Screenplay: Alain Jessua
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alain Jessua. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Armaguedon
1977 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Alain Jessua
Cast Alain Delon · Jean Yanne · Renato Salvatori · Marie Déa
Plot After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his...
6.6
27 votes
6.6
27 votes
The Killing Game
1967 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Alain Jessua
Cast Jean-Pierre Cassel · Claudine Auger · Michel Duchaussoy · Eléonore Hirt
Plot Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip,...
6.5
24 votes
6.5
24 votes
The Dogs
1979 · Movie · 100 min. · France
Direction Alain Jessua
Cast Gérard Depardieu · Victor Lanoux · Nicole Calfan · Pierre Vernier
Plot After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.
6.0
38 votes
6.0
38 votes
Shock Treatment
1973 · Movie · 91 min. · France
Direction Alain Jessua
Cast Alain Delon · Annie Girardot · Robert Hirsch · Michel Duchaussoy
Plot Doctors at a rejuvenation clinic discover a formula that will prevent aging. However, it involves harvesting the blood and body parts of young men, a process that the doctors aren't...
5.5
144 votes
5.5
144 votes
Léon la lune (S)
1956 · Documentary · 16 min. · France
Direction Alain Jessua
Plot The film documents an old drifter in Paris in the poetic realist style.
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Life Upside Down
1964 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Alain Jessua
Cast Charles Denner · Anna Gaylor · Guy Saint-Jean · Nicole Gueden
Plot Real estate agent Jacques Valin records his life story on a tape recorder when he loses job.
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Frankenstein 90
1984 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Alain Jessua
Cast Jean Rochefort · Eddy Mitchell · Fiona Gélin · Herma Vos
Plot An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
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No Harm Intended
1988 · Movie · 100 min. · France
Direction Alain Jessua
Cast Michel Serrault · Nathalie Baye · François Dunoyer · Suzanne Flon
Plot When Catherine (Nathalie Baye) is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul (Michel Serrault), the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas (Francois Dunoyer) about the incident....
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The Colors of the Devil
1997 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Alain Jessua
Cast Ruggero Raimondi · Wadeck Stanczak · Isabelle Pasco · Bettina Giovannini
Plot A young talented painter dreams of glory. A man promises it in exchange for his talent and his soul.
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Paradise for All
1982 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Alain Jessua
Cast Patrick Dewaere · Jacques Dutronc · Fanny Cottençon · Stéphane Audran
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