Édouard Niermans

The Marquise of Darkness (2011)

Marie Madeleine Dreux, Marquise of Brinvilliers, was executed in 1676 for poisoning. Manipulated by her lover and having kept the aftereffects of her childhood, she does not hesitate to poison her father and two brothers to recover their inheritance. ...

Le Septième Juré (2008)

The action takes place in a typical French town in the early sixties, at the end of the Algerian war. In a fit of criminal madness, a married, affluent and respected town-citizen named Gregoire Duval kills a young woman who spurns his advances. As no one w ...

Pardaillan (1997)

Le blanc à lunettes (1995)

The Return of Casanova (1992)

After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardo ...

Killing Time (1987)

A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be. ...

Anthracite (1980)

In a Jesuit secondary school , the headmaster imposes an iron discipline on the unfortunate students. Enter Father Godard who believes in Christian love. ...

Fire in the Water (1977)

A man decides to edit a documentary on the 1960's at a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands. ...

Game of Seduction (1976)

A virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in duels. When she finally succumbs to him, she discovers his true nature, and her newly awakened joy ...

It Only Happens to Others (1971)

Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction. ...

Les Jambes en l'air (1971)

Story of a marginal couple, César and Favouille, who set out to find their youngest daughter, who run away from home. ...

Long Live Death (1970)

In this highly symbolic romp, a young rebel and his girlfriend are on the outs with their conventional parents and are trying to be part of the political movements sweeping Europe, decrying consumerism and boring old things like civic chorales, etc. They r ...