Roger Vadim Filmography

Born:: January 26, 1928 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Roger Vadim Plemiannikov
Biography:: Originally a stage actor, and also a part-time journalist and screenwriter, Roger Vadim came to film as an assistant to movie director Marc Allegret, and subsequently married Allegret's most well known discovery, Brigitte Bardot, whom he also starred with in numerous films of the 1950s. Vadim...Read More

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And God Created Woman

Crew: Director

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano, Frank Langella, Donovan Leitch, Judith Chapman

Synopsis: French director Roger Vadim pillages his own grave in this nominal re-make of his 1956 creamy sensation And God Created Woman -- the film that made Brigitte Bardot an international star. Unfortunately, he is unable to do the same thing for the cool and cryptic Rebecca DeMornay in this version. DeMornay Read More

3/4/88
Into the Night

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Farnsworth, Irene Papas, Kathryn Harrold

Synopsis: Filled with enough cameos to keep film buffs entertained, this otherwise routine action-comedy by John Landis boasts Michelle Pfeiffer as one of its major attractions. She plays Diana, a woman prone to having affairs with some very dangerous men, and Jeff Goldblum is Ed Okin, an aerospace engineer Read More

1985
Faerie Tale Theatre: Beauty and the Beast

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this atmospheric, somewhat eerie retelling of the classic story, a young woman named Beauty (Susan Sarandon) is forced to leave her father's home and go to live in the castle of a frightening Beast Klaus Kinski. The reason for this demand is that Beauty's father, on his travels, had stolen a Read More

1983
The Hitchhiker [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Among the first original anthology series to be produced for cable television, The Hitchhiker was a collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre. The title character, played during the first season by Nicholas Campbell and thereafter by Page Fletcher, was an unnamed drifter who wandered Read More

1983
Surprise Party

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Michel Duchaussoy, Robert Hossein, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: Although written and directed by the well-known Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), this movie about life and love among a group of high schoolers on vacation in the countryside has nothing to distinguish it beyond the typical couplings and uncouplings found in other movies in the same genre. Read More

1983
Rich and Famous

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Meg Ryan, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Steven Hill

Synopsis: Two women find their friendship tested when one rises from obscurity to success in this glossy remake of Old Acquaintance. Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) and Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) are close friends who met while they were freshmen at Smith College in the 1950s. Liz has become a highly Read More

1981
Hot Touch

Crew: Director

Actors: Wayne Rogers, Marie-France Pisier, Samantha Eggar, Patrick Macnee

Synopsis: In this routine action film, Danny Fairchild (Wayne Rogers) and Vincent Reblack (Patrick Macnee) are partners in an art-scam operation in which Danny forges valuable paintings and Vincent authenticates them; both pretend to run a company that legitimately authenticates art for sale at auction. Read More

1981
Une Femme Fidèle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Jon Finch, Natalie Delon, Gisele Casadesus

Synopsis: In this modern retelling of the classic Dangerous Liaisons, a virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in duels. When she finally succumbs to him, she discovers his true nature, and her Read More

1976
La Jeune Fille Assassinée

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Roger Vadim, Sirpa Lane, Mathieu Carrière, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: Charlotte is better known by its original French title, La Jeune Fille Assassinee. The film combines Roger Vadim's overriding twin fascinations: eroticism and death. Charlotte (Sirpa Lane) dreams of dying violently while in the throes of an orgasm. This curious desire is the principal motivation Read More

11/27/74
Don Juan 73

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Maurice Ronet, Mathieu Carrière, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: This campy Roger Vadim film stars sex-kitten Brigitte Bardot as Jeanne, the female counterpart to Don Juan, a woman who is ruthlessly wicked in her pursuit of love and desire. Jeanne confesses murder to a young priest (Mathieu Carriere) who is also her cousin, and after she tells him the story of Read More

2/22/73
Hellé

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Didier Haudepin

Synopsis: Despite his best efforts, Julian (Bruo Bradei) cannot resist goading his younger brother Fabrice (Didier Haudepin) into doing something dumb. They are returning together to their mother's country home for a holiday break. Julian fought in Indochina when it was still French, and the war still Read More

1972
Ciao! Manhattan

Synopsis: Edie Sedgwick,1960s heroine of decadence, is exploited from beyond the grave in this clumsily pieced together film taken from two unfinished Sedgwick vehicles -- one by Chuck Wein from 1967 displaying Edie at her peak as a Warhol star, and the other from 1970 by David Weisman and John Palmer, made Read More

1972
Pretty Maids All in a Row

Crew: Director

Actors: Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, John Carson, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Ocean View High is an upscale suburban school in an otherwise unidentified community. It's 1971, the point when the sexual revolution started moving into full swing and even a lot of Middle America, at least on the two coasts, admitted the existence of same revolution. It seems like the guys and Read More

1971
Barbarella

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, David Hemmings, Joan Greenwood, Maria Theresa Orsini, Catherine Chevallier, Marie Therese Chevallier

Synopsis: A voluptuous outer space agent travels to another galaxy in search of a missing inventor in this science fiction send-up. Barbarella (Jane Fonda), an interstellar representative of the united Earth government in the 41st century, is dispatched to locate scientist Durand Durand, whose positronic Read More

10/18/68
Spirits of the Dead

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, James Robertson Justice, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: Released in Europe as Histoires Extraordinaires and Tre Passi Nel Delirio, this is a portmanteau picture, comprised of three supernatural playlets based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. "Metzengerstein," directed by Roger Vadim, stars the director's then-wife Jane Fonda as a medieval woman prone Read More

6/10/68
The Game Is Over

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Fonda, Peter McEnery, Michel Piccoli, Tina Aumont, Folco Jacques Monod

Synopsis: Under the tutelage of one-time husband, director Roger Vadim, Jane Fonda plays the much-younger wife of stuffed-shirt millionaire Michel Piccoli. When Piccoli's handsome young stepson Peter McEnery comes to visit, Fonda is immediately smitten. When Piccoli forces McEnery into a marriage of Read More

6/22/66
Le Reflux

Actors: Roger Vadim, Franco Fabrizi, Serge Marquand, Michel Subor

1965
La Ronde

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Jane Fonda, Jean Sorel, Anna Karina, Catherine Spaak, Francine Bergé

Synopsis: This uneven remake of the 1950 Max Ophuls feature from the play by Arthur Schnitzler takes place in Paris just before World War I instead of Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. A soldier (Claude Giraud) sleeps with a prostitute (Marie Dubois) before he seduces Rose (Anna Karina), and a willing Read More

10/16/64
Un Château en Suède

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Monica Vitti, Jean-Claude Brialy, Curd Jürgens, Françoise Hardy

Synopsis: Nutty, Naughty Chateau is summed up in the encyclopedic book The United Artists Story as "Sex comedy drama." No more, no less. Actually, there is more: The film was originally titled Chateau en Suede, and it was directed by Roger Vadim. Based on a Francoise Sagan play, the film involves a group Read More

11/20/63
Dragées Au Poivre

Actors: Guy Bedos, Sophie Daumier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Francis Blanche, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European movie-industry input. Guy Bedos, a Brando wannabe, plays one of several young French cineastes who take to the streets to make improvisational movies. The "cinema verite" quality of Read More

9/4/63
La Vice et la Vertu

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Catherine Deneuve, O.E. Hasse

Synopsis: The "vice and virtue" of the title of this wartime drama directed by Roger Vadim are exemplified in the personae of two very attractive women: Juliette (Annie Girardot) and Justine (Catherine Deneuve). Juliette is a collaborator and Justine supports the resistance movement, yet when her husband is Read More

3/1/63
Love on a Pillow

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Jean-Marc Bory, Macha Meril

Synopsis: Roger Vadim directs his ex-wife Brigitte Bardot once again in this conventional film about an innocent young woman, Genevieve (Bardot), who ends up on the losing side of a relationship with an alcoholic -- at least for awhile. Genevieve is a typical, introverted, middle-class woman who would like Read More

9/5/62
Les Parisiennes

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Françoise Brion, Darry Cowl, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Ary, Henri Tisot, Dany Robin

Synopsis: The French omnibus feature Tales of Paris is made of four separate romantic playlets, each with its own cast, director, and scenarist. "The Tale of Ella," directed by Jacques Poitrenaud, stars Dany Saval as an ambitious nightclub performer who very nearly messes up her chances for success by Read More

1/17/62
Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Marie-José Nat, Eddie Constantine, Nicole Mirel, Dany Saval, Marina Vlady, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by Dhomme, chronicles a single horrific day when every bowl of soup in France is found to contain a fly. This causes a devastating nationwide revolt. "Envy" by Molinaro tells the Read More

1962
Please Not Now!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Subor, Jacques Riberolles, Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Bardot

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, voluptuous Parisian model Sophie (Brigitte Bardot) is angered when she learns that her boyfriend Phillipe, a photographer, has been playing around with Barbara, an American heiress. Alain, another man, who has secretly loved her for years, suggests she get even by making Read More

4/19/61
The Testament of Orpheus

Actors: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermit, Yul Brynner, Henri Cremieux, Maria Casarés, Luis Miguel Dominguin, François Perier

Synopsis: In his final film, Jean Cocteau brilliantly evokes memories of his past triumphs, Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orpheus (1949). Cocteau casts himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying (as indeed he was); his greatest desire is to be reborn so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. The Read More

1960
Et Mourir de Plaisir

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Elsa Martinelli, Annette Vadim, Marc Allégret, Serge Marquand

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1932 as Vampyr, Sheridan LeFanu's classic psychological horror tale was given a second go round in 1961 as Blood & Roses (Et Mourir de Plaisir). While Carl Theodor Dreyer concentrated on mood and suspense in Vampyr, Blood & Roses director Roger Vadim goes directly to the Read More

1960
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Valerie, Annette Vadim, Simone Renant

Synopsis: Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos's 18th century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses was filmed several times. In Roger Vadim's version, Jeanne Moreau coerces her husband Gerard Philippe into ruining the reputation of pious Annette Vadim (the director's wife at the time). Philippe spoils Moreau Read More

1959
The Night Heaven Fell

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alida Valli, Stephen Boyd, Pepe Nieto, Fernando Rey, Brigitte Bardot, Maruchi Fresno

Synopsis: This Brigitte Bardot vehicle is better known by its American title, The Night Heaven Fell. Bardot plays a young, sensuous French girl named Ursula, who arrives in a Spanish mountain community to visit her aunt (Alida Valli) and uncle (Pepe Nieto). It isn't long before uncle is killed by handsome Read More

4/16/58
Sait-On Jamais?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Christian Marquand, Robert Hossein, O.E. Hasse, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: Roger Vadim's second directorial project was Sait-On Jamais, which was released in English-speaking countries as Does One Ever Know and No Sun in Venice. Set in Italy, this romantic suspenser is inventively paced to the musical improvisations of the Modern Jazz Quartet. On a Venetian holiday, a Read More

5/31/57
Sois Belle Et Tais-Toi

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Henri Vidal, Mylène Demongeot, René Lefèvre, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Sois Belle et Tais Toi is more popularly known by its American-release title Be Beautiful but Shut Up. Mylene Demongeot plays a birdbrained young lady who gets mixed up with a gang of juvenile-delinquent smugglers. The crooks use the heroine as their go-between, intending to leave her holding the Read More

1957
... And God Created Woman

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Isabelle Corey

Synopsis: This Roger Vadim production was released in the US as ...And God Created Woman. Vadim's then-wife Brigitte Bardot plays the central character, a curvaceous nymphet with a voracious sexual appetite. In fact, it isn't what Bardot does in bed but what she might do that drives the three Read More

1956
Plucking the Daisy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Bardot, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Darry Cowl

Synopsis: Because of star Brigitte Bardot's single fleeting disrobing scene in the French farce Please, Mr. Balzac!, the film was retitled Mademoiselle Striptease by one enterprising American distributor. Essentially, this is a harmless little escapade in which Bardot, escaping the strictures of her Read More

1956
Blackmailed

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton, Robert Flemyng, Michael Gough

Synopsis: Long before she distinguished herself as a director, Mai Zetterling was the star of several moody melodramas. Based on a novel by Elizabeth Myers, the film casts Zetterling as Mrs. Carol Edwards, whose husband lies in a hospital bed, afflicted with asthma. Mrs. Edwards becomes a murder suspect Read More

1951
The Naked Heart

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Kieron Moore, Françoise Rosay, Jack Watling

Synopsis: The Naked Heart was also released as Maria Chapdelaine, which also happened to be the title of its source, a novel by Louis Hemon. Adapter-director Marc Allegret has fashioned the material into a vehicle for one of his most successful discoveries, Michele Morgan. This is the story of a young woman Read More

1950