Bernard Stora (Director)
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Works
Le Grand Charles
Le Grand Charles was a 2006 French TV-drama on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959, written and directed by Bernard Stora. De Gaulle was played by Bernard Farcy, Winston Churchill by David Ryall, and Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert Hardy. Other actors in the cast included Dominic Gould, Sam Spiegel and Jay Benedict.
Release Date2006-03-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Narrator
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic original rushes, screen tests, and on-location footage, whilst also reconstructing Clouzot's original vision, and shedding light on the ill-fated endeavor through interviews, dramatizations of unfilmed scenes, and Clouzot's own notes.
Release Date2009-10-01
Charactersd Self - Interviewee
Vote Count87
The Clouzot Scandal
Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the world, who knew how to offer both great shows and subtle studies of characters. Beyond the myth of the tyrannical director, a contrasting portrait of a visionary, an agitator, an artist against the system.
Release Date2017-10-17
Charactersd Self
Vote Count8
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming the father of the Nouvelle Vague and one of the most iconic directors of French cinema.
Release Date2020-03-29
Charactersd Self
Vote Count4
They Saw Inferno
A wonderful documentary that sheds additional light on the fascinating project ‘Inferno’ was, as well as how those who were involved with it reacted to it during the shooting process. A riveting adjunct to the main feature, offering a glut of interviews with various people associated with the production, and presenting quite a bit more production data, as well as some unseen footage from Clouzot's shoot.
Release Date2010-04-12
Charactersd Self
Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
Release Date2024-02-14
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
L'armée des ombres... le dessous des cartes
Release Date2013-07-20
Charactersd Self
Avocat d'office
Release Date1995-04-15
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Elles et moi
January 1939. The fall of Barcelona seals the defeat of the Spanish Republicans. Five hundred thousand of them choose exile. Upon arriving in France, the men are disarmed and interned in camps. As for the families, the administration distributes them among makeshift centers, several of which are in Ardèche. Elles et moi chooses to follow the fate of the Esteva family during these terrible months and the five years of war that follow. Lluis, the father, lives in hope of reconquest. Pilar, his courageous and energetic wife, feels that this new country will become her home for a long time to come. She thus leads her two children, Isabel and Ignacio, into this new life...
Release Date2009-06-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
The Sicilian Clan
An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Release Date1969-12-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count338
French Connection II
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
Release Date1975-05-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count433
The Tattoo
An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.
Release Date1968-08-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Assistant Director
Vote Count245
An Impudent Girl
Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.
Release Date1985-12-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count122
L'Aîné des Ferchaux
Release Date2001-09-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
Release Date1970-10-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count21
Staircase
An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.
Release Date1969-08-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Assistant Director
Vote Count24
Masculin/Féminin
Five female directors and five male directors tackle the contemporary male/female relationships through 10 fictions.
Release Date2003-03-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Villa Caprice
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.
Release Date2021-06-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count51
Impossible Object
Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.
Release Date1973-05-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count7
Max & Jeremie
Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels his lowly status keenly. If only he could graduate to the ranks of hitmen, who are honored in his world, perhaps then he would feel more like somebody. He finally gets his chance when he receives instructions to kill the eminent hitman Max, who knows too much to be left alive. Instead of planning a cool and distant hit, Jeremie gets to know his quarry personally and thereby gets entangled in a mass of conflicting allegiances. Max has one more assignment and has asked Jeremie to help him with it. The hero-worshipping boy can't bring himself to knock of this classy guy. However, just having such an inept apprentice as Jeremie around is enormously dangerous for the soon-to-be-retired killer.
Release Date1992-10-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count35
Killer
Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda.
Release Date1972-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count31
La Petite Amie
Martin Morel wants to spend Sylvester with both his wife and family and his girlfriend Agnes. So he asks his clumsy friend Bertin to pretend she'd be his wife. But the two can't stand each other... at first.
Release Date1988-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
Le Jeune Marié
Billy falls in love with another woman after his wedding party.
Release Date1983-05-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Stranger in the House
Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, his daughter, claims to know nothing about it, even when he finds the body of a young man. Isabelle hangs around with a gang of spoiled young people who have no shortage of money, and is in love with Joel, an ambitious boy involved in drug dealing. Antoine, from a more modest background, is in love with her. When the police start investigating Joel's murder, Antoine becomes the ideal suspect.
Release Date1992-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count27
Mémoires en fuite
Frédéric Lemoyne must be very happy in his life: he is a famous biologist and the son of a hero of French resistance: his father, Marcel Lemoyne, doctor, took care for wounded members of the Resistance and helped them to find hiding places.Every year Jeanne Lemoyne , the elder sister of Frédéric celebrates his heroism in a square of Lyon. But suddenly François discovers a strange bank account in Switzerland.
Release Date2000-11-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Pablo Est Mort
A retired doctor, who participated in the events of May 1968, is led to reconnect with former comrades still active in the underground.
Release Date1983-05-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Couchettes express
Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger, Jean-Bernard, for protection. He suffers from an unknown illness and he is not alone on the run for scholars who want to use him as a guinea pig, but also for Brandeburg, a trader in human organs.
Release Date1994-08-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
A Considerable Disturbance
Laurent's fate is to be a soccer superstar. But he happens to fall in love with a Fabienne, 40. He is only 18, and his career is about to fall apart...
Release Date2000-03-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
The Judge
A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.
Release Date1984-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
La Douce Empoisonneuse
An elderly lady is visited each month by her good-for-nothing nephew who relieves her of her regular pension. When he appears again one winter day accompanied by two hideous but eager pals who start roasting a freshly captured piglet on her back lawn before maltreating her cat and retreating to sleep in the sauna, she can no longer stand it. So at dawn she packs up to flee into town, where she moves in with an old friend who gives her consolation and advice.
Release Date2014-12-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Mutual Consent
There is a lot of tension and resentment in Romain's and Jeanne's marriage, but their divorce is amicable. They seem to agree on how to raise their daughter, Madeleine - she will live with her mother and spend every other week-end with her father. But Romain is very controlling and manipulative and is poisoning the arrangement. At first, Jeanne seems to cope with being a single parent, but when she has to put up with Romain's tactics she starts to fall apart.
Release Date1994-12-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Vent de panique
Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with children, they abduct her with the intention of selling her into prostitution. At the last moment, having become fond of her, they relent and set out to take her home. She rebels, insisting that she enjoys their exciting life of stolen cars, stolen cheques, hotels and restaurants left without paying the bill, and the threesome become a formidable team. Then Isabelle's mood changes again and she disappears with a hitch-hiker. Worried over her future, Roland and Martine trace her to the town where she is about to get married and abduct her, this time from the church steps. Roaring off in a stolen ambulance, the three are happily on the run again.
Release Date1987-12-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
The Flood
This is 1920: Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been living on Vassilievski Island, which is part of Petrograd, for thirteen years. In their house, which looks like a ship wreck, the atmosphere is gloomy. Sophia cannot have children and she is aware that, because of that, she is likely to lose her husband. That is why, when their neighbor dies, she asks Trofim to take in Ganka, his orphaned thirteen-year-old daughter. Trofim agrees and their new life begins...
Release Date1995-05-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Suzie Berton
Release Date2004-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume.
Release Date1966-05-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count26
Six crimes sans assassins
A legendary police commissioner is at the edge of writing his memoirs when he asked to help out with solving a locked room mystery where two people are found dead in an apartment that was locked from the inside.
Release Date1990-02-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Recourse to the Method
Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultural products his country sells command high prices, and he is a reasonably confident, even gentle, ruler who likes to take long vacations with his daughter in Paris. After World War I, with falling prices and a number of coup attempts behind him, his rule becomes quite cruel.
Release Date1978-06-06
DepartmentArt
JobArt Direction
Vote Count7
Sixième classique
By dint of inventing stories, a boy neglected by his mother comes to lead a double life.
Release Date1996-05-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
La Dernière Campagne
Release Date2013-04-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Une preuve d'amour
A beautiful, cultured Parisian nurse working in a backwards French region, ends up falling in love with a seemingly crass farmer. She finds out that he actually is very intelligent, and she tries to help him to study again.
Release Date2003-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Adoption
A couple takes on a homeless teenager. The trio forms a family-like community that seems to work extremely informally and without many regulations. But then the harmonic situation escalates as the boy falls in love with his "adoptive mother".
Release Date1979-01-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Le Troisième Jour
Release Date2010-11-05
DepartmentWriting
JobDialogue
George Dandin
Theater play "George Dandin" played by the "Comédie française" in 1999.
Release Date1999-06-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Demain et tous les jours après
In Africa, two occidentals, a man and a woman, with totaly different minds, are obliged to make a long trip together in a cab.
Release Date2002-03-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Crédit bonheur
Settled in Brittany with their four children in an old semi-decayed house, a couple of slightly idealistic Parisians is sucked into a spiral of credits.
Release Date1996-09-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter