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Gérard Brach has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2000s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Tenant.
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The Name of the Rose
1986 · Movie · Writer
Top 10%Prime Video · Included

The Bear
1988 · Movie · Writer
Top 19%Prime Video · Included

Quest for Fire
1981 · Movie · Writer
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

Cul-de-sac
1966 · Movie · Writer
Top 25%MGM+ · Included

The Lover
1992 · Movie · Writer
Top 38%Tubi · Free w/ ads

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
Dir. Claude Berri · With Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.
Dir. Claude Berri · With Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Douce the Bear, Bart the Bear, Tchéky Karyo

In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors on a quest for more. With the tribe's future at stake, the warriors make their way across a treacherous landscape full of hostile tribes and monstrous beasts. On their journey, they encounter Ika, a woman who has the knowledge they seek.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass

On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Lionel Stander, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Jane March, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Frédérique Meininger

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, Betty Buckley
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Marcello Mastroianni, Sydne Rome, Hugh Griffith
A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld.
Dir. Dario Argento · With Julian Sands, Asia Argento, Andrea Di Stefano
U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily adopted and taken care of him. The evil actions of a white sorcerer lead him to confront the villain in the Sacred Mountains, and, through shamanic rituals conquer his fears and uncover a suppressed memory he would much rather deny.
Dir. Jan Kounen · With Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Temuera Morrison
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