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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Dumas: Black Devil
2027
Screenplay
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
2025
Screenplay
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
2024
Scenario Writer
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
2023
Director, Screenplay
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
2023
Co-Writer
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
2023
Writer
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
2023
Co-Writer
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
2022
Writer
A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

Paris, 13th District
2021
Storyboard
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
2021
Co-Writer
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
2021
Writer
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
2021
Original Film Writer
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
2021
Executive Producer, Writer
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
2020
Screenplay
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
2020
Director
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
2019
Screenplay
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?
2019
Writer
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
2018
Screenplay
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
2017
Writer
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
2016
Writer
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
2015
Director, Writer, Original Concept
Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.

Dheepan
2015
Screenplay
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
2015
Screenplay
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
2014
Adaptation
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
2014
Additional Writing
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
2014
as Journalist Libé
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
2014
Writer
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
2014
as Le chauffeur de taxi
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
2012
as Self
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
2012
Screenplay
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
2012
Screenplay
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?
2011
Writer
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
A documentary that chronicles how ‘A Prophet’ came to exist.

A Prophet
2009
Screenplay
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
A lawyer has a lot in common with her defendant...

À boire
2004
Writer
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
2001
Producer
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
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
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...