French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
Gabriel Aghion
Gabriel Aghion is a French film director and screenwriter.
Aghion was born in Alexandria, in Egypt on 30 December 1955.
He is openly gay."Bonjour, sweetie darling". '' The Advocate'', 20 November 2001.
Selected filmography
* '' La Scarlatine' ...
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Alexandre Aja
Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, known professionally as Alexandre Aja, (; born 7 August 1978) is a French filmmaker best known for his work in the horror film, horror genre. He rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film ''High Tension, Haute ...
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Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco (15 February 1936, Cannes – 10 April 2001, Rio de Janeiro) was a French film director.
In 1960 he married French actress and singer Marie Laforêt. He is considered a figure of the French New Wave cinema or ''Nouvel ...
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Marc Allégret
Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director.
Biography
Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer in ...
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Yves Allégret
Yves Allégret (13 October 1905 – 31 January 1987) was a French film director, often working in the film noir genre. He was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine and died in Paris.
He was an assistant to film directors such as his brothe ...
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Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Jean-Baptiste Andrea is a French novelist, film director and screenwriter. He grew up in Cannes, where he started making short films. He later moved to Paris and graduated in political science and economics. In Paris, he met Fabrice Canepa, and t ...
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Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaud (; born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing ''Quest for Fire'' (1981), ''The Name of the Rose'' (1986), '' The Bear'' (1988), '' The Lover'' (1992), '' Seven Years in ...
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Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas (born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his slow-burning period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs and French comedies. His work has become synonymous with the ...
Jacqueline Audry
Jacqueline Audry (25 September 1908 – 22 June 1977) was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-war ...
Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker (; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French film director and screenwriter. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the filmmakers who led th ...
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jean-Jacques Beineix (; 8 October 1946 – 13 January 2022) was a French film director best known for the films ''Diva'' and ''Betty Blue''. His work is regarded as a prime example of the '' cinéma du look'' film movement in France.
Early life ...
Raymond Bernard
Raymond Bernard (10 October 1891 – 12 December 1977) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career spanned more than 40 years. He is best remembered for several large-scale historical productions, including the silent films '' Le Mi ...
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Claude Berri
Claude Berri (; 1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.
Early life
Born Claude Beri Langmann in Paris, Berri was the son of Jewish immigrant parents. His mother, Beila (née Bercu), w ...
Michel Blanc
Michel Blanc (born 16 April 1952) is a French actor, writer and director. He is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs. He is frequently associated with Le Splendid, which he co-founded, along with Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, ...
Romane Bohringer
Romane Bohringer (; born 14 August 1973) is a French actress, film director, screenwriter, and costume designer. She is the daughter of Richard Bohringer and sister of Lou Bohringer. Her parents named her after Roman Polanski.
She won the Cé ...
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Michel Boisrond
Michel Jacques Boisrond (9 October 1921, Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais – 10 November 2002, La Celle-Saint-Cloud) was a French film director and screenwriter. His work spanned five decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Career
A former apprentice ...
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin (), known as Bernie Bonvoisin (, born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director. He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott ...
Martin Bourboulon
Martin Bourboulon (born 27 June 1979) is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the films ''Daddy or Mommy'' (2015), ''Daddy or Mommy 2'' (2016), ''Eiffel'' (2021), '' The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan'' (2023) and '' The Three Musk ...
Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Jean-Christophe Bouvet (born 24 March 1947) is a French actor, film director and writer.
Filmography As actor
*1969: ''La philosophie dans le boudoir'' as Le grand prêtre
*1975: ''Change pas de main'' as Alain
*1977: ''La Machine'' (directed ...
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Sarah Bouyain
Sarah Bouyain (born 1968) is a French- Burkinabé writer and film director. Her first full-length film, '' The Place in Between'', was released in 2010.
Biography
Bouyain was born in Reims, Marne, France. Her mother, who was French, and her fath ...
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Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
Jean-Pierre Bouyxou (born 16 January 1946) is a French film critic, author, filmmaker and actor.
Career
He started his career as a writer in 1964 when his article was published in fanzines (''Mercury'', '' Lunatique''). Some other magazines he w ...
Jean-Claude Brialy
Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director.
Early life
Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland ...
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Philippe de Broca
Philippe de Broca (; 15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French movie director.
He directed 30 full-length feature films, including the highly successful ''That Man from Rio, That Man from Rio (''L'Homme de Rio'')'', ''Le Magnifique, The M ...
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Charles Burguet
Charles Burguet (26 May 1878 – 9 June 1946) was a French director best known for his silent films of the late 1910s and early 1920s.
He directed well over 30 films between 1912 and 1929.
Selected filmography
* ''The Mysteries of Paris'' ...
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Alexandre Bustillo Alexandre may refer to:
* Alexandre (given name)
* Alexandre (surname)
* Alexandre (film)
See also
* Alexander
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom o ...
Christian Carion
Christian Carion (born 4 January 1963) is a French film director, dialogue writer and screenwriter, gaining international attention for ''Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas)'', which was nominated for several awards, including the 2005 Academy Awa ...
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Marcel Carné
Marcel Albert Carné (; 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include '' Port of Shadows'' (1938), ''Le Jour Se Lève'' (1939), '' The Devil's Envoys ...
Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Carrère (born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and film director.
Life Family
Carrère was born into a wealthy family in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. His father, Louis Carrère d'Encausse, is a retired insuranc ...
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Yves Caumon
Yves Caumon (born 27 May 1964) is a French director. He is Professor in Toulouse's University in France. He worked as assistant-director with Agnès Varda, and Jean-Paul Civeyrac.
He directed several short movies as ''A la Hache'' with Valéri ...
Claude Chabrol
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ...
Élie Chouraqui
Élie Chouraqui (born 3 July 1950) is a French film director and scriptwriter. His 1996 film '' Les menteurs'' was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.
He made several films with Anouk Aimée.Ryan, Desmond.SCOTT GLENN PLAYS ...
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Christian-Jaque
Christian-Jaque (byname of Christian Maudet; 4 September 1904 – 8 July 1994) was a French filmmaker. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including ''Lucrèce Borgia'' (1953), '' ...
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Yves Ciampi
Yves Ciampi (; 9 February 1921 – 5 November 1982) was a French film director. He was married to Japanese people, Japanese actress Kishi Keiko from 1957 to 1975. His 1965 film ''Heaven on One's Head'' was entered into the 4th Moscow Internati ...
René Clément
René Clément (; 18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Clément studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed hi ...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot (; 20 November 1907 – 12 January 1977) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed ''The Wages of Fear'' and '' Les Diaboliques'', ...
Romain Cogitore
Romain Cogitore (born 2 February 1985) is a French film director, screenwriter and photographer.
He was a member of the Caméra d'Or jury at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. His brother, Clément Cogitore, is also a film director.
Filmography
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Henri Colpi
Henri Colpi (; 15 July 1921 – 14 January 2006) was a French film editor and film director.
Early life
Colpi graduated from the IDHEC in 1947. During 1950 to 1960, he edited films for such notable French New Wave directors as Agnès Varda and G ...
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Edgardo Cozarinsky (; born 1939 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a writer and filmmaker. He is best known for his Spanish-language novel ''Vudú urbano''.
Life
Cozarinsky was born to an Argentine family of Ukrainian-Jewish descent. His name reflects ...
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Guy Debord
Guy-Ernest Debord (; ; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationis ...
Jean Delannoy
Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.
Biography
Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family was from Haute-Normandie in the north of France. He was a P ...
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Benoît Delépine
Benoît Delépine (born 30 August 1958) is a French comedian and film director. He is known for his satirical activities on TV channel Canal+.
Director of the TV program '' Guignols de l'info'' for many years, he currently writes TV programs abo ...
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Denis Delestrac
Denis Delestrac is a French director and producer who is best known for creating feature-length investigative documentaries. His films focus on the ecological, social, and political impacts of natural resources. His film Sand Wars received intern ...
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrat ...
Henri Diamant-Berger
Henri Diamant-Berger (9 June 1895 – 7 May 1972) was a French director, producer and screenwriter. In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he directed 48 films between 1913 and 1959, produced 17 between 1925 and 1967 and wrote 21 screenpl ...
Albert Dieudonné
Albert Dieudonné (26 November 1889 – 19 March 1976) was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist.
Biography
Dieudonné was born in Paris, France, and made his acting debut in silent film in 1908 for ''The Assassination of the ...
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Vincent Dieutre
Vincent Dieutre (born 25 November 1960 in Le Petit-Quevilly) is a French film director and screenwriter.
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Arielle Dombasle
Arielle Dombasle (born April 27, 1953)Dombasle's year of birth has been a subject of much debate, and various sources have given dates ranging from 1953 to 1958. is an American-born French singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough ro ...
Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont (; born 14 March 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter. To date, he has directed ten feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Canne ...
Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier (; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are ''La Bandera (film), La Bandera'', ...
Robert Enrico
Robert Georgio Enrico (13 April 1931 – 23 February 2001) was a French film director and scriptwriter best known for making the Oscar-winning short ''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'' (1961).
He was born in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, in the north ...
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Jean Epstein
Jean Epstein (; 25 March 1897 – 2 April 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Fall of the House of Usher'', he directe ...
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Jean Eustache
Jean Eustache (; 30 November 1938 – 5 November 1981) was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous short films, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, ''The Mother and the Whore'', is c ...
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Henri de la Falaise
Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye (born James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise, February 11, 1898 – April 10, 1972), was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometime actor, and war hero who was best known for his ...
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Ismaël Ferroukhi
Ismaël Ferroukhi (born 26 June 1962) is a French- Moroccan film director and screenwriter.
Ferroukhi was born in Kenitra. He gained exposure with his 1992 short film ''L'Exposé'', which won the Kodak Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Foll ...
Jacques Feyder
Jacques Feyder (; 21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930 ...
Abel Gance
Abel Gance (; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: ''J ...
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Christophe Gans
Christophe Gans (born 11 March 1960) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter who specializes in horror and fantasy movies.
Life and career
Gans was born in Antibes, France. As a teenager, he spent a large portion of his time crea ...
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Nicole Garcia
Nicole Garcia (born 22 April 1946) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film '' Charlie Says'' was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Her film ''Going Away'' was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 20 ...
Costa Gavras
Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; el, Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political and s ...
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Julie Gavras
Julie Gavras is a French film director and screenwriter. She is known for her film '' Blame It on Fidel'' (2006).
Life and career
After graduate studies in literature and law, Julie Gavras turned to cinema. Gavras started as an assistant directo ...
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Daniel Gélin
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin (19 May 1921 – 29 November 2002) was a French film and television actor.
Early life
Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, the son of Yvonne (née Le Méner) and Alfred Ernest Joseph Gélin.
When he was ten, ...
Francis Girod
Francis Girod (9 October 1944 – 19 November 2006) was a French film director, actor, and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1974 and 2006. His film '' L'enfance de l'art'' was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. In 1994 h ...
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Fran ...
Jean-Pierre Gorin
Jean-Pierre Gorin (born 17 April 1943) is a French filmmaker and professor, best known for his work with ''French New Wave, Nouvelle Vague'' luminary Jean-Luc Godard, during what is often referred to as Godard's "radical" period.
Jean-Pierre Go ...
Paul Grimault
Paul Grimault (; 23 March 1905 – 29 March 1994) was one of the most important French animators. He made many traditionally animated films that were delicate in style, satirical, and lyrical in nature.
His most important work is ''Le Roi et l' ...
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Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
Stéphan Guérin-Tillié ( Reims, 20 June 1972) is a French actor, director, and screen writer. He is most known for his role in '' Just a Question of Love'' (''Juste une question d'amour''). Guérin-Tillié has directed the films '' Edy'' (with a ...
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Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and follow ...
Mia Hansen-Løve
Mia Hansen-Løve (born 5 February 1981) is a French film director, screenwriter, and former actress. She has won several accolades for her work. Her first feature film, '' All Is Forgiven'', won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film in 2007 ...
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Philippe Harel
Philippe Harel (born 22 December 1956) is a French film director, actor and screenwriter.
Selected filmography
*'' The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed'' (1994)
* ''Une visite'' (1996) (Short)
* ''Les randonneurs'' (1997)
* '' La femme d ...
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Christophe Honoré
Christophe Honoré (born 10 April 1970) is a French writer and film and theatre director.
Career
Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in ''Les Cahiers du Cinéma''. He started writing soon aft ...
Marcel Ichac
Marcel Ichac (22 October 1906 - 9 April 1994) was a French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director. Born in Rueil, France, Ichac was one of the first people to introduce electronic music in cinema with Ondes Martenot for ''Karakoram'' ...
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Jean Image
Imre Hajdú (; 26 January 1911 – 21 October 1989) better known by his stage name Jean Image () was a Hungarian-French director, script writer and producer of French animation films.
His stage name, "Image" is based upon the French pronunciatio ...
Aline Issermann
Aline Issermann (born 16 November 1948 in Paris) is a French filmmaker. She began her career as an author and illustrator of comics, then became director of feature films and television films. Among her films are '' Le Destin de Juliette'' (1983), ...
Benoît Jacquot
Benoît Jacquot (; born 5 February 1947) is a French film director and screenwriter who has had a varied career in European cinema.
Life and career
Born in Paris, Jacquot began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films, inclu ...
Sébastien Japrisot
Sébastien Japrisot (4 July 1931 – 4 March 2003) was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke dow ...
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Jean-Christophe Jeauffre
Jean-Christophe Jeauffre (born 26 April 1970) is a French filmmaker, screenwriter and a producer, environmentalist and creator of the Jules Verne International Film Festival.
Education and early career
After graduating in French literature and C ...
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. His films combine fantasy, realism and science fiction to create idealized realities or to give relevance to mundane situations.
Debuting as a di ...
Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitz (; born 3 August 1967) is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for '' See How They ...
Nicolas Klotz
Nicolas Klotz (born 22 June 1954) is a French filmmaker born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine.
Filmography
*'' Rendez-vous avec Marguerite'' 1983
*''The Bengali Night'' 1988 with Hugh Grant, Shabana Azmi and Soumitra Chatterjee
*'' La Nuit s ...
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Gérard Krawczyk
Gérard Krawczyk (17 May 1953, Paris) is a French film director. He is of Polish descent (his grandparents were from Częstochowa).
Filmography Director
* ''Homicide by Night'' (1984)
* ''Je hais les acteurs'' (a.k.a. ''I hate actors'') (1986 ...
Nans Laborde-Jourdàa Nans Laborde-Jourdàa (born 26 November 1986 in Oloron-Sainte-Marie) is a French actor and filmmaker from Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. His short film ''Boléro'' premiered in the Critics' Week program at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival ...
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George Lacombe
Georges Lacombe (1902 – 1990) was a French film director.
Filmography
*1928: '' La Zone'' (short)
*1931: '' Boule de gomme''
*1932: '
*1933: '' La Femme invisible''
*1933: ''Un jour d'été''
*1934: '' Youth''
*1935: '' Épousez ma femme''
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Jean-Daniel Lafond
Jean-Daniel Lafond (born 18 August 1944) is a French-born Canadian filmmaker, teacher of philosophy, and the husband to the former Governor General Michaëlle Jean, making him the Viceregal Consort of Canada during her service.
Biography
Lafon ...
Albert Lamorisse
Albert Lamorisse (; 13 January 1922 – 2 June 1970) was a French filmmaker, film producer, and writer of award-winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s. He also invented the strategic board game ''Risk'' in 1957.
Life
Lamor ...
Rémi Lange
Rémi Lange (born 4 February 1969 in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French film director. Lange's films have mostly been released directly to video, except ''Omelette'' (1998) where he filmed his own coming out, and its sequel ''Les Yeux ...
Jacques Lanzmann
Jacques Lanzmann (4 May 1927 – 21 June 2006) was a French journalist, writer and lyricist. He is best known as a novelist and for his songwriting partnership with Jacques Dutronc.
Early life
Lanzmann spent the early part of his life in Auverg ...
Pascal Laugier
Pascal Laugier (; born 16 October 1971) is a French screenwriter and film director.
Career
Laugier is a former assistant to director Christophe Gans, having directed the "making-of" documentary about Gans' 2001 film, ''Brotherhood of the Wolf' ...
Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte (; born 12 November 1947) is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.
Life and career
Leconte grew up in Tours, and began making little amateur films at 15. He went to Paris in 1967 and studied at Insti ...
René Leprince
René Leprince (1876 – 25 May 1929) was an early French silent film director best known for his silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.
In film, Leprince began as an actor in 1908 and dabbled with directing. In 1911 he moved into directing p ...
Teddy Lussi-Modeste
Teddy is an English language given name, usually a hypocorism of Edward or Theodore. It may refer to:
People Nickname
* Teddy Atlas (born 1956), boxing trainer and fight commentator
* Teddy Bourne (born 1948), British Olympic epee fencer
* Teddy ...
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Sarah Maldoror
Sarah Maldoror (19 July 1929 − 13 April 2020) was a French filmmaker of French West Indies descent. She is best known for her feature film ''Sambizanga'' (1972) on the 1961–1974 war in Angola.
Early life and education
Born Sarah Ducados i ...
Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau (; born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, 17 November 1966) is a French actress. As a teenager, she achieved popularity with her debut films ''La Boum'' (1980) and ''La Boum 2'' (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Act ...
Maurice Mariaud
Maurice Mariaud (1875–1958) was a French silent film director, actor and screenwriter.
He was best known for his silent films of the 1910s and his work overlapping with Portuguese film in the early 1920s, notably the 1922 Portuguese film '' Os ...
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Chris Marker
Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and Essay#Film, film essayist. His best known films are ''La Jetée'' (1962), ''A Grin Without a Cat'' (1977) and ''S ...
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Sébastien Marnier
Sébastien is a common French given name. It is a French form of pasté Latin name ''Sebastianus'' meaning "from Sebaste". Sebaste was a common placename in classical Antiquity, derived from the Greek word ''σεβαστος'', or ''sebastos'', ...
Tonie Marshall
Tonie Marshall (29 November 1951 – 12 March 2020) was a French-American actress, screenwriter, and film director. In 2000, she became the first female director to win a César award for her film ''Venus Beauty Institute.''
Life and career
Ma ...
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Léon Mathot
Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' film serial in 1918.
He appeared in the 19 ...
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Julien Maury
Julien may refer to:
People
* Julien (given name)
* Julien (surname)
Music
* ''Julien'' (opera), a 1913 poème lyrique by Gustave Charpentier
* ''Julien'' (album), by Dalida, 1973
* "Julien" (song), by Carly Rae Jepsen, 2019
Places Un ...
Georges Méliès
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (; ; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French illusionist, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
Méliès was well known for the use of ...
Alexandre Michon
Alexander Mishon (russian: Александр Михайлович Мишон; 5 July 1858, in Kharkiv – 5 July 1921, near Samara) was a Russian Empire photographer and cinematographer. Born to a French family in Kharkiv, he started his caree ...
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Noël Mitrani
Noël Mitrani (born 11 November 1969 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-born French film director, producer and screenwriter.Serge Moati
* Jean-Pierre Mocky
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Léonide Moguy
Léonide Moguy (14 July 1899 – 21 April 1976) was a Ukrainian, French and Italian film director, screenwriter and film editor.
Moguy was born Leonid Mohylevskyi () in Odesa, Russian Empire in 1899 in a Jewish family. He lived in Soviet Ukrai ...
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Édouard Molinaro
Édouard Molinaro (13 May 1928 – 7 December 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Biography
He was born in Bordeaux, Gironde.
He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès (''Oscar'', ''Hibernatus''), '' My Uncle Benja ...
Luc Moullet
Luc Moullet (; born 14 October 1937 in Paris) is a French film critic and filmmaker, and a member of the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave. Moullet's films are known for their humor, anti-authoritarian leanings and rigorously primitive aesthetic, ...
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Mr. Oizo
Quentin Dupieux (, born 14 April 1974), also known by his musical stage name Mr. Oizo (), is a French filmmaker, electronic musician, and DJ.
Dupieux is credited with his legal name for his films, while the name "Mr. Oizo" is used for his musica ...
Raphael Nadjari
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual a ...
Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury (born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer.
Life and career
Max-Gérard Houry-Tannenbaum was the only son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist of Russian-Jewish orig ...
Jean Painlevé
Jean Painlevé (20 November 1902 – 2 July 1989) was a photographer and filmmaker who specialized in underwater fauna. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime minister of France Paul Painlevé.
Upbringing
A few days after Painlevé ...
Jean-Marie Pallardy
Jean-Marie Pallardy is a French movie director.
He first worked as a male model in the 1960s, before opting for a career change and directing softcore erotic pictures. He also tried his hand at crime fiction and adventure films, with mixed resul ...
Christine Pascal
Christine Pascal (29 November 1953 – 30 August 1996) was a French actress, writer and director.
Biography
Born in Lyon, Rhône, Pascal made her film debut at 21 in Michel Mitrani's '' Les Guichets du Louvre'' (1974), and began an association w ...
Max Pécas
Max Pécas (25 April 1925 in Lyon – 10 February 2003 in Paris) was a French filmmaker, writer and producer.
Pécas was assistant director to Jacques Daroy and others from 1948 to 1957. After making erotic movies and thrillers through the 1960s ...
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Robert Péguy
Robert Péguy (14 December 1883 – 21 July 1968) was a French film director best known for his films of the 1920s and 1930s.
He directed some 30 films between 1910 and 1946. His career peaked in the 1930s.
Selected filmography
* ''600,000 ...
Gérard Pirès
Gérard Pirès (born 31 August 1942) is a French film director and writer.
Filmography
* '' Guo bao zong dong yuan'' (''Adventures in the NPM'') (2007)
* '' Les Chevaliers du ciel'' (''Sky Fighters'') (2005)
* '' Double zéro'' (2004)
* ''Steal' ...
Jean-Marie Poiré
Jean-Marie Poiré (; born 10 July 1945) is a French film director, and screenwriter. He is the son of the producer Alain Poiré.
Filmography
As director
* ''Les petits câlins'' (''The Little Wheedlers'') (1978)
* ''Retour en force'' (''Return i ...
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Léon Poirier
Léon Poirier (25 August 1884 – 27 June 1968) was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards. He directed some 25 films between 1913 and 1949. His most famous film today is '' Verdu ...
Jean-Daniel Pollet Jean-Daniel Pollet (; 1936–2004) was a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic fil ...
Philippe Ramos
Philippe Ramos (born 1966) is a French film director, screenwriter and film editor. He directed an adaptation of ''Moby-Dick'': ''Capitaine Achab'' with Valérie Crunchant and Frédéric Bonpart in 2004.
Ramos is considered to be associated with ...
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent film, silent era to the end of the 1960s. ...
Éric Rochant
Éric Rochant (born 24 February 1961) is a French film director and screenwriter. He is an alumnus of the IDHEC ( FEMIS) from the generation of Arnaud Desplechin and Noémie Lvovsky. Rochant is of Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, ...
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Charles de Rochefort
Charles d'Authier de Rochefort (7 July 1887 – 31 January 1952) was a French film actor, principally of the silent era. He appeared in 34 films between 1911 and 1932. He also directed seven films between 1930 and 1931.
Early life
De Roc ...
Frédéric Rossif Frédéric Rossif (February 16, 1922 – April 18, 1990) was a French film and television director who specialized primarily in documentaries, frequently using archive footage. Rossif's common themes included wildlife, 20th-century history and conte ...
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François Rotger
François Rotger is a Canadian independent film director.
Former music video director, his first feature film '' The Passenger'' debuted at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival.
From his early work, ''74km avec elle'' (8 min, France, 35 ...
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Brigitte Roüan
Brigitte Roüan (born 28 September 1946) is a French director, screenwriter and actress.This article borrows largely from a profile of the artist in ''The New York Times''. Riding, Alan. "When the Tables Are Turned in Adultery's Secret Rooms", ' ...
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Gaston Roudès
Gaston Roudès (born 24 March 1878, Béziers, Hérault, France; d. 5 November 1958, Villejuif, Val-de-Marne
Val-de-Marne (, "Vale of the Marne") is a department of France located in the Île-de-France region. Named after the river Marne, it is ...
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Jacques Rouffio
Jacques Rouffio (14 August 1928 – 8 July 2016) was a French film director and screenwriter. His 1986 film ''My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister'' was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.Henry Roussell
Henry Roussel (1875–1946), also known as Henry Roussell, was a French silent film actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.
He starred in well over 40 films between 1912 and 1939.
Selected ...
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Jacques Rozier
Jacques Rozier (; 10 November 1926) is a French film director and screenwriter. He is one of the lesser known members of the French New Wave movement and has collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard. Three of his films have been screened at the Cannes ...
Jean-Paul Salomé
Jean-Paul Salomé (born 14 September 1960) is a French director and screenwriter.
Filmography
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1960 births
Living people
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Lucia Sanchez
Lucía Sánchez (1969) is a Spanish-born French actress. She started her acting career in 1996 with '' Une robe d'été'' ''(A Summer Dress)'' directed by François Ozon.
She starred in ' directed by Yves Caumon with Bernard Blancan, ' directed ...
Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder (born 26 August 1941) is an Iranian-born Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette. Since the late 1980s, he has dire ...
Partho Sen-Gupta
Partho Sen-Gupta (also spelled Partho Sen Gupta or Partho Sengupta pronounced ''Partho Shen-Goopto'') is an independent film director and screenwriter. He is a French citizen, of Indian origin. He has a post-graduate in Film Direction from FEMI ...
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Serge Ankri
Serge Ankri (born 1949, in Tunis) is a film director.
He lived and studied in France and gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Nice. He migrated to Israel in 1973. He is a graduate of the Film & Televsision Department, Tel Aviv University
Tel Av ...
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Coline Serreau
Coline Serreau (born 29 October 1947) is a French actress, film director and writer.
Early life and education
She was born in Paris, the daughter of theatre director Jean-Marie Serreau and actress Geneviève Serreau. In Paris, Serreau studie ...
Delphine Seyrig
Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig (; 10 April 1932 – 15 October 1990) was a Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She came to prominence in Alain Resnais's 1961 film ''Last Year at Marienbad'', and later acted in films by Francois ...
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Florent Emilio Siri
Florent-Emilio Siri (born 2 March 1965) is a French film director and screenwriter born in Lorraine. Siri studied cinema at the Sorbonne University and ESRA in Paris. Siri is a music video director. He has worked with such bands as IAM, Allian ...
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Ramzi Ben Sliman
Ramzi Ben Sliman (born 1982) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Filmography
* 2007: ''Mon homme'' (short)
* 2010: ''En France'' (short)
* 2016: ''My Revolution''
* 2019: ''Grand hôtel Barbès'' (short)
* 2022: ''Neneh Superstar''
* 20 ...
Nicole Stéphane
Nicole Stéphane (born Baroness Nicole de Rothschild, 27 May 1923 – 13 March 2007) was a French actress, producer and director.
Biography
The elder of the two daughters of Baron James-Henri de Rothschild and his first wife, Claude Dupont, Nico ...
Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Ramata-Toulaye Sy is a French-Senegalese film director and screenwriter.
Early life and education
Ramata-Toulaye Sy was born in Bezons and studied at La Fémis in Paris.
Career
Sy's 2021 short film '' Astel'' was the winner of the Share Her ...
Jihan El-Tahri
Jihan El-Tahri ( ar, ﺟﻬﺎﻥ ﺍلطاهري; born in Beirut, Lebanon) is a writer, director and producer of documentary films. She is a French and Egyptian national.
In 1984, she received her BA in political science, and in 1986 her MA in ...
André Téchiné
André Téchiné (; born 13 March 1943) is a French screenwriter and film director. He has a long and distinguished career that places him among the most accomplished post- New Wave French film directors.
Téchiné belongs to a second generation ...
Danièle Thompson
Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.
She has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films ...
Laurent Tirard
Laurent Tirard (born 18 February 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Laurent Tirard grew up admiring American films, such as those by Steven Spielberg. He studied film making at New York University, worked as a scr ...
Maurice Tourneur Maurice may refer to:
People
*Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr
*Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor
*Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and Lo ...
Coralie Trinh Thi
Coralie Trinh Thi (born 11 April 1976) is a former pornographic actress, also known for writing and directing with Virginie Despentes the film ''Baise-moi'' (2000). During her career as a porn performer, she was generally just credited as Coral ...
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. After a career of more tha ...
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Roger Vadim
Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (; 26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor. His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities, su ...
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film ...
Flore Vasseur
Flore Vasseur (born 1973) is a French film director, screenwriter, film producer, novelist, journalist and entrepreneur. Her first feature-length documentary film, '' Bigger Than Us'', premiered in the ''Cinema for the Climate'' section at the 2 ...
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Anton Vassil
Anton Vassil is a screenwriter/film director who worked on various feature films, music videos, commercials and documentaries. With a master's degree from Loyola Marymount University film school, Vassil directed his first feature '' Marching Out o ...
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Francis Veber
Francis Paul Veber (born 28 July 1937) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright. He has written and directed both French and American films. Nine French-language films with which he has been involved, as either writ ...
Henri Verneuil
Henri Verneuil (; born Ashot Malakian; 15 October 1920 – 11 January 2002) was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France. He was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards, and won Locarno International Fi ...
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Sandrine Veysset
Sandrine Veysset (born 29 March 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Veysset was born in Avignon. She studied French literature until she dropped out of school to pursue filmmaking. A friend introduced her to L ...
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Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo (; 26 April 1905 – 5 October 1934) was a French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s. His work influenced French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Biography
Vigo was born to Emil ...
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René Viénet
René Viénet (born 6 February 1944, in Le Havre) is a French sinologist who is famous as a situationist writer and filmmaker. Viénet used the situationist technique of détournement — the diversion of already existing cultural elements to new ...
André Weinfeld
André Weinfeld is a French and American film and television producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer, photographer, and journalist. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the Sorbonne University in Paris.
Early ...
Ferdinand Zecca
Ferdinand Zecca (19 February 1864 – 23 March 1947) was a Innovator, pioneer French film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He worked primarily for the Pathé company, first in artistic endeavors then in administration of the inter ...
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Ariel Zeitoun
Ariel Zeitoun (born 26 September 1949) is a French director, producer, and screenwriter.
Zeitoun started as a producer in 1979 with '. Later, he wrote the script for and directed ''Souvenirs, souvenirs''.
In 2013 Zeitoun directed the historic ...
Rebecca Zlotowski
Rebecca Zlotowski (born 21 April 1980) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Education
A former student at prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rebecca Zlotowski received her teaching qualification in French modern literature in 2003. ...
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Erick Zonca
Érick Zonca is a French film director and screenwriter.
His first films were shorts ''Rives'' (1992), ''Eternelles'' (1995), and '' Seule'' (1997).
Zonca is best known for his critically acclaimed and award-winning 1998 feature film debut '' ...
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Cinema of France
French cinema consists of the film industry and its film productions, whether made within the nation of France or by French film production companies abroad. It is the oldest and largest precursor of national cinemas in Europe; with primary infl ...
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List of French people
French people of note include:
Actors
A–C
* Isabelle Adjani
*Renée Adorée
*Anouk Aimée
*Flo Ankah
*Arletty
*Antonin Artaud
*Fanny Ardant
* Jeanne Aubert
*Jean-Louis Aubert
*Jean-Pierre Aumont
*Claude Autant-Lara
*Daniel Auteuil
*Charle ...