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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Goodbye Vinyle
2023
Director
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
2022
as Self (archive footage)
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
2019
Director
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...
2018
as Self

Based on a True Story
2017
as Karina
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
2015
Director, Producer
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
2014
Director, Producer
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
2013
Director, Producer
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
2013
Director
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
2012
Director, Producer
Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating popular anger, tolerating sarcastic journalists, a...

Second Chances
2012
Director

Rasputin
2011
Director
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.

A Bad Encounter
2011
Director, Producer
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
2011
Director

A Dubious Place
2010
Director, Producer
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
2010
Director, Producer
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!
2009
Director, Producer, Editor
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
2009
Director
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
2009
Director, Producer
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
2009
Director, Producer
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
2008
Director
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
2008
Director
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
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
2008
Director
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
2005
Director
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
2005
as Jacqueline Pommard
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
2004
Producer, Director
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.

Hot House
2003
Producer, Director
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
2001
Director
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
2001
Director
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
2001
Director
Haunted by the mysterious death of her son, found drowned, Anna returns to the town where he lived.

Balzac: A Life of Passion
1999
Director
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
1998
Director
A respected German doctor, head surgeon of a hospital, sees his career jeopardized when a childhood love reappears.
Les liens du cœur
1996
Director

L'Enfant du secret
1996
Writer, Director
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
1996
Director, Writer

Victor et François
1995
Director
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
1992
Director
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
1990
Director
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
1990
Director
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

Le Retour de Lemmy Caution
1989
Director
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
1989
Director

Je tue à la campagne
1987
Director

Le Deuxième Couteau
1985
Director
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
1982
Director, Adaptation

Simone de Beauvoir
1979
Director, Writer
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

Neptunes Thunder
N/A
Director
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...