Thomas Narcejac
Nacimiento : 1908-07-03, Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente-Maritime, France
Muerte : 1998-06-09
Historia
Boileau-Narcejac is the nom de plume under which French crime fiction writers Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906, Paris – 16 January 1989, Beaulieu-sur-Mer) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908, Rochefort-sur-Mer – 9 June 1998, Nice) collaborated. A number of their works were adapted for film, including the renowned Les Diaboliques, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. They also notably adapted the novel Les yeux sans visage by Jean Redon into the horror film known in English as Eyes Without a Face (1960).
Individually, Boileau and Narcejac were each winners of the prestigious Prix du Roman d'Aventures, awarded each year to the best work of detective fiction, French or foreign: Boileau for Le Repos de Bacchus in 1938 and Narcejac for La Mort est du Voyage in 1948, each a locked-room mystery. They met in 1948 at the award dinner for Narcejac, to which Boileau — as a prior winner — had also been invited. Their collaboration began soon after, with Boileau providing the plots and Narcejac the atmosphere and characterisation, not unlike Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee ("Ellery Queen").
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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...
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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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Guy, el tiránico director de un colegio privado, es odiado por sus alumnos, por su esposa Mia, e incluso por su amante, Nicole. Hartas de sus abusos, ambas mujeres deciden asesinarlo. El plan parece salir bien, pero pronto, para su horror y perplejidad, diferentes personas del colegio aseguran haber hablado o visto a Guy. Para colmo de males, una tenaz detective decide investigar el caso.
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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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Un psicólogo (Jeff Fahey) pierde un brazo en un accidente de coche y le es implantado el de un asesino. Pronto empezará a darle problemas, y además descubrirá que tras la operación se esconde un diabólico experimento que implica a otros dos pacientes más...
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During World War II, two allied soldiers escape from a Nazi POW camp to Lyons, where they accept the hospitality of mademoiselle Helene.
Book
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La acción transcurre en un colegio de niños, en régimen de internado, regentado por un matrimonio. El marido es un verdadero déspota y continuamente somete a la mujer a una presión insostenible. Ante la negativa del divorcio, la mujer habla con una amiga, también profesora, y ésta le propone matar al marido, como única posibilidad de terminar con los sufrimientos de aquélla. Adaptación de la novela que dio origen al clásico film de Clouzot "Las diabólicas" (1955).
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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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Film de sketches que giran en torno al mensaje del título.
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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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An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.
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A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.
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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.
Screenplay
En París, un brillante y desquiciado cirujano rapta chicas con el fin de utilizar su piel para reconstruir la belleza de su hija, destrozada por un trágico accidente del que él se siente culpable.
Adaptation
En París, un brillante y desquiciado cirujano rapta chicas con el fin de utilizar su piel para reconstruir la belleza de su hija, destrozada por un trágico accidente del que él se siente culpable.
Novel
Un hombre traumatizado por el asesinato de su esposa, se aboca a la búsqueda del asesino, que resulta ser un amante de su mujer. En su pesquisa, encuentra y mata al sujeto, siendo su crimen presenciado por un taxista. En su afán de quedar impune, el protagonista se pone tras la pista de este eventual testigo.
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Berthon, racing driver, is committed to the 24 Hours of Le Mans while Genevieve, his wife, has been trying for years to convince him to retire. Desperate, she became the mistress of his brother, always jealous of his elder.
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Scottie Fergusson es un detective de la policía de San Francisco que padece de vértigo. Cuando un compañero cae al vacío desde una cornisa mientras persiguen a un delincuente, Scottie decide retirarse. Gavin Elster, un viejo amigo del colegio, lo contrata para que vigile a su esposa Madeleine, una bella mujer que está obsesionada con su pasado.
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El director de un colegio, el señor Delasalle, convive con su esposa y su amante, la profesora Horner. Pero las dos mujeres, cansadas de sufrir la constante tiranía y malos tratos del hombre que comparten, deciden que esa situación no puede continuar.
