Movies by Jean-Jacques Annaud
As a director:
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Two Brothers (2004)
Cast: Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu …
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
French director Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Bear) again trains his camera lens on animals -- adorable animals. This time, it's twin tiger cubs separated by fate. The bold brother is sold…
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Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz …
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Set during the infamous World War II siege of Stalingrad, this potent thriller follows a battle of wits and wills between renowned Russian sharpshooter Vassili Zaitsev (Jude Law) and top…
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Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Cast: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, Mako Jamyang …
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into…
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The Lover (1992)
Cast: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frédérique Meininger …
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Set in in 1929 Indochina, this Oscar-nominated drama follows a 15-year-old uninitiated French girl who's sent to a boarding school in Saigon, where she begins a passionate sexual…
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The Bear (1988)
Cast: Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe …
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
After a giant rock crushes his mother's skull, a grizzly cub becomes an orphan and must fend for himself until he finds a guardian in an older male bear in this engrossing wilderness…
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The Name of the Rose (1986)
Cast: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger …
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
In this adaptation of Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) and his young novice (Christian Slater) arrive at a conference…
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Quest for Fire (1981)
Cast: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi …
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
A tribe of Cro-Magnons is attacked and loses its precious fire (a blaze that is always kept burning). To ensure the band's survival, Naoh (Everett McGill) goes in search of more fire,…
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Black and White in Color (1976)
Cast: Jean Carmet, Jean Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel …
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
When the idyllic life in a French-African settlement is rudely interrupted in 1915 by news of war in Europe, the settlement's sergeant tries to assemble an army of native soldiers to…