Thomas Bidegain

Thomas Bidegain is a French screenwriter, producer and film director. He is noted for his collaborations with the director Jacques Audiard. He received the César Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2010 for A Prophet and Best Adaptation in 2013 for Rust and Bone; both awards were shared with Audiard. Bidegain's directorial debut The Cowboys premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Source: Article "Thomas Bidegain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

6.9

Emilia Pérez

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

Release Date:2024-08-21

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Vote Count:1310

Machine
6.9

Machine

An action show mixing kung-fu and class war.

Release Date:2024-04-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:14

6.4

Suddenly

Ben and Laura are a passionate but volatile couple who embark on a round-the-world sailing adventure to give their relationship a new start. During their trip, they decide to explore a vast deserted island which they discover off the coast of Chile. Caught in a violent storm, they shelter in an abandoned whaling station for the night but wake up the next morning to find their boat has disappeared. Stranded in a hostile environment with no means of communication, dwindling supplies and winter approaching they must work together in a life and death battle for survival, that will challenge their feelings and change their relationship forever.

Release Date:2023-12-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:155

5.8

The Salamander

Paralysed by fear of the future, a middle aged French bureaucrat escapes to Brazil where a destructive affair with a boy forces her to learn to live in the present.

Release Date:2023-07-27

Department:Writing

Job:Co-Writer

Vote Count:5

6.6

A Place to Fight For

Greg is a police lieutenant; he must collect informations on eco-activists, infiltrating them for months. Myriam, a young free woman, is fighting to save a forest from the building of a dam. They meet and fall in love on the Zone. A beautiful life, a joy that Greg discovers, despite the risks of being unmasked. For each of them, time is short: soon everything will disappear.

Release Date:2023-06-08

Department:Writing

Job:Co-Writer

Vote Count:151

6.0

The King of Algiers

Omar, better known as Omar the Strawberry, is an old-fashioned bandit. Forced to flee to Algeria, he makes a living out of petty crime, accompanied by his famous sidekick Roger. After decades of ruling the French criminal underworld, they must come to terms with their new life together, which until now has been one of debauchery and violence.

Release Date:2023-05-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:101

6.1

Sons of Ramses

Thirty-four year old Ramsès has established himself as a clairvoyant in La Goutte d’Or, Paris. A shrewd manipulator and something of a poet, he built a sound business consoling people. Elusive and dangerous youths, freshly arrived from the streets of Tangier, disrupt his business and the whole neighbourhood. Until the day Ramses has an actual vision.

Release Date:2023-03-01

Department:Writing

Job:Co-Writer

Vote Count:42

6.6

Notre-Dame on Fire

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

Release Date:2022-03-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:263

6.9

Paris, 13th District

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

Release Date:2021-11-03

Department:Writing

Job:Storyboard

Vote Count:341

6.3

Eiffel

The French government is asking Gustave Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but he simply wants to design the subway—until he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past.

Release Date:2021-10-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:670

7.9

CODA

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

Release Date:2021-08-13

Department:Writing

Job:Original Film Writer

Vote Count:2292

6.6

Stillwater

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

Release Date:2021-07-29

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1263

5.6

#Iamhere

Stéphane lives a quiet life as an eminent French Chef but when he decides to visit Soo, a mysterious Korean lady he fell in love with on Instagram, he'll embark on an adventurous journey full of discoveries.

Release Date:2020-02-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:208

5.2

Selfie

In a world where digital technology has invaded our lives, some of us end up cracking. Addict or technophobe, with family or at school, at work or in love, SELFIE tells the comic and wild destinies of Homo Numericus on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Release Date:2020-01-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:142

7.2

The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily

Our story starts with Tonio, the son the bears King, being kidnapped by some hunters in the Sicilian mountains. Because of the harshness of a winter that threatens its clan with famine, the Bear King decides to invade the land of men (in the hope of finding his son). Thanks to his powerful army and the help of a wizard, he will succeed at both quests but he will soon find out that bears are not meant to live in the land of men.

Release Date:2019-10-09

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:181

6.4

Who Killed Lady Winsley?

When Lady Winsley, the famous American novelist, is discovered dead on the remote Turkish island of Büyükada, the great detective Fergün is sent from Istanbul to solve the murder case. With the help of Azra, the beautiful local hotel tenant, he must confront stubborn members of the island community to untangle well-guarded family secrets and discover who the murderer is.

Release Date:2019-01-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:37

6.8

The Sisters Brothers

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

Release Date:2018-09-19

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1927

5.9

Racer and the Jailbird

When Gino meets racing driver Bénédicte, it's love at first sight. But Gino has a secret. The kind of secret that can endanger their lives.

Release Date:2017-10-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:178

6.6

The Dancer

A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.

Release Date:2016-09-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:200

6.4

Les Cowboys

Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.

Release Date:2015-11-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:125

6.8

Dheepan

Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.

Release Date:2015-08-26

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:474

5.5

Through the Air

Vincent, a former air rifle champion lives a quiet life with his wife and his daughter. Despite his happy family life he ends up with economic problems. One day at the shooting range he meets the mysterious Renaud who promises him a solution to his problems by offering him an unusual job. Suddenly Vincent finds himself in a very dangerous spiral which turns out to be even harder to get out of than finding a solution to his economic problems.

Release Date:2015-06-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:39

6.9

The Bélier Family

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.

Release Date:2014-12-17

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Vote Count:2373

5.6

Vincent

Vincent has an extraordinary ability: his strength and reflexes increase tenfold when in contact with water. To make full use of this gift, he settles in a region with many lakes and rivers, which is isolated enough to allow him to live a peaceful life. Then, one day, during an aquatic escapade, he encounters Lucie.

Release Date:2014-10-15

Department:Crew

Job:Additional Writing

Vote Count:57

6.2

Saint Laurent

1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.

Release Date:2014-09-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Journalist Libé

Vote Count:285

5.1

Les Gazelles

Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision...

Release Date:2014-03-26

Character:Le chauffeur de taxi

Vote Count:105

10.0

Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard

A lengthy and detailed examination of the making of the 2012 film Rust and Bone, directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts, with raw on-set footage, intimate details behind the technical aspects of the shoot including the extensive special effects, the process of shooting various scenes, the inherent challenges in making the movie, and more. The making of was an extra on the Blu-Ray.

Release Date:2012-11-07

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

6.8

Our Children

Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir. A wedding soon follows, and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father. As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Doctor Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare, and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her.

Release Date:2012-05-30

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:76

7.2

Rust and Bone

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

Release Date:2012-05-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1376

Behind Bars

A documentary that chronicles how ‘A Prophet’ came to exist.

Release Date:2010-02-17

Character:Self

7.6

A Prophet

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

Release Date:2009-08-26

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1547

Nathalie Moretti

A lawyer has a lot in common with her defendant...

Release Date:2006-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

4.2

À boire

Three disparate people meet in a bizarre skiing accident: an alcoholic doctor who has just been left by his wife, a beautiful but directionless woman, and the bumbling Algerian man who caused the accident. They become fond of each other, and of liquor.

Release Date:2004-12-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:15

5.9

Chasing Sleep

A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.

Release Date:2001-05-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:75

American Son

A man, who after falling under the control of a ruthless mobster while in prison, builds a multiracial crime syndicate, takes down his mentor, and earns a place for his crew alongside the Italian and Russian mafias. It’s a progressive crime saga for a new generation.

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Cimetière indien

Cimetière indien

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

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