Known for Acting
Karim Leklou (born June 20, 1982) is a French actor who started his career in small role in Jacques Audiard 's film A Prophet (2009) and followed by Suzanne and Grand Central. Leklou undertook a lead role in Hippocrate for both seasons (2018, 2021). He has also starred in Sons of Ramses (2022), For My Country (2022), and Time Out (2023). In 2025, at the 50th César Awards he won for Best Actor for his performance in Jim's Story.
Born
June 20, 1982 (age 44)
Birthplace
Sèvres, France
Filmography
40 films, 7 shows
showing 39 of 40 films


Le Faux Soir
2026 · 2h 13m
country: France
November 1943, German-occupied Belgium. In the face of grave danger if caught, the Independent Front, a Belgian resistance organization, publishes a spoof edition of Le Soir to satirize the German occupiers and the nation’s main propaganda-controlled newspaper. Le Faux Soir is considered the first act of media hacking in history.


The Hunchback: Soul of Paris
2026
country: France
As cholera threatens to ravage the city of Paris in 1830, a hunchback hunted for medical experiments is caught between political turmoil and impossible love.


De Gaulle: Liberté
2026 · 2h 39m
country: France
Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career.


De Gaulle: Résistance
2026 · 2h 40m
country: France
June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.


The Piano Accident
2025 · 1h 28m
country: France
Social media sensation Magalie, known for posting shocking content, suffers a serious accident while filming one of her videos. She retreats to the mountains, accompanied by her assistant. Her peace is disrupted when a journalist begins blackmailing her.


Beating Hearts
2024 · 2h 40m
country: France
Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.


Tales of Taipei
2024 · 1h 56m
country: Taiwan
A heartfelt piece that tells the stories of Taipei streets, people and communities. From ten directors across the globe, creating ten unique stories of Taipei, through various backgrounds, delivering the same heartfelt message.


Jim's Story
2024 · 1h 41m
country: France
Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. They spend happy years together until Christophe, Jim's biological father, shows up... It could be the start of a melodrama, it's also the start of an odyssey into fatherhood.


Vincent Must Die
2023 · 1h 49m
country: France
Vincent finds himself under attack for no apparent reason overnight. When the phenomenon intensifies, he must run and change his way of life completely.


Time Out
2023 · 1h 58m
country: Belgium
Three prisoners are on a leave for a week end. 48 hours to come back down to earth. 48 hours to reconnect with their close friends. 48 hours trying to make up the lost time.


Loving Memories
2023 · 1h 27m
country: France
1916. Julien Delaunay is reported missing in action during the Great War. His wife, Julie, refuses to believe he is dead. 1919. When a photo of an amnesic drifter appears in the press, Julie immediately recognizes him as her beloved husband. They are reunited and, little by little, she helps him to fall in love with her again. Until another woman claims to be the man’s real wife…


Sons of Ramses
2023 · 1h 38m
country: France
Thirty-four year old Ramsès has established himself as a clairvoyant in La Goutte d’Or, Paris. A shrewd manipulator and something of a poet, he built a sound business consoling people. Elusive and dangerous youths, freshly arrived from the streets of Tangier, disrupt his business and the whole neighbourhood. Until the day Ramses has an actual vision.


For My Country
2023 · 1h 53m
country: France
Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. As the death tears through his family, controversy arises over Aissa’s funeral plans when the Army refuses to take responsibility. Ismael, his older, rebellious brother, tries to keep the family united as they fight to win justice for Aissa.


Playground
2021 · 1h 12m
country: Belgium
When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him by warning their father. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora will ultimately try to find her place, torn between children's and adult's worlds.


The Third War
2021 · 1h 32m
country: France
After completing his military training, young Léo, a taciturn soldier with family problems and secret addictions, is assigned to one of the units that patrol the streets of Paris in search of possible terrorist threats as part of Operation Sentinelle.


The Stronghold
2021 · 1h 45m
country: France
Tired of the small-time grind, three Marseille cops get a chance to bust a major drug network. But lines blur when a key informant makes a big ask.


The World Is Yours
2018 · 1h 34m
country: France
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.


Treat Me Like Fire
2018 · 1h 47m
country: France
Revolves around the relationship between a gambling addict and a young woman who falls madly in love with him and will stop at nothing to win his heart.


If You Saw His Heart
2017 · 1h 26m
country: France
Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crime and the path to redemption.


Orphan
2017 · 1h 51m
country: France
A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine.


Heal the Living
2016 · 1h 44m
country: Belgium
The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.


Toril
2016 · 1h 23m
country: France


The Stopover
2016 · 1h 42m
country: Greece
At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of decompression leave with their unit at a five-star resort in Cyprus, among tourists. But it's not that easy to forget the war and leave the violence behind.


The Anarchists
2015 · 1h 41m
country: France
Set in 1899 Paris, a young police sergeant is chosen to infiltrate a group of anarchists, an opportunity he sees to rise through the ranks. However, he soon finds himself becoming attached to the group.


Heatwave
2015 · 1h 42m
country: Belgium
In a small village of the South of France, life is made difficult by a sweltering heat wave and its corollary, a worrisome lack of water. Everyone is under great pressure, especially the farmers whose fields are not irrigated. Which is the reason why the residents are less and less well-disposed toward one of them, Joseph, a young man whose never-ending antics are becoming, in such fraught context, something of an intolerable inconvenience. The mayor tries desperately to calm things down but nothing helps...


Sous X
2015 · 1h 39m
country: France
Jean-Jacques spent 9 years in prison for robbery. When he comes out, he finds the neighborhood where he grew up but things have changed ... The country is in crisis, the young people are holding the business and his old friends are urging him to resume his activities ... It may be for Jean-Jacques the time to ask the right questions.


Young Tiger
2015 · 1h 27m
country: France
Bébé Tigre is Many, a 17-year-old Indian boy who has been living in France for two years. A teenager like any other, he divides his time between school, friends, and his girlfriend. But the pressures placed on him by his parents in India force him to put his own life at risk...


Suzanne
2013 · 1h 30m
country: Belgium
The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.


Grand Central
2013 · 1h 34m
country: Austria
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.


11.6
2013 · 1h 42m
country: France
In November 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin makes off with nearly 12 million euros, then turns himself over to the authorities a week later.


Marseille la nuit
2012
country: France
Elias and Teddy have always been friends. At age 23, they hang out, deal some drugs, and think they are the kings of their very small world. And then one day, for sure, they will leave Limoges for Marseille. Their encounter with Mona is going to speed things up.


Tata Bakhta
2012
country: France


Chase
2011 · 1h 35m
country: France
The quiet Luis commits a robbery. Two of his childhood friends try to help him get away with it.


Sans pudeur ni morale
2011 · 1h 20m
country: Unknown
In this world of media, where you can film someone's private life or the worst acts of violence, 'No Pain No Shame' breaks through the boundaries between reporting and cinema. Issa, a young French man originating from Africa, just got out of prison. His father decided to send him back to Ivory Coast in order to drive him away from bad company. To immortalize his last 24 hours in his suburbs, Issa decides to film everything with his video camera. Where will the exhilaration and euphoria of this departure lead this group of friends?


The Giants
2011 · 1h 24m
country: Belgium
Brothers Seth and Zak, ages 15 and 13 ¾, are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money, they decide to rent out the house to a local drug dealer, but things don't go exactly as planned...


Changing Room
2011 · 9m
country: France
After a boxing training, two groups of two men that have nothing in common, find themselves in a locker room. They are about to go home when an argument breaks out….


Special Treatment
2010 · 1h 35m
country: France
Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, Jeanne Labrune's drama stars Isabelle Huppert and Bouli Lanners as, respectively, Alice, a disaffected call girl and Xavier, a shrink with a crumbling domestic situation.


A Prophet
2009 · 2h 35m
country: France
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.


Cramé
2008 · 43m
country: France
The story of a guy who has to pay back 7,000 euros in one day.