Writing

Gérard Brach

Born July 23, 1927 · Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Died September 9, 2006 · aged 79

Gérard Brach (23 July 1927 – 9 September 2006) was a French screenwriter best known for his collaborations with the film directors Roman Polanski and Jean-Jacques Annaud. At the beginning of the 70s he twice tried his hand at directing, but neither film achieved commercial success. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gérard Brach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wik…

Known For

The Lover

The Lover · 1992

MovieDramaRomance

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose · 1986

The Name of the Rose

MovieDramaThriller

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

Bitter Moon

Bitter Moon · 1992

MovieThrillerDrama

A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

Tess

MovieDramaRomance

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.

Breathless

Breathless · 1960

MovieDramaCrime

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers · 1984

MovieDramaRomance

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.

Secret World

Secret World · 1969

Wendy is the British guest of a French couple and the daughter of the man who saved the host's life during World War II. Living with the couple is their 20-year-old son and a 12-year-old nephew whose parents were killed in an automobile accident. The father and son both try to seduce the attractive guest. The young boy retreats into his own world and dreams of being taken back to Britain by Wendy in this romantic drama. The mother spends her time bleaching her hair and is seemingly uninterested in anything that goes on with her family at the beachfront villa. Meanwhile, Wendy and the younger boy develop a fondness for each other, while his aunt and uncle fail to understand his needs.

Pirates

Pirates · 1986

MovieAdventureComedy

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Filmography

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The Lover

The Lover · 1992

MovieDramaRomance

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

Screenplay

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose · 1986

The Name of the Rose

MovieDramaThriller

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

Screenplay

Bitter Moon

Bitter Moon · 1992

MovieThrillerDrama

A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

Screenplay

Tess

MovieDramaRomance

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.

Screenplay

Breathless

Breathless · 1960

MovieDramaCrime

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Photographer (uncredited)

Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers · 1984

MovieDramaRomance

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.

Writer

Secret World

Secret World · 1969

Wendy is the British guest of a French couple and the daughter of the man who saved the host's life during World War II. Living with the couple is their 20-year-old son and a 12-year-old nephew whose parents were killed in an automobile accident. The father and son both try to seduce the attractive guest. The young boy retreats into his own world and dreams of being taken back to Britain by Wendy in this romantic drama. The mother spends her time bleaching her hair and is seemingly uninterested in anything that goes on with her family at the beachfront villa. Meanwhile, Wendy and the younger boy develop a fondness for each other, while his aunt and uncle fail to understand his needs.

Screenplay

Pirates

Pirates · 1986

MovieAdventureComedy

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Writer

Frantic

Frantic · 1988

MovieMysteryCrime

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.

Writer

The Fearless Vampire Killers

The Fearless Vampire Killers · 1967

The Fearless Vampire Killers

MovieComedyHorror

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

Screenplay

The Tenant

The Tenant · 1976

MovieThrillerMystery

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Screenplay

Repulsion

Repulsion · 1965

MovieDramaThriller

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

Screenplay

Quest for Fire

Quest for Fire · 1981

MovieAdventureDrama

In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors on a quest for more. With the tribe's future at stake, the warriors make their way across a treacherous landscape full of hostile tribes and monstrous beasts. On their journey, they encounter Ika, a woman who has the knowledge they seek.

Writer

Les enragés

Les enragés · 1985

Marc and Laurent, two worrying misfits, break into a large isolated property in the middle of the countryside. Marc discovers with amazement that the place belongs to his idol, the movie star Jessica Melrose, of whom he is crazy. After a strange night, in the morning, Jessica meets the two "explorers" who will make her live a day of waking nightmare .

Screenplay

The Bear

The Bear · 1988

MovieAdventureDrama

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

Screenplay

Manon of the Spring

Manon of the Spring · 1986

Manon of the Spring

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.

Screenplay

Cul-de-sac

Cul-de-sac · 1966

MovieThrillerComedy

On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.

Writer

Jean de Florette

Jean de Florette · 1986

Jean de Florette

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.

Screenplay

Blueberry

Blueberry · 2004

U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily adopted and taken care of him. The evil actions of a white sorcerer lead him to confront the villain in the Sacred Mountains, and, through shamanic rituals conquer his fears and uncover a suppressed memory he would much rather deny.

Screenstory

What?

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.

Screenplay

Pornography

Pornography · 2003

MovieHistoryWar

Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.

Screenplay

Seeking Asylum

Seeking Asylum · 1979

MovieComedyDrama

A new teacher introduces radical ideas at a nursery school and it leads to various reactions from the students and the parents.

Writer

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera · 1998

The Phantom of the Opera

MovieHorrorRomance

A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld.

Screenplay

Shy People

Shy People · 1987

A Cosmo Magazine journalist and her daughter leave New York City to visit their distant relatives deep in the bayous of Louisiana.

Screenplay

Chillers

Chillers · 1990

SeriesMysteryDrama

A 1990 horror anthology series, with host Anthony Perkins presenting and screening tales based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories that display a sinister atmosphere, and delve into the darkest depths of human nature.

Writer