Alice Winocour
Alice Winocour (born 13 January 1976) is a French screenwriter and director.
Works
Room 999
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”
Release Date2023-10-05
Charactersd Self
Vote Count7
Coutures
In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world's tragedies and the questions of their lives: Maxine, an American film director in her forties, discovers she has cancer; Ada, a young South Sudanese model, escapes a predetermined destiny to be thrust into a deceptive universe and French makeup artist Angèle, a small hand working in the shadows of the catwalks, dreams of escaping her life.
Release Date2026-02-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Mustang
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
Release Date2015-06-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1417
Ordinary People
The story of a soldier faced with mission of executing prisoners in an unspecified place and time. The film follows a hot summer day in the life of Džoni, a twenty-year-old recruit, who is sent to an abandoned farm on an unknown mission. The soldiers wait to battle unnamed terrorists, but instead, a bus full of prisoners arrives to the barracks. The commander orders the soldiers to execute the prisoners. At first, Džoni is shocked by the cruel killings, but as more prisoners arrive, he begins to enjoy the executions.
Release Date2009-08-26
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count8
Revoir Paris
Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to move forward, she investigates her memories and retraces her steps.
Release Date2022-09-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count335
Augustine
Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.
Release Date2012-11-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count70
Disorder
An ex-soldier with PTSD is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he's out of town.
Release Date2015-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count225
Disorder
A war veteran is hired to protect the family of a wealthy businessman.
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
The Deal
Geneva, April 2015. In the hushed corridors of a luxury hotel, high-tension international negotiations get underway between the United States and Iran, suspected of secretly developing the atomic weapon. Alexandra Weiss, head of the Swiss diplomatic mission, is trying to maintain a fragile balance between the parties operating behind the scenes. The unexpected arrival of her former love, Payam Sanjabi, an Iranian engineer whose life is under threat, will complicate her task dangerously...
Release Date2025-08-28
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
Proxima
Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven year old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.
Release Date2019-11-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count425
Lost Country
Belgrade, 1996. During the student demonstrations against the Milosevic regime, 15-year-old Stefan leads his own revolution in the heat of events: accepting the unacceptable, seeing his mother as an accomplice in the crime and finding, despite the love he feels for her, the strength to confront her.
Release Date2023-10-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count9
Magic Paris
Kate comes alone to Paris for the week-end. In this city she doesn't know, she is going to meet a man and his dog.
Release Date2007-03-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Pina Colada
Romantic comedy
Release Date2009-03-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Kitchen
A young woman prepares a recipe for American-style lobster, which calls for cutting the live lobster into pieces, before throwing it, still alive, into boiling oil. Alone in her kitchen, faced with the two lobsters that are still moving, she tries to kill them as cleanly as possible.
Release Date2005-10-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Le Chantier
Set within the confines of this exceptional construction site, the film paints a portrait of a miniature society, driven by a common goal: to build cinemas for the next century. From the architect to the journeymen carpenters, from the site manager to the head of the Pathé group, from the designer of the speakers to the future projectionists, the film paints a vivid portrait of this society at a human level.
Release Date2025-08-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Shock Waves: La vallée
Riyad and his friend Zaïd leave their estate near Lyon and go to Switzerland to steal two luxurious cars for the account of Chérif, the thug ruling their area. Yet the journey goes wrong. Hunted, Riyad sinks into the mountains to escape the police.
Release Date2018-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScenario Writer