Jean-Claude Brisseau (; 17 July 1944 – 11 May 2019) was a French filmmaker best known for his 2002 film '' Secret Things'' ("Choses Secrètes") and his 2006 film '' The Exterminating Angels'' ("Les Anges exterminateurs").
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42nd Berlin International Film Festival
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Cannes Film Festival
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, he was awarded the France Culture Award in 2003 for ''Secret Things''; in 1988 he was awarded the Special Award for the Youth.
In 2002, Brisseau was arrested on charges of sexual harassment after three women came forward accusing him of cajoling them into performing sexual acts on camera by promising them a film role. He was eventually found guilty, fined and given a suspended one-year prison sentence. Brisseau made a semi-autobiographical film in 2006 about this incident, ''
Les Anges Exterminateurs
''The Exterminating Angels'' () is a 2006 French Erotic film, erotic Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. It was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2006 and r ...
Les Savates du bon Dieu
''Workers for the Good Lord'' () is a 2000 French crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, starring Stanislas Merhar, Raphaële Godin, Emil Abossolo-Mbo, Paulette Dubost and Coralie Revel. The film was chosen by '' C ...
Les Anges Exterminateurs
''The Exterminating Angels'' () is a 2006 French Erotic film, erotic Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. It was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2006 and r ...
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À l'aventure
''À l'aventure'' is a 2008 French erotic drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. The film showed at the 2009 International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Plot
Sandrine, a young and childless woman, meets a friend for a sandwich lunch ...
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La fille de nulle part
''The Girl from Nowhere'' () is a 2012 French fantasy drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. The film had its world premiere on 8 August 2012 at the 65th Locarno Festival, where it won the Golden Leopard. It was released theatri ...
'' (''The Girl from Nowhere'') (2012)
*''Des jeunes femmes disparaissent'' (2014) (Short film. Remake of the first in 1973)
*'' Que le diable nous emporte'' (2018)