Screenplay: André Téchiné

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


Wild Reeds

1994 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Elodie Bouchez · Gaël Morel · Stéphane Rideau · Frédéric Gorny

Synopsis Set in rural France during the end of the Algerian war, and immersed in the music of the sixties, this film follows four students in friendship and love. François's best friend is a girl Maite, but instead he falls in...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

My Favourite Season

1993 · Movie · 125 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Daniel Auteuil · Chiara Mastroianni · Marthe Villalonga

Synopsis Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will come...

6.7

349 votes

6.7

349 votes

Thieves

1996 · Movie · 117 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Catherine Deneuve · Laurence Côte · Julien Riviére

Synopsis In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son. Through flashbacks, the film discloses the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings Juliette...

6.7

711 votes

6.7

711 votes

Far Away (Loin)

2001 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Stéphane Rideau · Lubna Azabal · Mohamed Hamaidi · Yasmina Reza

Synopsis In Tangier, intercontinental truck driver Serge is in love with Sarah, but is in some trouble of his own. Film generally concerns Moroccans with various relationships with the country: visiting staying, leaving & contemplating.

6.6

392 votes

6.6

392 votes

The Innocents

1987 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · Jean-Claude Brialy · Simon de La Brosse · Abdellatif Kechiche

Synopsis The lines between love, sex, and politics become hopelessly blurred in this French drama from director Andre Techine. Jeanne (Sandrine Bonnaire), born and raised in Northern France, is visiting the Mediterranean for the first time, prompted by two events: the...

6.6

38 votes

6.6

38 votes

Hotel of the Americas

1981 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Patrick Dewaere · Etienne Chicot · Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away,...

6.6

103 votes

6.6

103 votes

Alice and Martin

1998 · Movie · 127 min. · France

6.5

805 votes

6.5

805 votes

The Witnesses

2007 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Michel Blanc · Emmanuelle Béart · Sami Bouajila · Julie Depardieu

Synopsis A dramatic relationship between four characters: a homosexual police inspector who crosses paths with a doctor, a writer and an opera singer. Manu is 20 years old when he arrives in Paris to look for a job. Initially, he moves...

6.4

959 votes

6.4

959 votes

Being 17

2016 · Movie · 114 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Sandrine Kiberlain · Kacey Mottet Klein · Corentin Fila · Alexis Loret

Synopsis Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Strayed

2003 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Emmanuelle Béart · Gaspard Ulliel · Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet · Clémence Meyer

Synopsis June 1940, the germans are at the gates of Paris. Odile (Emmanuelle Béart), a widowed schoolteacher swayed by the widespread atmosphere of panic, flees the city with her two children. Her son Philippe is twelve and her little daughter Cathy...

6.3

986 votes

6.3

986 votes

I Don't Kiss

1991 · Movie · 116 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Philippe Noiret · Emmanuelle Béart · Manuel Blanc · Hélène Vincent

Synopsis A young man leaves his native town in southern France to discover Paris. Being too unexperienced and too naive, he drops into the reality of Paris 1991. He soon gives up his dream of becoming an actor and prostitutes himself....

6.2

302 votes

6.2

302 votes

Scene of the Crime

1986 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Wadeck Stanczak · Nicolas Giraudi · Danielle Darrieux

Synopsis In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be attacked by the convict's partner. A murder ensues, and through happenstance,...

6.0

123 votes

6.0

123 votes

Changing Times

2004 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Gérard Depardieu · Gilbert Melki · Lubna Azabal

Synopsis Antoine arrives in Tangiers from Europe. He is on an assignment to supervise the setting up of an audiovisual centre, his task being to expedite the process. However, Antoine is secretly hoping that he will find Cécile here. His quietly...

6.0

421 votes

6.0

421 votes

Farewell to the Night

2019 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Kacey Mottet Klein · Oulaya Amamra · Kamel Labroudi

Synopsis Muriel farms horses and owns an almond plantation. When her grandson comes to visit her for one last time before he leaves for Canada. She learns that he has dark secrets.

5.9

44 votes

5.9

44 votes

Rendez-vous

1985 · Movie · 82 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Juliette Binoche · Lambert Wilson · Wadeck Stanczak · Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis Nina, a young provincial and a student actress, discovers the Capital. That of her dreams of love and theater. Guided by her instinct, she travels around alone and follows her chance encounters, whether good or bad. On her way, she...

5.9

450 votes

5.9

450 votes

Barocco

1976 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Gérard Depardieu · Marie-France Pisier · Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis The story of Barocco is about a girl in love with a boxer. They plan to go abroad after making a lot of money by participating in an interview intended to discredit a politician at elections time. But the boxer...

5.7

88 votes

5.7

88 votes

In the Name of My Daughter

2014 · Movie · 116 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Guillaume Canet · Catherine Deneuve · Adèle Haenel · Judith Chemla

Synopsis Nice, 1976, Following the failure of her marriage, Agnès Le Roux (Adèle Haenel) returns from Africa to her mother Renée (Catherine Deneuve), owner of the Casino Le Palais de la Méditerranée. The young lady falls in love with Renée's confident,...

5.6

120 votes

5.6

120 votes

Unforgivable

2011 · Movie · 111 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Mélanie Thierry · André Dussollier · Carole Bouquet · Adriana Asti

Synopsis A crime writer living in Venice while working on his new novel meets and soon marries his real-estate agent. Relocated to a remote house on Torcello Island, his obsession with his wife's daily whereabouts takes a dark turn.

5.4

59 votes

5.4

59 votes

Golden Years

2017 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Pierre Deladonchamps · Céline Sallette · Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet · Claude Gensac

Synopsis The true story of a French WWI deserter who, with the support of his wife, spends a decade in disguise as a woman.

5.4

22 votes

5.4

22 votes