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