Complete Filmography

Légitime défense
1980
Writer, Dialogue

The Suspects
1974
Writer
When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's jo...

Jury of One
1974
Writer
A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.

Far West
1973
Screenplay
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throug...

The Lonely Woman
1973
Writer
Teresa hopes that her social climbing ambitions will be fulfilled by her young son, Jacy. When he learns that his mother has started an affair, Jacy l...

Franz
1972
Writer
In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatical...

Law Breakers
1971
Dialogue, Screenplay
A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.

A Savage Summer
1970
Writer
In Juan-les-Pins, Serge drops off a hitchhiker, Sylvie, who joins "Théo's gang", a group of students and workers, all young, all broke, improvising th...

Love in the Night
1968
Writer
Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to open in Pigalle.

The Other Truth
1966
Screenplay
Middle-aged attorney Pierre falls for a young woman who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. The lovestruck lawyer can't br...

Nights of Farewell
1965
Writer
Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersburg, where he is invited to become the first dancer...

Me and the Forty Year Old Man
1965
Writer
A story about Caroline, a young girl who decides to start dating only men after forty.

The Black Tulip
1964
Screenplay
Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so th...

Don't Tempt the Devil
1963
Writer
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.

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 ...

Napoléon II, the Eagle
1961
Writer
The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken ...

Operation Caviar
1961
Writer
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.

Paris Loves
1961
Writer
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic love. One couple is comprised of a faithful husband...

Julie la rousse
1959
Writer
The artist Edouard Lavigne falls in love with a young girl but must quickly leave her because her parents are opposed to this relationship. Edourd's s...

Dangerous Games
1958
Screenplay
Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where he is spotted by Fleur, a poor girl: she is going ...

Every Day Has Its Secret
1958
Writer
Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives in Paris to find her eminent ethnologist husband. S...

The Stowaway
1958
Screenplay
A group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to be near Tahiti.

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...

La Peau de l'ours
1957
Writer
A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the...

The Blonde Witch
1956
Writer
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother...

Club of Women
1956
Writer
A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house. Forced to band together becaus...

Blackmail
1955
Dialogue
An atmospheric tale about a national blackmail organization, where no one can be trusted.

Intermediate Landing in Paris
1955
Writer
Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems ar...

Queen Margot
1954
Writer
Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the Lea...

Orient Express
1954
Screenplay
On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling wit...

Les Compagnes de la nuit
1953
Dialogue
Three events that seemingly nothing related, namely the murder of a truck driver, the discovery of the corpse of a vitriolic young woman, and the deat...

Prelude to Glory
1950
Writer
Roberto, a 10-year-old boy, is drawn to music. An old organist discovers his gifts, and begins his musical education which will lead him to the head o...