigny-sur-Orge, France, to a father of Algerian-Jewish descent, and to a mother of Irish Catholic background.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 315 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20032023

  • honorary citizen of Fontainebleau

How their films are shot

Measured across 315 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gilles takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 52% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Gilles takes.

Time of day

Day52%
Night39%
Interior7%

Lighting

Natural50%
Low key28%
High key20%

Shot size

Medium60%
Wide18%
Closeup15%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
High angle5%
Top down5%
Low angle4%

Mood

Neutral71%
Tense13%
Lonely4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 315 frames from Gilles Lellouche's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.