Alain Jessua
January 16, 1932 · 94 years old
Alain Jessua began his career as assistant to directors like Max Ophüls, Marcel Carne, Yves Allégret and Jacques Becker, before making his unique short film, Léon la lune, which earned him the prestigious Prix Jean-Vigo award in 1957. A few years later, in 1963, his first feature film (which became…
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6 titles
Traitement de choc
A French businesswoman goes to a remote and popular rejuvenation clinic after a breakup, and begins to suspect the treatment methods used by the head doctor, and slowly uncovers the horrible secret behind the clinic's success.
Armaguedon
After inheriting money, a repairman named Carrier becomes mentally unstable. Growing increasingly threatening, he starts menacing the police and government through signed communiques.
The Dogs
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.
Paradis pour tous
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is a great success, everybody's happy except maybe Alain's wife, J...
Frankenstein 90
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
En toute innocence
Paul Duchene, owner of a thriving enterprise, works with his son Thomas and his wife Catherine. Drama begins when Paul unexpectedly catch his daughter-in-law sleeping with one of his son's colleagues.