Guy de Maupassant

Writing

Guy de Maupassant

Born — Died

1850-08-05 — 1893-07-06

Place of birth

Château de Miromesnil, France

Known for

Writing

Credits

10 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Nuit sombre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nuit sombre

2001

Morning Vigil poster
NR

A pious sister and her inflexible brother mourn the passing of their beloved mother.

Morning Vigil

2025

Private Collections poster
5.9

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?

Private Collections

1979

No artwork available
NR

Based on the short story by Guy De Maupassant.

The Hand

1920

The Evening poster
4.3

Unfinished film by Jean Eustache . A couple kisses. A group of friends talk inside a room. One of them reads from a paper.

The Evening

1961

Le Petit Fût poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Petit Fût

2008

Was it a Dream poster
NR

Based on the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. Was It a Dream? fallows a grieving young man visiting a graveyard. However, things do no go as planned upon arrival.

Was it a Dream

2020

Two Friends poster
7.0

The story closes in Paris in January 1871, at the height of the siege, and introduces the main character, Monsieur Morissot, a watchmaker who has enrolled in the National Guard. Morissot, who is bored, hungry, and depressed, is walking along the boulevard when by chance he bumps into an old friend, Monsieur Sauvage, with whom he used to go fishing before the war. The two old friends reminisce over several glasses of absinthe in a café;, talking wistfully of the pleasant Sunday afternoons they used to spend fishing on the banks of the Seine before the war. Tipsy from the absinthe, the friends, for want of anything else to do, decide to go fishing in their old spot, and having obtained a laissez-passer from their officer, walk along the river to Argenteuil, a few miles west of the city, in the no man's land between the French and Prussian lines.

Two Friends

1946

The Spice of Wickedness poster
NR

Oxford, 18th C. Nobleman's wife lures husband away from his mistress.

The Spice of Wickedness

1983

Black Humor poster
6.0

A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during a "magic act" performed by an amateur. A strange widow comes to inquire about the services of a new marriage agency. A peasant woman tormented by a bug in her ear barges into a healer's house.

Black Humor

1965