Jean-Claude Carrière

Q: Has Jean-Claude Carrière won any awards?

Yes, Jean-Claude Carrière has received several prestigious awards, including the César Award for Best Original Screenplay, recognizing his talent as a screenwriter and his impact on film.

Q: What was Jean-Claude Carrière's first film?

Jean-Claude Carrière's film career began in the late 1950s, with one of his earliest notable appearances in 'The Magic Flute' directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1975, where he showcased his acting skills.

Q: What are Jean-Claude Carrière's most successful films?

Some of Jean-Claude Carrière's most successful films include 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie', 'The Phantom of Liberty', and 'That Obscure Object of Desire', which have all received critical acclaim.

Q: What can you tell me about Jean-Claude Carrière's personal life?

Jean-Claude Carrière has been married to Marie-Claude Carrière since 1967, and they have two children together. He maintains a relatively private personal life away from the public eye.

Q: What is Jean-Claude Carrière's estimated net worth?

Jean-Claude Carrière's estimated net worth is around $10 million, reflecting his successful career as an actor and screenwriter in the film industry.

Q: What are some milestones in Jean-Claude Carrière's filmography?

Notable milestones in Jean-Claude Carrière's filmography include his work with Luis Buñuel, where he co-wrote several influential films, and his continued presence in French cinema over the decades.

Q: Is Jean-Claude Carrière involved in any recent projects?

As of 2021, Jean-Claude Carrière appeared in 'Le Mystère Satoshi: Aux Origines du Bitcoin', showcasing his enduring talent and relevance in contemporary cinema.

Known for

Le Mystère Satoshi : Aux Origines du Bitcoin poster

Le Mystère Satoshi : Aux Origines du Bitcoin (2021)

2021 / Documentary, Mystery / 68mins

In the age of the Internet, "cypherpunks" tried to create an anonymous, autonomous, free and direct digital currency that worked without intermediaries. Many failed...

Name

Jean-Claude Carrière

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

17 September 1931, Carcassonne, Aude, France

Spouses

Marie-Claude Carrière (1967–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Jean Carrière, Louise Carrière

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie L'Œuvre invisible This profile of director Alexandre Trannoy is profoundly moving. But you would be forgiven for asking 'Alexandre who?' because Trannoy...	Self	Not rated
2022	Movie Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel French writer Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	Movie Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2021	Movie Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he appear in public....	Self - Screenwriter	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2019	Movie Fifty Years Later Agnès Vincent-Deray, the widow of director Jacques Deray, made this short documentary on the production of LA PISCINE in 2019,...	Self	Not rated
2019	Movie Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason French writer Jean-Claude Carrière traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).	Self - Writer	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2019	Movie Mostashregh	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	Movie The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing...	Self	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2018	Movie The Collection Paris, 1942. In the middle of the Occupation, Victor Gence, an unscrupulous merchant, buys, at vastly low prices, artworks belonging...	Monsieur Klein	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2018	Movie Scenes from A Separation Documentary showing behind-the-scenes footage of the film 'Nader and Simin, A Separation'. Director Asghar Farhadi himself talks about his film...	Self	TMDB 0.5 / 10
2018	Movie Searching for Ingmar Bergman A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his...	Self - Filmmaker	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2018	Movie Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves Based on unpublished interviews with the family, Jean-Claude Carrière, his writer and biographer, family archives, mini-fictions that dramatize the memories...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2017	Movie Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2017	Movie Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens Featuring previously unissued photographs and video archives as well as interviews of his friends and partners in crime, this documentary...	Self	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2016	Movie Borsalino City The history of the birth of an icon, the Borsalino hat. From the factory where it was conceived in a...	Self - Scriptwriter	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2015	Movie Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí	Self	TMDB 3.0 / 10
2015	Movie Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin "Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that...	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2014	Movie Los chicos de la foto	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2014	Movie Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau The life and the films , not excluding the reference to Domage qu elle soit une putain, of Romy Scheiner...	Self	Not rated
2014	Movie The Mystery of the King of Kinema In 1914, Max Linder (1883-1925) was a great star of silent cinema, the King of Cinema. But then World War...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2013	Movie En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel Denis Lavant reads long passages from Luis Buñuel's semi-autobiographical "My Last Sigh". From this text, without film excerpts, Laurence Garret...	Self	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2013	Movie Professor Goudet's Lessons Stéphane Goudet is all over the Tati box-set as the preeminent Tati scholar, so it is only fitting that he...	Self	Not rated
2013	Movie Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' A documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.	Self	Not rated
2011	Movie Carrière, 250 Meters A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2011	Movie Pierre Étaix, un destin animé A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.	Self	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2010	Movie Miloš Forman	Self	Not rated
2010	Movie Il était une fois... « King Kong »	Self (scénariste)	Not rated
2010	Movie Certified Copy In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the...	The Man at the Square	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2010	Movie And the blue sky An intimate documentary shedding light on the life of veteran Iranian actor, Ezzatollah Entezami.	Himself	Not rated
2009	Movie Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… Why did Milos Forman have to make certain films the way he did? Where does his inner strength come from?...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2008	Movie The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel A loosely chronological visual “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Luis Buñuel.	Self	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2007	Movie Rituals Documentary about Buñuel's Tristana.	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2006	Movie The Secret Book The search for the Secret Book of the Bogomils brings Guy Chevalier (Thierry Fremont) to Macedonia. There, he is haunted...	Pierre Reymond	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2006	Movie Avida The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes...	Le richa paranoïaque	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2006	TV Una belleza nueva	Self	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2006	Movie Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' Milan Kundera's rambling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, though greatly admired, was thought by Hollywood studio executives to be...	Self	Not rated
2006	Movie Un Ange dans les marécages Documentary about Diary of a Chambermaid	Self	Not rated
2005	Movie Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God Documentary featuring interviews with several of legendary Spanish director Luis Buñuel’s close friends and collaborators.	Self	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2005	Movie Une promenade parmi les ombres Analysis and interview with the screenwriter of Luis Buñuel's movie 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'.	Himself	Not rated
2004	Movie The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2003	TV Les Thibault Between 1905 and 1918, the opposing destinies of two brothers from a large Catholic bourgeois family.	Maître Roubiot	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2003	Movie Gala Tour of the life of Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova Gala from Kazan Russia, where she was born, to Davos, where she...	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2003	TV Un film et son époque	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2002	Movie Biblioteca Mindlin	Unknown character	Not rated
2001	Movie Bunuel and King Solomon's Table The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the...	David Goldman	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2001	Movie Madame De... The action takes place in Paris in the 30-ies. The Countess Louise de... has made debts and she urgently needed...	Le ministre	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2000	Movie Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2000	Movie Speaking of Buñuel Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2000	Movie Buñuel in Hollywood This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through the...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1998	TV Vivement dimanche	Self	TMDB 3.6 / 10
1998	Movie Les paradoxes de Buñuel Famed film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) is the subject of this French documentary, with anecdotal interviews edited thematically into sections...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1995	Movie The Night and the Moment The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a...	Il governatore	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1990	Movie Bouvard et Pécuchet Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.	Récitant	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1987	TV Nulle part ailleurs	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1987	TV Matin Bonheur	Self	Not rated
1984	Movie Vive les femmes ! The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.	The deaf-mute	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1984	Movie The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel Made a year after Luis Buñuel's death in 1983 this is an illuminating portrait of the surreal and visionary director,...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1982	Movie Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario Notes on the movie Passion	Self	Not rated
1982	TV Champs-Elysées	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1981	Movie L'Amour nu Claire, a UNESCO interpreter, begins a romance with an oceanographer named Simon. Their relationship is challenged when Claire receives a...	Le professeur	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1979	Movie The Associate An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control...	Un homme à la lecture du testament (uncredited)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1979	Movie The Associate An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control...	Un homme présent à la lecture du testament	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1979	Movie These Kids Are Grown-Ups When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive...	Le psychiatre (uncredited)	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1978	Movie Photo-souvenir This film in the popular French television series Cinéma 16 stars Jean-Claude Carrière as a surgeon who becomes obsessed with...	Prof. Henri Quissard	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1978	Movie Surprise Sock Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full...	Fournier	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1976	Movie The Game of Solitaire A psychiatrist takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool, stabbed to death. All the...	Luc	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1976	Movie The Garden of Torment The story of a Antoine, a physician who was exiled to China in the 1930's due to his drug habit.	The ship's captain	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1975	Movie Serious as Pleasure Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so...	Le chef d'etage (uncredited)	TMDB 3.9 / 10
1975	TV Les Rendez-vous du dimanche A talk show presented by Michel Drucker	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1975	TV Apostrophes Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran...	Self	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1974	TV Spécial cinéma Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye...	Self	TMDB 9.5 / 10
1971	Movie A Little Sun in Cold Water Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend...	François	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1971	Movie The Wedding Ring A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden	Hugues	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1969	Movie The Milky Way Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their...	Priscillian	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1964	Movie Diary of a Chambermaid Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the...	Le curé	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1962	Movie The Suitor Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels...	TV presenter (uncredited)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
TBA	Movie The Arbitrariness of Desire a doc on Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire	Himself	TMDB 7.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2023	Movie The Plough Three siblings comprise the latest generation in a family of puppeteers led with passion by their father. They are magicians...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2022	Movie Land of Dreams Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2021	Movie The Crusade Abel, Marianne and their 13-year-old son Joseph live together in Paris. Their everyday existence is thrown into turmoil when Abel...	In Memory Of Crew	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2021	Movie The Crusade Abel, Marianne and their 13-year-old son Joseph live together in Paris. Their everyday existence is thrown into turmoil when Abel...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2020	Movie The Salt of Tears Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2020	Movie The Salt of Tears Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets...	Dialogue Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2018	Movie A Faithful Man Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2018	Movie At Eternity's Gate Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2017	Movie Lover for a Day After a bad breakup, a college-aged Parisian moves into her father's flat only to discover that he is living with...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2015	Movie A Bigger Splash An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover...	Adaptation Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2015	Movie A Bigger Splash An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover...	Dialogue Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2015	Movie In the Shadow of Women Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2015	Movie The Petrov File In the late 1980s, stage actor Alexander Petrov is banned from theatre without any apparent reason. When he reappears, after...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2013	Movie The Patience Stone In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and abandoned by...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2012	Movie The Artist and the Model In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2012	Movie Harold et Maude Harold Chasen is a young man of 19 years with an overflowing and morbid imagination, who takes advantage of his...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2011	Movie Memories of My Melancholy Whores To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, wants something special from Rosa Cabarcas’s brothel: an intense night...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2011	Movie Carrière, 250 Meters A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2007	Movie Ulzhan Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. Frenchman Charles holds the key, a fragment of an...	Scenario Writer Writing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2006	Movie Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and a very young girl, marries King Louis-Auguste, Dauphine of France. This historical drama tells...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2006	Movie Goya's Ghosts Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy....	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2006	Movie Belle Toujours 38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle de Jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2004	Movie Birth It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2002	Movie Letter from an Unknown Woman Vienna, in the 1930s. The attractive and famous writer Albert Rank receives the letter from a stranger. He discovers that...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2002	Movie Ruy Blas Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2002	Movie The Battle of Hernani Drama chronicling the premiere of Victor Hugo's 1830 drama Hernani, and the dramatic Romantics that rallied around it.	Writer Writing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2001	Movie Madame De... The action takes place in Paris in the 30-ies. The Countess Louise de... has made debts and she urgently needed...	Writer Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2000	Movie Bérénice An adaptation of Jean Racine's tragedy which depicts the thwarted loves of Antiochus, Titus (the future emperor of Rome) and...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2000	Movie Salsa At age 24, Rémi Bonnet, brilliant pianist, abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1999	Movie Broken Dolls A former European actor Don Martin has retired with his disjointed "family" to his own private island, "The Paradise." After...	Story Writing	TMDB 2.5 / 10
1998	Movie Clarissa Vienna before the First World War: Clarissa Schuhmeister grows up in the monastery. Strict discipline determines her life until she...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1998	Movie War in the Highlands La Guerre Dans le Haut Pays is a period piece set in the winter of 1797-98, during the six days...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1998	Movie Les paradoxes de Buñuel Famed film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) is the subject of this French documentary, with anecdotal interviews edited thematically into sections...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1997	Movie Chinese Box The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1996	Movie The Ogre Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1996	Movie Golden Boy Antoine a Union representative works in a financially troubled factory. He's not the sharpest tool in the box but he...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1995	Movie The Horseman on the Roof In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1995	Movie La duchesse de Langeais	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	Movie The Night and the Moment The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1993	Movie Sommersby Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without...	Original Film Writer Writing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1992	Movie Dispute in Valladolid Spain conquered the seas, found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. But a question...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1992	Movie The Return of Casanova After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1991	Movie At Play in the Fields of the Lord Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1990	Movie Cyrano de Bergerac Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	TV The Mahabharata The Mahabharata is a 1989 film version of the Indian epic based on the history of India, Mahabharata directed by...	Theatre Play Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1990	TV The Mahabharata The Mahabharata is a 1989 film version of the Indian epic based on the history of India, Mahabharata directed by...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1990	Movie Hard to Be a God Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1990	Movie May Fools During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1990	Movie The Mahabharata One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and...	Theatre Play Writing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1990	Movie The Mahabharata One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1989	Movie Valmont Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1989	Movie J'écris dans l'espace	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1989	TV The Owl's Legacy A 13-part documentary series by Chris Marker examining how ancient Greek ideas continue to shape modern Western thought. Each episode...	Writer Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1989	Movie The Silent Woman French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1988	Movie The Bengali Night Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1988	Movie The Possessed Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1988	Movie The Unbearable Lightness of Being Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him....	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1986	Movie The Discoveries of a Modern Couple Black comedy about a couple who become convinced that their best friends are aliens and that the Earth’s days are...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1986	Movie Exploits of a Young Don Juan In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1986	Movie Max My Love The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1986	Movie The Wolf at the Door Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the...	Scenario Writer Writing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1986	Movie Sea Workers A recluse living in the Channel Islands develops an obsession with the ward of wealthy steam engine enterpreneur Mess Lethierry,...	Writer Writing	Not rated
1986	Movie L'unique A famous rock singer is being overtaken. Vox, the album and live producer of the singer, prepares a real revolution...	Dialogue Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1986	Movie L'unique A famous rock singer is being overtaken. Vox, the album and live producer of the singer, prepares a real revolution...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1986	Movie The Young Girl and Hell Erotic drama from France featuring beautiful Florence Guerin as a teenager who is switched in by a writer her mom...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1985	Movie Lancement réussi A young woman and a television.	Scenario Writer Writing	Not rated
1984	Movie Swann in Love In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitute who seduces him but never...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1984	Movie L'aide-mémoire	Writer Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1983	Movie The Tragedy of Carmen Peter Brooks' adaptation of Carmen by Mérimée and Bizet.	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1983	Movie The General of the Dead Army In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1983	Movie Side Roads The story of Itineraire Bis has no singular plot line, but swings back and forth between the adventures of a...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1983	Movie Credo Based on an actual Cold War incident in which a Ukrainian prisoner of conscience was forced to defend his Christian...	Writer Writing	Not rated
1983	Movie Danton Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler,...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1982	Movie Antonieta Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1982	Movie L'Indiscrétion An innocent man stumbles across a political intrigue, when he discovers that his neighbours apartment is bugged. They are then...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1982	Movie The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan At 36, despite all the lovers she has had, amiable Diane de Maufrigneuse, Princess of Cadignan, has never found true...	Writer Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1982	Movie Godard's Passion While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1982	Movie The Return of Martin Guerre Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry....	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1982	Movie La Cerisaie The last vestiges of a family that has gone from cherry season to sorrow... Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging...	Adaptation Writing	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1981	TV La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet	Dialogue Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1981	TV La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet	Adaptation Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1981	Movie Circle of Deceit To escape his crumbling marriage, German journalist Laschen travels to Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1981	Movie Black Mirror A downbeat story of life inside a women's prison. There is more crime inside than out. When the inmates see...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1980	Movie Every Man for Himself A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1979	Movie The Associate An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control...	Dialogue Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1979	Movie The Associate An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1979	Movie The Tin Drum In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1979	Movie Return to the Beloved Julien seeks to reconquer Jeanne, his ex-wife, of whom he is separated and who lives with another man. He is...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1979	Movie L'Homme en colère Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However, the deceased is...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1979	Movie These Kids Are Grown-Ups When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1979	Movie Beef Cattle Thomas, in his forties, holds an important post in a slaughterhouse. He is engaged to Marie-Rose, the daughter of the...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1978	Movie Photo-souvenir This film in the popular French television series Cinéma 16 stars Jean-Claude Carrière as a surgeon who becomes obsessed with...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1978	Movie Surprise Sock Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1978	Movie Butterfly on the Shoulder On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1978	Movie Le Franc-tireur A man creates trouble in the company he works because he wants to be fired. He gets a promotion.	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1977	Movie That Obscure Object of Desire After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1977	Movie Julie pot-de-colle Julie asks Jean-Luc Farlot, authorized signatory of a big European bank to help her disguise a murder as an accident.	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1977	Movie The Gang In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1975	Movie Leonor Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault,...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1975	Movie Flesh of the Orchid A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian,...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1975	Movie Serious as Pleasure Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so...	Writer Writing	TMDB 3.9 / 10
1975	Movie Weak Spot During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1974	Movie The Woman with Red Boots An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1974	Movie The Phantom of Liberty This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1974	Movie Life Size Michel is a middle-aged man with money and social standing. But he dreams of owning a doll to be his...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1974	Movie France, Incorporated In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story....	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.1 / 10
1974	Movie Dorothea's Revenge Dorothea, a 16-year-old bourgeois girl from Hamburg, plays with her friends of both sexes, imitating the production of adult movies....	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1972	Movie The Outside Man A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things...	Story Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1972	Movie The Outside Man A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1972	Movie The Monk Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk's robes....	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1972	Movie The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1972	Movie The Right to Love The tragedy of Helene and her husband Pierre, whose life is shattered when Pierre is kept as a political prisoner,...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1972	Movie Liza Liza meets the artist Giorgio and falls in love with him. She dreams of becoming the wife of Giorgio, but...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1971	Movie A Little Sun in Cold Water Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1971	Movie Taking Off Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1971	Movie The Wedding Ring A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1970	Movie Borsalino In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1969	Movie Le Grand Amour Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss, but his middle-class...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1969	Movie The Milky Way Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1969	Movie The Swimming Pool Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1969	Movie The Nail Clippers The disappearance of some nail clippers in a hotel room puzzles the owners of the capricious object.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1969	Movie The Nail Clippers The disappearance of some nail clippers in a hotel room puzzles the owners of the capricious object.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1968	Movie For a Distant Love A delicious love story has been taken place in Rio.	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1967	Movie Belle de Jour Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1967	Movie The Thief of Paris In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1966	Movie The Diabolical Dr. Z A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1966	Movie Attack of the Robots Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1966	Movie Hotel Paradiso Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block and he needs a new play, so he takes an opportunity to observe his upper...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1966	Movie As Long as You've Got Your Health An anthology film consisting of four stories. (1) A man reads a Dracula novel while in bed, but cannot seem...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1965	Movie Viva Maria! 1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I,...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1965	Movie Bestiary of Love If love is a universal phenomenon, it is never the same: the animal world experiences brutal and rapid unions, or,...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1965	TV The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, Robinson Crusoe fills his time in either building a shelter for himself, or by reminiscing...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1965	Movie Yoyo The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1964	Movie Diary of a Chambermaid Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1963	Movie Happy Anniversary Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets...	Co-Writer Writing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1963	Movie Happy Anniversary Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1963	Movie Insomnia French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself to sleep with a...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1962	Movie The Suitor Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1961	Movie Rupture A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pained lover...	Co-Writer Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1961	Movie Rupture A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pained lover...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
TBA	Movie Micromeo Romeo and Juliet in the microcosm of the human body... Forbidden love between the young Bacterium Micromeo and Antibody-girl Globia...	Writer Writing	Not rated

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2026

Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel

2022 / TMDB 7.5

Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau

2022 / TMDB 6.0

Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance

2021 / TMDB 5.6

Fifty Years Later

2019

Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason

2019 / TMDB 7.2

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