
Directing
Élie Chouraqui
Born 1950-07-03 · Paris, France
Élie Chouraqui (born 3 July 1950) is a French film director and scriptwriter. His 1996 film Les menteurs was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. He made several films with Anouk Aimée. In his younger days he was a volleyball enthusiast and was captain of the French Volleyball team at the European and World championships winning 112 caps. He commentated on volleyball from French Television at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Source: Article "Élie Chouraqui" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Acting credits
6.4A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
The Party 2
1982
NRThrough exclusive interviews, rare archival footage, and intimate behind-the-scenes access, TOVAH traces Tovah Feldshuh’s ascent from a daring young actress to a Broadway institution and cultural icon.
TOVAH
2026
5.8An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.
The Student
1988
6.6When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
Money Money Money
1972
6.1A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
O Jerusalem
2006
7.3Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
Happy New Year
1973
6.6A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
The Slap
1974
7.1A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed.
The Beautiful Story
1992
6.0The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
And Now My Love
1974
Behind the camera
5.7Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
Man on Fire
1987
5.7Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
Man on Fire
1987
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Les Héros du Louvre
2026
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Les Héros du Louvre
2026
6.51991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him.
Harrison's Flowers
2000
6.51991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him.
Harrison's Flowers
2000
6.51991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him.
Harrison's Flowers
2000
6.1A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
O Jerusalem
2006
6.1A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
O Jerusalem
2006
6.1A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
O Jerusalem
2006
6.4Nathan loved Helen, a young American comedian. He lets her return back to the United States. When he realized he made a mistake, he decides to go to Chicago and find her.
Miss Missouri
1990
6.4Nathan loved Helen, a young American comedian. He lets her return back to the United States. When he realized he made a mistake, he decides to go to Chicago and find her.
Miss Missouri
1990
5.0When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a duo, Jeremy and Michel, and jump-starts their music careers. Jeremy is attracted to the older Margaux, asserts himself with her, befriends her children, and neglects Michel and their music. The kids go to New York to be with their father Peter, freeing Margaux to respond to Jeremy. Does that relationship have any future? And what of the musical duo?
Paroles et musique
1984
5.0When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a duo, Jeremy and Michel, and jump-starts their music careers. Jeremy is attracted to the older Margaux, asserts himself with her, befriends her children, and neglects Michel and their music. The kids go to New York to be with their father Peter, freeing Margaux to respond to Jeremy. Does that relationship have any future? And what of the musical duo?
Paroles et musique
1984
5.0When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a duo, Jeremy and Michel, and jump-starts their music careers. Jeremy is attracted to the older Margaux, asserts himself with her, befriends her children, and neglects Michel and their music. The kids go to New York to be with their father Peter, freeing Margaux to respond to Jeremy. Does that relationship have any future? And what of the musical duo?
Paroles et musique
1984
5.2Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before locating Zac who has since become a homeless street bum in an expensive neighborhood. Marcus sends Zac to a posh hotel. He then sends Daisy, an ambitious secretary and aspiring screenwriter to learn what happened to the great director. It takes a lot of mutual verbal sparring and false turns (which are presented as creatively filmed vignettes that are done using a variety of techniques) from Zac before he finally tells her the truth. The two then decide to turn the story into a film. As they write, Daisy and Zac slowly fall in love. At the same time, Marcus has his hands full trying to avoid some tough Russian Mafiosos who want the money they invested back.
The Liars
1996
5.2Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before locating Zac who has since become a homeless street bum in an expensive neighborhood. Marcus sends Zac to a posh hotel. He then sends Daisy, an ambitious secretary and aspiring screenwriter to learn what happened to the great director. It takes a lot of mutual verbal sparring and false turns (which are presented as creatively filmed vignettes that are done using a variety of techniques) from Zac before he finally tells her the truth. The two then decide to turn the story into a film. As they write, Daisy and Zac slowly fall in love. At the same time, Marcus has his hands full trying to avoid some tough Russian Mafiosos who want the money they invested back.
The Liars
1996
6.7In Passy, Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly gets breathless. Together they spend the night at the bedside, and it develops from a trusting encounter a love relationship. When the doctor Hélène one day confesses his love, the daughter comes from jealousy in another, life-threatening crisis. A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Émile Zola, which addresses the social milieu of the bourgeois family in the "Second Empire".
Une page d'amour
1980
6.7In Passy, Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly gets breathless. Together they spend the night at the bedside, and it develops from a trusting encounter a love relationship. When the doctor Hélène one day confesses his love, the daughter comes from jealousy in another, life-threatening crisis. A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Émile Zola, which addresses the social milieu of the bourgeois family in the "Second Empire".
Une page d'amour
1980
6.0A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald.
The Origin of Violence
2016
7.0The Ten Commandments is a French musical comedy
The Ten Commandments
2001
7.0The Ten Commandments is a French musical comedy
The Ten Commandments
2001
NRSpartacus is a Thracian from the 1st century AD. A peasant and then a fighter, he joins the Roman army, which immediately makes him a slave. His resistance leads his masters to send him to a place where men live only a few months, a marble mine, in one of the hottest parts of Africa. In this hellish place, he sees a child die, which makes him furious. He is then "saved" by Batiatus, who turns him into a gladiator. He befriends other gladiators, Draba and David, and meets a slave who will become his wife, Calicia.
Spartacus le gladiateur
2004
NRSpartacus is a Thracian from the 1st century AD. A peasant and then a fighter, he joins the Roman army, which immediately makes him a slave. His resistance leads his masters to send him to a place where men live only a few months, a marble mine, in one of the hottest parts of Africa. In this hellish place, he sees a child die, which makes him furious. He is then "saved" by Batiatus, who turns him into a gladiator. He befriends other gladiators, Draba and David, and meets a slave who will become his wife, Calicia.
Spartacus le gladiateur
2004
