Thomas Bidegain

Thomas Bidegain

1968-03-23 Mauléon-Licharre, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France 39 Credits

Biography

Thomas Bidegain is a French screenwriter, producer and film director. He is noted for his collaborations with the director Jacques Audiard. He received the César Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2010 for A Prophet and Best Adaptation in 2013 for Rust and Bone; both awards were shared with Audiard. Bidegain's directorial debut The Cowboys premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Source: Article "Thomas Bidegain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed unde...

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Dumas: Black Devil

2027

Screenplay

Writing

Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a revolutiona...

La Réparation

La Réparation

2025

Screenplay

5.4
Writing

A few hours before his third Michelin star was awarded, a renowned chef disappeared with his second chef during a hunting trip. His daughter Clara fou...

Emilia Pérez

Emilia Pérez

2024

Scenario Writer

6.6
Writing

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by th...

Suddenly

Suddenly

2023

Director, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

Ben and Laura are a passionate but volatile couple who embark on a round-the-world sailing adventure to give their relationship a new start. During th...

A Place to Fight For

A Place to Fight For

2023

Co-Writer

6.6
Writing

Greg is a police lieutenant; he must collect informations on eco-activists, infiltrating them for months. Myriam, a young free woman, is fighting to s...

The King of Algiers

The King of Algiers

2023

Writer

6.0
Writing

Omar, better known as Omar the Strawberry, is an old-fashioned bandit. Forced to flee to Algeria, he makes a living out of petty crime, accompanied by...

Sons of Ramses

Sons of Ramses

2023

Co-Writer

6.1
Writing

Thirty-four year old Ramsès has established himself as a clairvoyant in La Goutte d’Or, Paris. A shrewd manipulator and something of a poet, he built ...

Notre-Dame on Fire

Notre-Dame on Fire

2022

Writer

6.6
Writing

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

Paris, 13th District

Paris, 13th District

2021

Storyboard

6.9
Writing

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

The Salamander

The Salamander

2021

Co-Writer

6.2
Writing

Paralysed by fear of the future, a middle aged French bureaucrat escapes to Brazil where a destructive affair with a boy forces her to learn to live i...

Eiffel

Eiffel

2021

Writer

6.2
Writing

The French government is asking Gustave Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but he simply wants to design the subway...

CODA

CODA

2021

Original Film Writer

7.9
Writing

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds her...

Stillwater

Stillwater

2021

Executive Producer, Writer

6.6
Producing Writing

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder ...

#Iamhere

#Iamhere

2020

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

Stéphane lives a quiet life as an eminent French Chef but when he decides to visit Soo, a mysterious Korean lady he fell in love with on Instagram, he...

Selfie

Selfie

2020

Director

5.2
Directing

In a world where digital technology has invaded our lives, some of us end up cracking. Addict or technophobe, with family or at school, at work or in ...

The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily

The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily

2019

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

Our story starts with Tonio, the son the bears King, being kidnapped by some hunters in the Sicilian mountains. Because of the harshness of a winter t...

Who Killed Lady Winsley?

Who Killed Lady Winsley?

2019

Writer

6.4
Writing

When Lady Winsley, the famous American novelist, is discovered dead on the remote Turkish island of Büyükada, the great detective Fergün is sent from ...

The Sisters Brothers

The Sisters Brothers

2018

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the...

Racer and the Jailbird

Racer and the Jailbird

2017

Writer

6.0
Writing

When Gino meets racing driver Bénédicte, it's love at first sight. But Gino has a secret. The kind of secret that can endanger their lives.

The Dancer

The Dancer

2016

Writer

6.6
Writing

A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle E...

Les Cowboys

Les Cowboys

2015

Director, Writer, Original Concept

6.4
Directing Writing

Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.

Dheepan

Dheepan

2015

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as t...

Through the Air

Through the Air

2015

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

Vincent, a former air rifle champion lives a quiet life with his wife and his daughter. Despite his happy family life he ends up with economic problem...

The Bélier Family

The Bélier Family

2014

Adaptation

6.9

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it ...

Vincent

Vincent

2014

Additional Writing

5.6

Vincent has an extraordinary ability: his strength and reflexes increase tenfold when in contact with water. To make full use of this gift, he settles...

Saint Laurent

Saint Laurent

2014

as Journalist Libé

6.1
Acting

1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.

Saint Laurent

Saint Laurent

2014

Writer

6.1
Writing

1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.

Les Gazelles

Les Gazelles

2014

as Le chauffeur de taxi

5.1
Acting

Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. H...

Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard

Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard

2012

as Self

10.0
Acting

A lengthy and detailed examination of the making of the 2012 film Rust and Bone, directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Marion Cotillard and Matthia...

Our Children

Our Children

2012

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir. A wedding soon follows, and ...

Rust and Bone

Rust and Bone

2012

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a kille...

Where Do We Go Now?

Where Do We Go Now?

2011

Writer

7.4
Writing

In a remote, isolated Lebanese village surrounded by land mines, Muslims and Christians live together in peace. As civil strife starts to engulf the c...

Behind Bars

2010

as Self

Acting

A documentary that chronicles how ‘A Prophet’ came to exist.

A Prophet

A Prophet

2009

Screenplay

7.6
Writing

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younge...

Nathalie Moretti

2006

Writer

Writing

A lawyer has a lot in common with her defendant...

À boire

À boire

2004

Writer

4.0
Writing

Three disparate people meet in a bizarre skiing accident: an alcoholic doctor who has just been left by his wife, a beautiful but directionless woman,...

Chasing Sleep

Chasing Sleep

2001

Producer

6.0
Producing

A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.

American Son

N/A

Original Story

Writing

A man, who after falling under the control of a ruthless mobster while in prison, builds a multiracial crime syndicate, takes down his mentor, and ear...

Santo Subito

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

Draws inspiration from the legacy of Pope John Paul II, particularly the passionate cries of “Santo Subito!” that echoed after his death in 2005, urgi...