Personal Info
Birth date
1922-01-08 (103 Years)
Day of death
2012-12-01
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
Casablanca, Morocco
Also known as
-José Bénazéraf
Biography
José Bénazéraf (8 January 1922 – 1 December 2012) was a French filmmaker and producer who specialised in erotic films. Bénazéraf was born in Casablanca, French Morocco on 8 January 1922. After completing his studies in political sciences, he started his film career in 1958 producing Les lavandières du Portugal, a film by Pierre Gaspard-Huit, and went on to direct and write numerous erotic films in the 1960s. He started to direct erotic feature films in 1961 with L'éternité pour nous. At the end of the 1970s, he moved his attention to the direct-to-video market. He died in Chiclana de la Frontera. Source: Article "José Bénazéraf" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
Breathless
7.521
Overview:
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.J.B.1
NYR
Overview:
A castle on a island: while television broadcasts ridiculous images of the presidential campaign, three characters - a couple and a visitor - exchange radical views on France, cinema, censorship and the proletarian world revolution.Perverted Adolescence
4.542
Overview:
Mirella, a sultry middle-aged maths teacher, falls in love with a student, Alain. But her bourgeois upbringing comes in the way of this fantasy love, until she finds out that her best friend had sex with the young man.Flesh and Fantasy
5.5
Overview:
Sorenson uses diamond robbery money to buy clinic in Corsica. His accomplice Dyonis has disappeared. Sorenson takes Dyonis' wife Valerie as mistress. Valerie takes coral fisherman Bernard as lover. Dyonis appears, Sorenson hopes Dyonis will kill Bernard. Bernard becomes lover of Sorenson's wife Katia. Bernard is found murdered, Valerie blames Sorenson, who tries to escape with his robbery fortune. He is pursued by Dyonis, who kills him. Dyonis is caught by police at airport. Katia drowns herself in the sea.Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf
3
Overview:
A compilation of censored pornographic and subversive scenes from the films of José Bénazéraf.Sexus
4
Overview:
A beautiful heiress is kidnapped and held hostage until her wealthy father comes up with a ransom. The heiress develops an attraction to one of her kidnappers, but another member of the gang tries to rape her, leading to a deadly triangle.Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
4.5
Overview:
Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel's final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of the principal locations for Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and Ventura's documentary investigates the production of Godard's film.Naked Sex
4
Overview:
After a disappointment in love, Alain tells his mistress how he gradually sank into libertinage: from his beginnings with a teacher in art history, then with a supermarket saleswoman, until his discovery libertine parties.Cover Girls
6.8
Overview:
Photographer Philippe Abregas teams up with a Swedish model he met in Roman high society and tells her the story of the four other girls he has chosen to feature on the cover of his magazine.Frustration
5
Overview:
A sexually frustrated woman, living with her sister and the latter's husband, is tormented by bizarre nightmares and violent erotic fantasies.Night of Lust
3.8
Overview:
A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are battling over turf, leading to kidnappings, beatings, murders, betrayals, and other intrigues. Featuring Chet Baker's marvelous free-jazz Score, (rivaling Miles Davis's for "Ascenseur pour l'echafaud") and the most beautiful French Babes the World has ever seen. It pricks the Conscience, probes the libido, and excites the senses!St. Pauli Between Night and Morning
5
Overview:
Helmut Schmidt is an ambitious Interpol inspector. He follows a trail of dangerous drug dealers that leads to Hamburg. With the colleagues there, he decides to infiltrate the gang. The beautiful dancer Arlette helps him.The Infamous House of Madame X
7
Overview:
Various stories intertwine within the walls of a popular Parisian brothel on the eve of the First World War.Port of Desire
3.5
Overview:
Pierre is in Hamburg on a merchant ship with his friends Georges and Jean-Marie. While they are just looking for a good time in the twenty-four hours they have to waste in the city, Pierre is seized by the memory of a young German girl, Maria, whom he had known and probably loved when he was a prisoner of war in the bombed-out port of Hamburg. He abandons his companions in search of her, but is unable to trace her, her house having been destroyed and the search services having no record of her.Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men
3.6
Overview:
A young crook called Joë Caligula and his crew make war on a Parisian gang.Les contes de La Fontaine
4.3
Overview:
Four tales of Jean la Fontaine tell in a libertine way. The pleasure of infidelity is described in all forms: a woman seduced by her servant, a man seduce his servant, the wives of Messire Guillaume, and a bourgeois and a nun.Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes
2
Overview:
Five bourgeoisie women. Five men - husbands or companions - who, in different fields, possess a certain power. Characters who live in embassy lounges, frequent palaces and large houses, travel in expensive cars and yachts, eager for pleasure, guided by ambition.The Fourth Sex
1
Overview:
Michel and Paul earn money from passers-by by doing chalk drawings outside the Louvre. They also make the scene at the hot spots of Paris. Sand is a wealthy and luscious blonde artist who paints nude girls and houses at her loft. When Michel's gorgeous sister shows up from out of town, both Paul and Sand fall for her.Hell on the Beach
2.333
Overview:
Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Around this trio, revolves Heidi, an angelic blonde catalyst tragic events that will succeed when his troubled past catches up Alex.Sin on the Beach
4.9
Overview:
A moody pianist-composer and his voluptuous strip-tease dancing babe are avoiding reality at a French seaside resort. The resort's young female manager has a dying husband on her hands, and becomes attracted to the composer. When the husband dies, accusations and recriminations fly, combined with various betrayals and jealousies.No Time for Ecstasy
NYR
Overview:
Michel, a young man of Ukrainian origin, flees the Red Army and joins the International Brigades in Perpignan to fight Franco. He was arrested for being Russian, Communist and deserter. He was wounded by his involvement, but fell in love with an American journalist.Black Love
NYR
Overview:
A member of the Black Panther organization steals party funds and flees to Paris.The Accident
5.2
Overview:
A young beautiful teacher is transfered to a remote island's school, where her colleague (also the principal of the school) falls in love with her. This banned love provokes the jealousy of the principal's wife and makes her seek revenge.Paris Ooh-La-La!
3.5
Overview:
A "documentary" that purports to show the history of women through the ages, but is mainly an excuse for various female historical figures to take off their clothes. There are stripping cavewomen, stripping vampires, strippers during the French Revolution and strippers in a nightclub act. Several of the scenes from this film found their way into other movies, among them The Wild World of Jayne Mansfield.Le désirable et le sublime
4
Overview:
A couple has found peace in a strange manor by the sea but, on a hot evening, a visitor comes, troubling their solitude. However, three is not actually a crowd and they start start talking, exchanging points of view about philosophy, sociology and politics, eroticism as well.The French Love
2
Overview:
Bryan is an American journalist, married with two young daughters. Assigned to cover the Paris Conference on Vietnam, he is approached at the airport by two stewardesses, Corinne and Lucile. They meet again, talk politics, but the discussion veers off course: “Do you know how to make love? - Of course, I'm married.” Bryan sleeps with Corinne as Lucile looks on, then confesses to both women: he feels no remorse, but he's sad that it's so easy to cheat on your wife. “Corinne is a free woman,” as Lucile later tells Bryan. The latter is too puritanical and romantic to accept being just another fling. He thinks of nothing but the young woman, and is constantly on the lookout for her.Acting
1999Acteurs porno en analyse as Unknown
1993Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède as Self
1985Saint Tropez interdit as Unknown
1985Spanish Fly as (voice)
1975The Hideout 2 as Le psychiatre
1975Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf as Narrator (voice)
1975The Two Dykes as L'ami d'Yves
1973Naked Sex as A spectator at the cinema (uncredited)
1972The French Love as Unknown
1971Samedi soir (1 Episode) as Self
1969Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men as L'homme qui suit Brigitte à Pigalle (uncredited)
1967St. Pauli Between Night and Morning as Unknown
1966Hell on the Beach as The boss
1965Sexus as Unknown
1963Night of Lust as Marcel (uncredited)
1963Sin on the Beach as Unknown
1960Breathless as Man in a White Car (uncredited)
Writing
1999Acteurs porno en analyse ... Writer
1988Cynthia's Diary ... Writer
1982Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes ... Writer
1975The Hideout ... Writer
1975The Hideout 2 ... Writer
1975Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf ... Writer
1975The Two Dykes ... Writer
1975The Randy Widow ... Scenario Writer
1975J.B.1 ... Writer
1974The Infamous House of Madame X ... Writer
1974Black Love ... Screenplay
1974Perverted Adolescence ... Writer
1973Naked Sex ... Writer
1972The French Love ... Screenplay
1971Frustration ... Writer
1970Le désirable et le sublime ... Writer
1969Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men ... Dialogue
1967Flesh and Fantasy ... Screenplay
1966Hell on the Beach ... Writer
1965Sexus ... Writer
1964Cover Girls ... Writer
1963Paris Ooh-La-La! ... Screenplay
1963Night of Lust ... Writer
1963Sin on the Beach ... Writer
1961No Time for Ecstasy ... Screenplay
Directing
1999Acteurs porno en analyse ... Director
1988Cynthia's Diary ... Director
1986Anatomie d'un meurtre ... Director
1985Le yacht des partouzes ... Director
1985Olinka, Goddess of Desire ... Director
1985Saint Tropez interdit ... Director
1985Trashy Tourist ... Director
1985Perverse Isabelle ... Director
1985Spanish Fly ... Director
1985Backdoor to Paris ... Director
1985Hot Close-Ups ... Director
1984Lady X 3: Ingrid, putain de Hambourg ... Director
1984Lady X 2: Lady Winter et la C.I.A. ... Director
1984Du foutre plein le cul ... Director
1984Lusty Widow ... Director
1984Le Port aux putes ... Director
1984Lady X 1: L'amant de Lady Winter ... Director
1983Eva la grande suceuse ... Director
1983La star sodomisée ... Director
1983Je mouille aussi par derrière ... Director
1983Revolution ... Director
1982Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes ... Director
1981Anna cuisses entrouvertes ... Director
1980Les contes de La Fontaine ... Director
1979Hurlements d'extase ... Director
1978Baise-moi partout ... Director
1978Hurlements D’extases ... Director
1978Bordel SS ... Director
1978Love Is My Job ... Director
1977La bonne auberge ... Director
1977Un dîner très spécial ... Director
1975The Hideout ... Director
1975The Hideout 2 ... Director
1975Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf ... Director
1975The Two Dykes ... Director
1975The Randy Widow ... Director
1975La soubrette perverse ... Director
1975J.B.1 ... Director
1974The Infamous House of Madame X ... Director
1974Black Love ... Director
1974Perverted Adolescence ... Director
1973Naked Sex ... Director
1972The French Love ... Director
1971Frustration ... Director
1970Le désirable et le sublime ... Director
1969Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men ... Director
1967St. Pauli Between Night and Morning ... Director
1967Flesh and Fantasy ... Director
1966Hell on the Beach ... Director
1965Sexus ... Director
1964Cover Girls ... Director
1963Paris Ooh-La-La! ... Director
1963Night of Lust ... Director
1963Sin on the Beach ... Director
Production
1988Cynthia's Diary ... Producer
1975The Hideout ... Producer
1975The Hideout 2 ... Producer
1975Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf ... Producer
1975The Two Dykes ... Producer
1975The Randy Widow ... Producer
1975J.B.1 ... Producer
1974Black Love ... Producer
1972The French Love ... Producer
1966Hell on the Beach ... Producer
1963Paris Ooh-La-La! ... Producer
1963The Accident ... Producer
1963Sin on the Beach ... Producer
1961No Time for Ecstasy ... Producer
1958Port of Desire ... Producer
Camera
1975The Hideout ... Camera Operator
1975The Hideout 2 ... Camera Operator
1975The Randy Widow ... Camera Operator
1975J.B.1 ... Camera Operator
1973Naked Sex ... Camera Operator
Editing
1975Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf ... Editor
Crew
1962The Fourth Sex ... Supervising Technical Director