Who wrote one of Jaume Collet-Serra's action-thrillers?
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Jaume Collet-Serra Jaume Collet-Serra (] ; born 23 March 1974) is a Spanish film director and producer. He is known for directing the horror remake "House of Wax" (2005), the psychological thriller "Orphan" (2009), the action-thrillers "Unknown" (2011), "Non-Stop" (2014), "Run All Night" (2015) and "The Commuter" (2018), and the survival horror-thriller "The Shallows" (2016).
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The Commuter (film) The Commuter is an upcoming action thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, and written by Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi. The film stars Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Sam Neill, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Banks, and Patrick Wilson. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on January 12, 2018, by Lionsgate, and in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2018, by StudioCanal.
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Jean Rouaud Jean Rouaud (born December 13, 1952) is a French author, who was born in Campbon, Loire-Atlantique. In 1990 his novel "Fields of Glory" (French: "Les Champs d'honneur") won the Prix Goncourt. First believed to be the first book in a trilogy, Fields of Glory turned out to be the first book in a series of five books on the family history of the author. In 2009 he published the novel "La femme promise".
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A Man Named Rocca A Man Named Rocca (French: "Un nommé La Rocca" , Italian: "Quello che spara per primo" ) is a 1961 French-Italian crime-thriller film directed by Jean Becker and starring Jean Paul Belmondo. It is based on the 1968 novel "L'Excommunié" by José Giovanni. Belmondo appeared in another film version of this novel in 1972, directed by Giovanni, called "Bad Luck".
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Thierry Jonquet Thierry Jonquet (January 19, 1954 – August 9, 2009) was a French writer who specialised in crime novels with political themes. He was born in Paris; his most recent and best known novel outside France was "Mygale" (1995), then published in the US in 2003 by City Lights. Mygale was also published in the UK as "Tarantula" in 2005 (Serpent's Tail). He wrote over 20 novels in French, including "Le bal des débris", "Moloch" and "Rouge c'est la vie".
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The Evil That Men Do (film) The Evil That Men Do is a 1984 Mexican-American-British action thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson, and starring Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, and Joseph Maher. The film was adapted by David Lee Henry and John Crowther from the novel of the same name by R. Lance Hill. Bronson plays a former assassin, who comes out of retirement to avenge the death of his journalist friend.
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The Torture Garden The Torture Garden (French: "Le Jardin des supplices" ) is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. The novel is ironically dedicated: "To the priests, the soldiers, the judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."
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Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas ( ; ] ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ] ; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, "père" ("father"), was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years After", and "". His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, "The Knight of Sainte-Hermine," unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar Claude Schopp who was the leading authority on Dumas and published in 2005, becoming a best seller. It was published in English in 2008 as "The Last Cavalier."
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The Bloodstained Shadow Solamente nero ("Only Blackness"), internationally released as The Bloodstained Shadow, is a 1978 Italian giallo film co-written and directed by Antonio Bido. The film was referred to as "a fine example of a competent giallo, as it contains all of the requisite elements". Paul Simpson wrote about the film: "The pacing goes awry, but Bido uses the unusual setting well and the murders are memorably gory."
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Three Men to Kill Trois hommes à abattre (English: Three Men to Kill ) is a French crime film released in 1980, directed by Jacques Deray, starring Alain Delon with Dalila Di Lazzaro. The screenplay is written by Jacques Deray, Alain Delon and Christopher Franck based on the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette.
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The Connection (2014 action film) The Connection (French: La French ) is a 2014 French-Belgian action crime thriller film directed by Cédric Jimenez and produced by Alain Goldman. The film was inspired by the events of the French Connection in the 1970s, starring Jean Dujardin as police magistrate Pierre Michel and Gilles Lellouche as Gaëtan "Tany" Zampa, a drug gang ringleader. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2014.
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The Killer (comics) The Killer ("Le Tueur") is a French comic book by writer Matz and artist Luc Jacamon which follows the life of an unnamed assassin.
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Agent X-77 Orders to Kill Agent X-77 Orders to Kill (French: "Baraka sur X 13" , Spanish: "Operación Silencio" , Italian: "Agente X77 ordine di uccidere" , also known as "Baraka for Secret Service") is a 1966 French-Spanish-Italian spy film directed by Maurice Cloche and starring Gérard Barray and Sylva Koscina. Silvio Siano is credited as co-director in the Italian version of the film due to co-production obligations. It is loosely based on the novel "Silence clinique" by Eddy Ghilain.
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Enemy (2013 film) Enemy is a 2013 psychological thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve, produced by M.S. Faura and Niv Fichman and written by Javier Gullón, loosely adapted from José Saramago's 2002 novel "The Double". The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent and Sarah Gadon and revolves around two men who are physically identical. It is also internationally co-produced by production companies from Spain and Canada.
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We Are All Murderers We Are All Murderers (French: "Nous sommes tous des assassins" , also known as "Are We All Murderers?") is a 1952 French film written and directed by André Cayatte, a former attorney. It tells the story of René, a young man from the slums, trained by the French Resistance in World War II to kill Germans. He continues to kill long after the war has ended, as it is all he knows.
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Retour de manivelle Retour de manivelle (English title: There's Always a Price Tag) is a 1957 French-language motion picture crime drama directed by Denys de La Patellière who co-wrote screenplay with Michel Audiard, based on the novel "There's Always a Price Tag" by James Hadley Chase. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Daniel Gélin and Michèle Mercier
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Ayerdhal Yal Ayerdhal (26 January 195927 October 2015) was a French thriller and science fiction writer from Lyon. His later work preferred the thriller genre; "Transparences", "Resurgences" and "Rainbow Warriors" play with various genres. "Rainbow Warriors" (published at the end of May 2013) flirts with political fiction with most protagonists being LGTBQ. He received the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 2004 for "Transparences" and in 1993 for his novel "Demain une oasis". He is considered one of the leading names in both genres. He shared the Prix Tour Eiffel with co-author Jean-Claude Dunyach for their 1999 novel "Étoiles mourantes". He also received an award for his novel "Parleur ou les chroniques d'un rêve enclavé" and two for "Transparences", a thriller. He also received the Cyrano award for lifetime achievement in the service of genre fiction and its actors.
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Le choc Le choc (English: "The Shock" ) is a 1982 French crime thriller film directed by Robin Davis and starring Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, and Philippe Léotard. Based on the novel "The Prone Gunman" ("La position du tireur couché") by Jean-Patrick Manchette, the film is about a hitman who wants to retire from his life in organized crime and flees to the country where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman.
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Diary of a Chambermaid (2015 film) Diary of a Chambermaid (French: Journal d'une femme de chambre ) is a 2015 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot, and written by Jacquot and Hélène Zimmer. It is an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel of the same name and stars Léa Seydoux as Célestine, a young and ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid for a wealthy couple in France during the early twentieth century.
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The Front Line (2009 film) The Front Line (Italian: "La prima linea" ) is a 2009 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Renato De Maria. It is based on the memoirs of the Prima Linea terrorist Sergio Segio.
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A Spiral of Mist A Spiral of Mist (Italian: "Una spirale di nebbia" , French: "Caresses bourgeoises" , also known as "Une spirale de brume") is a 1977 Italian-French thriller-drama film directed by Eriprando Visconti. It is based on the novel with the same name written by Michele Prisco.
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La Cage aux Folles (film) La Cage aux Folles is a 1978 Franco-Italian comedy film and the first film adaptation of Jean Poiret's 1973 play of the same name. It is co-written and directed by Édouard Molinaro and stars Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault.