Connection
Frequent Death is a french film of genre Thriller directed by Élisabeth Rappeneau with Catherine Deneuve
Frequent Death (1988)
Fréquence meurtre
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listFrequent Death (original title: Fréquence meurtre) is a 1988 French crime film directed by Élisabeth Rappeneau. It is based on Stuart M. Kaminsky's 1983 novel When the Dark Man Calls.
Synopsis
Jeanne Quester is a single mother. As a certified psychologist she works two jobs. During daytime she does social work but at night she is a radio personality who provides live advice for needy callers. Due to the success of her radio show she receives the offer to work for TV.Actors
Catherine Deneuve
(Jeanne Quester)
André Dussollier
(Frank Quester)
Martin Lamotte
(Simon Lieberman)
Étienne Chicot
(Roger)
Martin Lamotte
(Simon Lieberman)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Frequent Death
There are 288 films with the same actors, 10 films with the same director, 28343 with the same cinematographic genres (including 771 with exactly the same 3 genres than Frequent Death), 42 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Frequent Death, you will probably like those similar films :
Play Misty for Me (1971)
, 1h42Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Psychologie, Radio, Jazz films, Musical films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging, Clarice Taylor
Rating68%
Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) is a KRML radio jockey who broadcasts nightly from a studio in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, often incorporating poetry into his program. He lives a rather freewheeling bachelor lifestyle. At his favorite bar, seemingly by coincidence, he encounters a woman named Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walter). Dave drives Evelyn home, where she reveals that their meeting was not coincidental; she deliberately sought him out after hearing the bar mentioned on his radio show. He guesses correctly that she is a recurring caller who always requests the jazz standard "Misty." The two have sex.
Ladies' Choice (1982)
Directed by Philippe Galland
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Radio
Actors Gérard Jugnot, Anémone, Martin Lamotte, Jean-François Balmer, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Michèle Moretti
Rating53%
Ferdinand (Gérard Jugnot), « laissé-pour-compte » et chômeur de longue durée habitant dans un taudis de la banlieue parisienne, rencontre par hasard Bonnie (Anémone) sur une route, lors d'un jeu radiophonique itinérant dont elle est l'une des animatrices.
Vanishing Point (1971)
, 1h39Directed by Richard C. Sarafian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Radio, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Children's films, Chase films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Karl Swenson, Robert Donner, Lee Weaver
Rating71%
A car delivery driver, Kowalski (Barry Newman), arrives in Denver, Colorado late Friday night with a black Chrysler Imperial. The delivery service clerk, Sandy (Karl Swenson), urges him to get some rest, but Kowalski insists on getting started with his next assignment to deliver a white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440 Magnum to San Francisco by Monday. Before leaving Denver, Kowalski pulls into a biker bar parking lot around midnight to buy Benzedrine pills to stay awake for the long drive ahead. He bets his dealer, Jake (Lee Weaver), that he will get to San Francisco by 3:00 pm "tomorrow", even though the delivery is not due until Monday. (Distance between the towns is approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) by road).
Radioland Murders (1994)
, 1h52Directed by Charles Martin Smith, Mel Smith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Radio, Children's films
Actors Brian Benben, Tom Hanks, Mary Stuart Masterson, Michael Lerner, Scott Michael Campbell, Ned Beatty
Rating60%
In 1939, a new radio network based at station WBN in Chicago, Illinois begins its inaugural night. The station's owner, General Walt Whalen, depends on his employees to impress main sponsor Bernie King. This includes writer Roger Henderson, assistant director Penny Henderson (Roger's wife, seeking divorce), page boy Billy Budget, engineer Max Applewhite, conductor Rick Rochester, announcer Dexter Morris, director Walt Whalen, Jr. and stage manager Herman Katzenback. After King commissions rewrites on the radio scripts, the WBN writers get angry, adding to the fact that they have not been paid in weeks.
Frequency (2000)
, 1h58Directed by Gregory Hoblit
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Crime
Themes Radio, Films about the labor movement, Time travel films, Serial killer films, Alternate history films, Disaster films
Actors Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Andre Braugher, Elizabeth Mitchell, Noah Emmerich, Shawn Doyle
Rating73%
In Queens, New York during October 1999, John Sullivan (Caviezel), a 36-year-old homicide detective, breaks up with his girlfriend Samantha (Melissa Errico) with the reason partially attributed to the trauma caused by the death of his fireman father Frank (Quaid). Still living in the same house where he grew up, he discovers his father's Heathkit single-sideband ham radio and begins transmitting radio signals. Because of highly localized electro-temporal spatial effects caused by unusual aurora borealis activity, John somehow makes contact with his father exactly 30 years in the past on the day before Frank's death in a warehouse fire. The ensuing conversation results in Frank thinking John is a stalker. Before the connection cuts out, John is able to shout out the circumstances that led to Frank's death. The next day as little things brought up in their conversation prove true, Frank believes and heeds John's words, escaping the fire to safety. The father and son reconnect on the HAM radio set later that evening, with Frank sharing his dreams and his hopes for his son, and John recounting the details of the Mets-Orioles World Series, which is just beginning in Frank's timeline in 1969. John also reveals to Frank that he now dies of lung cancer in 1989 due to his smoking habit.
The Brave One (2007)
, 2h2Directed by Neil Jordan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Radio
Actors Jodie Foster, Naveen Andrews, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt, Mary Steenburgen, Luis Da Silva
Rating66%
As radio show host Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) and her fiancé David (Naveen Andrews) are walking their dog at night at Stranger's Gate in New York's Central Park, they are attacked by three violent criminals who film the whole attack on their phones. David dies from his injuries, and Erica, while seriously injured, survives. Angry and traumatized, she attempts to purchase a gun. Terrified and unwilling to wait the month required to obtain a gun legally, she buys a Kahr K9 semi-automatic pistol from a black market gun dealer.
Mystery Train (1989)
, 1h53Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Radio, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Yūki Kudō, Masatoshi Nagase, Cinqué Lee, Nicoletta Braschi, Elizabeth Bracco, Rick Aviles
Rating74%
The film consists of three stories that take place on the same night in downtown Memphis. The three stories are linked together by the Arcade Hotel, a run-down flophouse presided over by the night clerk (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and bellboy (Cinqué Lee), where the principal characters in each story spend a part of the night. Every room in the hotel is adorned with a portrait of Elvis Presley.
In the Affirmative (1964)
, 1h25Directed by Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Radio
Actors Guy Mairesse, Janine Magnan, Jean Franval, Jean Daurand, Rita Maiden
Rating66%
The film is a road movie that follows a middle aged man who gives a young woman a lift. On the car radio, news bulletins warn the population against a recently escaped sadist who is known to prey on young women and children. Lelouch often cuts away from the main story, if only briefly, to parallel events that are not necessarily crucial to the story but illustrate what is suggested by the radio.
Mieux vaut courir (1989)
Directed by Élisabeth Rappeneau
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Christian Clavier, Carmen Maura, Lydia Andreï, Jean-Marie Winling, Richard Leduc
Chassé-croisé entre un suspect et la police. Au milieu de l'affaire, une fille...
Eye of the Needle (1981)
, 1h52Directed by Richard Marquand
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Romance
Themes Spy films, Radio, Political films
Actors Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Ian Bannen, Philip Martin Brown, George Belbin
Rating70%
A man calling himself Henry Faber is actually a German spy nicknamed "the Needle" because of his preferred method of assassination, the stiletto. He is a coldly calculating sociopath, emotionlessly focused on the task at hand, whether the task is to signal a U-boat or to gut a witness to avoid exposure.