Home

Serie Noire (1979) [N/A]

Featuring:
Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant

Written by:
Jim Thompson
Georges Perec
Alain Corneau

Directed by:
Alain Corneau


Release Date:
April 25, 1979

Original Title:
Série noire

Alternate Titles:
Il fascino del delitto
Serie negra
Série Negra

Genres:
Crime | Drama

Production Companies:
Gaumont
Prospectacle

Production Countries:
France

Ratings / Certifications:
FR: 12  NL: 16 

Runtime: 111

Overview from TheMovieDB

Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Overview from Open Movies

Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution he finds to achieve his goal... A very gloomy movie, exuding dispair and uneasiness, with pathetic characters.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Video

Click each video panel to show or hide.

Trailer

Although TheMovieDB might provide a key to a YouTube video, there is no guarantee that the video might be present at YouTube.

Rankings and Honors

Serie Noire (1979) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 7.3/10
Awards Won: 6 nominations total

Performers

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Production

Dialogue:
Georges Perec

Director:
Alain Corneau

Director of Photography:
Pierre-William Glenn

Editor:
Thierry Derocles

Novel:
Jim Thompson

Producer:
Maurice Bernart

Production Manager:
Catherine Lapoujade

Sound:
Michel Desrois

Sound Assistant:
Denis Carquin
Gérard Dacquay

Sound Editor:
Anne Baronnet

Sound Effects Editor:
Daniel Couteau

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Claude Villand

Special Effects:
Claude Albouze

Unit Manager:
Yvon Crenn

Writer:
Alain Corneau
Georges Perec

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.