Josée Dayan

Josée Dayan

1943-10-06 Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France 49 Credits

Biography

Josée Dayan (born 6 October 1943 in Toulouse, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Dayan grew up in Algiers, Algeria, where her father Albert Dagnant, who came from a Jewish family, worked as a television director; her grandmother was the owner of a cinema. Since 1974 she directed mainly movies for television. In 1979, under her direction, a documentary about Simone de Beauvoir appeared. Her most successful works are the 1998 TV mini-series The Count of Monte Cristo wit...

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Goodbye Vinyle

Goodbye Vinyle

2023

Director

5.6
Directing

Late 1950s in France. One woman, two men. She, Ève Faugère, a glamorous diva at the peak of her career. The man, her husband, Maurice Faugère, an imme...

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

2022

as Self (archive footage)

7.2
Acting

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions wa...

Quand sort la recluse

Quand sort la recluse

2019

Director

5.9
Directing

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector...

Muriel Robin, oser être soi...

Muriel Robin, oser être soi...

2018

as Self

Acting
Based on a True Story

Based on a True Story

2017

as Karina

5.7
Acting

Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place,...

The Chameleon Slayer

The Chameleon Slayer

2015

Director, Producer

5.1
Directing Producing

Pattern never changes. She finds lonely, anonymous, almost invisible women doing menial jobs, becomes their friend and confidante and then kills them ...

Entre vents et marées

Entre vents et marées

2014

Director, Producer

5.5
Directing Producing

In Brittany, a notary is killed with shots to the head. His wife Joséphine is a suspect. Her husband had just sold part of their property to two shady...

Indiscrétions

Indiscrétions

2013

Director, Producer

5.0
Directing Producing

A piano teacher suspects her entourage of being responsible for the disappearance of a former pupil she was putting up. She starts to grow suspicious ...

The Lanzac Clan

The Lanzac Clan

2013

Director

7.7
Directing

A war of inheritance in the Lanzac family, a rich industrial family from Bordeaux, against a backdrop of family secrets and the unsaid. Elisabeth Lanz...

La solitude du pouvoir

La solitude du pouvoir

2012

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating popular anger, tolerating sarcastic journalists, a...

Second Chances

Second Chances

2012

Director

5.0
Directing
Rasputin

Rasputin

2011

Director

5.0
Directing

A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.

A Bad Encounter

A Bad Encounter

2011

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Meet the wicked story of a symbiotic friendship between two boys, Wolf and Mando. They meet on a bench in a square and grow together, sharing the same...

Bouquet final

Bouquet final

2011

Director

1.0
Directing
A Dubious Place

A Dubious Place

2010

Director, Producer

7.7
Directing Producing

A gruesome discovery is made outside a London cemetery one night. Meanwhile in Paris, Police Captain Adamsberg discovers a body chopped into pieces. C...

Ni reprise, ni échangée

Ni reprise, ni échangée

2010

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

Juliette, a mother of wealthy family and a little snobbish, has gradually developed a kind of generalized contempt against his fellows. One day a bunc...

Mom Lost It!

Mom Lost It!

2009

Director, Producer, Editor

6.5
Directing Producing

Finding that her loved ones are neglecting her, Juliette decides to pretend she has amnesia. Her plan works perfectly, and her children finally decide...

Seeking Whom He May Devour

Seeking Whom He May Devour

2009

Director

6.8
Directing

A wave of carnage is sweeping through Southern France, with locals blaming the return of wolves. However some begin talking of a werewolf, and Police ...

The Chalk Circle Man

The Chalk Circle Man

2009

Director, Producer

7.1
Directing Producing

For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles containing odd objects. Policeman Adamsberg gets involved...

Mourir d'aimer

Mourir d'aimer

2009

Director, Producer

8.4
Directing Producing

Priests and educational institutions try to put an end to a forbidden love between a 16-year-old student and his 40-year-old teacher.

Marie-Octobre

Marie-Octobre

2008

Director

6.0
Directing

After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...

Château en Suède

Château en Suède

2008

Director

Directing

In a castle, isolated in the heart of winter, lives a strange family: Hugo, in his forties; Eléonore, his wife; Aunt Agathe, Hugo's sister, an old mai...

Nous n'irons plus au bois

2008

Director

1.0
Directing

There are those who have chosen the light and those who lead a discreet life, those who have told their story and those who bear their secrets alone, ...

Sous les vents de Neptune

Sous les vents de Neptune

2008

Director

8.0
Directing

Commissioner Adamsberg and his team are undergoing training supervised by the Quebec scientific police. He discovers the murder of a young girl.

A Cursed Monarchy

A Cursed Monarchy

2005

Director

6.0
Directing

It is the early 1300's and the treasury of France, under the rule of Philippe IV (Philippe le Bel or Philippe the Beautiful), is empty. The king decid...

Akoibon

Akoibon

2005

as Jacqueline Pommard

5.0
Acting

A disparate group of people meet at a hotel on a gorgeous and isolated Mediterranean island. Meanwhile, a woman schemes to get even with its owner.

Milady

Milady

2004

Producer, Director

3.3
Producing Directing

Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.

Hot House

Hot House

2003

Producer, Director

4.0
Producing Directing

Michel, a young man idolized by his mother, falls in love with Madeleine. What he does not know is that the young woman is already the mistress of his...

L'Étrange monsieur Joseph

L'Étrange monsieur Joseph

2001

Director

Directing

Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jew married to Eva and father of Theresa, lives in Paris in 1939, on the eve of World War II. He managed to make his plac...

Cet amour-là

Cet amour-là

2001

Director

6.6
Directing

Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the in...

Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance

Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance

2001

Director

Directing

Haunted by the mysterious death of her son, found drowned, Anna returns to the town where he lived.

Balzac: A Life of Passion

Balzac: A Life of Passion

1999

Director

5.3
Directing

This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that...

La passion du docteur Bergh

La passion du docteur Bergh

1998

Director

Directing

A respected German doctor, head surgeon of a hospital, sees his career jeopardized when a childhood love reappears.

Les liens du cœur

1996

Director

1.0
Directing
L'Enfant du secret

L'Enfant du secret

1996

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

Blanche, a social worker living in Southern France is assigned the case of a five year old deaf boy, who is found by a Gypsy lady after having been ab...

Une clinique au soleil

Une clinique au soleil

1996

Director, Writer

Directing Writing
Victor et François

Victor et François

1995

Director

Directing

Victor, an eight-year-old boy, finds himself at the head of a large fortune after the death of his father, Philippe. Hélène, his mother, is courted by...

Hot Chocolate

Hot Chocolate

1992

Director

1.7
Directing

B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory, speci...

Plein fer

Plein fer

1990

Director

3.2
Directing

The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of the country) with steel ba...

Frame Up Blues

Frame Up Blues

1990

Director

3.7
Directing

A crime lord offers him a job to catch his cheating wife in the act. The only problem is Finch falls for the woman (Roberta Bizeau). As well as having...

À corps et à cris

1989

Director

Directing
Le Retour de Lemmy Caution

Le Retour de Lemmy Caution

1989

Director

5.5
Directing

The owner of Black Angel is shot by Mamba, a killer in the pay of the Chinese mafia. The victim's daughter, who witnessed the murder and knows she is ...

L'Ex-femme de ma vie

L'Ex-femme de ma vie

1989

Director

4.5
Directing
Je tue à la campagne

Je tue à la campagne

1987

Director

Directing
Le Deuxième Couteau

Le Deuxième Couteau

1985

Director

Directing

The entire Parisian literary scene is in turmoil: Sandra, a renowned author, has just been found strangled. Her murder is the subject of much speculat...

Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff

Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff

1982

Director, Adaptation

Directing
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

1979

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Documentary on writer/philospher Simone de Beauvoir via interviews of herself and friends supplimented with archive footage resulting in an intimate p...

la femme rompue

1978

Director

Directing
Neptunes Thunder

Neptunes Thunder

N/A

Director

Directing

After his brother disappears, police captain Adamsberg re-opens the case for serial killer Trident. But when a new victim is found in Canada, accusati...