Josée Dayan

Directing

Josée Dayan

Born 1943-10-06 · Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France

Josée Dayan (born 6 October 1943 in Toulouse, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Dayan grew up in Algiers, Algeria, where her father Albert Dagnant, who came from a Jewish family, worked as a television director; her grandmother was the owner of a cinema. Since 1974 she directed mainly movies for television. In 1979, under her direction, a documentary about Simone de Beauvoir appeared. Her most successful works are the 1998 TV mini-series The Count of Monte Cristo with Gérard Depardieu in the lead role, and the 2002 mini-series Les Misérables with Depardieu and John Malkovich. Then there is Balzac: A Passionate Life (1999) and Cet amour-là (2001), both with Jeanne Moreau,[5] and Raspoutine (2011) with Depardieu. A major success was Les Liaisons dangereuses (2003) with Catherine Deneuve and Nastassja Kinski in the leading roles. Source: Article "Josée Dayan" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Goodbye Vinyle poster
5.6

Late 1950s in France. One woman, two men. She, Ève Faugère, a glamorous diva at the peak of her career. The man, her husband, Maurice Faugère, an immense author who made her and propelled her for years to the firmament of the song. And finally the lover, Jean Leprat, her pianist who adores her and burns with passion for her. The atrocious poison of jealousy will consume them to the point of tragedy, the trap of a Machiavellian plot will take them all three. And she, the other one, the so pretty Florence, so fresh. This ambitious young singer, ready to do anything to overthrow the one she admires, is she not also caught in the trap of a diabolical game that is beyond her? Where does the danger come from? Who is orchestrating this fatal merry-go-round engraved in the vinyl of the brand new singles that brings its poisonous message every day? Who will die? Who will survive?

Goodbye Vinyle

2023

Bouquet final poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bouquet final

2011

Milady poster
4.0

Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.

Milady

2004

Milady poster
4.0

Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.

Milady

2004

Hot Chocolate poster
3.2

B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory, specialized in chocolate truffles...

Hot Chocolate

1992

Second Chances poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Second Chances

2012

Indiscrétions poster
5.0

A piano teacher suspects her entourage of being responsible for the disappearance of a former pupil she was putting up. She starts to grow suspicious of everyone's behavior.

Indiscrétions

2013

Indiscrétions poster
5.0

A piano teacher suspects her entourage of being responsible for the disappearance of a former pupil she was putting up. She starts to grow suspicious of everyone's behavior.

Indiscrétions

2013

Quand sort la recluse poster
5.9

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.

Quand sort la recluse

2019

Balzac: A Life of Passion poster
5.7

This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.

Balzac: A Life of Passion

1999

Rasputin poster
4.8

A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.

Rasputin

2013

Marie-Octobre poster
6.0

After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...

Marie-Octobre

2008

La passion du docteur Bergh poster
10.0

A respected German doctor, head surgeon of a hospital, sees his career jeopardized when a childhood love reappears.

La passion du docteur Bergh

1998

Mourir d'aimer poster
8.4

Priests and educational institutions try to put an end to a forbidden love between a 16-year-old student and his 40-year-old teacher.

Mourir d'aimer

2009

Mourir d'aimer poster
8.4

Priests and educational institutions try to put an end to a forbidden love between a 16-year-old student and his 40-year-old teacher.

Mourir d'aimer

2009

Château en Suède poster
NR

In a castle, isolated in the heart of winter, lives a strange family: Hugo, in his forties; Eléonore, his wife; Aunt Agathe, Hugo's sister, an old maid attached to traditions; Sébastien, Eléonore's brother, to whom he is devoted with a troubled affection. Frédéric, a young student, is welcomed by the family and stays at the castle for a while to research a family ancestor. A complex game of manipulation then begins, orchestrated by all the family members, during which Frédéric finds love, at the risk of his life...

Château en Suède

2008

L'Étrange monsieur Joseph poster
7.0

Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jew married to Eva and father of Theresa, lives in Paris in 1939, on the eve of World War II. He managed to make his place in society by trading scrap.

L'Étrange monsieur Joseph

2001

The Chalk Circle Man poster
7.1

For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles containing odd objects. Policeman Adamsberg gets involved when a dead woman is found in one of the circles.

The Chalk Circle Man

2009

The Chalk Circle Man poster
7.1

For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles containing odd objects. Policeman Adamsberg gets involved when a dead woman is found in one of the circles.

The Chalk Circle Man

2009

Plein fer poster
5.5

The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of the country) with steel balls on a packed-earth court. While these games have a bucolic, countrified and even genteel air about them, competition and betting are fierce. In this sports/crime thriller, a young man whose father was killed for violating the unspoken roles of the game in professional competition trains with his grandfather to become a champion boules player just like his father.

Plein fer

1990

La Femme rompue poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Femme rompue

1978

Ni reprise, ni échangée poster
6.0

Juliette, a mother of wealthy family and a little snobbish, has gradually developed a kind of generalized contempt against his fellows. One day a bunch of little naive thugs manages to remove it. Because it is often obnoxious with his entourage, his family decided not to pay anything for her release. Shocked, Ellie began to join her captors in order to concoct a revenge more expensive. The unsympathetic billionaire turns against her will in a sort of Robin embittered and vengeful wood. Soon, his family is forced to pay more attention to his kidnapping: worrying samples are taken by Juliette, free-spending ...

Ni reprise, ni échangée

2010

Ni reprise, ni échangée poster
6.0

Juliette, a mother of wealthy family and a little snobbish, has gradually developed a kind of generalized contempt against his fellows. One day a bunch of little naive thugs manages to remove it. Because it is often obnoxious with his entourage, his family decided not to pay anything for her release. Shocked, Ellie began to join her captors in order to concoct a revenge more expensive. The unsympathetic billionaire turns against her will in a sort of Robin embittered and vengeful wood. Soon, his family is forced to pay more attention to his kidnapping: worrying samples are taken by Juliette, free-spending ...

Ni reprise, ni échangée

2010

Je tue à la campagne poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Je tue à la campagne

1987