Writing

Jean-Claude Islert

Scénariste, Acteur, Dialoguiste.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

No artwork available
10.0

The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives.

Tendre piège

1996

Bitter Champagne poster
8.0

In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.

Bitter Champagne

1986

Gramps Is a Great Guy! poster
4.9

Nightclub musician Sebastian, discovers one evening with surprise that he is supposedly the grandfather of a boy with the same name as him.

Gramps Is a Great Guy!

1987

Le Paradis absolument poster
9.0

Gerard has just lost his job and his marital life is falling apart. He accidentally falls off a bridge and meets Sarah who believes he wanted to commit suicide.

Le Paradis absolument

1994

An Unlikely Couple poster
6.5

Two men on the brink of divorce are thrown together, yet everything opposes them: their tastes, habits, personalities. They have only one thing in common: their desire to get their wives back.

An Unlikely Couple

2001

Mes deux maris poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Mes deux maris

2005

Une journée de merde ! poster
5.0

This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in Paris and Marc will meet them for dinner to announce the engagement (her father can't stand him), he's bought Sabine a Spitfire, and his most important client is to sign a policy. But, as the day wears on, he's vexed by an incompetent secretary, the unexpected return of a girlfriend he hasn't seen in five years, squatters who use his office at night, the jealous former lover of a flight attendant who lives in the building, and his boss's unexpected return from a Swiss clinic. Will he reach Sabine in one piece?

Une journée de merde !

1999

Coup de chien poster
10.0

A blind man, a returning safecracker and a recently released ex-con organize a heist of a prosthesis factory to get some platinum. But nothing will happen as planned.

Coup de chien

1992

Un amour de cousine poster
7.0

Cheated on and fired from her job, Lucille leaves her suburb and moves to Paris with little hope of finding anything better. Shortly after arriving, she saves a desperate man from drowning. Pierre is also cheated on, but in terms of work, he is better off than Lucille: co-president of a large company, he lives in a luxurious apartment overlooking the Seine. To thank his benefactor, he offers her a place to stay for the night... This situation suits Lucille just fine, and she decides to stick around. Pierre is not at all pleased, as he finds the young woman to be a disaster, with manners that are too "common" for his taste, and who never misses an opportunity to put her foot in her mouth... The beginning of a turbulent and conflictual relationship. Will love conquer social differences?

Un amour de cousine

1998

Vous êtes libre ? poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vous êtes libre ?

2005

The Love Test poster
4.0

After Thierry asks for Sabine's hand in marriage, her best friend Elsa decides to test his faithfulness and sincerity by passing herself off as Sabine's country cousin and having Sabine ask Thierry to put her up for a few days in Paris.

The Love Test

2007

Chacun chez soi poster
6.0

Pierre Bazeille, a writer seeking a quiet place to work, sublets Félice's home, artist / sculptor in the Lot. While he is manic, meticulous and discreet, she is messy, cyclothymic and unpredictable. Living together will not go peacefully.

Chacun chez soi

2000

No artwork available
7.0

Take a handsome, friendly 40-year-old family man looking for a job. Put him in a room with a young executive woman, who's single, resolute and yearning for motherhood. Add a delightful little pony-tailed siren named Laura. Sprinkle with smiles and tuck into a charming tale... It's just that delightful little siren sometimes turn out to be terrible liars and a young "widower" can conceal a happily married man, wibly in love with his wife. Trouble's brewing...

Petite menteuse

1998

Tombé du nid poster
8.0

Max, a teenager, is having a difficult time coming of age. At 16, he is constantly in conflict with his parents. His father, Yvon, a lock and alarm manufacturer, does not understand this rebellious son. Worried about his future, he drowns Max's ambitions in a clumsy speech. Himself a bit clumsy, he doesn't know how to show him his affection. A gap is growing. One day, Max goes out without his parents' permission to attend a party organized by a friend. There, he meets his first true love, Audrey. But the young man is also insolent and is soon expelled from his school. His father reacts violently, and the teenager decides to run away.

Tombé du nid

1999

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tiercé gagnant

1990

L'amour est un jeu d'enfant poster
10.0

Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, lives with his divorced mother, a lawyer who lives only for his work. Children decide to organize a meeting between the two parents, but unfortunately, neither seems interested in the other. Still, the two friends did not give up and seek new ways for the emergence of love between their parents.

L'amour est un jeu d'enfant

1994

Une fille à papas poster
9.0

An energetic teenager gives a hard time to her father, an artist, and her stepfather, an unemployed executive not very comfortable with young people.

Une fille à papas

1996