Screenplay: Suzanne Schiffman

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


Out 1

1971 · Movie · 773 min. · France

Direction Jacques Rivette · Suzanne Schiffman

Cast Michéle Moretti · Hermine Karagheuz · Karen Puig · Pierre Baillot

Plot Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's 'Seven Against Thebes', while Thomas (Michel Lonsdale) is in charge of a state-funded...

7.9

134 votes

7.9

134 votes

Out 1: Spectre

1974 · Movie · 225 min. · France

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Françoise Fabian · Bernadette Lafont · Michael Lonsdale · Jean-Pierre Léaud

Plot A story about two Parisian theater groups preparing Aeschylus plays and two eccentric loners, a middle-class deaf-mute (Jean-Pierre Laud) and a working-class flirt (Juliet Berto), who stumble upon evidence of...

7.7

26 votes

7.7

26 votes

Day for Night

1973 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Jacqueline Bisset · Nathalie Baye · Alexandra Stewart

Plot A film company at work. Actors arrive and depart; liaisons develop. Julie, the beautiful but possibly unstable lead, is recovering from a breakdown, aided by an older physician, her new...

7.7

10K votes

7.7

10K votes

Small Change

1976 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Georges Desmouceaux · Jean-François Stévenin · Philippe Goldmann · Chantal Mercier

Plot Small Change is an episodic comedy drama composed of several sequences that explore childhood in director François Truffaut's signature humanistic style. Filmed in Thiers in South Central France, each vignette...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Man Who Loved Women

1977 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Charles Denner · Brigitte Fossey · Nelly Borgeaud · Geneviève Fontanel

Plot Scientist Bertrand Morane, "never in the company of men after 5," seduces women by evening and writes about the experiences in the early morning. Though 40ish and somewhat square, no...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

The Woman Next Door

1981 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Fanny Ardant · Henri Garcin · Michèle Baumgartner

Plot Bernard Coudray (Gérard Depardieu) lives with his wife and young son in a remote country house near to Grenoble. One day, a married couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard (Fanny Ardant),...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Last Metro

1980 · Movie · 128 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Catherine Deneuve · Jean Poiret · Andrea Ferréol

Plot Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater...

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7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Merry-Go-Round

1981 · Movie · 160 min. · France

7.1

63 votes

7.1

63 votes

The Story of Adele H.

1975 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Bruce Robinson · Sylvia Marriott · Joseph Blatchley

Plot The Story of Adele H. is a haunting film based on a true story about desire, devotion... and madness. Oscar-nominated Isabelle Adjani stars in this lush portrait of a woman...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Confidentially Yours

1983 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Fanny Ardant · Philippe Laudenbach · Caroline Silhol

Plot Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Love on the Run

1979 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Claude Jade · Dorithée

Plot Truffaut's hero, Antoine Doinel (Leaud) is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Love on the Ground

1984 · Movie · 129 min. · France

6.9

195 votes

6.9

195 votes

Wuthering Heights

1985 · Movie · 130 min. · France

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Fabienne Babe · Sandra Montaigu · Olivier Cruveiller · Olivier Torres

Plot Based on Emily Bronte's classic 19th-century novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, this beautiful, sensual film, tells the story of the tormented love affair between two childhood sweethearts, Catherine, a headstrong young woman,...

6.3

216 votes

6.3

216 votes

Paris s'en va

1981 · Movie · 30 min. · France

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Pierre Clémenti · Bulle Ogier · Pascale Ogier

Plot Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical team on both...

6.2

51 votes

6.2

51 votes

Tangos volés

2001 · Movie · 90 min. · France

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The Boat on the Grass

1971 · Movie · 90 min. · France

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Rouge-gorge

1985 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Pierre Zucca

Cast Laetitia Léotard · Philippe Léotard · Jérôme Zucca · Victoria Abril

Plot After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. She has just begun her...

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Sorceress

1987 · Movie · 97 min. · France

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Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full

1973 · Movie · 116 min. · France

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The Future of Emily

1984 · Movie · 116 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Helma Sanders-Brahms

Cast Brigitte Fossey · Hildegard Knef · Ivan Desny · Hermann Treusch

Plot Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and...

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Not rated