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Suzanne Schiffman
Writer 1929 - 2001

Suzanne Schiffman

Paris, France

Suzanne Schiffman (née Klochendler, 27 September 1929 – 6 June 2001) was a screenwriter and director for numerous motion pictures. She often worked with François Truffaut. The 'script girl' Joelle, played by Nathalie Baye in Truffaut's Day for Night was based on Schiffman. It... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

16 titles

Tangos volés

Eduardo de Gregorio 2002 1h 35m

In Paris, a young Argentine screenwriter attempts to escape his daily routine through a fictional story set in Argentina. This attracts the attention of those around him, including Alice, a young actress. But his story gradually escapes him and he becomes inextricably entangled in dreams and reality.

Hurlevent

Hurlevent

Jacques Rivette 1985 2h 6m

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.

L'amour par terre

L'amour par terre

Jacques Rivette 1984 2h 56m

A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which consists of only one female part.

Vivement dimanche!

Vivement dimanche!

François Truffaut 1983 1h 50m 7.7

After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent hides out from the cops while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.

Merry-Go-Round

Merry-Go-Round

Jacques Rivette 1981 2h 40m 6.0

It stars Joe Dallesandro, as New Yorker Ben Phillips, and Maria Schneider, as the sexy and mysterious Léo Hoffmann, as strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery.

Le pont du Nord

Le pont du Nord

Jacques Rivette 1981 2h 9m 9.0

Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie's former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a maze spotted with mysterious traps, puzzling clues, and chance encounters.

La femme d'à côté

La femme d'à côté

François Truffaut 1981 1h 46m 8.3

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

Le dernier métro

Le dernier métro

François Truffaut 1980 2h 11m 7.6

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

L'amour en fuite

L'amour en fuite

François Truffaut 1979 1h 33m 7.3

In L’Amour en Fuite we witness Antoine Doinel right after his divorce from Christine still not grown up and continuing to flee after their love.

L'homme qui aimait les femmes

L'homme qui aimait les femmes

François Truffaut 1977 1h 59m 7.4

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that 40 years old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.

L'argent de poche

L'argent de poche

François Truffaut 1976 1h 44m 7.2

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.

L'histoire d'Adèle H.

L'histoire d'Adèle H.

François Truffaut 1975 1h 38m 7.8

In the 19th century a mysterious woman named Adele H. crosses the ocean, from Europe to North America, to relentlessly pursue a handsome officer that denies her satisfaction.

Pleure pas la bouche pleine!

Pleure pas la bouche pleine!

Pascal Thomas 1973 1h 55m

Being the adventures of a young woman during a summer in the French countryside.

Out 1: Spectre

Out 1: Spectre

Jacques Rivette 1973 4h 13m

Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...

La nuit américaine

La nuit américaine

François Truffaut 1973 1h 56m 8.1

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Out 1, noli me tangere

Out 1, noli me tangere

Jacques Rivette 1971 12h 23m 10.0

While two dueling theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash and unravel a conspiracy.

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