Screenplay: François-Olivier Rousseau

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by François-Olivier Rousseau. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Princess Marie (TV)

2004 · Movie · 190 min. · Austria

Direction Benoît Jacquot

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Heinz Bennent · Anne Bennent · Isild Le Besco

Plot This movie tells the story of Napoleon Bonaparte’s grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud, “the father of psychoanalysis”.

6.3

22 votes

6.3

22 votes

The Children of the Century

1998 · Movie · 135 min. · France

Direction Diane Kurys

Cast Juliette Binoche · Benoît Magimel · Stefano Dionisi · Robin Renucci

Plot Paris, year 1832. This is the true tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset....

5.8

338 votes

5.8

338 votes

The Princess of Montpensier

2010 · Movie · 139 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Christine Brücher · Nathalie Krebs · Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet · Olivier Loustau

Plot France, 1562. The wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants rage against a backdrop of intrigue and shifting alliances. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, and Henri de Guise,...

5.7

339 votes

5.7

339 votes

Nathalie...

2003 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Anne Fontaine

Cast Fanny Ardant · Emmanuelle Béart · Gérard Depardieu · Judith Magre

Plot Catherine (Fanny Ardant) is an attractive woman with a great career and a seemingly solid marriage to Bernard (Gérard Depardieu), her husband of 25 years. Their lives seem to be...

5.6

1K votes

5.6

1K votes

Lovers of the Nile

2002 · Movie · 90 min. · France

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October 17, 1961

2005 · Movie · 108 min. · France

Direction Alain Tasma

Cast Jean-Michel Portal · Ouassini Embarek · Clotilde Courau · Thierry Fortineau

Plot A scared young French 'flic', his violently racist colleagues, a polite Algerian schoolboy, a scrupulous police sergeant, a tenacious journalist, hot-blooded merciless FLN-militants, a naive school teacher, a nasty chief...

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Marie-Octobre (TV)

2008 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Nathalie Baye · Xavier Beauvois · Samuel Labarthe · Etienne Chicot

Plot A dinner: One woman and nine men. There is a traitor among them. 10 years after the Liberation of France, Marie Hélène Dumoulin, also known as Marie-Octobre gathers her former...

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Not rated

Bluff Mode (TV)

1993 · Movie · 87 min. · France

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Not rated