Screenplay: Bernard Zimmer

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Bernard Zimmer. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Dance Program (Life Dances On)

1937 · Movie · 144 min. · France

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Harry Baur · Marie Bell · Pierre Blanchar · Fernandel

Synopsis After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find...

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7.1

77 votes

Liliom

1934 · Movie · 118 min. · France

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170 votes

6.4

170 votes

The Chess Player

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · France

Direction Jean Dréville

Cast Françoise Rosay · Conrad Veidt · Bernard Lancret · Micheline Francey

Synopsis A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.

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Marthe Richard au service de la France

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Raymond Bernard

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Délia Col · Marthe Mellot · Liliane Lesaffre

Synopsis At the start of the First World War, Marthe Richard sees her parents arrested by German soldiers, taken away and shot. When she loses contact with her fiancé, André, a soldier on the Western Front, the young woman hastens to...

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Thunder in the East

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nicolas Farkas · Viktor Tourjansky

Cast Charles Boyer · Merle Oberon · John Loder · Betty Stockfeld

Synopsis Forced by her husband to love another man... to exchange her kisses for naval secrets!

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Sorelle Materassi

1944 · Movie · 72 min. · Italy

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The Captain

1946 · Movie · 103 min. · France

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The Battle

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Nicolas Farkas · Viktor Tourjansky

Cast Charles Boyer · Annabella · John Loder · Betty Stockfeld

Synopsis In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British attaché in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.

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Nuit de décembre

1940 · Movie · 82 min. · France

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Pierre Blanchar · Renée Saint-Cyr · Gilbert Gil · Jean Tissier

Synopsis In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable night, Anne vanishes without trace. Twenty years later, Pierre, at the...

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Le veau gras

1939 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Serge de Poligny

Cast Elvire Popesco · André Lefaur · Armand Bernard · Dorville

Synopsis Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whose only talent is to seduce rich women and take money from their pockets. But...

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Lost Souvenirs

1950 · Movie · 135 min. · France

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Bernard Blier · Pierre Brasseur · Suzy Delair · Danièle Delorme

Synopsis Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one...

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Le bossu

1944 · Movie · 110 min. · France

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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel

1942 · Movie · 125 min. · France

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Le jugement de Dieu

1952 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Raymond Bernard

Cast Andrée Debar · Jean-Claude Pascal · Gabrielle Dorziat · Pierre Renoir

Synopsis Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to...

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People Who Travel

1938 · Movie · 108 min. · France

Direction Jacques Feyder

Cast Françoise Rosay · André Brulé · Marie Glory · Sylvia Bataille

Synopsis Due to an accident at the Barlay Circus, animal trainer Flora finds Fernand, a former prison escapee, and refers him to manager, Edouard Barlay.

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La dame de pique

1937 · Movie · 87 min. · France

Direction Fyodor Otsep

Cast Marguerite Moreno · Pierre Blanchar · André Luguet · Madeleine Ozeray

Synopsis Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spades. The day Hermann wants to wring the secret from her, the countess dies of fear. Following this tragic...

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Fahrendes Volk

1938 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany

Direction Jacques Feyder

Cast Hans Albers · Françoise Rosay · Camilla Horn · Hannes Stelzer

Synopsis Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son Marcel is an art rider and does not know that Fernand is his father.

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