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Jean-Jacques Annaud

Jean-Jacques Annaud


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  • The Name Of The Rose
  • The Name Of The Rose review by from West Sussex
    Rated - 3.0 stars A different kind of James Bond 16 August 2005
    ...A superb adaptation by Jean-Jacques Annaud of Umberto Eco's story of a sharp-thinking monk and his protégé called to a monastery during the Spanish Inquisition to investigate a st...   Read customer review

Jean-Jacques Annaud - filmography


  • Two Brothers on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Jean-Claude Dreyfus,  Freddie Highmore
    Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud is known for tackling profound subject matter in films such as QUEST FOR FIRE, SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, and ENEMY AT THE GATES. Occasionally he takes refuge in lighter films. After his first successful animal tale, THE BEAR (1989), Annaud's second wildlife film is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 11,984 members
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  • Enemy At The Gates on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jude Law,  Joseph Fiennes,  Rachel Weisz
    Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    September 1942. The German Army has advanced to the gates of Stalingrad. The Russian Army holds on desperately. It is so poorly equipped that every pair of soldiers is given a single rifle--the second man only gets the weapon when the first is cut down. Trapped in no man's land between the opposing ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 11,086 members
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  • Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  David Thewlis,  B.D. Wong
    Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of the memoir by Heinrich Harrer. Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to head ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,908 members
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  • The Lover on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Jane March,  Tony Leung Ka Fai,  Frederique Meininger
    Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In the Indo-China of the 1920's, a 15 year old French schoolgirl and a wealthy Chinese man more than twice her age are thrown together by a twist of fate. It is a moment of instant attraction and before long the couple find themselves caught up in an affair of uncontrollable desires. But this is a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,783 member
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  • The Name Of The Rose (1986)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  F. Murray Abraham,  Michael Lonsdale
    Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring Sean Connery as a Sherlock Holmes-esque Franciscan monk called William of Baskerville. When a murder occurs at a secluded Benedictine Abbey, William ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,349 members
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  • Quest For Fire on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Everett McGill,  Ron Perlman,  Nicholas Kadi
    Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    80,000 years ago a primitive tribe desperately guards its most valued possession, fire. they know how to tend it, how to use it, but its creation remains a mystery, During an attack by a neighbouring tribe their flame is lost and so begins an epic, obstacle-filled quest to find another source of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 902 members
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Jean-Jacques Annaud facts

5 most recent films

Black Gold - 4.0 stars
Two Brothers - 3.0 stars
Enemy At The Gates - 3.5 stars
Seven Years in Tibet - 3.5 stars
The Lover - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Enemy At The Gates - 3.5 stars
The Name Of The Rose - 3.5 stars
The Bear - 3.5 stars
Seven Years in Tibet - 3.5 stars
Quest For Fire - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Black Gold - 4.0 stars
The Lover - 3.0 stars
Two Brothers - 3.0 stars
Quest For Fire - 3.5 stars
Seven Years in Tibet - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ingeborga Dapkunaite - 2 times - show films
Ngawang Chojor - 2 times - show films
Victor Wong - 2 times - show films
Jamyang Wang Chuck - 2 times - show films
Lhakpa Tsamchoe - 2 times - show films