Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows Shop News Showtimes

Nicolas Gessner

Highest Rated: 93% The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

Lowest Rated: 93% The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

Birthday: Aug 17, 1931

Birthday:

Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary

Nation-hopping director and writer Nicolas Gessner is known for making movies in various European countries, in several different languages, and with eclectic international casts. He made his directorial debut in 1965 with the comical crime caper "Un Milliard dans un Billard," followed several years later by another lighthearted comedy, "12 + 1," about a man searching for secret documents hidden in a chair (a gruesome aside: "12 + 1" would be American actress Sharon Tate's last film before her infamous murder by the Manson family). But by the 1970s, the mood of Gessner's films had become much darker. In 1971, he directed the psychological thriller "Someone Behind the Door," starring Anthony Perkins and Charles Bronson, for which he also wrote the screenplay, and after that, in 1976, he directed the disturbing horror mystery "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane," starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen. Since the 1980s, Gessner's focus has shifted to directing and writing for television; his work includes the French miniseries "Le Château des Oliviers," about an ex-antique dealer who fights to save her parents' estate from profit-driven developers, as well as the French TV movie "Chèques en Boîte" and the German TV movie "Das Andere Leben."

Show Less Show More

Highest rated movies

93% 75% The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Watchlist
12 + 1
Watchlist
Diamonds Are Brittle
Watchlist
Quicker Than the Eye
Watchlist
Peking Blonde
Watchlist
Tennessee Nights
Watchlist
25% Someone Behind the Door
Watchlist
67% Twelve Plus One
Watchlist
It Rained All Night the Day I Left
Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tennessee Nights Director,
Screenwriter
- 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Quicker Than the Eye Director - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet It Rained All Night the Day I Left Director - 1978
93% 75% The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Director - 1976
No Score Yet 25% Someone Behind the Door Director,
Writer
- 1971
No Score Yet 67% Twelve Plus One Director - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet 12 + 1 Director - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Peking Blonde Director - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diamonds Are Brittle Director - 1965