A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Born:
March 14, 1939
Died:
January 20, 2025
Bertrand Blier (14 March 1939 – 20 January 2025) was a French film director and writer. His 1978 film Get Out Your Handkerchiefs won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards. He was the son of famous French actor Bernard Blier. His 1996 film Mon Homme was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. His 2005 film How Much Do You Love Me? was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver George for Best Director. A defence of Blier's work until 2000 was written by Sue Harris, Queen Mary College, London and published in 2001 by Manchester University Press. With his former wife Françoise, to whom he was married for twenty years, he had a daughter named Béatrice. He also had a son, Léonard, born 1993, with actress Anouk Grinberg. He was married to actress Farida Rahouadj, with whom he has a daughter named Leila. Source: Article "Bertrand Blier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Adaptation:
1971 Troubleshooters
2019 Wide Load
Assistant Director:
1961 The Black Monocle
1962 The Seventh Juror
1963 Horror Castle
1971 Troubleshooters
2019 Wide Load
Characters:
1961 The Black Monocle
1962 The Seventh Juror
1963 Horror Castle
1971 Troubleshooters
2019 The Jesus Rolls
2019 Wide Load
Dialogue:
1961 The Black Monocle
1962 The Seventh Juror
1963 Horror Castle
1971 Troubleshooters
2019 The Jesus Rolls
2019 Wide Load
Director:
1961 The Black Monocle
1962 The Seventh Juror
1963 Hitler - Never Heard of Him
1963 Horror Castle
1966 La Grimace
1967 If I Were a Spy
1971 Troubleshooters
1974 Going Places
1976 Femmes Fatales
1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1979 Buffet Froid
1981 Beau Pere
1983 My Best Friend's Girl
1984 Our Story
1986 Ménage
1989 Too Beautiful for You
1991 Against Oblivion
1991 Thank You, Life
1993 One, Two, Three, Freeze
1996 My Man
2000 Actors
2003 The Chops
2005 How Much Do You Love Me?
2010 The Clink of Ice
2019 The Jesus Rolls
2019 Wide Load
Idea:
1961 The Black Monocle
1962 The Seventh Juror
1963 Hitler - Never Heard of Him
1963 Horror Castle
1966 La Grimace
1967 If I Were a Spy
1971 Troubleshooters
1974 Going Places
1976 Femmes Fatales
1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1979 Buffet Froid
1981 Beau Pere
1983 My Best Friend's Girl
1984 Our Story
1986 Ménage
1989 Too Beautiful for You
1991 Against Oblivion
1991 Thank You, Life
1993 One, Two, Three, Freeze
1994 Dead Tired
1996 My Man
2000 Actors
2003 The Chops
2005 How Much Do You Love Me?
2010 The Clink of Ice
2019 The Jesus Rolls
2019 Wide Load
Novel:
1961 The Black Monocle
1962 The Seventh Juror
1963 Hitler - Never Heard of Him
1963 Horror Castle
1966 La Grimace
1967 If I Were a Spy
1971 Troubleshooters
1974 Going Places
1976 Femmes Fatales
1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1979 Buffet Froid
1981 Beau Pere
1983 My Best Friend's Girl
1984 Our Story
1986 Ménage
1989 Too Beautiful for You
1991 Against Oblivion
1991 Thank You, Life
1993 One, Two, Three, Freeze
1994 Dead Tired
1996 My Man
2000 Actors
2003 The Chops
2005 How Much Do You Love Me?
2010 The Clink of Ice
2019 The Jesus Rolls
2019 Wide Load
Screenplay:
1961 The Black Monocle
1962 The Seventh Juror
1963 Hitler - Never Heard of Him
1963 Horror Castle
1966 La Grimace
1967 If I Were a Spy
1971 Troubleshooters
1974 Going Places
1976 Femmes Fatales
1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1979 Buffet Froid
1981 Beau Pere
1983 My Best Friend's Girl
1984 Our Story
1986 Ménage
1989 Too Beautiful for You
1991 Against Oblivion
1991 Thank You, Life
1993 One, Two, Three, Freeze
1994 Dead Tired
1996 My Man
2000 Actors
2003 The Chops
2004 Pédale dure
2005 How Much Do You Love Me?
2010 The Clink of Ice
2019 The Jesus Rolls
2019 Wide Load
Story:
1961 The Black Monocle
1962 The Seventh Juror
1963 Hitler - Never Heard of Him
1963 Horror Castle
1966 La Grimace
1967 If I Were a Spy
1971 Troubleshooters
1974 Going Places
1976 Femmes Fatales
1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1979 Buffet Froid
1981 Beau Pere
1983 My Best Friend's Girl
1983 Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
1984 Our Story
1986 Ménage
1989 Too Beautiful for You
1991 Against Oblivion
1991 Thank You, Life
1993 One, Two, Three, Freeze
1994 Dead Tired
1996 My Man
2000 Actors
2003 The Chops
2004 Pédale dure
2005 How Much Do You Love Me?
2010 The Clink of Ice
2019 The Jesus Rolls
2019 Wide Load
Theatre Play:
1961 The Black Monocle
1962 The Seventh Juror
1963 Hitler - Never Heard of Him
1963 Horror Castle
1966 La Grimace
1967 If I Were a Spy
1971 Troubleshooters
1974 Going Places
1976 Femmes Fatales
1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1979 Buffet Froid
1981 Beau Pere
1983 My Best Friend's Girl
1983 Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
1984 Our Story
1986 Ménage
1989 Too Beautiful for You
1991 Against Oblivion
1991 Thank You, Life
1993 One, Two, Three, Freeze
1994 Dead Tired
1996 My Man
2000 Actors
2003 The Chops
2004 Pédale dure
2005 How Much Do You Love Me?
2010 The Clink of Ice
2019 The Jesus Rolls
2019 Wide Load
Writer:
1961 The Black Monocle
1962 The Seventh Juror
1963 Hitler - Never Heard of Him
1963 Horror Castle
1966 La Grimace
1967 If I Were a Spy
1971 Troubleshooters
1974 Going Places
1976 Femmes Fatales
1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1979 Buffet Froid
1981 Beau Pere
1983 My Best Friend's Girl
1983 Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
1984 Our Story
1986 Ménage
1989 Too Beautiful for You
1991 Against Oblivion
1991 Thank You, Life
1993 One, Two, Three, Freeze
1994 Dead Tired
1996 My Man
2000 Actors
2003 The Chops
2004 Pédale dure
2005 How Much Do You Love Me?
2010 The Clink of Ice
2019 The Jesus Rolls
2019 Wide Load
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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:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
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.