Jean Ferry

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Torment

Torment

1994

Original Film Writer

6.8
Writing

Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head questioning his past choices. Convinced that his wife has ...

The Arrival of Joachim Stiller

The Arrival of Joachim Stiller

1976

Writer

6.6
Writing

The film tells the story of Freek Groenevelt and Simone Marijnissen whose lives are taken over by Joachim Stiller.

Sherlock Holmes: Le signe des quatre

1975

Adaptation

Daughters of Darkness

Daughters of Darkness

1971

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.

Malpertuis

Malpertuis

1971

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridd...

The Demise of Father Mouret

The Demise of Father Mouret

1970

Screenplay

4.3
Writing

Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Alb...

Ivory Coast Adventure

Ivory Coast Adventure

1965

Dialogue

6.0

An Embassy attache and a butterfly hunter become involved in a treasure hunt between two rival gangs.

A Very Private Affair

A Very Private Affair

1962

Writer

5.2
Writing

After achieving fame as a movie star, a woman finds her private life invaded by relentless fans, leading her mother’s ex-lover to intervene and offer ...

Madame

Madame

1961

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumst...

This Time it Must Be Caviar

This Time it Must Be Caviar

1961

Writer

6.0
Writing

Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working ...

Operation Caviar

Operation Caviar

1961

Writer

5.1
Writing

Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.

The Fenouillard Family

The Fenouillard Family

1961

Writer

5.1
Writing

The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with highe...

Babette Goes to War

Babette Goes to War

1959

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important Ger...

Venetian Honeymoon

Venetian Honeymoon

1959

Screenplay

3.0
Writing

There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the el...

Serenade of Texas

Serenade of Texas

1958

Dialogue, Adaptation

4.2

Music seller and singer on occasion, Jacques Gardel learns from master Jérôme Quilleboeuf that he inherits oil fields located in Big Bend in Texas.

Tabarin

Tabarin

1958

Writer

4.0
Writing

Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-...

Sinners of Paris

Sinners of Paris

1958

Screenplay

5.1
Writing

Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Van...

Sahara d'aujourd'hui

Sahara d'aujourd'hui

1957

Screenplay

Writing

A group of engineers, topographers and geologists research the hostile desert terrain of North Africa, and encounter the different types of people who...

Good Evening Paris

Good Evening Paris

1956

Writer

Writing

A foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he soon falls in love with this one.

That Is the Dawn

That Is the Dawn

1956

Writer

6.6
Writing

A generous doctor is aghast that the population of a small island is being oppressed and mistreated, but is seemingly unable to do anything about it, ...

Law of the Streets

Law of the Streets

1956

Writer

7.0
Writing

Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere frie...

If All the Guys in the World...

If All the Guys in the World...

1956

Writer

7.0
Writing

A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.

Nana

Nana

1955

Writer

6.1
Writing

Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.

Frou-Frou

Frou-Frou

1955

Writer

5.7
Writing

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

Daughters of Destiny

Daughters of Destiny

1954

Writer

4.0
Writing

Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war w...

Midnight... Quai de Bercy

Midnight... Quai de Bercy

1953

Screenplay, Dialogue

6.5
Writing

Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues t...

The World Condemns Them

The World Condemns Them

1953

Screenplay

1.0
Writing

Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an engineer. She asks him to help her find a job. When...

The Wayward Wife

The Wayward Wife

1953

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

Gemma, caught between her desires and reality, struggles to navigate her marriage and personal ambitions.

Sins of Rome

Sins of Rome

1953

Adaptation

5.8

74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gla...

Three Women

Three Women

1952

Writer

Writing

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Troi...

Paris Is Always Paris

Paris Is Always Paris

1951

Dialogue, Screenplay

5.1
Writing

A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure,...

Vacances à la mer

1951

Script

Tuesday's Guest

Tuesday's Guest

1950

Writer

6.3
Writing

When Charles learns that his wife and her lover want to poison him, he thinks of killing both of them.

Miquette

Miquette

1950

Screenplay

5.3
Writing

A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a ...

Return to Life

Return to Life

1949

Writer

6.2
Writing

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second Worl...

Manon

Manon

1949

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collabo...

Eternal Conflict

Eternal Conflict

1948

Writer

5.2
Writing

Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new ...

Jenny Lamour

Jenny Lamour

1947

Dialogue, Screenplay

7.5
Writing

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the th...

The Eleventh Hour Guest

The Eleventh Hour Guest

1945

Screenplay

1.0
Writing

An inventor has just developed an extraordinary machine, a disintegrating ray and thought detector. He experiences it one evening on a group of relati...

Niglo reporter

1945

Director

7.0
Directing

Jeunes filles de France

1939

Writer

Writing

In 1939, the "Union des Jeunes Filles de France", a French communist movement, sponsored this documentary short constituting a tour de France of farms...