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

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