Direction: Josée Dayan

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Josée Dayan. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Miniseries)

1998 · Series · 400 min. · France

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Ornella Muti · Jean Rochefort · Pierre Arditi

Synopsis In The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Miniseries) (1998), a young sailor named Edmond Dantès is betrayed by jealous rivals and falsely imprisoned. After years in a grim fortress, he befriends a fellow inmate who reveals the location of a...

6.9

10K votes

6.9

10K votes

Les misérables (TV Miniseries)

2000 · Series · 270 min. · France

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Gérard Depardieu · John Malkovich · Jeanne Moreau · Christian Clavier

Synopsis The scene is set during the French Restoration at the beginning of the 19th century. Jean Valjean, a galley slave who was sent to prison for stealing food, is now released after serving nineteen years. At first he only encounter...

6.9

4K votes

6.9

4K votes

Cet amour-là

2001 · Movie · 94 min. · France

6.5

34 votes

6.5

34 votes

Balzac (TV)

1999 · Movie · 190 min. · France

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Jeanne Moreau · Fanny Ardant · Virna Lisi

Synopsis Honoré de Balzac was a man who lived to write. His life was a hard, permanent struggle, from his cold relationship with his mother who was unable to give him the love he needed, to his unsuccessful attempts to make...

6.0

400 votes

6.0

400 votes

Dangerous Liaisons (TV)

2003 · Movie · 202 min. · Canada

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Rupert Everett · Nastassja Kinski · Leelee Sobieski

Synopsis Updated adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge set in the modern 1960s world of Parisian high society. The beautiful Madame de Merteuil (Catherine Deneuve) seeks vengeance against her ex-lover Gercourt (Andrzej Zulawski)...

5.7

180 votes

5.7

180 votes

Philippe Muir (TV)

2015 · Movie · 89 min. · France

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Corinne Masiero · Gérard Depardieu · Hélène Vincent · Catherine Wilkening

Synopsis Philippe Muir find his accountant, murdered. He takes refuge with his sister Blanche Muir who calls the police. Marleau, unusual police officer, leads the investigation. Everything works against Philipp

5.2

29 votes

5.2

29 votes

Julie Lescaut (TV Series)

1992 · Series · 90 min. · France

Direction Alexis Lecaye · Alain Wermus · Daniel Janneau · Josée Dayan

Cast Véronique Genest · Jennifer Lauret · Alexis Desseaux · Jean-Charles Chagachbanian

Synopsis Julie Lescaut is a detective who works in the Criminal Investigation Department in Paris. Your job is not easy, as it has always been considered a place of men and their partners are unwilling to make it easy. In addition,...

4.9

66 votes

4.9

66 votes

Hot Chocolate (TV)

1992 · Movie · 93 min. · France

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Bo Derek · Robert Hays · Vincent Cassel · Howard Hesseman

Synopsis B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman from Texas, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory, specialized in chocolate truffles.

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La mauvaise rencontre (TV)

2011 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Matthieu Dessertine · Samuel Mercer · Jeanne Moreau · Agnese Nano

Synopsis Meet the Wicked is the story of a symbiotic friendship between two boys , Wolf and Mando ... They meet on a bench in a square and grow together , sharing the same interests: books , girls, politics, spiritualism. And...

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The Odd Mr Joseph (TV)

2001 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Roger Hanin · Eliana Miglio · Salomé Lelouch · Nicole Calfan

Synopsis Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jew married to Eva and father of Theresa, lives in Paris in 1939, on the eve of World War II. He managed to make his place in society by trading scrap.

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