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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Captain Jokes Parrot's Disaster of the Caribbean
2017
Characters
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
2007
Writer
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
2004
Screenstory, Screenplay
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
2003
Writer
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
2002
Writer
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
2002
Screenplay
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
1998
Screenplay
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
1996
Writer
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
1992
as Self
Documentary about the Dutch film director Adriaan Ditvoorst.

Bitter Moon
1992
Screenplay
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

The Lover
1992
Screenplay
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

The Amusements of Private Life
1990
Screenplay
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
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
1988
Screenplay
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
1988
Screenplay
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

Frantic
1988
Writer
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
1987
Screenplay
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
1987
Writer
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
1986
Screenplay
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
1986
Screenplay
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
1986
Screenplay
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
1986
Screenplay
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Favourites of the Moon
1985
Screenplay
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
1985
Screenplay, Screenstory
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
1985
Writer
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
1984
Writer
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
1984
Writer
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
A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ...

The African
1983
Scenario Writer
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
1983
Writer
A fugitive takes refuge in a manor where a blind retired thespian lives.

My Best Friend's Girl
1983
Writer
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
1982
Screenplay
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
1981
Writer
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
1979
Writer
A new teacher introduces radical ideas at a nursery school and it leads to various reactions from the students and the parents.

Tess
1979
Screenplay
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
1978
Adaptation, Writer
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
1976
Screenplay
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

What?
1972
Screenplay
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.

The Boat on the Grass
1971
Director, Writer
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
1970
Director, Writer
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
1969
Screenplay
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
1968
Original Story
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
1968
Writer
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
1967
Screenplay, Writer
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
1966
Writer
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
1966
Writer
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
1965
Screenplay
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
1964
Writer
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
1964
Screenplay
A writer discovers a link between a vegetarian restaurant and a series of mysterious deaths.

Love at Twenty
1962
Assistant Director
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
1960
as Photographer (uncredited)
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 ...