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Jean-Claude Carrière has 24 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
Those People
2015
Drama · Romance
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972 · Movie · Writer
Top 7%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Belle de Jour
1967 · Movie · Writer
Top 20%Max · Included
The Milky Way
1969 · Movie · Writer
Top 23%Tubi · Free w/ ads
At Eternity's Gate
2018 · Movie · Writer
Top 38%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Swimming Pool
1969 · Movie · Writer
Top 38%Max · Included
The Tin Drum
1979 · Movie · Writer
Top 38%Max · Included
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Jean-Claude Brialy, Adriana Asti, Milena Vukotić
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau · With Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Dir. Julian Schnabel · With Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
Dir. Jacques Deray · With Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Dir. Volker Schlöndorff · With Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami · With Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière
In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.
Dir. Atiq Rahimi · With Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Hassina Burgan
In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
Dir. Jacques Deray · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Rouvel
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau · With Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Pierre Arditi
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Dir. Philip Kaufman · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
Dir. Andrzej Wajda · With Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.
Dir. Daniel Vigne · With Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård
In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnates them all, including his aunt and sister, then devises plans to cuckold the men.
Dir. Gianfranco Mingozzi · With Serena Grandi, Claudine Auger, Marina Vlady
1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.
Dir. Louis Malle · With Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Paulette Dubost
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.
Dir. Louis Garrel · With Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Lily-Rose Depp
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
Dir. Jonathan Glazer · With Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston
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