Jean-Daniel Simon

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Jean-Daniel Simon

Born November 30, 1942 · Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Died February 3, 2021 · aged 78

No biography available.

Known For

Love at SeaLove at Sea · 1965
Love at Sea
7.11965
MovieRomanceDrama
During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...
AdélaïdeAdélaïde · 1968
Adélaïde
5.01968
MovieDrama
A mother and her daughter both have a relationship with the same man.
ThemThem · 1970
Them
4.31970
MovieCrimeDrama
An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man moves into the boarding house, he brings a machine he invented that can make people realize their subconscious dreams...
The Girl Across the WayThe Girl Across the Way · 1968
The Girl Across the Way
4.01968
MovieComedyDrama
A young student visits the home of a friend who has all the good looks, women and luck. Every day, through binoculars from his friend's window, he sees a young girl in front of her home. Although attractive, the woman's face has been badly scarred. He finds out her phone number and the two engage in pleasant conversation. He gets up enough nerve to ask to meet her in person, but the socially inept young man becomes paralyzed with fear. He again summons the courage to meet with her before he is plagued with fear once again.
Camp de ThiaroyeCamp de Thiaroye · 1988
Camp de Thiaroye
7.51988
MovieWarDrama
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among them are charismatic Sergeant Diatta, educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a soldier left in a state of shock who can only communicate in guttural screams and grunts.
Vice and VirtueVice and Virtue · 1963
Vice and Virtue
5.61963
MovieDramaComedy
1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privileged life. Her younger sister Justine (Virtue) is about to marry Jean who is in the Resistance and come to Juliette for help. Both sisters end up at "la Commanderie", where Juliette becomes SS Colonel Schonberg's mistress and Justine is detained with other pretty girls who must satisfy the sexual needs of high-ranking nazi officials. Inspired by "Justine ou les infortunes de la vertu" by the marquis de Sade
Beach CasanovaBeach Casanova · 1962
Beach Casanova
5.31962
MovieDramaComedy
Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the women with whom Edmond dallies are three gorgeous ladies.
Il pleut toujours où c'est mouilléIl pleut toujours où c'est mouillé · 1975
Il pleut toujours où c'est mouillé
9.01975
Movie
Focusing on the characters of those involved, this French drama explores a political campaign in a small town and the corruption which enters into it. Sex education gets the countrified locals all roused up against a citified school reformer, even though it is actually a side issue. The farmer whose concerns are picked up as a theme by the right-wing politicos figures out that he is being used.

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