Clare Peploe Filmography

Occupation:: Associate Producer, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Screenwriter Clare Peploe, the sister of screenwriter Mark Peploe, collaborated on the screenplay of Antonioni's Zabriskie Point. She also penned the controversial script for Luna (1979), a drama directed by her husband, Bernardo Bertolucci. In 1987, Peploe made her directorial debut with the...Read More

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The Triumph of Love

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Ben Kingsley, Fiona Shaw, Jay Rodan, Ignazio Oliva

Synopsis: A beautiful princess (Mira Sorvino) whose throne is threatened falls in love at first sight with the rightful heir to the throne, a lonely young man named Agis (Jay Rodan), in Clare Peploe's romantic comedy Triumph of Love. The film was adapted from an 18th century play by Marivaux. Peploe's Read More

4/19/02
Besieged

Crew: Associate Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Thandie Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci directed this Italian drama co-scripted by Bertolucci and Clare Peploe from a story by British-born writer James Lasdun (co-scripter of Jonathan Nossiter's Sunday). In Rome, reclusive British composer Jason Kinsky (David Thewlis) lives in the building he inherited from his Read More

5/21/99
Rough Magic

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent, D.W. Moffett, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: Director Clare Peploe (wife of Bernardo Bertolucci) adapted this blend of noir mystery and magical realism from the story Miss Shumway Waves a Wand by James Hadley Chase. Bridget Fonda stars as Myra Shumway, an apprentice to a magician (Kenneth Mars) in 1952 Los Angeles. Myra is unhappily engaged Read More

1995
High Season

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Irene Papas, Sebastian Shaw, Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis: Katherine (Jacqueline Bisset) is a photographer who lives in the exotic Greek islands with her sculptor husband Patrick (James Fox) in this comedy. The film lampoons tourists, contains beautiful scenery, and focuses on the relationship and eventual reconciliation of Katherine and Patrick. Side Read More

3/25/88
Luna

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Renato Salvatori, Tomas Milian, Fred Gwynne

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial drama explores the troubled life of a young man and his troubling relationship with his parents. Joe (Matthew Barry) is the son of famous opera singer Caterina Silveri (Jill Clayburgh); while Joe believes that Caterina's husband Douglas Winter (Fred Gwynne) is Read More

8/29/79
Zabriskie Point

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor

Synopsis: Zabriskie Point, director Michelangelo Antonioni's only American film, is an unusual, visually stunning examination of youthful rebellion against the Establishment. The film, initially presented in quasi-documentary style, presents a group of college activists discussing key issues of their Read More

1970