Jean-Claude Brisseau Movies

Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they...

A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his latest project: a thriller on the subject of female pleasure.

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend...

A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone.

Fed up with her present lifestyle, and more particularly sexually unsatisfied by her boyfriend Fred, Sandrine decides to find a new way in life....

Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape...

This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he...

A woman discovers curious erotic messages on a lost cell phone in the train. When she meets the owner of the phone, a liberated young woman, the two...

Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her...

A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret and tortured life.

After the death of her father, 22-year-old Céline inherits most of his estate, but gives it to her stepmother, causing her greedy...

A voice, warm and heartbreaking, that of Brisseau himself, coils over black and white images. The tone was set very quickly: "To wake up is to be...

After his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French comedy.

Agnes leaves school and moves with a friend to a housing project in Bagnolet. Engaged as a clerk, she becomes associate staff after the dismissal of...

The life of an ordinary working class family in Bagnolet's block of council flats, Paris' suburb. "I've spent 17 years here. I sacrificed myself for...

A man stabbed to death is haunted by his memories and fantasies while dying alone.

Director Jean-Claude Brisseau discusses the making of his film Les anges exterminateurs (2006) in an interview.

Two young women in crisis prepare the separation of one of them with her companion. Without knowing that they are watched by two serial killers...

Paris, Latin Quarter, May 1968. Images of barricades and police movements in the street. In his bedroom, on his bed, a young man indulges in...