Complete Filmography

Torment
1994
Original Film Writer
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
1976
Writer
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
1971
Screenplay
Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.

Malpertuis
1971
Screenplay
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
1970
Screenplay
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
1965
Dialogue
An Embassy attache and a butterfly hunter become involved in a treasure hunt between two rival gangs.

A Very Private Affair
1962
Writer
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
1961
Screenplay
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
1961
Writer
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
1961
Writer
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.

The Fenouillard Family
1961
Writer
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
1959
Screenplay
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
1959
Screenplay
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
1958
Dialogue, Adaptation
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
1958
Writer
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
1958
Screenplay
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
1957
Screenplay
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
1956
Writer
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
1956
Writer
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
1956
Writer
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...
1956
Writer
A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.

Nana
1955
Writer
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
1955
Writer
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

Daughters of Destiny
1954
Writer
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
1953
Screenplay, Dialogue
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
1953
Screenplay
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
1953
Screenplay
Gemma, caught between her desires and reality, struggles to navigate her marriage and personal ambitions.

Sins of Rome
1953
Adaptation
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
1952
Writer
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
1951
Dialogue, Screenplay
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
1950
Writer
When Charles learns that his wife and her lover want to poison him, he thinks of killing both of them.

Miquette
1950
Screenplay
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
1949
Writer
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
1949
Screenplay
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
1948
Writer
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
1947
Dialogue, Screenplay
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
1945
Screenplay
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
Jeunes filles de France
1939
Writer
In 1939, the "Union des Jeunes Filles de France", a French communist movement, sponsored this documentary short constituting a tour de France of farms...