
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
6.0A tale of mad love.
Mathieu-Fou
1967
5.3After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the cause of the Undead.
The Rape of the Vampire
1968
Monsieur Meuçieu wants to escape from an absurd society, in vain.
The Short Life of Monsieur Meucieu
1962
NRRushes of an incomplete short film, narrated by director Jean-Denis Bonan.
A Crime of Love
1965
4.2Paris, 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
5.0In 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
Documentary on director Jean-Denis Bonan.
On the Margin: The Cursed Films of Jean-Denis Bonan
2015
NRExperimental short with a fictional plot about using fantastic film artwork.
Liberta, agent spacial anti-mythe
1970
Behind the camera
6.0A tale of mad love.
Mathieu-Fou
1967
6.0A tale of mad love.
Mathieu-Fou
1967
Monsieur Meuçieu wants to escape from an absurd society, in vain.
The Short Life of Monsieur Meucieu
1962
Monsieur Meuçieu wants to escape from an absurd society, in vain.
The Short Life of Monsieur Meucieu
1962
NRRushes of an incomplete short film, narrated by director Jean-Denis Bonan.
A Crime of Love
1965
NRIn 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
4.2Paris, 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
4.2Paris, 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
4.2Paris, 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bleu Pâlebourg
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bleu Pâlebourg
2019
5.0In 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
5.0In 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
5.0In 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
7.9A 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
NRAn interview of French film director Marcel Carné by Didier Decoin
Marcel Carné: My Life in Film
1995
A primer on French film director Marcel Carne's career through interviews with critics and close creative collaborators.
Carné, You Said Carné?
1994
NRWhile 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
NRParis, may 1968. In the streets, on the barricades, an insurrection of poetry.
Le Bel émoi de mai
1968
6.0The questioning of an individual lost in the society of man.
A Season with Mankind
1967
6.0The questioning of an individual lost in the society of man.
A Season with Mankind
1967
NRA 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
NRIt 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Wanted Sherlock Holmes
2002