Claude MillerFilmography

Born:: February 20, 1942 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, producer/director/writer Claude Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with Le Service Cinema de L'Armee. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many...Read More

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Je Suis Heureux Que Ma Mère Soit Vivante

Crew: Director

Actors: Vincent Rottiers, Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti, Yves Verhoeven

Synopsis: A man tries to make sense of his relationship with the woman who gave birth to him in this drama co-directed by Claude Miller and his son Nathan Miller. When he was five years old, Thomas Jouvet (Vincent Rottiers) and his brother Patrick were abandoned by their mother Julie (Sophie Cattani) Read More

2009
Un Secret

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Cécile De France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric

Synopsis: Informed that his elderly father has mysteriously disappeared, anxious Parisian François (Mathieu Amalric) recalls his tragic family history in director Claude Miller's adaptation of the fact-based novel by author Philippe Grimbert. As a sickly young child, François (Valentin Vigourt) Read More

9/5/08
The Perfect Friend

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Antoine de Caunes, Claude Miller, Carole Bouquet, Martina Gedeck

2006
La Petite Lili

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ludivine Sagnier, Robinson Stévenin

Synopsis: Anton Chekhov's The Seagull receives an updated adaptation in this drama from veteran French filmmaker Claude Miller. Mado (Nicole Garcia) is a successful actress who is spending the summer at her country estate with her boyfriend, Brice (Bernard Giraudeau), a noted filmmaker who directed her Read More

11/12/04
Alias Betty

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner, Luck Mervil, Edouard Baer

Synopsis: A woman's grief and her mother's madness lead to strange and unforeseen consequences in this offbeat drama based on a novel by Ruth Rendell. Betty Fisher (Sandrine Kiberlain) is a promising young writer who has a four-year-old son, Joseph (Arthur Setbon). Betty's mother, Margot (Nicole Garcia) Read More

9/13/02
La Chambre des magiciennes

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anne Brochet, Mathilde Seigner, Annie Noel, Yves Jacques, Edouard Baer

Synopsis: Claude Miller directs this surreal comedy about a woman's nightmarish trip to the hospital. Beset by troubles with her family, her married lover, and her studies, anthropology grad student Claire (Anne Brochet) suffers from fainting spells and migraines. After a couple of unnervingly bizarre Read More

2000
Class Trip

Crew: Director

Actors: Clement Van Den Bergh, Lokman Nalcakan, Francois Roy, Tina Sportolaro, Yves Verhoeven

Synopsis: Claude Miller directed this French psychological drama adapted from Emmanuel Carrere's 1995 novel (based on a factual news item). Detailing a troubled boy's traumas at a holiday camp, the film recalls Miller's other adolescent dramas -- The Little Thief, The Best Way to Walk (also at a holiday Read More

9/23/98
Les Enfants De Lumière

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This French documentary is comprised of almost 300 clips from the past 100 years of cinema Francaise. The images within the documentary are free flowing and not in chronological order; they are also not hindered with unnecessary narration or lengthy introductions. The film represents the Read More

1995
Lumière and Company

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematographe camera under the conditions endured by the brothers. The result Read More

1995
Le Sourire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Richard Bohringer, Emmanuelle Seigner, Chantal Banlier, Nadia Barentin

Synopsis: The unbearable vanity of the human male facing death is one of the subtler themes of this French drama which tells the story of a dying man who finally finds and desires to conquer the perfect sex object. Poor Le Clainche is about ready to keel over from a heart attack. He's already had one and Read More

1994
The Accompanist

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Yelena Safonova, Romane Bohringer, Samuel Labarthe

Synopsis: Romane Bohringer plays a young pianist ekeing out a living in Nazi-occupied Paris. When her favorite coworker, singer (Yelena Safonova), relocates to London, Bohringer goes along, much to the discomfort of Safonova's possessive husband-manager. The latter role is played by Romane Bohringer's Read More

11/11/92
The Little Thief

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Simon de la Brosse, Didier Bezace, Raoul Billerey, Chantal Banlier

Synopsis: From time to time a deceased novelist or artist is sufficiently revered that, as a form of homage, his disciples will take one of his unfinished projects and attempt to bring it to completion. The screenplay for La Petite voleuse was written by Claude Miller, Luc Beraud and Anne Miller based on a Read More

8/25/89
Note Pour Debussy Lettre Ouverte A Go

Actors: Marina Vlady, Claude Miller

1988
Vent de Panique

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Bernard Giraudeau, Olivia Brunaux, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

1987
L'Effrontée

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Brialy, Clothilde Baudon, Raoul Billerey

Synopsis: The dreams and naivete of Charlotte, a young, working-class girl (Charlotte Gainsbourg in an award-winning performance) clash with reality as she meets the young pianist she admires (Clothilde Baudon), and a younger pest she would like to shed (Julie Glenn). Charlotte is surrounded by a drab life Read More

1985
Mortelle Randonnée

Crew: Director

Actors: Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Geneviève Page, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Sami Frey

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller inspired by the novel Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, Catherine (Isabelle Adjani), a serial killer, seduces men and then murders them just before moving on to the next victim. She spreads her mayhem through various countries in Europe, only slightly ahead of the Read More

1983
Like a Turtle on Its Back

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The pain of writer's block is examined in this drama that centers around the daily anxieties of a frustrated writer who can't. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Garde à Vue

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Guy Marchand, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: This is a minimalist interrogation drama about a wealthy, influential attorney (Michel Serrault) in a small French town falls under suspicion in a double rape/murder case. The police bring the lawyer in for questioning; at first politely, and then less so, the interrogation team (Lino Venture, Guy Marchand Read More

1981
Plein Sud

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Clio Goldsmith, Jeanne Moreau, Guy Marchand, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: In his final film before taking his own life, Patrick Dewaere stars as Serge, a writer whose life is disrupted by an affair with the enigmatic Carol (Clio Goldsmith). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Dites-Lui Que Je L'Aime

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jacques Denis, Dominique Laffin, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: French filmmaker Claude Miller's This Sweet Sickness is based on a suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, of Strangers on a Train fame. In the original, the murder-protagonist was a psychotic, pure and simple (if such words are appropriate here!) In Miller's version, the "hero," David, is a Read More

1977
L'Ordinateur des Pompes Funèbres

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mireille Darc, Bernadette Lafont, Lea Massari, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: In this black comedy, Fred (Jean-Louis Trintingnant) works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. Fred is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings Read More

4/7/76
The Best Way to Walk

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Patrick Bouchitey, Christine Pascal, Claude Piéplu

Synopsis: Also known as The Best Way to Walk, this film was originally released in France as La Meilleure Façon de Marcher. It was the first feature-length effort of François Truffaut associate/disciple Claude Miller. Patrick Dewaere and Patrick Bouchitey head the cast as a pair of teenage summer-camp Read More

1976
The Story of Adele H.

Crew: Producer

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Reuben Dorey, Joseph Blatchley

Synopsis: Based on the real-life diaries of Adèle Hugo, The Story of Adele H. is a psychological drama opening in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the 1860s. The daughter of famous French writer Victor Hugo, Adèle (Isabelle Adjani) has left her father's home to seek out her fiancé, the English soldier Lt. Albert Read More

1975
La Tortue Sur le Dos

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-François Stévenin, Virginie Thévenet, Véronique Silver, Marion Game, Claude Miller

Synopsis: Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his severe case of writer's block. He tries every remedy known to man and makes up a few new ones in this comedy. All his efforts are futile: he loses Read More

1973
Two English Girls

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Among the great François Truffaut films, Two English Girls is likely the least known. Its story of a romantic triangle inevitably invites comparison to Truffaut's Jules and Jim, and not surprisingly, as both are based on novels by Henri-Pierre Roche (the only two novels Roche authored). Truffaut Read More

1971
The Wild Child

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Jean Dasté, Françoise Seigner, Paul Ville

Synopsis: Based on a real-life case study, recorded in Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard's 1806 volume Memoire et Rapport sur Victor de L'Aveyron, The Wild Child is spiritually in line with François Truffaut's other films about the pains of adolescence. Truffaut himself plays Dr. Jean Itard, a doctor working at Read More

1970
Camille

Crew: Director

1970
La Question Ordinaire

Crew: Director

1970
Mississippi Mermaid

Crew: Production Manager

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud

Synopsis: A rare mid-career flop for director François Truffaut when it was released, Mississippi Mermaid has become a cult favorite, thanks in part to the availability of the original French version, which added 13 minutes to the U.S. release running time. Adapted from a story by William Irish, it's a Read More

7/18/69
Two or Three Things I Know About Her

Actors: Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Raoul J. Lévy

Synopsis: The feminine pronoun in the title of this film from Jean-Luc Godard refers to both a French housewife and the city of Paris, as each are changed in fundamental ways by the growth of consumer culture in Europe. Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady) lives with her husband and two children in a high-rise Read More

1966