Thomas Narcejac
Known for Writing
Born
July 3, 1908
Died
June 9, 1998 (age 89)
Birthplace
Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente-Maritime, France
Filmography
30 films, 4 shows
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Goodbye Vinyle
2023 · 1h 34m
country: France
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?
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Bad Seeds
2012 · 1h 35m
country: Belgium
Quiet 16-year-old Louis, the high school headmaster’s son, has never been in trouble. His best friend, 18-year-old Greg, however, is his polar opposite: provocative, angry, violent, he has been kicked out of school for physically threatening young English teacher Camille. When Greg asks Louis to help him take revenge on Camille, Louis accepts, fascinated...
Černá karta
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Černá karta
2005
country: Czech Republic
Second-rate writer Marton spends his not-yet-advanced old age in a luxurious retirement home. Apart from his grandson, who lives somewhere in Australia, he has no one else in the world. His wife left him long ago, but he cannot forget her. He feels he cannot bear the empty, monotonous life among equally abandoned people. He confides in his diary that he will commit suicide in the coming days. But then new guests arrive—the beautiful Mrs. Rouvrová and her disabled husband. A spark quickly ignites between Marton and Mrs. Rouvrová, and suicide is forgotten. But mysterious deaths begin to occur in the home, and soon there is no doubt that they are murders. Marton must ultimately suspect his late love, Mrs. Rouvrová...
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Les Victimes
1996 · 1h 34m
country: France
Paris, 1996. Parisian editor Pierre Duval has an affair with Claire, wife of wealthy architect Bernard Jaillac. The latter has to supervise a large-scale operation in Morocco, he asks Pierre to join them in the desert. Bernard is obssessed by another woman, but who is she really?
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Diabolique
1996 · 1h 47m
country: United States
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.
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House of Secrets
1993 · 2h
country: United States
Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns out to be more than she planned on as she begins to believe that her husband has come back from the dead to get her.
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Body Parts
1991 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.
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Das Geheimnis des gelben Geparden
1990 · 1h 32m
country: France
Since the death of her husband, a yellow cheetah has been the companion of the attractive Miriam. When the animal falls ill, the woman seeks the help of veterinarian François. The married vet falls for Miriam's mysterious charm and cannot resist her mysterious attraction. Little by little, strange things begin to happen...
V kleštích
V kleštích
1987
country: Czechoslovakia
Rückfahrt in den Tod
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Rückfahrt in den Tod
1986 · 1h 28m
country: Germany
Paul Kranz, the manager of a TEE that had just arrived from Hamburg, received terrible news in Paris. His wife Ruth is in a coma after a serious traffic accident. Mr. Kranz will return immediately. He finds an unknown key in his wife's purse. It belongs to an apartment where Ruth, obviously with someone else, has led a strange double life as a call girl. In his shame and disappointment, Kranz allows himself to be carried away into a knee-jerk action. This is how a crime happens without intention.
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Letters to an Unknown Lover
1986 · 1h 41m
country: France
During World War II, two allied soldiers escape from a Nazi POW camp to Lyons, where they accept the hospitality of mademoiselle Helene.
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The Illusion
1979 · 1h 52m
country: Egypt
Magdy, a successful engineer, is shocked by a fateful moment that he cannot forget, which is when one of the workers falls from a great height in front of him. Magdy decides to go to Alexandria, trying to forget that, and there he meets a couple, the husband, Safwat who loves his wife and meets all her needs, and the wife Souad, who receives this attention coldly since she discovers his greed for her wealth.
Ztrácím tě, lásko
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Ztrácím tě, lásko
1978
country: Czechoslovakia
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Reflections of Murder
1974 · 1h 37m
country: United States
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.
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Misdeal
1969 · 1h 36m
country: France
A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer – a man who is supposedly exiled in the Amazone. Christens is told this scheme will save Mr. Baer from ruin. An adaptation of Boileau and Narcejac's "D'entre les Morts".
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Where the Truth Lies
1962 · 1h 44m
country: France
A young veterinarian falls in love with a strange woman, a former explorer who might be a Voodoo priestess, after he comes to help her ailing cheetah. She begs him to return to Africa with her, but he doesn’t want to leave his wife. Soon his wife finds herself plagued by a series of bizarre accidents.
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Faces in the Dark
1960 · 1h 24m
country: United Kingdom
A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.
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Murder at 45 R.P.M.
1960 · 1h 22m
country: France
Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.
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Witness in the City
1959 · 1h 29m
country: France
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.
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Vertigo
1958 · 2h 8m
country: United States
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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Diabolique
1955 · 1h 58m
country: France
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.