Directing
Jacques Baratier
Born March 8, 1918 · Montpellier, France
Died November 27, 2009 · aged 91
Jacques Baratier was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films. His film Goha won the Jury Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. His 1962 film La poupée was entered for the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. Goha was also shown as part of the Cannes Classics section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacques Baratier, licens…
Known For
My Father the Hero · 1994My Father the Hero
★ 5.41994
MovieFamilyComedy
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover. Remake of the 1991 French film Mon père, ce héros.
Mon ami le cambrioleur · 1950Mon ami le cambrioleur
★ 7.01950
MovieComedy
When Nadia, his unfaithful mistress, breaks up with him, Patrick Lambert decides to kill himself. But before he reaches the point of no return he is stopped in the act by Camille, a burglar who has just broken into his house. Thanks to him and also to Rosita, Camille's girlfriend who falls for him, Patrick forgets his gloomy thoughts. It is the beginning of a series of crazy misunderstandings and adventures.
The Creatures · 1966The Creatures
★ 6.41966
MovieDramaMystery
A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book.
Acéphale · 1968Acéphale
★ 7.41968
MovieMysteryDrama
An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness.
Trap · 1970Trap
★ 4.71970
MovieThrillerCrime
A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.
Goha · 1959Goha
★ 5.61959
MovieDrama
As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they know that he has more intelligence, tenacity and imagination than all of them put together. The story takes an unexpectedly dramatic turn when the man falls in love with the young wife of his village's elderly "wise man". Based on an ancient Tunisian folk tale, Goha boasts impressive production values and sure-handed direction (by Jacques Baratier).
Disorder · 1950Disorder
★ 5.71950
MovieDocumentary
Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.
La Décharge · 1976La Décharge
★ 5.81976
MovieDrama
A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.
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