Screenplay: Gérard Brach

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


The Name of the Rose

1986 · Movie · 131 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast Sean Connery · Christian Slater · F. Murray Abraham · Michael Lonsdale

Plot Based on the best-selling book by Italian author Umberto Eco. In the 14th Century, during a meeting of the papacy in a remote italian Abbey, a brilliant English monk, William...

7.8

96K votes

7.8

96K votes

Jean de Florette

1986 · Movie · 122 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Yves Montand · Gérard Depardieu · Daniel Auteuil · Elisabeth Depardieu

Plot A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

The Tenant

1976 · Movie · 126 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Roman Polanski · Isabelle Adjani · Melvyn Douglas · Shelley Winters

Plot Meek clerk Trelkovsky takes over a Parisian flat from a woman who has committed suicide. He meets Stella, one of the woman's friends, and begins a tentative relationship with her,...

7.5

13K votes

7.5

13K votes

Manon of the Spring (Jean de Florette II)

1986 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Yves Montand · Daniel Auteuil · Emmanuelle Béart · Hippolyte Girardot

Plot In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She determines to take revenge upon the...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Repulsion

1965 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Ian Hendry · Patrick Wymark · John Fraser

Plot A Belgian girl, Carol, works as a manicurist at a London beauty salon. While having lunch, a good looking young man, Colin, spots her and makes a date for another...

7.5

12K votes

7.5

12K votes

Quest for Fire

1981 · Movie · 105 min. · Canada

Direction Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast Everett McGill · Rae Dawn Chong · Ron Perlman · Nicholas Kadi

Plot This story takes place in prehistoric time when three prehistoric tribesmen search for a new fire source.

7.2

13K votes

7.2

13K votes

Tess

1979 · Movie · 172 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Nastassja Kinski · Peter Firth · Leigh Lawson · John Collins

Plot A rural clergyman in 19th century England tells Durbeyfield, a simple farmer, that he is descended from the illustrious d'Urberville family -- now extinct. Or maybe not. Durbeyfield sends his...

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

Bitter Moon

1992 · Movie · 139 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Peter Coyote · Emmanuelle Seigner · Hugh Grant · Kristin Scott Thomas

Plot On a cruise to Istanbul in celebration of their seventh wedding anniversary, uptight British couple Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a...

7.1

11K votes

7.1

11K votes

The Bear

1988 · Movie · 93 min. · France

Direction Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast Jack Wallace · Tchéky Karyo · André Lacombe

Plot An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

7.1

14K votes

7.1

14K votes

The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jack MacGowran · Roman Polanski · Sharon Tate · Alfie Bass

Plot The elderly bat researcher, professor Abronsius and his assistant, Alfred, go to a remote Transylvanian village looking for vampires. Alfred falls in love with the inn-keeper's young daughter Sarah. However,...

7.0

12K votes

7.0

12K votes

The Two of Us

1967 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Michel Simon · Luce Fabiole · Alain Cohen · Roger Carel

Plot Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Nazis), his parents send him away to an elderly couple in the country. Pepe,...

7.0

324 votes

7.0

324 votes

Cul-de-sac

1966 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Donald Pleasence · Françoise Dorléac · Lionel Stander · Jack MacGowran

Plot A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling...

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

Frantic

1988 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Harrison Ford · Emmanuelle Seigner · Betty Buckley · Gérard Klein

Plot Roman Polanski’s FRANTIC is an engaging thriller in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock. Harrison Ford plays Richard Walker, an American heart surgeon vacationing with his wife, Sondra (Betty Buckley), in...

6.6

12K votes

6.6

12K votes

Identification of a Woman

1982 · Movie · 128 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Tomas Milian · Daniela Silverio · Christine Boisson · Marcel Bozzuffi

Plot The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. This gives him the idea of making a movie about womens relationships. He starts to search for a woman...

6.6

261 votes

6.6

261 votes

The Lover

1992 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast Jane March · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Frédérique Meininger · Arnaud Giovaninetti

Plot It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public...

6.4

5K votes

6.4

5K votes

Favourites of the Moon

1984 · Movie · 111 min. · France

Direction Otar Iosseliani

Cast Katja Rupé · Alix de Montaigu · François Michel · Jean-Pierre Beauviala

Plot Director Otar Iosseliani hit the nail on the head when describing Favorites of the Moon as "an abstract comedy." Indeed, if ten different people who saw the film were asked...

6.4

65 votes

6.4

65 votes

Shy People

1987 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Andrei Konchalovsky

Cast Jill Clayburgh · Barbara Hershey · Martha Plimpton · Merritt Butrick

Plot Diana Sullivan (Jill Clayburgh) is a successful Manhattan writer and photojournalist, seemingly oblivious to the serious cocaine addicition that her wild child daughter Grace (Martha Plimpton) has developed. A commission...

6.3

47 votes

6.3

47 votes

My Best Friend's Girl

1983 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Coluche · Isabelle Huppert · Thierry Lhermitte · François Perrot

Plot Isabelle Huppert plays an attractive Parisienne out looking for some fun during her vacation on the ski slopes of Courchevel in the Alps when she starts up a relationship with...

6.0

23 votes

6.0

23 votes

The African

1983 · Movie · 101 min. · France

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Philippe Noiret · Jean-François Balmer · Jacques François

Plot A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers.

6.0

35 votes

6.0

35 votes

Maria's Lovers

1984 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Andrei Konchalovsky

Cast Nastassja Kinski · John Savage · Robert Mitchum · Keith Carradine

Plot Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic...

5.8

540 votes

5.8

540 votes