Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Directing

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Born — Died

1946-12-16 — 2014-11-05

Place of birth

Souvret, Belgium

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a Belgian independent filmmaker and self-proclaimed "filmmaker of the absurd". Defending a cinema based on limited budgets, ranging from €2,000 to €2,500 per film, with non-professional actors. Having made around 40 films, he is considered to be among the most productive Belgian filmmakers.he is one of the most prolific Belgian filmmakers.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 1 titles

2000s · 3 titles

Behind the camera

Wallonie 2084 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wallonie 2084

2004

Irkutz 88 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Irkutz 88

2004

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Furor Teutonicus

1999

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Furor Teutonicus

1999

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NR

Early avant-garde horror short from Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Altar of Repose

1975

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NR

Early avant-garde horror short from Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Altar of Repose

1975

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Cauchemar

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Rock Mendes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rock Mendes

2006

Dossier Réincarnation poster
4.0

In rural Belgium, a police inspector investigates a series of murders that may be connected to sinister supernatural forces.

Dossier Réincarnation

1977

Karminsky-Grad poster
NR

The incorrigible Stalinist Bolshevik Igor Yaboutich is determined to destroy the Christian West with the ultimate weapon of mass destruction: the atomic bomb! Charleroi, renamed Karminsky Grad for the occasion, is where this diabolical plan will be carried out. In the nuclear weapons factory, the sinister Vladimir Karminsky and Reinhard Heydrich rule with an iron fist. They mercilessly oppress the working class, who revolt and murder their bosses. Chaos breaks out. The situation seems uncontrollable for the Chinese, Arab, Russian, and German leaders, who are all united here against the Americans. Only Igor Yaboutich remains standing in this city of madness. Will he unleash a new world war?

Karminsky-Grad

2011

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NR

The husbands set out in search of their wives, who have been kidnapped by Doctor Loiseau and his accomplices. The latter is hiding in a secret hideout. Still assisted by Irene the hunchback, the charlatan doctor leads a team of workers tasked with producing bottles of the precious miracle elixir 'Force Unie'.

Le Docteur Loiseau et ses sinistres augures

2008

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NR

The husbands set out in search of their wives, who have been kidnapped by Doctor Loiseau and his accomplices. The latter is hiding in a secret hideout. Still assisted by Irene the hunchback, the charlatan doctor leads a team of workers tasked with producing bottles of the precious miracle elixir 'Force Unie'.

Le Docteur Loiseau et ses sinistres augures

2008

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NR

A young woman commits suicide on her wedding day. Forty years later, her husband still lives in pain and despair, alone and losing himself to poetry books. One day, old and close to his death, he decides to leave his house and take one last action.

Germaine Grandier

1972

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NR

Denounced by a rival doctor, Dr. Loiseau is once again being pursued by the husbands of the women he kidnapped. He therefore instructs his son Victor to honor his appointments. Victor must meet Emir Azmir Krabouk, a criminal specializing in white slavery, on a sailboat. Jacques Ladrier, one of the husbands and a wealthy oil industrialist, is about to marry Angèle Jaucaut, his newly freed fiancée. Dr. Loiseau takes advantage of the ceremony to kidnap a few more women...

Le Retour du Docteur Loiseau

2008

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NR

Denounced by a rival doctor, Dr. Loiseau is once again being pursued by the husbands of the women he kidnapped. He therefore instructs his son Victor to honor his appointments. Victor must meet Emir Azmir Krabouk, a criminal specializing in white slavery, on a sailboat. Jacques Ladrier, one of the husbands and a wealthy oil industrialist, is about to marry Angèle Jaucaut, his newly freed fiancée. Dr. Loiseau takes advantage of the ceremony to kidnap a few more women...

Le Retour du Docteur Loiseau

2008

Docteur Loiseau: la solution finale poster
NR

The film tells the story of a kind of depraved Dr. Mabuse who takes advantage of his status as a healer to kidnap women who come to consult him in the hope of being cured of various so-called female ailments.

Docteur Loiseau: la solution finale

2014

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NR

Dr. Loiseau organizes bizarre screenings in a tent, assisted by a carnival barker, a hunchbacked nurse, a disgraced wrestler, and an ex-convict. Together, they devise ways to attract women by leading them to believe that the doctor knows the miracle cure for cervical and breast cancer.

Les Maîtresses du Docteur Loiseau

2008

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NR

Dr. Loiseau organizes bizarre screenings in a tent, assisted by a carnival barker, a hunchbacked nurse, a disgraced wrestler, and an ex-convict. Together, they devise ways to attract women by leading them to believe that the doctor knows the miracle cure for cervical and breast cancer.

Les Maîtresses du Docteur Loiseau

2008

Fuyons les Monstres poster
NR

Madness has reached its peak in Wallonia.

Fuyons les Monstres

2007

L'invasion des succubes poster
NR

Born of the medical rape of a Soviet professor on a young Russian-Mongolian woman, a hybrid child, enriched with the blood of a Nazi doctor, is kidnapped by succubi. The fat of the scalded newborn will restore their queen Melustine's power to regenerate. In a secret laboratory, three mad doctors work toward a common goal: the destruction of the world. The first doctor, a Nazi, proved himself in Irkutsk. The second doctor, Dr. Jean Petio, struck off the medical register, is a member of the National Front. The third is Dr. Vasiliev, a member of the KGB and sympathizer of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Supporting them is Hans Kramer, a former Hitler Youth member and son of Junkers Kramer, the ace of the Tiger tanks at Stalingrad and the 88mm cannon. Together, they form the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. At the crowing of the rooster, one of them sets off to deliver the child. This is the beginning of Operation Attila.

L'invasion des succubes

2006

Le 1er juillet chez Olga poster
NR

The owner of a café frequented by down-and-outs refuses to comply with the anti-smoking law (in Belgium, smoking has been banned in enclosed public places since July 1, 2011). On that day, a customer, Tony Belzébuth, fails to pay his bill. Olga refuses to serve him another beer until he has paid. Furious, he informs the REF (the Fair Fraud Investigation Unit) of all the misdeeds committed by the owner and going on in this sordid café.

Le 1er juillet chez Olga

2011

Le 1er juillet chez Olga poster
NR

The owner of a café frequented by down-and-outs refuses to comply with the anti-smoking law (in Belgium, smoking has been banned in enclosed public places since July 1, 2011). On that day, a customer, Tony Belzébuth, fails to pay his bill. Olga refuses to serve him another beer until he has paid. Furious, he informs the REF (the Fair Fraud Investigation Unit) of all the misdeeds committed by the owner and going on in this sordid café.

Le 1er juillet chez Olga

2011

La revanche du sacristain cannibale poster
NR

But why did the sacristan of Obaix devour his father, his mother, a number of women, and his cat? Joseph Charles, sacristan of a small town in French-speaking Europe, loses his wife in highly mysterious circumstances. On her deathbed, she left him a child, whom the sacristan gave to a charity. Living alone since his wife's death, the sacristan is no longer able to cope with the daily grind of his poor existence. The sacristy has become a veritable pigsty and the housework is insurmountable.

La revanche du sacristain cannibale

2006

L'histoire du cinema 16 II poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'histoire du cinema 16 II

2005

L'histoire du cinéma 16 III poster
NR

The third and final film in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's trilogy L'histoire du cinéma 16 (The History of Cinema 16).

L'histoire du cinéma 16 III

2008

Casanova Forever : Des vierges pour Satan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Casanova Forever : Des vierges pour Satan

2010

L'Histoire du cinéma 16 poster
NR

Jean-Jacques Rousseau has just finished his last film, shot in unworthy conditions. He is preparing to show it to the movie critics of a local newspaper. The filmmaker launches the first images but these reveal all the problems that a non-professional filmmaker may encounter.

L'Histoire du cinéma 16

1983

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5.0

A mad scientist attempts to create a new race of human beings in his backwoods laboratory, add in nazis, disco dancers, and serial killers and hijinks ensue.

The Diabolical Dr. Flak

1978

Un colonial chez les Celtes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un colonial chez les Celtes

2011

Un colonial chez les Celtes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un colonial chez les Celtes

2011

Le chasseur de succubes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le chasseur de succubes

2006

The Cursed Dagger poster
NR

A completely naked man rides a motorcycle through the city. He arrives on a bumpy path at the edge of a wood. There he sees a scarecrow. He grabs his clothes to dress himself in them and hears a voice. He turns around and sees a hanged man with a dagger in his heart. A message hangs from the hanged man warning: “Whoever you are, if you remove the dagger from my heart, you will be cursed. » Fascinated, he goes beyond the prohibition. Struck by the curse, he transforms into a nightmarish creature, ready to relive the ordeal of his predecessor by liquidating everyone.

The Cursed Dagger

1965

The Cursed Dagger poster
NR

A completely naked man rides a motorcycle through the city. He arrives on a bumpy path at the edge of a wood. There he sees a scarecrow. He grabs his clothes to dress himself in them and hears a voice. He turns around and sees a hanged man with a dagger in his heart. A message hangs from the hanged man warning: “Whoever you are, if you remove the dagger from my heart, you will be cursed. » Fascinated, he goes beyond the prohibition. Struck by the curse, he transforms into a nightmarish creature, ready to relive the ordeal of his predecessor by liquidating everyone.

The Cursed Dagger

1965

The Cursed Dagger poster
NR

A completely naked man rides a motorcycle through the city. He arrives on a bumpy path at the edge of a wood. There he sees a scarecrow. He grabs his clothes to dress himself in them and hears a voice. He turns around and sees a hanged man with a dagger in his heart. A message hangs from the hanged man warning: “Whoever you are, if you remove the dagger from my heart, you will be cursed. » Fascinated, he goes beyond the prohibition. Struck by the curse, he transforms into a nightmarish creature, ready to relive the ordeal of his predecessor by liquidating everyone.

The Cursed Dagger

1965

La Mécanique du Rasoir poster
NR

Aloïs de Snefeler, a maniacal executioner, dotes on his companion. She goes by the sweet name of Louise and does her father, Dr. Ignace Guillotin, proud. At the widow's feet, heads roll. But not just any heads... The executioner's favorite prey is female. Thieves or adulteresses, magpies or impious women, peasant women or courtesans, they all end up with their heads in the basket. Around Aloïs, the ranks are thinning, but beware! ... He who cuts last cuts well!

La Mécanique du Rasoir

2006

L'amputeur Wallon poster
NR

Traumatized during his childhood by the arbitrary amputation of his uncle's leg, a smoker spreads terror throughout the Charleroi region. Under the orders of a manipulative tour guide, he hunts down a group of clumsy tourists. He takes a few body parts with him to satisfy his mistress (arms, fingers, legs, etc.). The press picks up on this event, which causes a stir among the local population...

L'amputeur Wallon

2011