Jean-Patrick Manchette

참여 작품

시체들을 태우라
Novel
푸른 바다와 작열하는 태양. 리노와 그의 일당들은 여름을 맞은 지중해에서 250킬로그램의 황금을 훔쳐 준비해 둔 은신처로 몸을 숨겼다. 그렇지만 리노 일당의 완벽한 계획은 예상치 못한 손님들과 경찰들의 등장으로 위협을 받게 된다.
더 건맨
Novel
누구도 믿지 마라! 거대 광물산업의 용병으로 고용된 전직 특수부대원 ‘짐 테리어’(숀 펜)는 비밀 작전의 설계자 ‘펠릭스’(하비에르 바르뎀)로부터 콩고민주공화국 광업부 장관을 암살하라는 지령을 받는다. 미션 성공 후 8년 간 자취를 감춘 채 NGO활동으로 과거를 속죄하며 살던 짐은 어느 날 괴한의 습격을 당한다. 직감적으로 이것이 과거 비밀 작전과 연관이 있음을 알아챈 그는 펠릭스를 찾아간다. 그리고 그가 사랑했던 연인 ‘애니’(자스민 트린카)가 펠릭스의 아내가 된 모습을 보고 충격에 빠진다. 또한 함께 작전에 임했던 동료들이 모두 죽었다는 사실을 알게 된 그는 자신을 쫓는 배후를 찾아 나선다. 한편, 비밀 작전을 파헤치던 인터폴 ‘재키 반스’(이드리스 엘바)는 짐의 존재를 알게 되고, 비밀 조직 역시 짐을 제거하기 위해 애니를 납치하는데… 피할 수 없는 대결, 그가 발견하는 진실은 그의 목숨을 위협할 만큼이나 위험하다!
Polar
Novel
This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-François Balmer, recites a dreary litany of how he wanted to chuck his profession until an attractive woman shows up asking him to investigate the murder of her roommate, a porno star. Soon Tarpon is up to his neck in trouble: the police, gangsters, and the victim's lover are all out to get him.
Legitimate Violence
Screenplay
In the course of a violent hold-up at Deauville station, several innocent bystanders are shot dead. The victims include a politician, Robert Andréani, and three members of the same family. Devastated by the death of his wife, daughter and mother, Martin Modot resolves that their killers will be brought to justice. When the police fail to make any progress in their investigation, he decides to take matters into his own hands, with the support of a neo-fascist vigilante organization.
Le Choc
Novel
Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...
The Masters of Time
Dialogue
On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves Piel – a young boy – alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. On board Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad who knows the planet Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel.
For a Cop's Hide
Novel
Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.
Three Men to Destroy
Novel
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
Mad Enough to Kill
Novel
A girl from an asylum is engaged as nurse to a small, spoiled orphan boy, whose uncle has evil designs on him, and who hopes to kill him and cast the blame on the girl.
Act of Aggression
Writer
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang a man sets out to take revenge.
The Nada Gang
Screenplay
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
The Nada Gang
Novel
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
Bartleby
A servile employee
French short adaptation of Herman Melville's classic. The employee of a lawyer is in a mental hospital following a scandal. Some time later, he finds his employer.
Le Socrate
Dialogue
A modern-day Socrates leaves behind his life as a philosopher to live off the land. When a police inspector is assigned to follow the man and question his motives, the cop gets caught up in the charming philosophy of the man who has left his material possessions behind. He encounters a pretty young woman and her nihilistic boyfriend, the latter who makes a living with his psychedelic side shows. The boyfriend gets the newspapers to print the philosopher's thoughts, prompting him to acquire a bevy of believers. There is some nudity in this comical thought-provoking story, but the main focus remains the words of the man who left behind creature comforts to find himself.
Love + Fear = Torment
Adaptation
"Love + fear = Torment" exposes the secret world of the French model studios, and the men who try to corrupt them. Mobsters become involved when fifty-thousand dollars worth of uncut gems are stolen. A model studio becomes terrorized as one of the models innocently befriends one of the mobsters.