Jean-Claude Brialy

Jean-Claude Brialy

March 30, 1933 · 93 years old

Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée Na…

Known For

29 titles
1
A Woman Is a Woman

A Woman Is a Woman

1961 · 1h 24m · Movie

A stripper who's desperate to become a mother accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.

7.3
2
Queen Margot

Queen Margot

1994 · 2h 41m · Movie

Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with her new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.

7.4
3
The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty

1974 · 1h 44m · Movie

A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.

7.8
4
Claire's Knee

Claire's Knee

1970 · 1h 45m · Movie

On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.

7.5
5
The Monster

The Monster

1994 · 1h 52m · Movie

After a series of bizarre actions, Loris is mistaken for a serial killer. Jessica, a policewoman in undercover, will try to induce him to commit a murder.

7.3
6
The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black

1968 · 1h 47m · Movie

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

7.2
7
King of Hearts

King of Hearts

1966 · 1h 42m · Movie

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

7.3
8
Le Beau Serge

Le Beau Serge

1959 · 1h 38m · Movie

After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.

7.1
9
The Mischief Makers

The Mischief Makers

1957 · 18m · Movie

A group of five boys, the brats of the title, are all in love with an unbearably beautiful woman and so they spend their summer jealously harassing her and her boyfriend.

7.0
10
The Cousins

The Cousins

1959 · 1h 52m · Movie

A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.

7.2
11
Deadly Circuit

Deadly Circuit

1983 · 2h 0m · Movie

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

6.9
12
All Boys Are Called Patrick

All Boys Are Called Patrick

1959 · 21m · Movie

Two French college girls each meet a boy named Patrick and quickly realize that it is less a coincidence then they think.

7.0
13
That Night in Varennes

That Night in Varennes

1982 · 2h 30m · Movie

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

7.2
14
The Judge and the Assassin

The Judge and the Assassin

1976 · 2h 8m · Movie

An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.

7.3
15
My New Partner at the Races

My New Partner at the Races

1990 · 1h 47m · Movie

A team of corrupt policemen returns when they face with really wicked colleagues.

6.2
16
L'effrontée

L'effrontée

1985 · 1h 36m · Movie

Charlotte (Gainsbourg) is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.

6.9
17
Inspector Lavardin

Inspector Lavardin

1986 · 1h 40m · Movie

Inspector Lavardin investigates on the murder of a famous writer, whose widow happens to be Helen, a woman Lavardin once loved. She has a daughter from a first marriage, who actually killed her stepfather, as he was trying to abus...

6.5
18
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

1996 · 1h 56m · Movie

The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.

6.7
19
A Very Private Affair

A Very Private Affair

1962 · 1h 43m · Movie

When Jill becomes a movie star she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won't leave her alone. Her mother's ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.

5.5
20
No Fear, No Die

No Fear, No Die

1990 · 1h 30m · Movie

Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.

6.7
21
Carambolages

Carambolages

1963 · 1h 28m · Movie

The story takes place in a luxury building of about ten floors where the "321" agency has its headquarters. The company watches over the holidays of its customers.

6.1
22
Kennedy et moi

Kennedy et moi

1999 · 1h 26m · Movie

In the midst of a midlife crisis, writer Simon Polaris no longer wants to write. One day, his psychoanalyst told him that he had the watch that John F Kennedy would have worn on the day of his death. This watch becomes a fixation ...

6.6
23
Circle of Love

Circle of Love

1964 · 1h 50m · Movie

A bed-hopping coterie of soldiers, prostitutes, maids, actors, and aristocrats swap lovers amid the opulence of pre-World War I Europe.

5.5
24
Male Hunt

Male Hunt

1964 · 1h 31m · Movie

Antoine is about to get married to Gisèle. His friend Julien, a confirmed bachelor, tries desperately to talk him out of it, citing his own painful experiences.

6.3
25
The Telephone Always Rings Twice

The Telephone Always Rings Twice

1985 · 1h 30m · Movie

A serial killer murders women by knocking them out with the handset of a phone and signs his crime by sticking the dial in his victims' forehead. Private eye Marc Elbichon (whose real name is Marcel Bichon), craving for notoriety,...

5.9
26
The Kreutzer Sonata

The Kreutzer Sonata

1956 · 50m · Movie

In this adaptation of Tolstoy's argument for sexual abstinence, a man recounts the events that led to the killing of his wife.

6.2
27
La crime

La crime

1983 · 1h 43m · Movie

A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by a journalist.

5.7
28
Le 4ème pouvoir

Le 4ème pouvoir

1985 · 1h 40m · Movie

Yves Dorget, major reporter in a daily newspaper, finds on an "affair" part of a simple news item Catherine Carré, his former friend, editor and chief and star presenter of a television newscast.

6.1
29
Caroline chérie

Caroline chérie

1968 · 1h 45m · Movie

In pre-Revolutionary France, 16-year-old Caroline is caught in a love triangle between her father's choice, politician Georges Berthier, and the man she loves, Gaston de Sallanches, as aristocrats revel while the French Revolution...

5.0