Jean-Patrick Manchette

Jean-Patrick Manchette
Total Credits at Criticker: 10 (Writer)
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Les Maîtres du temps
Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide. (imdb)
Nada
French terrorists kidnap the American ambassador, leaving dead and wounded in their wake. Soon they begin quarreling as to his fate, while the police purge suspects in an attempt to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the State and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict. (imdb)
For a Cop\
In this thriller, a private detective disregards the many warnings he has been given and continues searching for a missing blind girl. (allmovie.com)
Three Men to Kill
Michel Gerfaut makes his living playing poker. But when he stops to help an injured motorist on the side of the road one night, he unwittingly gets involved in a sinister arms deal cover-up. The capable Gerfaut goes on holiday, bringing his longtime girlfriend, Béa, to Trouville to meet his mother. He soon finds himself the target of killers hired by the pompous Emmerich and his ruthless underling, Leprince, who suspect he's working for their competitors. (allmovie.com)
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La Crime
A police commissioner (Claude Brasseur) uncovers corruption while investigating the murder of an attorney.
Mad Enough to Kill
Julie Ballenger has spent the last five years in a psychiatric clinic. Leaving the clinic, apparently cured, she is engaged by a wealthy industrialist, Mostri, to work as a governess to his young nephew, Thomas. (FilmAffinity)
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In order to dispense with the people around him who are making his life a misery, a man uses a pocket computer to devise the most believable fatal accidents that could happen to them and then encourages them to happen. (imdb)
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An ordinary man is driven to violence in the name of revenge in this drama. Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a businessman who decides to take his wife and daughter on a vacation. While stopping for gas, Varlin's wife is accosted by a gang of motorcycle thugs, who progress from ogling her legs to raping both the wife and the young girl, and then killing them both. When Varlin discovers this horrible crime, he takes it upon himself to track down and kill the bikers in the name of justice. (allrovi.com)
Légitime violence
A man whose family were killed during an attempted robbery in a railway station decides to take the law into his own hands when the police do not track down the killers. (imdb)
Le Socrate
Shows the eccentricities of Le Socrate, a philosopher who has divorced himself from materialistic society and a local policeman assigned to watch him. (imdb)