Alain Jessua

Alain Jessua

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 "cult" among moviegoers) won two prizes in Cannes and also Venice: La Vie à l'envers, with Charles Denner and Jean Yanne in his first movie role. He then went on to direct a series of successful and critically acclaimed feature films, which he produced himself (a rare risk in the French cinema landscape). Alain Jessua is regularly honored in France and abroad. His short film Léon la lune was screened at the MOMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York a few years ago and Martin Scorsese cited La Vie à l'envers as one of the films that really made an impact on him. Jean Tulard , in his "Dictionary of Cinema", writes: "He proposes a cinema where he tackles the problems of our time and makes cries of alarm. " Alain Jessua is also the author of six novels.

  • Title: Alain Jessua
  • Popularity: 0.941
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1932-01-16
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Alain Jessua Movies

  • 2019
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    The Story of French Fantasy Cinema

    The Story of French Fantasy Cinema

    6 2019 HD

    The story of the French fantasy cinema from Méliès to Raw.

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  • 2021
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    Alain Jessua, le franc-tireur du cinéma français

    Alain Jessua, le franc-tireur du cinéma français

    1 2021 HD

    The director Alain Jessua evokes his beginnings, his career and recalls with passion his experience with the greatest filmmakers.

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  • 2006
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    Working with Max Ophuls: Alain Jessua on the Making of Madame de...

    Working with Max Ophuls: Alain Jessua on the Making of Madame de...

    1 2006 HD

    Interview with Alain Jessua about his work on Max Ophuls' 1953 film THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...

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  • 2013
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    Max Ophüls, le peintre de l'amour fatal

    Max Ophüls, le peintre de l'amour fatal

    1 2013 HD

    Documentary on Max Ophüls and the making of Madame de...

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  • 1964
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    Life Upside Down

    Life Upside Down

    6.6 1964 HD

    A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By...

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  • 1984
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    Frankenstein 90

    Frankenstein 90

    5.9 1984 HD

    French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for...

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  • 1984
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    Frankenstein 90

    Frankenstein 90

    5.9 1984 HD

    French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for...

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  • 1984
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    Frankenstein 90

    Frankenstein 90

    5.9 1984 HD

    French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for...

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  • 1973
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    Shock Treatment

    Shock Treatment

    6.545 1973 HD

    Hélène Masson visits her friend Gérôme Savignat in the isolated rejuvenation clinic owned by Dr. Devilers and his partner...

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  • 1973
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    Shock Treatment

    Shock Treatment

    6.545 1973 HD

    Hélène Masson visits her friend Gérôme Savignat in the isolated rejuvenation clinic owned by Dr. Devilers and his partner...

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  • 1973
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    Shock Treatment

    Shock Treatment

    6.545 1973 HD

    Hélène Masson visits her friend Gérôme Savignat in the isolated rejuvenation clinic owned by Dr. Devilers and his partner...

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  • 1956
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    Léon la lune

    Léon la lune

    6 1956 HD

    The film documents an old drifter in Paris in the poetic realist style

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  • 1988
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    No Harm Intended

    No Harm Intended

    5.7 1988 HD

    When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident....

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  • 1982
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    Paradise for All

    Paradise for All

    6.7 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Armageddon

    Armageddon

    5.7 1977 HD

    After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time...

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  • 1977
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    Armageddon

    Armageddon

    5.7 1977 HD

    After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time...

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  • 1979
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    The Dogs

    The Dogs

    6 1979 HD

    After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.

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  • 1967
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    The Killing Game

    The Killing Game

    5.8 1967 HD

    Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the...

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  • 1988
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    No Harm Intended

    No Harm Intended

    5.7 1988 HD

    When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident....

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  • 1979
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    The Dogs

    The Dogs

    6 1979 HD

    After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.

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  • 1997
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    The Colors of the Devil

    The Colors of the Devil

    1.2 1997 HD

    A young talented painter dreams of glory. A man promises it in exchange for his talent and his soul.

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  • 1997
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    The Colors of the Devil

    The Colors of the Devil

    1.2 1997 HD

    A young talented painter dreams of glory. A man promises it in exchange for his talent and his soul.

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  • 1982
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    Paradise for All

    Paradise for All

    6.7 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    The Killing Game

    The Killing Game

    5.8 1967 HD

    Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the...

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  • 1964
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    Life Upside Down

    Life Upside Down

    6.6 1964 HD

    A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By...

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  • 1960
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    The Eighth Day

    The Eighth Day

    5.2 1960 HD

    Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of...

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  • 1955
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    Lola Montès

    Lola Montès

    6.8 1955 HD

    Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

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  • 1953
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    The Earrings of Madame de...

    The Earrings of Madame de...

    7.5 1953 HD

    In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day...

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  • 1982
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    Paradise for All

    Paradise for All

    6.7 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    No Harm Intended

    No Harm Intended

    5.7 1988 HD

    When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident....

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