Screenplay: Jean-Claude Brisseau

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jean-Claude Brisseau. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Céline

1992 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast Isabelle Pasco · María Luisa García · Danièle Lebrun · Damien Dutrait

Plot At 22, Céline receives several shocks: her father dies and she learns she was adopted; she rejects her inheritance, so her fiancé jilts her. She's suicidal. A nurse sees her...

7.5

187 votes

7.5

187 votes

Sound and Fury

1988 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast Bruno Cremer · François Négret · Vincent Gasperitsch · Fabienne Babe

Plot This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most...

7.3

150 votes

7.3

150 votes

A Brutal Game

1983 · Movie · 90 min. · France

7.2

199 votes

7.2

199 votes

7.2

132 votes

Life the Way It Is (TV)

1978 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast María Luisa García · Lucien Plazanet · Marie Rivière · Jenny Bellay

Plot The second film by Jean-Claude Brisseau is this gritty story of working women in the modern world. Originally shot on 16mm for French television, Life the Way It Is (La...

7.1

63 votes

7.1

63 votes

White Wedding

1989 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast Vanessa Paradis · Bruno Cremer · Ludmila Mikael · François Négret

Plot A teacher of philosophy encounters a complicated pupil; a seventeen year old girl who possesses quite a cynical view of the world. He attempts to help her focus on her...

6.9

298 votes

6.9

298 votes

The Girl from Nowhere

2012 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast Virginie Legeay · Jean-Claude Brisseau · Claude Morel · Lise Bellynck

Plot Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes...

6.5

291 votes

6.5

291 votes

Secret Things

2002 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast Coralie Revel · Sabrina Seyvecou · Roger Mirmont · Fabrice Deville

Plot When two young women lose their jobs in an erotic night club, they decide to get even with the male sex. By flaunting their obvious assets, they manage to get...

6.1

278 votes

6.1

278 votes

The Black Angel

1994 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast Sylvie Vartan · Michel Piccoli · Tchéky Karyo · Alexandra Winisky

Plot A visitor comes to the home of Stephane, the wife of an important magistrate. She, claiming attempted rape, calmly shoots him. The visitor is the legendary gangster Wadek Aslanian who...

6.0

117 votes

6.0

117 votes

Que le diable nous emporte

2018 · Movie · 98 min. · France

5.8

58 votes

5.8

58 votes

À l'aventure

2008 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast Carole Brana · Arnaud Binard · Nadia Chibani · Lise Bellynck

Plot French filmmaker Jean-Claude Brisseau once again explores the nexus of the body, the mind and the soul in this sensual drama. Sandrine has become vaguely dissatisfied with her life, but...

5.8

211 votes

5.8

211 votes

5.5

239 votes

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The Interchange (TV) (S)

1982 · Movie · 24 min. · France

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast Lucien Plazanet · Fanny Bastien · Sylvestre López · Thierry Bouvet

Plot A young boy moves with his mother into rent-controlled housing in a new banlieue. He begins sixth grade and meets a mysterious classmate.

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Des jeunes femmes disparaissent (S)

1972 · Movie · 19 min. · France

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Death in the Afternoon

1968 · Movie · 43 min. · France

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Plot A man stabbed to death is haunted by his memories and fantasies while dying alone.

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On Sunday Afternoon

1966 · Movie · 26 min. · France

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La croisée des chemins

1976 · Movie · 91 min. · France

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast María Luisa García · Laurence Boisloret · Lucien Plazanet · Josée van Hoorn

Plot The peregrinations of a group of boys and girls from Paris. Two girls swap the capital for the countryside near Montpellier. One of the girls hesitates between dream world and...

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