Movies: Jean-Claude Brisseau

A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his latest project: a thriller on the subject of female pleasure....

Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure....

A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone....

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters an...

Fed up with her present lifestyle, and more particularly sexually unsatisfied by her boyfriend Fred, Sandrine decides to find a new way in life. Intrigued by her friend Sophie, who tells her about her sexual experimentations, she will find, through v...

A woman discovers curious erotic messages on a lost cell phone in the train. When she meets the owner of the phone, a liberated young woman, the two of them embark on an erotic journey....

This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he bef...

Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies and subterfuges concerning her past....

After the death of her father, 22-year-old Céline inherits most of his estate, but gives it to her stepmother, causing her greedy fiancé to leave her. Following several failed suicide attempts, Céline is hospitalized and comes to the attention of a n...

Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and put...

A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret and tortured life....

Agnes leaves school and moves with a friend to a housing project in Bagnolet. Engaged as a clerk, she becomes associate staff after the dismissal of a colleague....

Director Jean-Claude Brisseau discusses the making of his film Les anges exterminateurs (2006) in an interview....

A man stabbed to death is haunted by his memories and fantasies while dying alone....

After his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French comedy....

Two young women in crisis prepare the separation of one of them with her companion. Without knowing that they are watched by two serial killers......

A young woman unsatisfied with her life and her marriage discovers gifts of medium....

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The peregrinations of a group of boys and girls from Paris. Two girls swap the capital for the countryside near Montpellier. One of the girls hesitates between dream world and reality.La croisée des chemins marks the start of a significant oeuvre and...

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