Screenplay: Nina Companeez

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


Benjamin: The Diary of an Innocent Young Boy

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Michèle Morgan · Michel Piccoli · Pierre Clémenti · Catherine Deneuve

Plot A callow teenager of the 18th century, Benjamin spends a summer with his worldly relatives on their summer estate. An orphan girl (Catherine Deneuve) living on a neighboring estate, inaugurates...

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34 votes

6.2

34 votes

The Horseman on the Roof

1995 · Movie · 124 min. · France

Direction Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Cast Juliette Binoche · Olivier Martínez · Claudio Amendola · François Cluzet

Plot Year 1832. Cholera outbreak in southern France, while Italians try to wrest independence from Austrian control. Colonel Angelo Pardi is an Italian nobleman with a purchased rank in the cavalry,...

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6.0

1K votes

The Bear and the Doll

1970 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Daniel Ceccaldi · Georges Claisse

Plot Cellist Gaspard is living in a big house in the country with his son and three nieces. He likes being quiet. One day, his modest car bumps into a Rolls-Royce,...

5.0

23 votes

5.0

23 votes

Les Dames de la côte (TV Miniseries)

1979 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Nina Companeez

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Françoise Fabian · Francis Huster · Michel Aumont

Plot In 1913 on the Norman coast. In the neglect of the years before the war, Fanny Villatte, passionate young woman, impatient to live and love, reconnects with Marcel and Raoul...

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Adorable menteuse

1962 · Movie · 105 min. · France

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À la recherche du temps perdu (TV)

2011 · Movie · 230 min. · France

Direction Nina Companeez

Cast Dominique Blanc · Didier Sandre · Valentine Varela · Bernard Farcy

Plot Follows a young man, Marcel, from his childhood in Combray to his discovery of social life among the upper classes.

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Tonight or Never

1961 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Anna Karina · Claude Rich · Georges Descrières · Jacqueline Danno

Plot Focusing more on the personalities of the characters involved, Michel Deville in his first solo directing effort, has created a "New Wave"-style, slightly strident, routine romantic comedy. Set in an...

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Because, Because of a Woman

1963 · Movie · 116 min. · France

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Jacques Charrier · Mylène Demongeot · Juliette Mayniel · Marie Laforêt

Plot A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him...

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Zärtliche Haie

1967 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Lucky Jo

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Eddie Constantine · Pierre Brasseur · Georges Wilson · Christiane Minazzoli

Plot Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. But they never have luck - ever so often something inpredictable happens to Jo...

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Bye bye, Barbara

1969 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Eva Swann · Philippe Avron · Bruno Cremer · Alexandra Stewart

Plot A journalist meets a pretty, young woman in Biarritz and they fall in love with each other. Once they have returned to Paris the woman disappears mysteriously.

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Comme sur des roulettes

1977 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Nina Companeez

Cast Evelyne Buyle · Mathé Souverbie · Francis Huster · Jean-Paul Farré

Plot Imitating stars from French pop music is the only leisure activity of a village girl. She decides to go to Paris with her mother in order to try her luck...

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Raphael or the Debauched One

1971 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Maurice Ronet · Françoise Fabian · Jean Vilar · Brigitte Fossey

Plot 1830, somewhere in France. Aurore is a young, beautiful and virtuous widow. She meets Raphael, a man of leisure, a debauchee. Raphael is obsessed by the death, and wait for...

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Soldier Martin

1966 · Movie · 91 min. · France

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Robert Hirsch · Véronique Vendell · Walter Rilla · Anthony Sharp

Plot An actor disguises himself as a soldier during the Second World War, but is mistaken for a soldier and becomes involved in the events of WWII.

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The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen

1966 · Movie · 104 min. · France

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Direction Nina Companeez

Cast Francis Huster · Nathalie Delon · Brigitte Bardot · Bernadette Lafont

Plot Colinot is a young, happy man, until the day three highway robbers abduct his fiancee. The search for her leads him to meet so many young, pretty, sexy girls -...

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