Jean-Claude Brisseau

Freshly fired from a strip club by a scummy boss, exotic dancer Nathalie (Coralie Revel) and bartender Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou) become roommates. The jobless duo soon pledges to use their sexual powers to invade the corporate world. It's not long before they find jobs at a bank, where Sandrine seduces the wealthy head of the firm (Roger Mirmont) and Nathalie chases his equally affluent son (Fabrice Deville) in this erotic French thriller.

From the director who scandalized France with "Secret Things" comes a film that will shock you, make you think and turn you on. (IFC First Take)

A teacher of phylosophy discovers a complicated pupil, a seventeen years old girl with a quite cynic and lucid view of the world. He gets involved in helping her to follow the routine of the study, but soon he is fascinated by her and they fall in a passionate love. When the teacher confronts their affair with reality he decides staying with her wife. But the girl will not accept it. (imdb)

A sexually unfulfilled young woman embarks on a series of graphic erotic encounters and becomes involved with a student of psychoanalysis who offers to put her under hypnosis.

At 22, Céline receives several shocks: her father dies and she learns she was adopted; she rejects her inheritance, so her fiancé jilts her. (imdb)

13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a fantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. (imdb)

Brisseau's bleak tale takes the most unsympathetic character imaginable, the child killer Tessier, and pleads his case. Tessier, a scientist, has a rebellious handicapped adolescent daughter. It's hinted that his fury about her plight might be behind his earlier murderous spree against kids who vandalised his lab. His treatment of his daughter is strict to the point of sadism. (Amazon)

A visitor comes to the home of Stephane, the wife of an important magistrate. She, claiming attempted rape, calmly shoots him. The visitor is the legendary gangster Wadek Aslanian who was beloved as a latter day Robin Hood. Stephane's husband hires a lawyer, Paul, to defend her. Paul learns many disturbing things about Stephane's sordid past when he starts receiving anonymous letters describing her exploits. (All Movie Guide)

Young couple Fred and Elodie live in a low-rent tenement with their infant child. Fred is generous to a fault; he gives his money away to the point of endangering his family's finances. The final straw for the beautiful Elodie comes when Fred gets fired for head-butting his boss -- she dumps him. (bt.eutorrents.com)

Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife's death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new to Michel's life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of mysterious happenings.

Agnes leaves school and moves in a council flat with her friend Florence. She takes a job as an office clerk. Quickly, she faces the violence of life in suburbs, suicides, assaults, harassment, and the indifference of his neighbors and colleagues

In HLM commuter Peter is convinced that his wife loves him, while the latter is believed to be a great diva. From his side, Franck, rocker at heart tries to escape as much as is possible in this family breakdown. Only Natalie, the youngest, seems to have his head on his shoulders. (Premiere.fr)

A saintly woman, Clara, guides three recent acquaintances in a journey of self-discovery with the help of Tonton, an elder man who has reached an enhanced state of connection with the universe. (IMDB)

Second feature film in Jean-Claude Brisseau's career, shot in Super 8 and starring himself and the actress María Luisa García.

The peregrinations of a group of boys and girls from Paris. Two girls swap the capital for the countryside near Montpellier. One of the girls hesitates between dream world and reality. La croisée des chemins marks the start of a significant oeuvre and is a film in which reality and dream are mixed. Jean-Claude Brisseau shot this film on Super8 in 1975 (Letterboxd).