Jean-Xavier de Lestrade (Director)

Zone interdite

The zone interdite refers to two distinct territories established in German-occupied France during the Second World War after the signature of the Second Armistice at Compiègne.

Release Date1993-03-07

Charactersd Self - Journalist

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Capturing Reality

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?

Release Date2008-11-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count8

Infrarouge

French current affair show

Release Date2006-02-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Le Monde En Face

Weekly current affairs show

Release Date1987-09-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

3x Manon

After going before the judge for the third time, 15-year old Manon is placed in a reform centre for six months. Challenged by her own uncontrollable temper, and the bureaucracy of the institution, will this be Manon’s last chance at redemption?

Release Date2014-04-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count11

The Staircase

Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, presents a gripping courtroom thriller, offering a rare and revealing inside look at a high-profile murder trial. In 2001, author Michael Peterson was arraigned for the murder of his wife Kathleen, whose body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of their home. Granted unusual access to Peterson's lawyers, home and immediate family, de Lestrade's cameras capture the defense team as it considers its strategic options. The series is an engrossing look at contemporary American justice that features more twists than a legal bestseller.

Release Date2004-10-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

Vote Count173

The Inside Game

Release Date2019-05-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count7

Laetitia

Eighteen-year-old Laetitia has disappeared. Police quickly arrest Tony Meilhon but investigators still can’t find the body. This story follows the repercussions for Laetitia’s family and twin sister Jessica; the police force inner workings and social services; the judicial system and government itself.

Release Date2020-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count21

Samber

Late 80’s in Northern France, women are being sexually assaulted along the same road by the Samber river – with attacks taking place early mornings and in a similar style. The police fail to get to grips with the extent of these assaults or make a connection between the cases. The justice system is overwhelmed by the accumulating cases. It will take 30 years to catch a man, who never stopped attacking women and is responsible for at least 54 cases of rape or sexual assault.

Release Date2023-11-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count26

Trial 4

Charged as a teen in the 1993 killing of a Boston cop, Sean K. Ellis fights to prove his innocence while exposing police corruption and systemic racism.

Release Date2020-11-11

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count20

Justice à Vegas

Release Date2009-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Malaterra

Malaterra: for the residents this village is a haven of peace, a refuge. Until the death of a child. This once united community, where everyone thought they could trust each other, falls apart. Who killed little Nathan? And why?

Release Date2015-11-18

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

Murder on a Sunday Morning

2001 French documentary about the murder trial of a 15 year old black teen accused of murder in Jacksonville, Florida. Winner of 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Release Date2001-09-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count56

Des vivants

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

The Staircase II: The Last Chance

Explosive developments - implicating both the forensics laboratory of the police department of North Carolina, and Duane Deaver, its chief - shed new light on the case of murder suspect Michael Peterson.

Release Date2012-11-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count38

Vanished

A mother of two mysteriously disappears one morning. Her husband isn't worried as they've had rough patches; his wife just wanted to give him a scare and will come home soon. But her lover is convinced she has been murdered by her husband.

Release Date2012-10-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count8

Welcome Home

Julien, 28, returns to his home town after spending the past 13 years in prison. Out on probation, he's obsessed with a girl... Emilie. And one day, he reaches for her: "it's me". She turns around, looks at him and starts to scream.

Release Date2008-12-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

L'annonce

Release Date2017-02-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Parcours meurtrier d'une mère ordinaire: L'affaire Courjault

Release Date2009-12-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector