Didier Decoin

The King’s Favorite

It follows Diane de Poitiers, an emeritus huntress whose unalterable beauty fuels rumors and legends during her lifetime - and even in her death.

Release Date:2022-11-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:3

Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma

Why did Simenon, a novelist who contributed so much to the seventh art, like to say that he hated the cinema? Because he could never become a director? Because, claustrophobic, he was unable to lock himself in a projection room? Clearly, there is an affair between the writer and the cinema and Georges Simenon is the main protagonist. An investigation that is more than ever topical as Patrice Leconte has announced his plan to adapt an investigation by the famous Inspector Maigret.

Release Date:2022-03-27

Character:Self - Écrivain

Alexandre Dumas, le Flamboyant

Release Date:2020-01-01

Character:Self

La face

Paul Berthier, an ambitious public prosecutor, is witness to the accidental drowning of a young girl in the Charente but does nothing to help. It starts to look like the girl was murdered, and the case lands on Berthier's desk. Suspicion turns to Guillaume Vauban, the rich son of a local industrialist and ex-boyfriend of the dead girl. Paul Berthier finds himself entangled in a web of lies as he opens the case against Guillaume, who has now been arrested. With a conscience far from clear, Berthier agrees with the judge's decision to remand the young man in custody. Through cowardice Berthier clings to his reputation, determined to save face at any cost. Drunk with judicial power, he's caught in a downward spiral.

Release Date:2016-05-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:7

Pierre Brossolette ou les passagers de la lune

The story of Pierre Brossolette, who was a talented student, journalist and a defender of human rights.

Release Date:2015-05-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

One Night

In the harbor city of Le Havre, France, a woman is stabbed during the night, just below the windows of her neighborhood. Pierre (Yvan Attal) has witnessed the murder, and heard the wails of the women crying for help. So have the neighbors, certainly. But at the end, nobody called the police. Nevertheless, sorrows are too heavy for Pierre, which feel the needs to tell everything to his wife (Sophie Quinton), and to the police. During the investigation, it appears that 38 people witnessed the murdering, and none reacted...

Release Date:2012-03-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:52

Les diamants de la victoire

Release Date:2010-09-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

L’aventure des Visiteurs du soir

Documentary about the making of Marcel Carné's 1942 film.

Release Date:2009-01-01

Character:Self - Interviewee

Kronprinz Rudolf

Drama about the last ten years of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria.

Release Date:2006-04-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Louise

Forty-year-old Joanne Guiberry runs a modest hairdressing salon in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. Twice a year, at each solstice, she brightens up her rather dull life by meeting up with her lover. Twice a year, on the other side of the sea, on the banks of the immense St. Lawrence River, three hundred thousand snow geese land with a thunderous roar for a few weeks of feasting during their migration. Like a bridge between the time of the solstices and the time of the birds, there is Manon, a twenty-year-old student, and Louise, a large, wounded goose. Louise and Manon, each in their own way, will experience love and give Joanne a new lease on freedom.

Release Date:2005-01-18

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Dans la tête du tueur

Jean-Francois Abgrall, today the head of a private detective agency, was just a simple provincial gendarme back in 1989 when he was assigned to investigate a murder on a beach. Instead, his investigation put him on the trial of one of France's most terrifying serial killers, Francis Heaulme, who for eight years wandered the country committing some of the most brutal murders in the annals of modern crime. This is the true story of that manhunt, a tale of terror, suspense and determination.

Release Date:2004-11-14

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:9

Napoleon

A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe, then his fall, and exile.

Release Date:2002-10-07

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:75

The King Is Dancing

Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer

Release Date:2000-12-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:43

Les Misérables

Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine who has daughter Cosette. After Fantine's death Valjean brings Cosette up but he is haunted by Javert - a policeman whose search for Valjean has become an obsession.

Release Date:2000-09-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:95

Jakob the Liar

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.

Release Date:1999-09-16

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:369

Balzac: A Life of Passion

This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.

Release Date:1999-09-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:9

Balzac

As Balzac prepares to die, his entire past flashes before his eyes. As a young writer, he was driven by the desire to achieve something great. With the support of Laure de Berny, he started printing and publishing without much success, but it was with his pen that he achieved fame, thanks to the constant support of Madame de Berny. Balzac became a writer that readers devoured.

Release Date:1999-09-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

The Count of Monte Cristo

A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.

Release Date:1998-09-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:143

The Chambermaid on the Titanic

Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie, drawing a larger audience each night.

Release Date:1997-10-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:29

The Fire That Burns

Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.

Release Date:1997-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:17

Marcel Carné: My Life in Film

An interview of French film director Marcel Carné by Didier Decoin

Release Date:1995-11-26

Character:Self

Poorly Extinguished Fires

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.

Release Date:1994-01-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Out of Life

Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.

Release Date:1991-05-15

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:18

Memories of You

University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live.

Release Date:1988-03-05

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Un château au soleil

Release Date:1988-02-26

Department:Writing

Job:Dialogue

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:1

Lebanon, the Land of Honey and Incense

Doctor Fournier arrives in Beirut as the civil war is raging. He finds himself with a colleague working in a hospital controlled by a Shiite militia and treating the injured. Driven by his doctor’s oath, he crosses the demarcation line to treat Christian casualties of the ongoing clashes. This causes Muslims in his neighborhood to brand him a traitor. He is kidnapped to be exchanged for a fighter captured by Christian militiamen. The film is part of the TV series *Médecins des hommes *(*Doctors of men*). It was considered the best movie in the series.

Release Date:1988-01-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Engagements of the Heart

Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles, a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles and Alice become lovers when they are picked up in Paris by Nazi soldiers on a curfew violation.

Release Date:1987-12-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:8

The Veiled Man

Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini). While Pierre stalks two terrorists, Claire and Kamal are violently confronted by Kamal's abandoned wife and family. The ravages of the conflict extend to those who are never participants in the battle but are among the casualties of war.

Release Date:1987-09-16

Department:Writing

Job:Dialogue

Vote Count:8

The Informer

The girlfriend of an associate of a gangland boss, is persuaded by a police detective to inform about her lover's associates.

Release Date:1983-04-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:12

Cinq-Mars

In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.

Release Date:1981-05-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

I... For Icarus

Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.

Release Date:1979-12-19

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:153

The Bible

The Basilica of Monreale, near Palermo in Sicily acts as subject and springboard of Carné's final film; Its hundreds of gorgeous and intricate tiled mosaics vividly depict scenes from the Bible. Kinetic camerawork and dramatic narration of each scene compliment these stunning pieces in order to retell the Holy Book's age-old Story.

Release Date:1977-04-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

30 millions d'amis

Release Date:1976-01-06

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Apostrophes

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

Release Date:1975-01-10

Character:Self

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:2

The Marvelous Visit

In a small French village, an angel appears disguised as a beautiful young blond.

Release Date:1974-11-27

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:8

Samedi soir

Release Date:1971-01-09

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1