Jean-Claude CarrièreFilmography

Born:: September 17, 1931 in Colombières sur Orb, France
Occupation:: Screenwriter
Biography:: Jean-Claude Carrière has worked as a cartoonist, novelist, actor, and director, but more importantly established himself as one of France's foremost screenwriters. Beginning his film career with director Pierre Etaix, Carrière went on to collaborate with the likes of Milos Forman, Jacques Deray, Jean-Luc Godard...Read More

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Goya's Ghosts

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid, José Luis Gómez, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: The lives of a great artist, a corrupted holy man, and a beautiful woman cross paths at a crucial moment in history in this epic-scale historical drama from director Milos Forman. Near the end of the 18th century, Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) is a gifted but controversial artist whose Read More

7/20/07
Ulzhan

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: David Bennent, Philippe Torreton, Ayanat Ksenbai

Synopsis: Five-star German director Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum, Swann in Love) helms the deliberately-paced existential drama Ulzhat, from a script authored by the famed Jean-Claude Carriere (The Mahabharata). As the film opens, world-weary Parisian schoolteacher Charles Simon (Philippe Torreton) Read More

2006
Avida

Actors: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine, Eric Martin, The Velvet Underground, Jean-Claude Carrière

Synopsis: In this bizarre surrealist comedy from France, a handful of oddball characters live in world where people heap strange forms of abuse on animals -- dwarves stage bullfights with rhinos, zoos open restaurants where the privileged can dine on the animals on display, and the wealthy lock themselves Read More

2006
Birth

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Alison Elliott

Synopsis: Directed by Jonathan Glazer, Birth takes place in New York's Upper East Side, where Anna (Nicole Kidman), a 35-year-old widow, resides. Just as Anna has shaken off what she thought were the final remnants of her old life -- she has even found love with a new man, Joseph (Danny Huston), whom she Read More

10/29/04
Bunuel Y La Mesa Del Rey Salomon

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: El Gran Wyoming, Pere Arquillue, Ernesto Alterio, Adria Collado, Valeria Marini

Synopsis: Noted Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura follows up on his 1999 opus Goya with this wild and woolly reimagining of a 1930s adventure serial from the mind of a surrealist master. The film opens in the present with an aged Luis Buñuel listening to a script pitch about the search for a magical table Read More

2001
A propósito de Buñuel

Actors: Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: Surrealist master Luis Bunuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently Read More

2000
The Ogre

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Malkovich, Marianne Sägebrecht, Volker Spengler, Dieter Laser

Synopsis: Based on a novel by French author Michel Tournier, this drama chronicles the redemption of Abel, a French POW responsible for kidnapping dozens of young boys for recruitment by the Nazi SS during WW II. The film opens with black-and-white shots of Abel's childhood in Paris. The year is 1925 and Read More

1/8/99
Jaya Ganga

Actors: Vijay Singh

Synopsis: The lines between reality, mysticism and the surreal are never clearly drawn in this romantic but intellectually challenging and arty Indian film, a first time effort from novelist Vijay Singh. Ostensibly a chronicle of a young writer's spiritual/romantic quest for his enigmatic soulmate, Singh's Read More

11/25/98
La Guerre Dans le Haut Pays

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marion Cotillard, Yann Tregouet, Francois Marthouret, Antoine Basler, Patrick Le Mauff

Synopsis: La Guerre Dans le Haut Pays is a period piece set in the winter of 1797-98, during the six days leading up to the fall of Bern and the victory of Napoleon's army, when the Bern government is faced with mixed loyalties from its subjects. The population of the lower valley is divided, but the upper Read More

1998
Les Paradoxes de Bunuel

Crew: Conception

Synopsis: Famed film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) is the subject of this French documentary, with anecdotal interviews edited thematically into sections highlighting Bunuel's contradictions --"Surrealist and Moralist," "Iconoclast and Traditionalist," "Sadist and Sentimentalist." Shown in 1997 at the Read More

1997
Chinese Box

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui, Rubén Blades

Synopsis: Hong Kong emigrant Wayne Wang directed and co-wrote (with Paul Theroux, Jean-Claude Carriere and Larry Gross) this story set in "the Pearl of the Orient" as the British government prepared to hand over the city to China in 1997. John (Jeremy Irons) is an English journalist who has lived in the Read More

1997
The Horseman on the Roof

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Carré, François Cluzet, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: In this beautifully mounted historical drama, Angelo Pardi (Olivier Martinez), an Italian soldier, is fleeing his country in 1832. After the fall of Napoleon, Austria is swooping down on Italy to take control of the nation, and like many patriots, Pardi is hoping to escape to France and fight for Read More

1995
Golden Boy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Martin Lamotte

Synopsis: In this French comedy, Antoine is a Union delegate at a factory that is falling on hard times. With business in a slump, it looks like the factory will have to close its doors, but when Antoine wins the lottery, he uses his new fortune to buy the company and keep the business going. However, it Read More

1995
The Night and the Moment

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Lena Olin, Miranda Richardson, Jean-Claude Carrière, Carole Richert

Synopsis: This drama is based upon an 18th century French novel by Crebillon. It represents the sharp conversations between a clever, free-thinking writer and a beautiful noblewoman as he tries to seduce her. At her request, he must recount his previous love exploits. He also describes the times he spent in Read More

1994
Le Retour de Casanova

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alain Delon, Fabrice Luchini, Elsa, Wadeck Stanczak, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: If this had been a western, the older gunfighter would have taught his younger rival a thing or two about the perils of a scandalous reputation before passing on the torch and (more than likely) dying tragically just as he is about to reform. Instead, in this film based on a novel celebrating the Read More

1992
At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: In a remote branch of the Brazilian Amazon, Americans Lewis (Tom Berenger) and Wolf (Tom Waits) are stranded when their plane runs out of gas. They are kept company by an evangelist missionary (John Lithgow) and his wife (Darryl Hannah). The preacher and his followers want to preach to the Read More

12/6/91
Cyrano De Bergerac

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin

Synopsis: Edmond Rostand's classic drama of inner and outer beauty is given a lavish treatment in this acclaimed French production. Gérard Depardieu portrays the title character, a brilliant, charismatic swordsman with a generous spirit and a genius for poetry. It would seem that such a man would have no Read More

11/16/90
May Fools

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Blanc, Harriet Walter

Synopsis: This comic excursion from Louis Malle is set in May 1968, concurrent with a series of Parisian student uprisings. After the death of family matriarch Mme. Vieuzac (Paulette Dubost), the survivors converge on the French countryside for her funeral; they include her two sons, Milou (Michel Piccoli) Read More

1/24/90
Valmont

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Sian Phillips

Synopsis: The third adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic novel Les Liasons Dangereuses, Milos Forman's Valmont was released one year after Stephen Frears' more famous version of the de Laclos original, Dangerous Liaisons. The plot remains the same: two debauched, depraved 18th century French Read More

11/17/89
The Mahabharata

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Langton-Lloyd, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Bruce Myers, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andrzej Seweryn, Georges Corraface

Synopsis: Director Peter Brook collaborates with writer Jean-Claude Carriére for this screen adaptation of the epic, 100,000-stanza Sanskrit poem tracing mankind's quest for universal truth as explored through the ongoing conflict between two warring families - the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Originally a Read More

1989
Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Edward Zentara, Alexander Filippenko, Hugues Quester, Ann Gote, Anne Gautier, Christine Kaufmann, Andrei Boltnev

Synopsis: Financed in West Germany and filmed in the Soviet Union, Hard to Be a God (Es Ist Nicht Leicht Ein Gott Zu Sein) is set some thousand years or so in the future, when all forms of hostility and aggression have been purged from the earth. A group of space travellers stumble upon an alien Read More

1989
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 best-seller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly Read More

2/5/88
Les Possédés

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Jutta Lampe, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Bernard Blier, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu

Synopsis: This political drama is taken from the classic story from Feodor Dostoyevsky, but liberties have been taken and many secondary characters eliminated. The author's condemnation of a godless society and his disdain of those who follow blindly to popular political causes remains intact. ~ Dan Read More

1988
The Bengali Night

Crew: Collaborator, Screenwriter

Actors: Hugh Grant, Supriya Pathak, Shabana Azmi, John Hurt, Soumitra Chatterjee

Synopsis: A British engineer and a young Bengali woman feel the backlash of cultural divisiveness in this uneven romantic drama. Allan (Hugh Grant) falls in love with the Gayatri (Supriya Pathak), the beautiful teenage daughter of his hostess Indira Sen (Shabana Azmi) while he recovers from an illness. When Read More

1988
Les Exploits d'un Jeune Don Juan

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fabrice Josso, Claudine Auger, Serena Grandi, Marina Vlady, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: Roger (Fabrice Josso) is a 16-year-old who seeks to lose his virginity in this softcore erotic drama. His initial efforts are unsuccessful, but World War I breaks out and men are seen marching off to battle. Roger goes overboard when he is presented with several amorous opportunities. He soon Read More

1987
L'Unique

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Sami Frey, Charles Denner, Jezabel Carpi

Synopsis: This routine drama's main distinctions are the musical numbers by Julia Migenes Johnson as a misbehaving singer and the computer-assisted scenes that are melded with actual scenes for the first time in French cinema. The singer has been missing her scheduled performances -- or just simply cuts out Read More

1986
Max, Mon Amour

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Diana Quick, Christopher Hovik, Milena Vukotic

Synopsis: Fabled Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima was the guiding hand behind the fast-paced French comedy Max, Mon Amour. The "Max" with whom the elegant Charlotte Rampling falls in love is a circus chimpanzee (played by a short-statured man in a monkey suit). Charlotte's British-ambassador husband Anthony Read More

1986
Swann in Love

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault

Synopsis: This ambitious attempt to film a portion of Marcel Proust's epic novel Remembrance of Things Past stars Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann, a Jewish intellectual who has managed to overcome growing anti-Semitism in 19th century France and travels in an elite social circle. But Swann has become obsessed Read More

1984
Le General de I'Armee Morte

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée, Gerard Klein, Sergio Castellitto

Synopsis: Falling a little short of either comedy or drama or whatever the intent may have been, this bland film directed by first-timer Luciano Tovoli is about an Italian general (Marcel Mastroianni) sent to Albania along with an army chaplain (Michel Piccoli) to bring back the remains of 3,000 compatriot Read More

10/19/83
The Return of Martin Guerre

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Roger Planchon, Nathalie Baye, Sylvie Meda

Synopsis: The Return of Martin Guerre is set in France during the Hundred Years' War. Imagining herself a widow, Nathalie Baye is astonished when her husband Gerard Depardieu returns after nine years. He looks like her husband and sounds like her husband, and certainly has a working knowledge of the Read More

5/15/82
Danton

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau, Angela Winkler, Boguslaw Linda

Synopsis: In 1982, legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda fled his homeland and relocated in France to direct this powerful story about the ethical boundaries of power and leadership, which had many parallels to Poland's volatile political situation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Danton (Gérard Depardieu Read More

1982
Antonieta

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla, Ignacio Tarso, Carlos Bracho, Gonzalo Vega

Synopsis: In this French-Mexican-Spanish film that hops back and forth between the narration's present and its past, viewers watch Antonieta (Isabelle Adjani) as she is involved in the turbulent Mexican political scene in the first decades of the 20th century -- as she goes to Paris and commits suicide in Read More

1982
L'Indiscretion

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Dominique Sanda, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Roland Bertin

Synopsis: Alain Tescique (Jean Rochefort) is in Paris on a brief vacation from his job on a North Sea oil rig, and while he is playing around with a ham radio set he bought for his son, he picks up some suspicious conversations in a neighboring apartment. After some more eavesdropping, he hears about an Read More

1982
Jig Saw

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: A man who received false notice that his son had been murdered sets out to uncover the truth about his missing boy in this thriller starring Lino Ventura and Angie Dickinson. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Black Mirror

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Louise Marleau, Francoise Dorner, Lenore Zann, Alberta Watson

Synopsis: In this downbeat story of life inside a women's prison, there is more crime inside than out. When the inmates see that a woman is soon to be admitted for killing a young boy, they begin to plan her murder. A kind of ad hoc council gets together to decide who will do the deed, and they pick Read More

1981
Circle of Deceit

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Gila Von Weitershausen, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: Bruno Ganz plays a West German journalist whose frequent assignments to war-torn nations have left him jaundiced. He is assigned to cover the civil war in Beirut. The combination of his harrowing experiences on the job and his after-hours relationship with widow Hannah Schygulla affects Ganz Read More

1981
L'Associé

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Serrault, Claudine Auger, Catherine Alric, Judith Magre, Mathieu Carrière

Synopsis: This French comedy stars Michel Serrault as a bland corporation functionary who'll never get ahead so long as he remains a dull little man. Unable to be a success on his own terms, Serrault invents an "assistant", the dynamic, go-getting "Mr. Davis". Pretending to be Mr. Davis' intermediary, Serrault Read More

1980
Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie)

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Roland Amstutz

Synopsis: Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie), a pessimistic but visually stunning film, marks Jean-Luc Godard's return to cinema after having spent the 70s working in video. The film presents a few days in the lives of three people: Paul Godard (Jacques Dutronc ), a television producer; Denise Rimbaud (Nathalie Baye) Read More

1979
The Tin Drum

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach

Synopsis: In Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass' allegorical novel, David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third birthday, Oskar receives a shiny new tin drum. At this point, rather than mature into one of the Read More

1979
Retour à la Bien-Aimée

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Bruno Ganz, Jean-François Adam, Jacques Dutronc

Synopsis: Julien (Jacques Dutronc) is a pianist who is determined to regain everything he lost when his wife Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert) divorced him, as much for revenge as for any other reason. He calmly stages a murder on the grounds of his ex-wife's home, carefully using her new husband Kern's (Bruno Read More

1979
Un Papillon sur l'Epaule

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lino Ventura, Nicole Garcia, Claudine Auger, Jean Bouise, Paul Crauchet

Synopsis: Roland Fériaud (Lino Ventura), on returning from a seaside vacation, discovers a corpse in a room adjoining his. He is abducted by a mysterious group who take him to a clinic of some kind, where he is interrogated. He is shown a small suitcase he has never seen before, and he tries in vain to Read More

1978
Photo Souvenir

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Claude Carrière, Vania Vilers, Ginette Mathieu, Bernard Le Coq

Synopsis: Made for television, this film tells the story of a doctor who receives an ordinary Polaroid camera from a patient of his and keeps it when the patient dies. Soon he discovers that the camera makes death predictions. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
L'Homme en Colère

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Romain (Lino Ventura) lost his wife in a forest fire, and his son, who blamed him for the death, left France for Canada. Romain is called to Canada to identify the corpse of a murder victim believed to his son. When the murdered man turns out to be someone else, his son automatically becomes the Read More

1978
Chaussette Surprise

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rufus, Bernadette Lafont, Anna Karina, Michel Galabru, Christine Pascal, Bernard Le Coq, Bernard Haller

Synopsis: In this comedy, over-achieving men who are involved in a multi-car automobile accident meet and get to know one another in the hospital. One collects old furniture under the guise of being an antique salesman, another stars in television commercials, and another is an inventor. Meanwhile, the Read More

1978
Ils Sont Grands, Ces Petits

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Claude Piéplu, Eva Darlan, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. Louise (Catherine Deneuve) specializes in robots and artificial intelligence, and Leo (Claude Brasseur) makes miniature machines. Read More

1978
Le Gang

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alain Delon, Roland Bertin, Nicole Calfan, Laura Betti, Adalberto Maria Merli, Olivier Despax

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Roger Borniche, this crime drama retells the story of the renowned gangster "Pierrot le Fou," whose band of robbers sought out banks and factories in the period just after the Second World War, when the French police forces were in disarray. In the movie, Alain Delon plays Read More

1/19/77
Julie - Pot de Colle

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Jean-Claude Brialy, Alexandra Stewart, Alain David, Christian Alers

Synopsis: During a business trip to Morocco to finalize a deal to build an ugly modern tourist village on the site of a lovely local town, Jean-Luc (Jean-Claude Biraly), the bank representative, is called on by the architect's wife. She has, it seems, accidentally killed her husband during a spat and needs Read More

1977
That Obscure Object of Desire

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, André Weber

Synopsis: Adapted from Pierre Louys' 1898 novel La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is the 30th and final film from the great Luis Buñuel. Recounted in flashback to a group of railway travellers, the story wryly details the romantic perils of Mathieu (Buñuel favorite Fernando Rey), a Read More

1977
Le Diable Dans La Boite

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Michel Lonsdale, Dominique Labourier, Micheline Presle, Anouk Ferjac, Bernard Haller

Synopsis: After serving faithfully for over 10 years, the mid-level executive in this film has received notice that he is being fired for vague reasons having something to do with "reorganization" rather than his own job performance. As a protest, he tries attending a company party with his pants off, which Read More

1977
Les Oeufs Brouilles

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Carmet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina, Michel Lonsdale, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: After a computer-tested set of features is found to be the face most likely to win the confidence of the French people, Marcel (Jean Carmot), who recently turned down a promotion at his bank in order to spend time with his wife, finds himself swept up into the schemes and shenanigans of the Read More

1976
Leonor

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Michel Piccoli, Ornella Muti, Antonio Ferrandis, Jose Maria Caffarel

Synopsis: Richard (Michel Piccolo) is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor (Liv Ullmann) comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to Read More

9/10/75
Le Faille

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi, Mario Adorf, Adriana Asti, Dimos Starenios

Synopsis: This international collaboration has five unrelated titles in four languages, and includes filmmakers and stars from France, Germany, Italy and Greece. It is set in the modern period in Greece, during that time known as "the rule of the Colonels." The story concerns the cat-and-mouse police Read More

6/18/75
La Chair de l'Orchidée

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère, Simone Signoret, Hugues Quester

Synopsis: The heiress Claire (Charlotte Rampling) in this movie is the daughter of the Miss Blandish of the film No Orchids for Miss Blandish. She has been raised under the unsympathetic eye of her aunt (Edwige Feuillere), who has no intention of seeing her receive her large inheritance. A somewhat violent Read More

1/29/75
The Woman with Red Boots

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Jacques Weber, Laura Betti

Synopsis: Perrot (Fernando Rey) is a rich man. He is also a meddling, busybody art-hating wacko. It may be that he is a woman-hater as well, for he certainly causes enough trouble for the well-regarded writer, Françoise (Catherine Deneuve). Fortunately, she has resources of calmness and clairvoyance which Read More

12/12/74
The Phantom of Liberty

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur, Paul Le Person, François Maistre, Claude Piéplu, Jean Rochefort, Marie-France Pisier, Bernard Verley, Milena Vukotic, Michel Piccoli, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau

Synopsis: One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a man sells postcards of French tourist attractions, calling them "pornographic." A sniper in Montparnasse is hailed as a hero for killing passersby. A "missing" child helps Read More

9/11/74
Un Amour de Pluie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Romy Schneider, Nino Castelnuovo, Suzanne Flon

Synopsis: Elizabeth (Romy Schneider) and her daughter (Benedicte Bucher) take a holiday together, and each of them has a brief romance: the mother has an affair with a suitably mysterious Italian (Nino Castelnuovo) and the girl has a satisfying flirtation with a boy her own age (Alain David). ~ Clarke Read More

1974
France Société Anonyme

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Roland Dubillard, Ann Zacharias

Synopsis: Among the other interesting features of this French crime drama is a brief consideration of the dire consequences of the legalization of drugs. The Chief (Michel Bouquet) is a drug dealer whose empire ranges beyond the country guilty of legalizing drugs. He has been captured and nearly killed by Read More

1974
Serieux Comme le Plaisir

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Birkin, Richard Leduc, Georges Mansart, Michel Lonsdale, Roland Dubillard

Synopsis: In Serieux Comme le Plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant Read More

1974
Dorotheas Rache

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gunter Thiedeke, Regis Genger, Elisabeth Potchanski

Synopsis: This German sex comedy follows the adventures, sexual and otherwise, of a teenaged innocent who wants to find out all she can about the world, and she uses sexuality as one of her tools of discovery. Though this is not a hardcore feature, it depicts many sexual situations and has much sexual Read More

1973
The Outside Man

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Michel Constantin, Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: This French-produced thriller was shot entirely in English. Jean-Louis Tritignant stars as Lucien, a hit man who goes to Los Angeles to end the life of an important local mobster. The mobster's heirs, who hired Lucien, had already hired yet another hit man (Roy Scheider) to kill him. He speaks Read More

1973
Le Moine

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Natalie Delon, Nicol Williamson, Nadja Tiller

Synopsis: Adapting the Gothic novel The Monk, by Matthew G. Lewis, Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière wrote the screenplay for this French film, directed by Buñuel's friend, Ado Kyrou. In the story, Ambrosio (Franco Nero) is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in Read More

11/2/72
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: In typical Luis Buñuel fashion, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie surrealistically skewers the conventions of society. Buñuel applies his surrealist touch to a mundane event: a dinner party that may never come to pass. A group of well-to-do friends attempt to gather for a social evening, but Read More

9/15/72
Le Droit d'aimer

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Pierre Michael, Gilles Segal

Synopsis: This thin French drama takes place on a barren prison island. Pierre (Omar Sharif) has been sentenced to a life of hard labor on an island which lacks even a proper prison building: the men live in tents year 'round. Despite the grim conditions and brutal guards, he manages to hold his temper in Read More

8/14/72
Liza

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: This dark offbeat comedy features Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. Mastroianni plays Giorgio, who lives on a island somewhere off the Mediterranean coast of France. He lives there with his dog, and the remains of an old German World War II airbase. He earns his living drawing cartoons. Read More

8/11/72
Taking Off

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Linnea Heacock, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey

Synopsis: Czech filmmaker Milos Forman's first American production stars Linnea Heacock as Jeannie Tyne, a runaway teenager. While she wanders aimlessly around New York, her suburban parents, Lynn (Lynn Carlin) and Larry (Buck Henry), desperately search for their "missing" daughter. Larry and his best Read More

1971
A Few Hours of Sunlight

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Claudine Auger, Marc Porel, Bernard Fresson, Barbara Bach

Synopsis: Based on a melancholy romance by Francoise Sagan, this film recounts the circumstances of a relationship from start to tragic finish. Among other things, it features an early film appearance by Gerard Depardieu in a small role. Gilles (Marc Porel) works for a news agency and has an American Read More

1971
Borsalino

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Bouquet, Catherine Rouvel, Corinne Marchand

Synopsis: Based on a Eugene Saccomano novel entitled The Bandits of Marseilles, this movie was followed by a sequel entitled Borsalino and Co. This movie captures the mood of 1930 Marseilles beautifully with the use of ambience and music. Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo portray two gangsters who kill Read More

3/20/70
L'Alliance

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Claude Carrière, Anna Karina, Isabelle Sadoyan, Jean-Pierre Darras, Tsila Chelton

Synopsis: Hughes (Jean-Claude Carriere), a veterinarian, contacts an agency for people who are seeking marriage. Through the agency, he meets and marries Jeanne (Anna Karina), a woman with a large house where he can use the space to care for animals. Later, he turns jealous and suspects his wife has a Read More

1970
La Voie Lactée

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Alain Cuny, Delphine Seyrig, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: While arch surrealist Luis Bunuel never made a secret of his skepticism about the existence of God, he was also raised as a strict Spanish Catholic and remained fascinated with the church's teaching throughout his life, and his obsessions with both faith and the contradictions of dogma provided Read More

2/28/69
La Piscine

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin

Synopsis: Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) is an out-of-work writer having an affair with Marianne (Romy Schneider), a successful journalist. As they frolic in a swimming pool in St. Tropez, she receives as call from the record executive Harry (Maurice Ronet). He arrives with his nubile young daughter (Jane Birkin). Read More

1/31/69
Le Grand Amour

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Etaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan, Ketty France

Synopsis: A young man nervously waits in a church on his wedding day. His daydream splashes time forward 10 years as he finds himself married and working for his father-in-law. He has a brief but profound affair with a new secretary before returning to his wife. His nocturnal dreams have his bed taking off Read More

1969
Belle de Jour

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Francisco Rabal, Macha Meril, Pierre Clémenti

Synopsis: Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a Read More

5/23/67
Le Voleur

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar, Paul Le Person

Synopsis: Louis Malle directed this light comedy about crime and class in the City of Light. Georges Randal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a young man living in Paris at the turn of the century who is due to inherit a considerable fortune. However, his uncle, who is acting as his guardian, manages to spend Read More

1967
Le Bestaire D'Amour

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This documentary takes a scientific look at animal reproduction from the lowest of forms to the patterns of their human counterparts. Education narration is provided by several expert scholars who have carefully researched the subject. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Hotel Paradiso

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: While his icy wife is away tending to a sick friend, Benedict Boniface (Alec Guinness) has an affair with Marcelle Cot (Gina Lollobrigida), the pretty but neglected wife of the pompous architect Henri (Robert Morley). When Henri unexpectedly returns, Marcelle and Benedict don disguises and hide Read More

1966
Attack of the Robots

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion, Sophie Hardy, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: This entertaining spy comedy marks the first appearance of suave secret agent Al Pereira, portrayed here by actor-singer Eddie Constantine, best known as the similar Lemmy Caution in Alphaville and other films. Cult director Jesus Franco's final black-and-white film has Pereira on the trail of Read More

1966
Viva Maria!

Crew: Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton, Claudio Brook, Paulette Dubost, Gregor Von Rezzori

Synopsis: Two of the most beautiful women in the European cinema of the 1960s -- Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau -- team up under the direction of Louis Malle in this engaging comedy/adventure. Maria Fitzgerald O'Malley (Bardot) is the daughter of an Irish political dissident who has traveled to Latin Read More

11/22/65
Yoyo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Etaix, Claudine Auger

Synopsis: This Tatiesque French comedy stars popular comedian/filmmaker Pierre Etaix as Yo Yo, a 1920s tycoon who, though surrounded by many fabulous things and though living in a grand old castle, is still unhappy for pining over his long-lost love, a beautiful circus performer. One day he sees her again. Read More

1965
Diary of a Chambermaid

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret, Francoise Lugagne, Daniel Ivernel, Jean Ozenne

Synopsis: The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir), Diary of a Chambermaid charts the ambitions of Celestine (Jeanne Moreau), a woman who comes to work in the 1930s for a Normandy estate occupied by Monsieur Rabour (Jean Ozenne), his daughter (Francoise Lugagne Read More

3/4/64
The Diabolical Doctor Z

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Estella Blain, Howard Vernon, Mabel Karr, Guy Mairesse

Synopsis: This dark, surrealistic horror film from cult filmmaker Jesus Franco is perhaps best-remembered for its images of the lethal Miss Muerte (Estella Blain) luring victims with razor-sharp fingernails while clad in a skull-mask and a revealing bodysuit. The real star of the film is Mabel Karr Read More

1964
Le Soupirant

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Etaix, Laurence Ligneres, Claude Massot

Synopsis: The quest for love gets a farcical French treatment in this lighthearted romp, the sophomore directorial effort from writer and star Pierre Etaix. Etaix plays Pierre, a shy youth under pressure from his mother to find a nice girl and settle down. In order to appease her, Pierre proposes marriage Read More

1963

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