From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bruno Dumont (born 1958, Bailleul, France) is a French film director. To date, he has directed ten feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité (1999) and Flandres (2006). Dumont's Hadewijch won the 2009 Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival, and will be distributed in France in 2009, and by IFC in the U.S. in 2010. Dumont has a background of Greek and German (Western) philosophy, and of corporate video. His films often show the ugliness of extreme violence and provocative sexual behavior, and are usually classified as art films. Dumont has himself likened his films to visual arts, and he typically uses long takes, close-ups of people's bodies, and story lines involving extreme emotions. Dumont does not write traditional scripts for his films. Instead, he writes complete novels which are then the basis for his filmmaking. He says that some of his favorite filmmakers are Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, and Abbas Kiarostami. He is frequently considered an artistic heir to Robert Bresson. His work has been associated with the New French Extremity. His film Outside Satan premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruno Dumont, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- March 14, 1958 (68)
- Bailleul, France
- Writer, director and editor
- 10 on MovieCove · 16 credits in all
What are Bruno Dumont's films like?
Across their 10 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Morality.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 2 · Wry 0 · Earnest 6
Light 1 · Serious 5 · Dark 2
A split, not a type: Grounded 3 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 3
Gentle 1 · Charged 7 · Intense 0
Steady 1 · Shifting 6 · Whiplash 1
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 0
Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 2 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 5 · Heavy 1
Resolved 1 · Open-ended 4 · Ambiguous 3
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet2
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous6
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Bruno Dumont's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 7 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Bruno Dumont's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
16 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page; 8 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Les roches rouges(2026)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
The Empire(2024)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films
France(2021)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
Joan of Arc(2019)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
Slack Bay(2016)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
Li'l Quinquin(2014)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows
Li'l Quinquin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Camille Claudel 1915(2013)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
Outside Satan (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Hadewijch(2009)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Flanders (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Twentynine Palms (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Humanité (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
The Life of Jesus (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Career shape
A full career of 16 titles from 1997 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Slack Bay (2016)
Highest rated
Hadewijch (2009)
Most popular right now
Slack Bay (2016)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Bruno Dumont's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 48th percentile, the median of all 8; across their 8 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 50th percentile for acclaim.
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th4
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 10 titles are Mixed.
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed7
Reviewers score the dialogue 41/100 and the plot and story 35/100 in their films, across 7 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Bruno Dumont work with?
People who share at least 2 of Bruno Dumont's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Jean Bréhat shares the most, 9.
Writers
- Charles PeguyShared titles: Joan of Arc (2019), Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Charles Peguy
Actors
- Bernard PruvostShared titles: The Empire (2024), Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018), Li'l Quinquin (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Bernard Pruvost
- Fabrice LuchiniShared titles: The Empire (2024), Joan of Arc (2019), Slack Bay (2016)See all 3 shared titles with Fabrice Luchini
- Philippe JoreShared titles: The Empire (2024), Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018), Li'l Quinquin (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Philippe Jore
- Julien ManierShared titles: The Empire (2024), Joan of Arc (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Julien Manier
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Basile BelkhiriShared titles: Joan of Arc (2019), Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018), Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017), Slack Bay (2016), Li'l Quinquin (2014), Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)See all 6 shared titles with Basile Belkhiri
- Guillaume DeffontainesShared titles: Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018), Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017), Slack Bay (2016), Li'l Quinquin (2014), Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)See all 5 shared titles with Guillaume Deffontaines
- David ChambilleShared titles: The Empire (2024), France (2021), Joan of Arc (2019)See all 3 shared titles with David Chambille
- ChristopheShared titles: France (2021), Joan of Arc (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Christophe
Producers
- Jean BréhatShared titles: The Empire (2024), France (2021), Joan of Arc (2019), Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018), Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017), Slack Bay (2016), Li'l Quinquin (2014), Camille Claudel 1915 (2013), Hadewijch (2009)See all 9 shared titles with Jean Bréhat
- Muriel MerlinShared titles: The Empire (2024), France (2021), Joan of Arc (2019), Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018), Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017), Slack Bay (2016), Li'l Quinquin (2014), Camille Claudel 1915 (2013), Hadewijch (2009)See all 9 shared titles with Muriel Merlin
- Rachid BoucharebShared titles: The Empire (2024), France (2021), Joan of Arc (2019), Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018), Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017), Slack Bay (2016), Li'l Quinquin (2014), Camille Claudel 1915 (2013), Hadewijch (2009)See all 9 shared titles with Rachid Bouchareb
- Andrea ParisShared titles: The Empire (2024), France (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Andrea Paris