Barbet Schroeder

Known for DirectingBorn 1941-08-26 (age 84)Tehran, Iran

Barbet Schroeder (born 26 August 1941) is an Iranian-born Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working with directors of the French New Wave such as Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer. Schroeder started his career producing such films as The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1962), Six in Paris (1965), and Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974). He then transitioned into directing films such as More (1969), La Vallée (1972) and Barfly (1987), the last of which was nominated for the Palme d'Or. He also gained recognition for directing the documentary Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978). He directed what he labeled, "The Trilogy of Evil", which includes the films, General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974), Terror's Advocate (2007) and The Venerable W. (2016). He directed the drama Reversal of Fortune (1990) and earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Director. He then directed many big budget Hollywood films, often mixing melodrama with the thriller genre in films like Single White Female (1992), Kiss of Death (1995), Desperate Measures (1998) and Murder by Numbers (2002). He also acted in Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996) and The Darjeeling Limited (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbet Schroeder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Out 1

Pork with Sweet Potatoes

The Charles Bukowski Tapes

Mad Men

Ricardo and Painting

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

My Night at Maud's

The Darjeeling Limited

Sing Sing

Our Lady of the Assassins

Queen Margot

The Mother and the Whore

Out 1

Love in the Afternoon

Claire's Knee

Perceval

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Chinese Roulette

Koko: A Talking Gorilla

Paris Je T'aime

Bukowski: Born Into This

General Idi Amin Dada

The Venerable W.

Barfly

Le Pont du Nord

Terror's Advocate

Rouge

La Collectionneuse

Céline and Julie Go Boating

Reversal of Fortune

The Bakery Girl of Monceau

The Marquise of O

The Golden Boat

Mars Attacks!

Out 1: Spectre

Six in Paris

Fun and Games for Everyone

The Future of Emily

The Family

Single White Female

Make-up

Murder by Numbers

The Carabineers

Nadja in Paris

Suzanne’s Career

Jean Douchet, Restless Child

A Farmer in Montfaucon

Moral Tales, Filmic Issues: A Conversation between Barbet Schroeder and Eric Rohmer