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Christopher Frank
Writer 1942 - 1993

Christopher Frank

Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Christopher Frank (5 December 1942, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK – 19 November 1993, Paris, France) was a British-born French writer, screenwriter, and film director. He won the 1972 Prix Renaudot for his novel La Nuit américaine that served the basis for Andrzej... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

15 titles
O Fio do Horizonte

O Fio do Horizonte

Fernando Lopes 1993 1h 31m

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.

Malone

Malone

Harley Cokeliss 1987 1h 32m 3.0

Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution. Adapted from the novel "Shotgun," by William Wingate.

Cours privé

Cours privé

Pierre Granier-Deferre 1986 1h 35m 5.0

Jeanne Kern is a history teacher in a private mixed class. Passionately provocative, she does not ignore the effect she has on men.

L'année des méduses

L'année des méduses

Christopher Frank 1984 1h 50m

Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.

Le battant

Le battant

Alain Delon, Robin Davis 1983 2h 1m 7.0

Jacques Darnay exits prison after 10 years for a jewel robbery with missing diamonds. The jeweler's death is unresolved. Police, former accomplices investigate while Darnay conceals his motives.

Une étrange affaire

Une étrange affaire

Pierre Granier-Deferre 1981 1h 45m 7.0

A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire.

Pour la peau d'un flic

Pour la peau d'un flic

Alain Delon 1981 1h 45m 6.0

Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.

Eaux profondes

Eaux profondes

Michel Deville 1981 1h 35m 8.0

Eaux profondes is a 1981 French thriller film directed by Michel Deville and starring Isabelle Huppert.

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.

La dérobade

La dérobade

Daniel Duval 1979 1h 47m 7.5

Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of her life. But Gerard is a pimp, who soon forces her into prostitution.

Attention, les enfants regardent

Attention, les enfants regardent

Serge Leroy 1978 1h 43m 6.5

Four children blackmail the housekeeper who is in charge of watching over them while their parents are absent.

Les passagers

Les passagers

Serge Leroy 1977 1h 36m

A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.

L'homme pressé

L'homme pressé

Édouard Molinaro 1977 1h 31m 7.0

Art collector Pierre Niox (Alain Delon) rushes through life, lives a frantic life, does everything in full speed -- searching for and acquiring works of art or real estate, marrying or even dying -- and in total disregard for any kind of morality. His misdeeds finally turn on him and destroy him.

L'important c'est d'aimer

L'important c'est d'aimer

Andrzej Żuławski 1975 1h 53m 8.5

Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.

Le mouton enragé

Le mouton enragé

Michel Deville 1974 1h 45m 10.0

A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned friend, the writer helps him navigate a dazzling social ascent.

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