Gérard Brach

Gérard Brach

1927-07-23 Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France 52 Credits

Biography

Gérard Brach (23 July 1927 – 9 September 2006) was a French screenwriter best known for his collaborations with the film directors Roman Polanski and Jean-Jacques Annaud. At the beginning of the 70s he twice tried his hand at directing, but neither film achieved commercial success. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gérard Brach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Captain Jokes Parrot's Disaster of the Caribbean

2017

Characters

1.0

In his special movie "Captain Jokes Parrot's Adventures: Disaster of the Caribbean" try to take his nervously funny achievements in a satirical style ...

His Majesty Minor

His Majesty Minor

2007

Writer

3.4
Writing

In this offbeat comedy, a man raised by a pig dies and is resurrected with a newfound power of speech, elevating his stature among his fellow humans.

Renegade

Renegade

2004

Screenstory, Screenplay

4.8
Writing

U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily ad...

Pornography

Pornography

2003

Writer

5.9
Writing

Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupa...

The Idol

The Idol

2002

Writer

4.9
Writing

An Australian actress forms a spiritual bond with an elderly Chinese chef who lives across from her in a Parisian tenement house.

The War in Paris

The War in Paris

2002

Screenplay

3.8
Writing

In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, ...

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

1998

Screenplay

4.6
Writing

A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a m...

Anna Oz

Anna Oz

1996

Writer

4.0
Writing

This taut psychological chiller tells the twisted story of Anna, a woman living in Paris, whose dreams of her Venetian counterpart, a secretive young ...

The Ditvoorst Domains

The Ditvoorst Domains

1992

as Self

4.0
Acting

Documentary about the Dutch film director Adriaan Ditvoorst.

Bitter Moon

Bitter Moon

1992

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

The Lover

The Lover

1992

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has cont...

The Making of The Lover

1991

as Self

Acting
The Amusements of Private Life

The Amusements of Private Life

1990

Screenplay

4.0
Writing

Italian-French costume dramedy that takes place in France in the end of 18th Century during the French Revolution. It is "The Marriage of Figaro" meet...

Le prince barbare

1988

Screenplay

Writing

451 AD. Defeated by the Romans, a group of Barbarians led by their prince make a desperate attempt at losing their pursuers by going deeper and deeper...

Domino

Domino

1988

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

A woman director is making a film about Billie Holiday. She wants to learn from her how to "feel" again, how to love again.

The Bear

The Bear

1988

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

Frantic

Frantic

1988

Writer

6.7
Writing

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicat...

Shy People

Shy People

1987

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

A Cosmo Magazine journalist and her daughter leave New York City to visit their distant relatives deep in the bayous of Louisiana.

Où que tu sois

Où que tu sois

1987

Writer

Writing

Emmanuel, 37, lives in Paris with his wife, Irene, and his daughter Anne, 14 years old. He accidentally discovers that Irene is receiving mail in the ...

Manon of the Spring

Manon of the Spring

1986

Screenplay

7.6
Writing

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots ven...

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

1986

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under my...

Jean de Florette

Jean de Florette

1986

Screenplay

7.7
Writing

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring w...

Pirates

Pirates

1986

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Favourites of the Moon

Favourites of the Moon

1985

Screenplay

4.6
Writing

A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different charact...

Les enragés

Les enragés

1985

Screenplay, Screenstory

6.0
Writing

Marc and Laurent, two worrying misfits, break into a large isolated property in the middle of the countryside. Marc discovers with amazement that the ...

A Suspended Life

A Suspended Life

1985

Writer

5.8
Writing

Samar, a child of the war, finds relief from the chaos around her through Egyptian movies she watches on television. Karim, an artist in retreat from ...

Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers

1984

Writer

6.1
Writing

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.

Good King Dagobert

Good King Dagobert

1984

Writer

4.1
Writing

King's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally g...

Doctor Lerne, Subgod

1983

Writer

4.5
Writing

A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ...

The African

The African

1983

Scenario Writer

6.3
Writing

Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted conse...

A Stone in the Mouth

A Stone in the Mouth

1983

Writer

4.3
Writing

A fugitive takes refuge in a manor where a blind retired thespian lives.

My Best Friend's Girl

My Best Friend's Girl

1983

Writer

5.7
Writing

The charming Pascal, owner of a clothing store in Courchevel, and the chubby and scruffy Micky, disc jockey in a nearby club, are best of friends. Pas...

Identification of a Woman

Identification of a Woman

1982

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves h...

Quest for Fire

Quest for Fire

1981

Writer

7.0
Writing

In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start ...

Seeking Asylum

Seeking Asylum

1979

Writer

5.9
Writing

A new teacher introduces radical ideas at a nursery school and it leads to various reactions from the students and the parents.

Tess

Tess

1979

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the s...

Bye Bye Monkey

Bye Bye Monkey

1978

Adaptation, Writer

6.2
Writing

In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anar...

The Tenant

The Tenant

1976

Screenplay

7.6
Writing

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

What?

What?

1972

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.

The Boat on the Grass

The Boat on the Grass

1971

Director, Writer

4.7
Directing Writing

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. Whe...

The House

The House

1970

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young Ame...

Secret World

Secret World

1969

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

Wendy is the British guest of a French couple and the daughter of the man who saved the host's life during World War II. Living with the couple is the...

Wonderwall

Wonderwall

1968

Original Story

5.2
Writing

The eccentric professor Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When the model Penny moves in next to him, he becomes fascinated b...

The Girl Across the Way

The Girl Across the Way

1968

Writer

1.0
Writing

A young student visits the home of a friend who has all the good looks, women and luck. Every day, through binoculars from his friend's window, he see...

The Fearless Vampire Killers

The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967

Screenplay, Writer

7.0
Writing

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

G.G. Passion

G.G. Passion

1966

Writer

1.0
Writing

G.G. Passion is a successful pop star whose life is a whirlwind of adoring fans, beautiful women and expensive cars. But while he enjoys the fruits of...

Cul-de-sac

Cul-de-sac

1966

Writer

6.7
Writing

On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a...

Repulsion

Repulsion

1965

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leave...

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

1964

Writer

5.3
Writing

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Neth...

A Taste for Women

A Taste for Women

1964

Screenplay

3.4
Writing

A writer discovers a link between a vegetarian restaurant and a series of mysterious deaths.

Love at Twenty

Love at Twenty

1962

Assistant Director

6.7
Directing

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. Th...

Breathless

Breathless

1960

as Photographer (uncredited)

7.5
Acting

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away ...