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Roger Vadim
Director 1928 - 2000

Roger Vadim

Paris, France

Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor. His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities, such as And God Created Woman (1956),... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

16 titles
Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme...

Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme...

Roger Vadim 1973 1h 35m 6.0

Modern-day Don Juan-styled Jeanne prides herself in the destruction of men who have fallen for her charms, and reveals to a priest the murder she has committed and honestly details her past sexual encounters.

Hellé

Hellé

Roger Vadim 1972 1h 35m

Hellé is a young deaf-mute living among the mountains. She’s ignored by everyone except, now and then, the local woodsmen, who use her for their pleasure. She has no education, no knowledge of right or wrong. One summer, a young man comes to spend the holidays in her village.

Pretty Maids All in a Row

Pretty Maids All in a Row

Roger Vadim 1971 1h 31m

At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, a married teacher hides his flings with nubile students, and an awkward male is frustrated by the plethora of uninhibited freewheeling young girls.

Histoires extraordinaires

Histoires extraordinaires

Federico Fellini, Louis Malle 1968 2h 2m 6.7

A trio of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a cruel countess haunted by her cousin's stallion, a sadistic soldier haunted by his doppelgänger, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.

Barbarella

Barbarella

Roger Vadim 1968 1h 38m 7.3

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

La curée

La curée

Roger Vadim 1966 1h 38m 6.0

Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.

La ronde

La ronde

Roger Vadim 1964 1h 45m

A number of sexual liaisons in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 eventually come full circle, while other events come full circle into the now historical assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of the Austria-Hungarian Empire.

Le vice et la vertu

Le vice et la vertu

Roger Vadim 1963 1h 48m 3.0

Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, VICE AND VIRTUE is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, as envisioned by one of cinema's most provocative filmmakers, Roger Vadim.

Château en Suède

Château en Suède

Roger Vadim 1963 1h 43m

An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.

Le repos du guerrier

Le repos du guerrier

Roger Vadim 1962 1h 42m 5.5

A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.

La bride sur le cou

La bride sur le cou

Roger Vadim 1961 1h 25m 6.0

Sophie, a flighty young model, learns that her boyfriend is planning to leave her for another woman. Sophie resolves to either win him back or assassinate her rival. A handsome doctor (who happens to be falling for Sophie himself) assists her with the former plan so that she won't have to resort to the latter.

Et mourir de plaisir

Et mourir de plaisir

Roger Vadim 1960 1h 19m

Young Carmilla is jealous of her friend's engagement, and her obsession leads her to the tomb of a female vampire. The vampire possesses her and leads her to kill and terrorise the inhabitants of the estate. But is it all in her mind, or is she really under the control of an ancient vampire ancestor?

Les liaisons dangereuses

Les liaisons dangereuses

Roger Vadim 1959 1h 46m 7.0

Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.

Les bijoutiers du clair de lune

Les bijoutiers du clair de lune

Roger Vadim 1958 1h 31m 6.0

En Espagne, à sa sortie du couvent, la jeune Ursula part habiter chez sa tante Florentine. Celle-ci, bien que mariée, est courtisée par un jeune garçon du village, Lambert, dont Ursula est follement amoureuse.

Sait-on jamais...

Sait-on jamais...

Roger Vadim 1957 1h 36m

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.

Et Dieu... créa la femme

Et Dieu... créa la femme

Roger Vadim 1956 1h 32m 7.7

18-year-old orphan Juliette's unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his futile attempts to tame her wild ways.

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