Claude Lelouch Filmography

Among Adults

Crew: Producer

Actors: Edith Merieau, Vincent Dubois, Jeanne Ferron, Philippe Fauconnier, Celine Gorget

To Each His Own Cinema

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At the time of its production, To Each His Own Cinema represented the latest arrival in a tidal wave of internationally oriented omnibus films, with no official relation between them but all produced within a few years of one another. Few could claim a roster of talent comparable to this one Read More

Our Earthmen Friends

Crew: Producer

Actors: Audrey Dana, Annelise Hesme, Thomas Le Douarec, Boris Ventura, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: An alien race attempting to gain a greater understanding of mankind focus their studies on a temperamental painter and a brooding musician in speculative sci-fi author-turned-filmmaker Bernard Werber's ambitious sci-fi mockumentary. Fascinated by the human creature and determined to gain a greater Read More

A Film About Mikhail Kalatozov

Synopsis: The career of revered Russian filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov is explored in this documentary film comprised of rare behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with French director Claude Lelouch, and conversations with some of the biggest names in contemporary Russian cinema. Kalatozov's grandson Mikhail Read More

Avida

Actors: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine, Eric Martin, The Velvet Underground, Jean-Claude Carrière

Synopsis: In this bizarre surrealist comedy from France, a handful of oddball characters live in world where people heap strange forms of abuse on animals -- dwarves stage bullfights with rhinos, zoos open restaurants where the privileged can dine on the animals on display, and the wealthy lock themselves Read More

The Courage to Love

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Men and Women

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Mathilde Seigner, Maiwenn, Arielle Dombasle, Agnes Soral, Massimo Ranieri

Les Parisiens

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Mathilde Seigner, Maiwenn, Arielle Dombasle, Agnes Soral, Massimo Ranieri

Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte, Alessandra Martines, Jean-Marie Bigard

Synopsis: Valentin (also known as And Now...Ladies and Gentleman) is directed by Claude Lelouch and features Jeremy Irons as Valentin, a criminal mastermind whose jewel-stealing business, despite having made him rich, does not offer him much room for personal growth. Hoping to find meaning for his Read More

September 11

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the aftermath of the tragedies on September 11, 2001, the French film company Studio Canal called upon a group of filmmakers, representing various regions of the world, to address the scope of the situation in however broad or intimate a context as they saw fit. The one guideline they were Read More

Une Pour Toutes

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Parillaud, Alessandra Martines, Marianne Denicourt, Alice Evans

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Claude Leloud directs this romantic comedy about a trio of femme fatale musketeers. In order to repay a stack of debts after a disastrous self-financed production of Chekhov's "Three Sisters," Olga (Anne Parillaud), Macha (Alice Evans), and Irina (Marianne Denicourt) hatch a Read More

Hasards ou Coïncidences

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alessandra Martines, Pierre Arditi, Marc Hollogne, Geoffrey Holder, Laurent Hilare

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch directed this French-Canadian romantic drama in which French futurologist Marc (Marc Hollander) declares luck and coincidence are not factors as he maintains math can be used to predict the future. Former classical dancer Myriam (Alessandra Martines), raising her young son Serge (Arthur Cheysson Read More

Hommes, Femmes: Mode d'Emploi

Crew: Camera Operator, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Bernard Tapie, Alessandra Martines, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: A feather-light and funny musing on the nature of love, fate and starting over, Claude Lelouch's comedy begins with the meeting of Fabio Lini, an actor turned undercover Paris cop and the notorious lawyer-cum-businessman Benoit Blanc . Both have come to the same clinic to have their ulcers Read More

Lumière and Company

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematographe camera under the conditions endured by the brothers. The result Read More

Les Misérables

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Annie Girardot, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Not a strict adaptation of the oft-filmed Victor Hugo classic, director Claude Lelouch's ambitious epic instead focuses on the story of two men, a father and a son, whose life stories bear striking similarities to Hugo's character Jean Valjean. The father is Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a Read More

Le Voleur et la Menteuse

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mathilda May, Gérard Darmon, Philippe Léotard, Nathalie Cerda, Jacques Bonnot

Synopsis: In this French romance, an escaped convict on the lam falls in love with a movie costumer. Paul Salomon is on the lam after he broke out of prison. He goes a winterbound resort town near the English Channel to retrieve a satchel full of loot. He is headed for Blighty. In the town, he stops in a Read More

Tout Ça...Pour Ça!

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Marie-Sophie L., Fabrice Luchini, Gérard Darmon, Vincent Lindon, Francis Huster, Jacques Gamblin, Evelyne Bouix

Synopsis: After being driven over the edge by a collective series of romantic reverses, three working-class friends abandoned their ordinary jobs as a waiter, taxi-driver and hairdresser to milk money from tourists in a series of clever scams. They have been apprehended by the authorities and are awaiting Read More

La Belle Histoire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Béatrice Dalle, Vincent Lindon, Marie-Sophie L., Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: It is a commonplace that past actions affect our present circumstances. This ambitious movie attempts to show how truly distant actions from former lives affect the subsequent lives of the protagonists. In the story, beginning in Roman times, a wanderer (Gerard Lanvin) miraculously tames some wild Read More

Il y a des Jours...Et des Lunes...

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Patrick Chesnais, Vincent Lindon, Francis Huster, Marie-Sophie L., Annie Girardot

Synopsis: In this somewhat odd exploration of human romantic difficulties, the people in the film are all put under extra stress by the fact that on the day in question, they have lost an hour to daylight savings time. In addition, it is a full moon. Neither factor improves their response to the mild Read More

Itinéraire d'un Enfant Gaté

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Richard Anconina, Marie-Sophie L., Béatrice Agenin, Daniel Gélin, Jean-Philippe Chatrier

Synopsis: French director Claude Lelouch, of Man and a Woman fame, called the shots on Itineraire D'un Enfant Gate. Jean-Paul Belmondo (who co-produced the film) stars as a powerful international businessman who, in his youth, had been a carnival performer. Once more bitten by wanderlust, Sam Lion (Read More

Happy New Year

Actors: Peter Falk, Charles Durning, Wendy Hughes, Tom Courtenay, Joan Copeland

Synopsis: Happy New Year is an Americanized remake of the 1974 French film of the same name. Peter Falk and Charles Durning play Nick and Charlie, a pair of seedy but suave jewel thieves. Preparing to rob the exclusive Florida jewelry store managed by Tom Courtenay, Nick and Charlie meticulously pre-plan Read More

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Evelyne Bouix, Marie-Sophie Pochat, Richard Berry, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu

Synopsis: It is possible to enjoy Claude Lelouch's Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later on its own merits, though we advise that to fully appreciate the film, it's best to catch Lelouch's 1966 blockbuster A Man and a Woman first. True to its word, the 1986 film brings us up to date with the protagonists of the Read More

Attention Bandits!

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Yanne, Marie-Sophie L., Patrick Bruel, Charles Gerard, Corinne Marchand

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Bandits combines a murder story with a skewered view of "family values." Jewel thief Jean Yanne ships his daughter Marie-Sophie Lelouch off to a Swiss boarding school. His motives are not altogether paternal: Yanne intends to avenge the murder of his wife, and doesn't want his Read More

Partir, Revenir

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Evelyne Bouix, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Richard Anconina, Annie Girardot, Michel Piccoli, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: This melodrama, set in WW II during the French occupation, tells the story of the members of a Jewish family who flee the Germans and end up hiding in the country manse of two aristocrats. Unfortunately, the Gestapo finds them and they are sent to a concentration camp. The film then leaps ahead to Read More

Viva la Vie!

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Evelyne Bouix, Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Through a series of convoluted turns, like a tornado going through Kansas, director Claude Lelouch has managed to keep a vacuum at the center of his film. A corporate executive (Michel Piccoli and a young actress (Evelyne Bouix) suddenly disappear and reappear and disappear, almost as fast as Read More

Edith et Marcel

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Evelyne Bouix, Marcel Cerdan, Jr., Jacques Villeret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Francis Huster

Synopsis: This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after Read More

Les Uns et les autres

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Olbrychski, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Bolero covers a time span of half a century, concentrating on several generations of music lovers, all hailing from different nations and cultural backgrounds. Each of the principal actors plays multiple characters. Among the cast-members is James Caan, Robert Hossein and Read More

À Nous Deux

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Villeret, Paul Preboist, Bernard Crombey

Synopsis: Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side with politicians who can't afford a scandal. She got started on this business after she was Read More

Robert et Robert

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Denner, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Macha Meril, Germaine Montero, Regine

Synopsis: Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their common name, the two Roberts are as different as night and day. Oh, there is one more resemblance: both Roberts are lonely, and both hope to meet suitable mates through a computer dating service. As Read More

Un Autre Homme Une Autre Chance

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster, Susan Tyrrell, Jennifer Warren

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Another Man, Another Chance is set in 1870. Fleeing from the Franco-Prussian war, Jeanne (Genevieve Bujold) and boyfriend Francis (Francis Huster) escape to the American west. Their course does not run smooth, and soon Jeanne is left alone to care for her baby. Meanwhile, American Read More

Turkiye

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This creative example of art takes you on a tour of the history of the Turkey. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Rendezvous

Synopsis: Take a whirl-wind trip through Paris as director Claude Lelouch points out the famous sights. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Si C'Etait à Refaire

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Anouk Aimée, Charles Denner, Francis Huster, Niels Arestrup

Synopsis: Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine (Catherine Deneuve) gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon (Jean-Jacques Briot), who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome Read More

Le Bon et les Méchants

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Marlène Jobert, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Villeret, Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis: Bolstered by the buoyant performance by Jacques Dutronc as a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, this French film follows the exploits of Jacques (Dutronc) and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon (Jacques Villeret) as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political Read More

Le Chat et la Souris

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Serge Reggiani, Philippe Léotard, Valerie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Philippe Labro

Synopsis: A detective is on a case of homicide and he gets more involved than his police department may have intended in this French mystery. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Toute une Vie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marthe Keller, Charles Denner, André Dussollier, Charles Gerard

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's romantic drama Toute une Vie chronicles three different love affairs over three generations during the 20th century. Marthe Keller and Charles Denner portray different members of the families in each of the generations. The stories involve a cameraman's son who suffers and Read More

Mariage

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rufus, Bulle Ogier, Marie Déa, Bernard Le Coq, Caroline Cellier

Synopsis: Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage, in this tragicomic French film by director Claude Lelouche, best known to U.S. filmgoers for his Oscar-winning film A Man and A Woman. Henri (Rufus) and Janne (Bulle Ogier) are first seen on their Read More

La Bonne Année

Crew: Camera Operator, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gerard, André Falcon

Synopsis: The ever-reliable Claude Lelouch serves up another romance-and-adventure combination plate with Happy New Year. Simon (Lino Ventura) is doing prison time, due to a jewel-theft caper. The police still have not recovered the loot, so Simon gets an early release so that they can track him to it. He Read More

Visions of Eight: The Olympics of Motion Picture Achievement

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world's most notable film directors to work on it. They are: Milos Forman, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch and John Schlesinger. Each Read More

L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure

Crew: Camera Operator, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Charles Gerard, Aldo Maccione

Synopsis: In the French L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure, a gang of thieves, suffering a drop in business, enter into a new phase of larceny. Passing themselves off as terrorists, the gang begins committing political crimes, extorting huge sums to prevent further "dissidence". As a result, they're more Read More

Ça N'Arrive Qu'Aux Autres

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve

Synopsis: French filmmaker Nadine Trintignant writes and directs the 1971 drama Ça N'Arrive Qu'Aux Autres (It Only Happens to Others), based on her real-life experiences with actor husband Jean-Louis Trintignant. Catherine (Catherine Deneuve) and Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) lose their baby daughter Read More

Smic, Smac, Smoc

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Gerard, Amidou, Catherine Allegret, Francis Lai

Synopsis: This charming, independent film marks a small departure of form for director Claude Lelouch, better known for his more polished and commercial films, such as A Man And A Woman. Though it was filmed in eight days with an extremely tiny budget, this film still shows Lelouch's gentle sentimentality. Read More

The Crook

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christine Lelouch, Charles Denner, Danièle Delorme, Judith Magre

Synopsis: Simon (Jean-Claude Trintignant) gets out of prison and summons his old friend Charles (Charles Gerard) and Martine (Christine Lelouch), his one time lover now married to a wealthy man. The three kidnap a little boy and then blackmail the bank where the boy's father works to pay the ransom of one Read More

La Vie, l'Amour, la Mort

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Amidou, Caroline Cellier, Janine Magnan, Catherine Samie, Marcel Bozzuffi

Synopsis: The title Life Love Death (originally La Vie, L'amour, la Mort) pretty much runs the gamut of the subject matter which normally appeals to French filmmaker Claude Lelouch. Awaiting execution for murder, Souad Amidou reflects on the events leading up to this sorry contingency. It seems that Amidou Read More

Un Homme Qui Me Plait

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot, Marcel Bozzuffi, Maria Pia Conte

Synopsis: In this romance, a composer and a French film star, both of whom are married to others, meet and fall in love while shooting a film in the United States. The two illicit lovers begin touring the country together and enjoying the sights with particular emphasis on Monument Valley and Las Vegas. The Read More

Les Gauloises Bleues

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Nella Bielski, Annie Girardot, Bruno Cremer, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two Read More

Treize Jours en France

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: This colorful documentary chronicles the events of the 1968 Winter Olympics in France. The events made international celebrities of skater Peggy Fleming and skier Jean-Claude Killy for their gold-medal performances. The camera accurately catches the speed of bobsleds and downhill racers and ski Read More

Vivre Pour Vivre

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Yves Montand, Annie Girardot, Candice Bergen, Irène Tunc, Uta Taeger

Synopsis: French director Claude Lelouch followed up his hit A Man and a Woman with this tale of a love triangle set against the background of late 1960s political unrest. A French television reporter, Robert Colomb (Yves Montand), on assignment in Kenya, has an affair with a young fashion model, Candice (Candice Bergen Read More

Loin du Vietnam

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Six directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Goddard all direct segments. They are quick to point out that the U.S. is radically divided Read More

A Man and a Woman

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valerie Lagrange, Henri Chemin

Synopsis: The ultimate "date" movie of the mid-1960s, director Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman (Un Homme et Une Femme) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimee in the title roles. The twosome meet at the boarding school where their children are enrolled. Aimee, an actress, misses her train home, and Read More

Une Fille Et Des Fusils

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Pierre Barouh, Amidou, Jacques Portet

Synopsis: Four young Frenchmen enamored with romantic images of American movie gangsters, quit their jobs to become crooks themselves in this comedy. Unfortunately, none of the lads have the knack for pulling off capers. For example, when they try to abduct a movie star they end up with her stand in. Read More

La Femme Spectacle

Crew: Director

L'Amour Avec Des Si

Crew: Director

Actors: Janine Magnan, Guy Mairesse, Richard Saint-Bris

Synopsis: This is the film-debut of celebrated writer/director Claude Lelouch. A sex fiend who preys on little girls has escaped from prison. As another man drives through the countryside, he hears the news on his car radio. The man is followed by a mysterious car, and the viewer is not sure if the man is Read More

Le Propre De L'Homme

Crew: Director

Actors: Janine Magnan, Claude Lelouch

Synopsis: Le Propre de l'Homme was the amateur, debut feature film of popular French director Claude Lelouch, who also wrote and acted in the 80-minute drama about a young man and woman in Paris. Obviously working on a tight purse string and only twenty-two at the time, there were limits to what Lelouch Read More