Screenplay: Octave Mirbeau

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


The Diary of a Chambermaid

1964 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Michel Piccoli · Georges Géret · Françoise Lugagne

Plot The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir), Diary of a Chambermaid charts the ambitions of Celestine (Jeanne Moreau), a woman who comes...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Diary of a Chambermaid

1946 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Paulette Goddard · Hurd Hatfield · Francis Lederer · Burgess Meredith

Plot Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not...

6.6

768 votes

6.6

768 votes

Diary of a Chambermaid

2015 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Benoît Jacquot

Cast Léa Seydoux · Vincent Lindon · Clotilde Mollet · Hervé Pierre

Plot A scheming servant works for a wealthy couple in France during the late 19th century.

5.3

214 votes

5.3

214 votes

Les affaires sont les affaires

1942 · Movie · 82 min. · France

Direction Jean Dréville

Cast Charles Vanel · Robert Le Vigan · Renée Devillers · Aimé Clariond

Plot Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others ,particularly a ruined noble:he wants his daughter to marry this marquis's son but the girl...

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El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa

1992 · Movie · 100 min. · Spain

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Lina Romay · Antonio Mayans · Roberto Bartual · Agustín Gil

Plot Scarlett (Lina Romay) escapes of the claws of her violent boyfriend and shelters in a barn. There she's raped a Mexican so called Rufo and later she's raped again for...

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The Garden of Torture

1977 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Christian Gion

Cast Roger Van Hool · Jacqueline Kerry · Tony Taffin · Isabelle Lacamp

Plot In the 1930's a young doctor is forced to flee from Paris because he is involved in a drug scandal. On his passage to China he meets a beautiful, eccentric...

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