Francois Boyer Filmography

Occupation:: Screenwriter
Biography:: French screenwriter Francois Boyer was first a teacher, a railroad laborer, a professional writer, and a student at the prestigious IDHEC before he began penning scripts in 1947. Boyer is best known for the work he did in conjunction with Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost on the film adaptation of his...Read More

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Mords Pas On t'Aime

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bernard Fresson, Catherine Allegret, Jean-Pierre Darras, Yves Coudray

Synopsis: A child of divorced parents, the young man in this film engineers a situation which will force his mother, whom he has forgotten, to show up. When she does, he is disappointed that she is nothing like his dreams of her. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
The Woman In Blue

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Lea Massari, Michel Aumont, Simone Simon

Synopsis: In this French tragicomedy, once Pierre sees Auriele, he cannot rest until he finds her. Pierre is just minding his own business, when this woman walks by. He does not know who she is, where she lives, what she does or anything. Pierre, a music critic and TV commentator, uses his resources to try Read More

1/14/73
Prêtres Interdits

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Hossein, Claude Jade, Claude Piéplu, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: This French melodrama tells the tragic story of a young priest (Robert Hossein) who falls in love with a young woman, has relations with her, and gets her pregnant. His cardinal wants to ship him off to Rome, but he sticks around and has a hard time of it when she dies and he is not allowed to Read More

1973
La Bar de la Fourche

Crew: Dialogue Writer

Actors: Jacques Brel, Rosy Varte, Isabelle Huppert, Pierre Francois Pistorio

Synopsis: This French comic action/adventure film tells the rollicking story of Flemish Vincent Van Horst (Jacques Brel), a World War I veteran, who travels to the backwoods of Canada to search for a lost love. He teams up with a young man for an adventure which includes lovemaking and feuds, and a murder Read More

1972
Le Petit Bougnat

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Adjani

Synopsis: Directed by Bernard Michel, this French film stars Claude Amazan as a child coal merchant eager to go to summer camp. When the long awaited departure day arrives, however, he realizes that his mother forgot to register his name with the rest of the group. Desperate to join them, the young coal Read More

1/1/70
Sous le Signe du Taureau

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Gabin, Suzanne Flon, Colette Dereal, Raymond Gerome, Michel Auclair

Synopsis: This is an updated version of the Alexander Dumas classic. Edmond Dantes (Paul Barge) is framed and imprisoned for collaboration with the enemy during World War II. When he escapes from jail he travels to South America where rumors of his death are soon taken to be fact. He discovers a treasure Read More

1968
Le Mois Le Plus Beau

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Georges Géret, Michel Galabru, Daniel Gélin, Magali Noël, Yves Robert, Muriel Baptiste

Synopsis: A French soldier is discharged from the army and returns to his village in the early days of World War ll. His daughter is pregnant, but the father is the son of the local mayor, who refuses to let his son marry the girl. When Italy declares war on France, two Italian workers are nearly lynched by Read More

1968
La Vingt-Cinquième Heure

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Serge Reggiani, Gregoire Aslan, Michael Redgrave

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director Henri Verneuil stars Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz, a Romanian peasant who experiences the horrors of World War II when the Nazis invade his country. Because local police chief Read More

4/26/67
Weekend à Zuydcoote

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, François Perier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Georges Géret

Synopsis: In this WW II drama set during a weekend in June of 1940, German invaders force British troops to flee Dunkirk. The French soldiers stationed on a nearby beach also want to withdraw so they too can battle the Germans, but they have been ordered to stay in place and the British are to use the boats Read More

12/18/64
Les Copains

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Pierre Mondy, Claude Rich, Michel Lonsdale

1964
Bebert et l'omnibus

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Jacques Higelin, Jean Richard, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: Bebert (Martin Lartigue) is a five-year-old boy who gets separated from his older brother on a train. Comedy ensues as the precocious moppet observes the less-than-grown-up activities of the adults as he seeks to be reunited with his family. Panic-stricken adults continue the search for the Read More

1963
Un Singe En Hiver

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon, Noël Roquevert

Synopsis: Latent forces for a strong individualism are pitted against the need to honor deeply held commitments in this effective comedy by Henri Verneuil. Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo star as Albert and Gabriel, respectively. Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife Read More

1962
La Guerre des Boutons

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Richard, Jacques Dufilho, Michel Galabru, Yvette Etievant

Synopsis: In this gentle anti-war comedy, a class of French schoolboys divides into two factions who begin to battle each other, with the victors claiming the buttons off the clothes of the vanquished. One day, some of the boys pull a strategic coup by running into battle naked, therefore leaving their Read More

1962
Les Magiciennes

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Riberolles, Ellen Kessler, Alice Kessler, Ginette Leclerc

Synopsis: Murder, illusion, and lies form the basis of this convoluted drama that centers around twin sisters and the man that loves one of them. The girls work as a circus illusionist. People love their act because the girls are adept at making the audience believe that there is only one of them. To keep Read More

1960
Le Joueur

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Liselotte Pulver, Nadine Alari, Bernard Blier, Françoise Rosay, Jean Danet

Synopsis: Le Joueur is French director Claude Autant-Lara's spin on the oft-filmed Dostoyevsky novel The Gambler. Set in 19th century Baden-Baden, the film details the trials and tribulations of several chronic gamblers, foremost among them young Alevei (Gerard Philipe). In love with Pauline (Liselotte Pulver Read More

11/12/58
Forbidden Games

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Amedee, Lucien Hubert, Suzanne Courtal, Jacques Marin

Synopsis: One of the first films to see the horrors of war through the eyes of children, Forbidden Games was a critical smash, winning prizes from the New York Film Critics, the British Academy, and the Venice Film Festival. Adapted by Francois Boyer, director Rene Clement, and two others from Boyer's Read More

1952