Jean-Daniel Simon

Directing

Jean-Daniel Simon

Born — Died

1942-11-30 — 2021-02-03

Place of birth

Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Known for

Love at Sea poster
7.1

During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...

Love at Sea

1965

Them poster
4.3

An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man moves into the boarding house, he brings a machine he invented that can make people realize their subconscious dreams...

Them

1970

Camp de Thiaroye poster
7.5

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among them are charismatic Sergeant Diatta, educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a soldier left in a state of shock who can only communicate in guttural screams and grunts.

Camp de Thiaroye

1988

Vice and Virtue poster
5.6

1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privileged life. Her younger sister Justine (Virtue) is about to marry Jean who is in the Resistance and come to Juliette for help. Both sisters end up at "la Commanderie", where Juliette becomes SS Colonel Schonberg's mistress and Justine is detained with other pretty girls who must satisfy the sexual needs of high-ranking nazi officials. Inspired by "Justine ou les infortunes de la vertu" by the marquis de Sade

Vice and Virtue

1963

The Girl Across the Way poster
4.0

A young student visits the home of a friend who has all the good looks, women and luck. Every day, through binoculars from his friend's window, he sees a young girl in front of her home. Although attractive, the woman's face has been badly scarred. He finds out her phone number and the two engage in pleasant conversation. He gets up enough nerve to ask to meet her in person, but the socially inept young man becomes paralyzed with fear. He again summons the courage to meet with her before he is plagued with fear once again.

The Girl Across the Way

1968

Adélaïde poster
5.0

A mother and her daughter both have a relationship with the same man.

Adélaïde

1968

Film credits

1960s · 2 titles

Behind the camera

Them poster
4.3

An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man moves into the boarding house, he brings a machine he invented that can make people realize their subconscious dreams...

Them

1970

The Girl Across the Way poster
4.0

A young student visits the home of a friend who has all the good looks, women and luck. Every day, through binoculars from his friend's window, he sees a young girl in front of her home. Although attractive, the woman's face has been badly scarred. He finds out her phone number and the two engage in pleasant conversation. He gets up enough nerve to ask to meet her in person, but the socially inept young man becomes paralyzed with fear. He again summons the courage to meet with her before he is plagued with fear once again.

The Girl Across the Way

1968

Adélaïde poster
5.0

A mother and her daughter both have a relationship with the same man.

Adélaïde

1968

Adélaïde poster
5.0

A mother and her daughter both have a relationship with the same man.

Adélaïde

1968

Il pleut toujours où c'est mouillé poster
9.0

Focusing on the characters of those involved, this French drama explores a political campaign in a small town and the corruption which enters into it. Sex education gets the countrified locals all roused up against a citified school reformer, even though it is actually a side issue. The farmer whose concerns are picked up as a theme by the right-wing politicos figures out that he is being used.

Il pleut toujours où c'est mouillé

1975

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ben Chavis, les dix de Wilmington

1977

Angela Davis, l'enchaînement poster
NR

After meeting with the imprisoned symbol of the oppression of black people and other world minorities, a French filmmaker makes a documentary about her fight for liberation.

Angela Davis, l'enchaînement

1977