François Ozon Filmography

Born:: November 15, 1967 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: One of the most provocative and vibrant filmmakers to emerge during the 1990s, French director François Ozon has distinguished himself with dark, mordantly psychological films that draw their impact from Ozon's frank and often disturbing explorations of transgression and sexuality. Combining wry...Read More

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Angel

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell, Michael Fassbender, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: A destitute-but-determined young woman living in turn-of-the-century England ascends the social ranks after authoring a series of successful romantic novels in French writer/director François Ozon's first English-language feature. Romolo Garai takes on the title role in a French and Belgian Read More

2007
Time to Leave

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Daniel Duval, Marie Rivière

Synopsis: Diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only a short while to live, a successful fashion photographer embarks on one final journey in the second of three films in a trilogy about death and mourning from French director François Ozon (the first entry in the the trilogy was Under the Sand) . After Read More

7/14/06
Un Lever de Rideau

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel, Vahina Giocante

2006
5x2

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Stéphane Freiss

Synopsis: The rise and fall of one couple's marriage goes under the microscope in this drama from French filmmaker François Ozon. Gilles (Stephane Freis) and Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) have filed for divorce following several years of marriage, and after the judge declares their union is over, the film Read More

6/10/05
Swimming Pool

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Marc Fayolle, Jean-Marie Lamour

Synopsis: François Ozon's psychological thriller Swimming Pool stars Charlotte Rampling as a mystery writer. When Sarah (Rampling) is offered the use of her publisher's vacation home, she accepts the offer. The conservative, repressed Sarah clashes with the house's other inhabitant, Julie (Ludivine Read More

4/16/03
8 Women

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen

Synopsis: A gaggle of mothers, wives, daughters, maids, and mistresses gather for a holiday homecoming at their country mansion -- and end up having to solve a murder-mystery -- in this musical-comic homage to studio-era "women's pictures" from acclaimed French director François Ozon. Partly inspired by George Cukor Read More

9/20/02
Under the Sand

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot, Alexandra Stewart, Pierre Vernier

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker François Ozon directs this drama about personal loss and resilience. Marie (Charlotte Rampling) is deeply in love with her husband, Jean (Bruno Cremer). One day while vacationing at the seashore, Jean disappears into the ocean. A distraught Marie notifies the authorities Read More

5/4/01
Criminal Lovers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Renier, Miki Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche, Yasmine Belmadi

Synopsis: French bad boy director François Ozon, who caused a stir with his controversial first feature Sitcom (1998) and his shorts A Summer Dress (1997) and See the Sea (1997), creates a dark and brooding tale of transgression and sexuality for his second feature outing. Alice (Natacha Régnier) is a Read More

7/21/00
Water Drops On Burning Rocks

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier, Anna Thomson

Synopsis: French bad boy director Francois Ozon follows up on his controversial first two films Sitcom (1998) and Criminal Lovers (1999) with this adaptation of a play that legendary German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder wrote when he was 19 years old. Retaining the play's four-act structure, the first Read More

7/12/00
Sitcom

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Evelyne Dandry, Francois Marthouret, Marina de Van, Adrien de Van, Stephane Rideau

Synopsis: Playing like a combination of Todd Solondz, John Waters, and a dysfunctional and incestuous generic television sitcom, director François Ozon's blacker than night psychological family comedy touches on many aspects that would frighten off most casual viewers on concept alone. From the opening Read More

5/27/98
X2000

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1998
Scènes de lit

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1998
See the Sea

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sasha Hails, Marina de Van, Samantha

Synopsis: This French suspense drama, set on an island off the Atlantic coast of France, is a medium-length feature, running 52 minutes. Isolated at a cottage on the Ile d'Yeu, young Englishwoman Sasha (Sasha Hails) is alone with her baby daughter when sullen backpacker Tatiana (Marina de Van) turns up. Read More

12/3/97
Un robe d'été

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Fed up with his boyfriend, a young man has a brief encounter with a woman he meets on the beach in this short from director François Ozon. A Summer Dress opens with the straitlaced Frédéric (Frédéric Mangenot) criticizing the more flamboyant Sébastien (Sébastien Charles) for incessantly prancing Read More

1996
La Petite Morte

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1995
Action Vérité

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

1994