Danièle Thompson

Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand, jazz musician and composer extraordinaire, has left his mark on the history of cinema, including the films of Jacques Demy, especially The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the 60th anniversary of which is being celebrated in Cannes. Using never-before-seen archives and personal accounts, the film looks back on a lifetime dedicated to music, and the career of a man who served it masterfully to the very end.

Release Date:2024-12-04

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

Bardot

The life of the French actor Brigitte Bardot and model from 1949, when she first appeared on the cover of a magazine, to the birth of her son in 1960.

Release Date:2023-05-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:11

Beau geste

Release Date:2023-01-22

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

The Neverending Party

A look-back at popular French movie "La Boum" (The Party).

Release Date:2023-01-20

Character:Self - Writer

Vote Count:2

Les Rois de la comédie

At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel with “The Cow and the Prisoner”, Bourvil with “The Hunchback”, Jacques Tati with “My Uncle” and Louis de Funès with “Oscar” at the theater. On the big screen or on stage, each of these artists has a unique style of humor. They are the kings of French comedy. But how did they manage to become true box office champions? How did they experience their immense popularity? How do they still influence the comedy genre? And above all, are- are they funny in life? Where is the line between their character in the cinema and their real personality?

Release Date:2023-01-01

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:2

La télé de Valérie Lemercier

Release Date:2017-11-23

Character:Self

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

Release Date:2017-09-01

Character:Self - Screenwriter, director, producer

Vote Count:1

Sur la route de la grande vadrouille

Release Date:2016-11-22

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Cezanne and I

They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to overeat. Sketched models by day, caressed them by night... Now, Paul is a painter and Emile a writer. Glory has passed Paul by. But Emile has it all: fame, money, the perfect wife, whom Paul once loved. They judge each other, admire each other, confront each other. They lose touch, meet up again, like a couple who cannot stop loving each other.

Release Date:2016-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:112

Belmondo by Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the settings of a fantastic career, accompanied by his son Paul. Over a career spanning 50 years, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s movies drew over 130 million people into cinemas. This logbook takes us back to sets and countries, from where we can revisit the films in reference and find out about his fruitful collaborations with various directors. Paul Belmondo will lead the investigation, meeting the stars and his father’s friends (eye-witnesses all) and questioning his father about his journey, sharing it with us so we can discover the man and his story like never before.

Release Date:2016-05-05

Character:Self (uncredited)

Vote Count:12

It Happened in Saint-Tropez

Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two...

Release Date:2013-01-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:77

Il était une fois… « La Reine Margot »

Release Date:2013-01-01

Character:Self

Belmondo, itinéraire...

Release Date:2011-05-18

Character:Self

Vote Count:11

Il était une fois... « Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob »

Release Date:2009-05-14

Character:Self

Change of Plans

So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.

Release Date:2009-02-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:161

La folie des années 80

Release Date:2008-12-29

Character:Self

Avenue Montaigne

A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.

Release Date:2006-02-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:110

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.

Release Date:2005-12-07

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

The Giraffe's Neck

Le Cou de la girafe (The Giraffe's Neck) is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.

Release Date:2004-09-29

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Vote Count:5

Jet Lag

At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician on her way to a new job in Mexico accidentally meets a cook who is on his way back from America. Labor strikes, bad weather, and pure luck cause the two of them to share a room overnight at the airport Hilton hotel. Will their initial mutual indifference and downright hostility turn into a one night stand or perhaps something more?

Release Date:2002-10-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:128

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.

Release Date:2002-05-20

Character:Self

La Folle Heure des grandis

Release Date:2002-01-01

Character:Self

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre

A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.

Release Date:2001-04-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:226

The Blue Bicycle

Léa, the daughter of a wealthy Bordeaux family, is spending happy days at the Montillac family estate at the end of the 1930s. Radiant with youth, she charms all the men who meet her on the blue bicycle offered to her by her father. She is in deep love with Laurent, when she tells him, he lets her down. He is in love with Camille, Lea's best friend. The war sounds the death knell of her carelessness. She takes refuge in Paris. There, she finds Laurent, his secret love, who has just married Camille. During a party given him, she meets mysterious François -a friend of Laurent who works for the government. He goes right on and starts to win Lea's heart, but she is not interested. Laurent has to go to the front-line. He asks Lea to stay with Camille in Paris, to look after her and the unborn baby. But the German troops are progressing, and Léa and Camille are forced to leave the capital.

Release Date:2000-10-09

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:14

Season's Beatings

Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?

Release Date:1999-11-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:84

Belle Maman

At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.

Release Date:1999-03-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:44

Vivement dimanche

Release Date:1998-09-20

Character:Self

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:7

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train

A group of mourners travels by train to bury a recently deceased artist in Limoges. As they journey, secrets and desires unfold, with relationships shifting, past loves resurfacing, and personal connections revealed. At the funeral and afterward, tensions rise among the group, leading to further emotional complexities at the artist’s family home.

Release Date:1998-05-15

Department:Writing

Job:Idea

Vote Count:36

The Red and the Black

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a noble who had hired him as tutor to his children.

Release Date:1997-12-22

Department:Writing

Job:Dialogue

Vote Count:18

The Red and the Black

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.

Release Date:1997-12-22

Department:Writing

Job:Dialogue

Episode Count:2

Des gens si bien élevés

A teenage girl's running away from home causes a lot of soul-searching in a family dominated by an authoritarian grandmother.

Release Date:1997-11-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Michel Sardou - Show Sardou

Release Date:1994-12-22

Character:Self

Queen Margot

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.

Release Date:1994-05-13

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:373

The Groundhogs

A story of a family with numerous members drowned in their sentimental problems.

Release Date:1993-11-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:36

Une famille formidable

Une famille formidable is a French romantic comedy television series broadcast since September 17, 1992. It details the goings on of a family, and follows them as they grow up. As of 2008, the cast is the same as the 1992 cast, an unusual feat for a program with a run of this length. In 2012, during the broadcast of the season 9 is celebrated twenty years of the series.

Release Date:1992-09-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:6

Snow and Fire

While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a significant portion of their country from German control, he and his buddy Michel (Matthieu Roze) can join the Free French army and fight with them to help bring about the downfall of the German empire. Both of them are quite young men, and their first love turns out to be the same woman, a lovely nurse named Christiane (Geraldine Pailhas). Michel woos her first, and she becomes pregnant by him. However, she is much more interested in Jacques, even though she is considering marrying an American solely for practical reasons.

Release Date:1991-12-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

Vanille fraise

Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.

Release Date:1989-11-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:16

The Student

An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.

Release Date:1988-10-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:252

Malady of Love

Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?

Release Date:1987-09-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:9

Sacrée soirée

Release Date:1987-09-02

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Levy & Goliath

A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.

Release Date:1987-01-27

Department:Writing

Job:Dialogue

Vote Count:14

Le Tiroir secret

Le Tiroir secret is a 1986 French family drama TV mini-series directed by Michel Boisrond, Edouard Molinaro, Nadine Trintignant and Roger Gillioz. The screenplay was written by Danièle Thompson, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Patrick Besson and Roger Grenier. The music score is by Vladimir Cosma. It was released on DVD in France on 18 October 2006. It tells the story of a woman who suspects that her husband had in fact led a double life.

Release Date:1986-12-05

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:2

The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent

An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.

Release Date:1984-11-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:70

The Party 2

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.

Release Date:1982-12-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Woman in restaurant, dining with François and Françoise (uncredited)

Vote Count:623

Ace of Aces

In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.

Release Date:1982-10-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:325

The Party

A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.

Release Date:1980-12-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1132

Umbrella Coup

Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.

Release Date:1980-10-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:165

Petit déjeuner compris

A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.

Release Date:1980-02-22

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:3

Out of It

The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.

Release Date:1978-10-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:81

Claudine

Release Date:1978-04-12

Department:Writing

Job:Dialogue

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:4

Your Turn, My Turn

Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.

Release Date:1978-03-15

Department:Writing

Job:Dialogue

Vote Count:9

Cousin, Cousine

Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.

Release Date:1975-11-19

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:37

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Release Date:1975-01-12

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Spécial cinéma

Release Date:1974-09-25

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.

Release Date:1973-10-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:984

Le Grand Échiquier

Release Date:1972-01-12

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Delusions of Grandeur

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

Release Date:1971-12-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:685

The Brain

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.

Release Date:1969-03-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:273

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.

Release Date:1966-12-08

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Extra (uncredited)

Vote Count:1361