Directing
Alain Berbérian
Born — Died
1953-07-02 — 2017-08-22
Place of birth
Beyrouth, Lebanon
Known for
Directing
Credits
12 titles
Alain Berbérian (2 July 1953 – 22 August 2017) was a French film director and writer of Armenian descent. Born in Beirut to an Armenian father and a Greek mother, Berbérian spent his youth in Lebanon before finishing his studies in France. He was the brother of cartoonist Charles Berberian. He began his career in the audiovisual field, working as an editor at Canal+. His first feature film was the comedy La Cité de la peur, which was hit in France. Based on a script by Les Nuls, the film describes a series of murders in Cannes. Berbérian returned in 1998 with Paparazzi, starring Vincent Lindon and Patrick Timsit. The film follows the life of a night watchman (Timsit) who is fired after bei…
Known for
5.9Jack Palmer is a Paris-based detective with a huge ego. Ange Leoni is a rebel native of Corsica whose location can't be pinned down by even the most dogged of detectives. Approached by an obscure, small-time attorney and charged with the seemingly simple task of locating the missing Leoni, gifted gumshoe Palmer accepts the job under the assumption that it will be the easiest money of his professional career. But this superstar sleuth is about to find out just how mistaken he was...
The Corsican File
2004
7.5A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994
5.8After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.
Dead Weight
2002
7.4No synopsis available yet.
L'Intégrule 2 - Les Nuls
2004
4.4A treasure buried on an island of the Antilles. A pirate without a straight leg, without a boat, treacherous and bloodthirsty and without the treasure map. A baroness flamboyant, unscrupulous, praying mantis, penniless, but with a boat. A young man without fear and without brains, but with the treasure map engraved somewhere in his failing memory. A doctor without drinking, providential specialist of failing memories and other atypical amnesia ... It is this dream team that sails anchor one morning in the year of grace a thousand and seven hundred and a few, towards the treasure island and its coves of pink sand.
Treasure Island
2007
7.4No synopsis available yet.
L'Intégrule - Les Nuls
2003
Behind the camera
5.9Jack Palmer is a Paris-based detective with a huge ego. Ange Leoni is a rebel native of Corsica whose location can't be pinned down by even the most dogged of detectives. Approached by an obscure, small-time attorney and charged with the seemingly simple task of locating the missing Leoni, gifted gumshoe Palmer accepts the job under the assumption that it will be the easiest money of his professional career. But this superstar sleuth is about to find out just how mistaken he was...
The Corsican File
2004
7.5A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994
5.8After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.
Dead Weight
2002
7.4No synopsis available yet.
L'Intégrule 2 - Les Nuls
2004
4.4A treasure buried on an island of the Antilles. A pirate without a straight leg, without a boat, treacherous and bloodthirsty and without the treasure map. A baroness flamboyant, unscrupulous, praying mantis, penniless, but with a boat. A young man without fear and without brains, but with the treasure map engraved somewhere in his failing memory. A doctor without drinking, providential specialist of failing memories and other atypical amnesia ... It is this dream team that sails anchor one morning in the year of grace a thousand and seven hundred and a few, towards the treasure island and its coves of pink sand.
Treasure Island
2007
7.4No synopsis available yet.
L'Intégrule - Les Nuls
2003
5.7A serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the US embassy and being in the middle of a french-american economical affair.
Six-Pack
2000
5.0Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.
Paparazzi
1998
5.0Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.
Paparazzi
1998
NRA young woman thinks she's being stalked.
Short Night
1986
NRA young woman thinks she's being stalked.
Short Night
1986
7.6No synopsis available yet.
Les Nuls : La Pub
1992