Nicolas Saada (Directing)

The French Dispatch

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

Release Date:2021-10-21

Character:Lawyer

Vote Count:2644

Thanksgiving

Explore the evolution of a couple involved in industrial espionage.

Release Date:2019-02-28

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:3

Maya

The film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage in Syria and then heads to India after months in captivity.

Release Date:2018-12-19

Character:L'agent de la DGSE

Vote Count:38

Sleepless

Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who's got a lot of enemies, is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters get T, Downs’ teenage son. In one sleepless night, he will have to rescue his son T (whom they got), evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice.

Release Date:2017-01-12

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:1260

Taj Mahal

One evening, while her parents go out for dinner, 18-year-old Louise, alone in her hotel room at Taj Mahal Mumbai, hears strange noises out in the corridor. Within minutes, she realises that a terrorist attack is underway. Her only connection to the outside world is her cell phone, which allows her to maintain contact with her father, who is desperately trying to reach her from the other side of a city that has been plunged into chaos. Louise must spend a long night alone in the face of danger. She will never be the same again.

Release Date:2015-12-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:51

Once Upon a Time... Lost in Translation

A documentary about the making of Lost in Translation.

Release Date:2015-08-19

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

Aujourd'hui

A short film by Nicolas Saada.

Release Date:2012-12-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Frozen Silence

Russian front, winter 1943. Soldier Arturo Andrade and Sergeant Fernando Espinosa are commissioned to investigate a mysterious murder while the Spanish Blue Division of the German Army endures the fierce counterattack of the Red Army.

Release Date:2012-01-20

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:37

Sleepless Night

Vincent, a police officer, and his partner Manuel steal a large amount of cocaine from José Marciano, a ruthless crime lord who is quick to seek revenge, endangering Vincent's life, career and family.

Release Date:2011-11-16

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:144

The Artist

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

Release Date:2011-10-12

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:3280

La Quarantième Marche

Release Date:2011-07-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Lubitsch, le patron

A documentary about the life and career of film director Ernst Lubitsch

Release Date:2010-09-05

Character:Self

The Golden Age of Music Film (1965-1975)

The documentary travels between Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles to meet Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones, John Barry and Michel Legrand, four composers who revolutionized the relationship between music and image. Also among the interviewees are the electronic duo of Air, Mike Patton and David Holmes, contemporary musicians whose work is strongly influenced by the masters of the 1960s and 1970s, a certain worldview and pop culture of the golden age of film music 1965 - 1975.

Release Date:2009-09-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Spy(ies)

In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terrorists.

Release Date:2009-01-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:65

Looking for Truffaut

Documentary about François Truffaut who is one of the most respected directors in the history of cinema.

Release Date:2009-01-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Critic

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Release Date:2008-01-22

Character:Self

Vote Count:19

Hotel Chevalier

In a Paris hotel room, Jack Whitman lies on a bed. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. She arrives and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. Will they make love? Is their relationship over? (A prequel to The Darjeeling Limited, 2007.)

Release Date:2007-10-26

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:846

Big John

French documentary on the films of John Carpenter

Release Date:2006-12-11

Character:Self

Vote Count:10

Arsène Lupin

As the daring thief Arsène Lupin ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.

Release Date:2004-10-13

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:342

Les parallèles

Paris, today. A corrupt businessman, Duchey, returns to France to confront the justice of his country. But his return to his homeland will cause the turmoil of three individuals.

Release Date:2004-05-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

Leçon de Cinéma

Release Date:2004-03-20

Department:Crew

Job:Presenter

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Dissonances

Nat drives on the interstate with his two young daughters in the back seats, when a car drives by and an unknown guy shoots one of his daughters dead for no reason. Nat's life is shattered. He becomes obsessed with finding the killers, assaults two men, kills one, goes to jail, is left by his wife, grows old estranged from his other daughter. We see the action first through Nat's eyes, then via Brautigan, the cop in charge of the investigation, and finally from the perspective of the remaining daughter Margo. The deconstructed narrative echoes the chaos within Nat and emphasizes the fact that the characters are out of tune with one another, which is the meaning of the original title.

Release Date:2004-02-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

Playing 'In the Company of Men'

A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and are pushed to eventual destruction by dangerous outside forces and traitorous aides.

Release Date:2003-05-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:8

CQ

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.

Release Date:2001-05-12

Character:Fantasy Critic

Vote Count:66

The Sandmen

Alain runs Le Detour, a small cafe in Paris where Antoine works. Antoine is reunited with his sister Marie when she's released from prison; they are very close, perhaps abnormally so, but she's not aware that Antoine has fallen into cahoots with Stephane, who works as a waiter at another cafe. Damien, a local businessman, is pressuring Alain to expand Le Detour, and cut his nephew Xavier in for a percentage as a manager. While Alain waffles on Damien's proposal, Xavier offers Antoine a chance to make some money under the table by delivering some drugs to a cadre of dealers. Antoine makes the drop and picks up the payment, but runs off with the money rather than bringing it back to Xavier, which proves to have tragic consequences for Antoine and his friends.

Release Date:2000-07-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4