Jean-Denis Bonan

Directing

Jean-Denis Bonan

Born 1942-01-01 · Tunis, French Protectorate Tunisia [now Tunisia]

Jean-Denis Bonan was born in 1942 in Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia [now Tunisia]. He is a director and writer, known for A Woman Kills (1968), Bleu Pâlebourg (2019) and Océaniques - Des idées des hommes des oeuvres (1987).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Mathieu-Fou poster
6.0

A tale of mad love.

Mathieu-Fou

1967

Mathieu-Fou poster
6.0

A tale of mad love.

Mathieu-Fou

1967

No artwork available
NR

Monsieur Meuçieu wants to escape from an absurd society, in vain.

The Short Life of Monsieur Meucieu

1962

No artwork available
NR

Monsieur Meuçieu wants to escape from an absurd society, in vain.

The Short Life of Monsieur Meucieu

1962

A Crime of Love poster
NR

Rushes of an incomplete short film, narrated by director Jean-Denis Bonan.

A Crime of Love

1965

Madame La France poster
NR

In Tunisia, in the small village of Takrouna, Kassem dreams only of going to France just as construction begins on the Club du Soleil, a vacation camp for tourists.

Madame La France

1977

A Woman Kills poster
4.2

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?

A Woman Kills

1968

A Woman Kills poster
4.2

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?

A Woman Kills

1968

A Woman Kills poster
4.2

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?

A Woman Kills

1968

Bleu Pâlebourg poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bleu Pâlebourg

2019

Bleu Pâlebourg poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bleu Pâlebourg

2019

Sadness of the Anthropophagi poster
5.0

In a world where everything is forbidden except what is obligatory, a man recalls what led him to work in a very strange fast food restaurant.

Sadness of the Anthropophagi

1966

Sadness of the Anthropophagi poster
5.0

In a world where everything is forbidden except what is obligatory, a man recalls what led him to work in a very strange fast food restaurant.

Sadness of the Anthropophagi

1966

Sadness of the Anthropophagi poster
5.0

In a world where everything is forbidden except what is obligatory, a man recalls what led him to work in a very strange fast food restaurant.

Sadness of the Anthropophagi

1966

Cinétracts poster
7.9

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.

Cinétracts

1968

Marcel Carné: My Life in Film poster
NR

An interview of French film director Marcel Carné by Didier Decoin

Marcel Carné: My Life in Film

1995

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NR

A primer on French film director Marcel Carne's career through interviews with critics and close creative collaborators.

Carné, You Said Carné?

1994

Oui Mais 68 ! poster
NR

While rehearsals for his new production, Oui Mais 68 !, are underway, François Tusques looks back on his musical career and his commitments.

Oui Mais 68 !

2018

Le Bel émoi de mai poster
NR

Paris, may 1968. In the streets, on the barricades, an insurrection of poetry.

Le Bel émoi de mai

1968

A Season with Mankind poster
6.0

The questioning of an individual lost in the society of man.

A Season with Mankind

1967

A Season with Mankind poster
6.0

The questioning of an individual lost in the society of man.

A Season with Mankind

1967

Les tueurs d’ordinaire poster
NR

A lost young girl enters the service of a couple of misfits with incomprehensible morals. Madame only wants to wear her wedding dress and the gentleman observes the spiders and sprays their webs with paint. They live in a bushy area, in a house overrun with boxes, and take charge of leaving without any idea of ​​their destination. An inspector is trying to figure out what he can and God is walking around the property. One thing is certain, there is something wrong.

Les tueurs d’ordinaire

2022

School for Fools poster
NR

It is the land of madmen. Those who earn the right to be mad see arabesques or lines blossom on their faces, which are a source of pride.

School for Fools

1968

Wanted Sherlock Holmes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wanted Sherlock Holmes

2002