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Jacques Deray
Director 1929 - 2003

Jacques Deray

Lyon, Rhône, France

Jacques Deray was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacques Deray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

15 titles
Maladie d'amour

Maladie d'amour

Jacques Deray 1987 2h 2m

Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over.

Le solitaire

Le solitaire

Jacques Deray 1987 1h 40m

A cop is looking for the killer of his friend.

On ne meurt que deux fois

On ne meurt que deux fois

Jacques Deray 1985 1h 46m

Inspector Staniland investigates a pianist's murder. When Barbara, the victim's mistress, enters and confesses, he doubts her story. A man claiming to be her brother interferes with the case, while Staniland feels drawn to her.

Le marginal

Le marginal

Jacques Deray 1983 1h 40m 6.0

Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.

3 hommes à abattre

3 hommes à abattre

Jacques Deray 1980 1h 33m 3.7

A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.

Un papillon sur l'épaule

Un papillon sur l'épaule

Jacques Deray 1978 1h 37m

On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.

Le gang

Le gang

Jacques Deray 1977 1h 40m 5.0

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?

Flic Story

Flic Story

Jacques Deray 1975 1h 52m 7.0

The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

Borsalino and Co.

Borsalino and Co.

Jacques Deray 1974 1h 50m 6.0

A gang-leader in '30s Marseilles fights off a fascist rival.

Un homme est mort

Un homme est mort

Jacques Deray 1972 1h 51m 5.0

A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.

Borsalino

Borsalino

Jacques Deray 1970 2h 5m 6.5

In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.

La piscine

La piscine

Jacques Deray 1969 2h 3m 6.9

Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them.

Par un beau matin d'été

Par un beau matin d'été

Jacques Deray 1965 1h 49m

An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fore.

Symphonie pour un massacre

Symphonie pour un massacre

Jacques Deray 1963 1h 55m 8.0

A band of gangster devises a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.

Rififi à Tokyo

Rififi à Tokyo

Jacques Deray 1963 1h 38m 6.0

Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.

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