Screenplay: Jérôme Tonnerre

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


A Heart in Winter

1992 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Emmanuelle Béart · André Dussollier · Myriam Boyer

Plot Stephane and Maxim are partners in a successful business that makes and repairs violins. Maxim falls in love with and plans to marry one of his clients, an attractive young...

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

My Father's Glory

1990 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Julien Ciamaca · Philippe Caubère · Nathalie Roussel · Didier Pain

Plot A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their...

7.1

237 votes

7.1

237 votes

My Mother's Castle

1990 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Philippe Caubère · Nathalie Roussel · Philippe Uchan · Didier Pain

Plot Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence (France). He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to...

7.0

158 votes

7.0

158 votes

Maddened by His Absence

2012 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Sandrine Bonnaire

Cast William Hurt · Alexandra Lamy · Jalil Mehenni · Augustin Legrand

Plot Touched to the depths of his being by the death of his child in a car accident nine years earlier, Jacques has lost his bearings. For this loss is all...

6.6

71 votes

6.6

71 votes

Florida

2015 · Movie · 110 min. · France

6.6

50 votes

6.6

50 votes

Intimate Strangers

2004 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Patrice Leconte

Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · Fabrice Luchini · Michel Duchaussoy · Anne Brochet

Plot Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does...

6.5

955 votes

6.5

955 votes

Quartier Lointain

2010 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Sam Garbarski

Cast Léo Legrand · Pascal Greggory · Jonathan Zaccaï · Alexandra Maria Lara

Plot A grown man wakes up to discover he is a teenager again.

6.4

103 votes

6.4

103 votes

Long Live Life

1984 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Michel Piccoli · Evelyne Bouix · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Charlotte Rampling

Plot The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer...

6.3

54 votes

6.3

54 votes

School of Life

2017 · Movie · 111 min. · France

Direction Nicolas Vanier

Cast François Cluzet · Jean Scandel · Eric Elmosnino · François Berléand

Plot Paris 1927. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a...

6.2

856 votes

6.2

856 votes

On Guard

1997 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Marie Gillain · Daniel Auteuil · Vincent Pérez · Philippe Noiret

Plot Swashbuckling action based on a 19th Century novel and set in the court of King Louis XIII in the 17th century. When the Duke of Nevers is assassinated by the...

6.2

407 votes

6.2

407 votes

A Few Days with Me

1988 · Movie · 131 min. · France

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Sandrine Bonnaire · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Dominique Lavanant

Plot Martial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he...

6.1

58 votes

6.1

58 votes

My Best Friend

2006 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Patrice Leconte

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Dany Boon · Julie Gayet · Julie Durand

Plot An art dealer (Daniel Auteuil) takes a bet: he’s got ten days to find a best friend. He throws himself into a frenetic series of auditions, to finally set his...

6.1

3K votes

6.1

3K votes

Bon voyage

2003 · Movie · 114 min. · France

Direction Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Gérard Depardieu · Virginie Ledoyen · Yvan Attal

Plot At the start of World War II, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux. Cabinet members, journalists, physicists, and spies...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Tabataba

1988 · Movie · 79 min. · Madagascar

6.0

26 votes

6.0

26 votes

The Women on the 6th Floor

2010 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Philippe Le Guay

Cast Fabrice Luchini · Natalia Verbeke · Sandrine Kiberlain · Carmen Maura

Plot Paris in 1960. Jean-Louis and Suzanne Joubert are no longer exactly youthful. This stockbroker and his wife live a quiet, middle-class existence in an elegant tenement building. You might even...

6.0

5K votes

6.0

5K votes

Renoir

2012 · Movie · 101 min. · France

Direction Gilles Bourdos

Cast Michel Bouquet · Christa Theret · Vincent Rottiers · Romane Bohringer

Plot The Côte d’Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his...

5.7

1K votes

5.7

1K votes

Backstage

2005 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Emmanuelle Bercot

Cast Emmanuelle Seigner · Noémie Lvovsky · Isild Le Besco · Valéry Zeitoun

Plot An adolescent groupie (Isild Le Besco) zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol (Emmanuelle Seigner) after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intertwine...

5.6

48 votes

5.6

48 votes

Maigret

2022 · Movie · 84 min. · France

Direction Patrice Leconte

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Aurore Clément · Mélanie Bernier · Anne Loiret

Plot In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify him and then understand what happened to the...

5.5

1K votes

5.5

1K votes

On My Way

2013 · Movie · 116 min. · France

Direction Emmanuelle Bercot

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Nemo Schiffman · Gérard Garouste · Camille

Plot Bettie is in her early sixties. Having run out of cigarettes, she climbs into her car and drives off, leaving her mother, customers and the employees of her Breton restaurant...

5.3

419 votes

5.3

419 votes

A Promise

2013 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Patrice Leconte

Cast Rebecca Hall · Alan Rickman · Richard Madden · Maggie Steed

Plot A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, the pledge their...

5.1

771 votes

5.1

771 votes