Jean-Louis TrintignantFilmography

Born:: December 11, 1930 in Fiolenc, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Along with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Louis Trintignant ranks among the most gifted French actors of the postwar era. An enigmatic talent noted for his thoughtful, economical performances, his presence has graced many of the most successful foreign productions of the past several decades. Born...Read More

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Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmeriens

Actors: Féodor Atkine, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Claude Brialy, Florence Darel, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Eric Rohmer is one of the best-respected filmmakers in the history of the French cinema, as well as among the most elusive. Notoriously reluctant to talk about his own work, Rohmer rarely sits for filmed interviews, but documentary filmmaker Marie Binet has taken another route to gain a Read More

2005
Epreuves d'Artistes

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

2004
Janis et John

Actors: Sergi López, Marie Trintignant, François Cluzet, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: First-time director Samuel Benmchetrit's 2003 debut Janis et John (Janis and John) follows the comedic exploits of a down-on-his luck insurance salesman as he attempts to make up for some very poor financial decisions. Pablo Sterni (Sergi Lopez), the aforementioned insurance salesman, has, until Read More

2003
Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train

Actors: Pascal Greggory, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Charles Berling, Bruno Todeschini

Synopsis: Patrice Chereau (Queen Margot) directed this French drama about a train trip to an artist's funeral. Friends of painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich (Jean-Louis Trintignant, seen in flashbacks) gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The Read More

5/15/98
Tykho Moon

Actors: Johan Leysen, Julie Delpy, Tchéky Karyo, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Mirroring the style of French graphic novels and dramatic comic strips, this adventure is set in a rundown lunar city and chronicles an evil, rapidly aging dictator's desperate search for the man who unwillingly donated his brain cells to him 20 years before. The dictator Mac Bee begins his mad Read More

3/5/97
Un Heros Très Discret

Actors: Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel

Synopsis: Irony abounds in this French comedy that tells the tale of an unsophisticated, rather dim-bulbed country lad who follows the advice of a former French freedom fighter and tries to change himself into a hero of the recently ended French Resistance. Poor Albert is no stranger to deceit. For his Read More

1996
The City of Lost Children

Actors: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Genevieve Brunet

Synopsis: This visually inventive French sci-fi/fantasy tale began winning a cult following practically from the moment it was released. Krank (Daniel Emilfork) is a foul, monstrous creature who lords over the inhabitants of a small island; Krank's emotional being is every bit as ugly as his physical Read More

1995
Fiesta

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Grégoire Colin, Marc Lavoine

Synopsis: A young aristocratic military cadet gets a dose of reality that shakes his high ideals to the core when he is called to fight in the Spanish Civil War in this French anti-war drama. Rafael, is the boy. He comes from a prominent Spanish family of military heroes and has spent his teens studying in Read More

1995
C' Est Jamais Loin

Actors: Wadeck Stanczak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bernard Le Coq, Marie Caries

1995
Red

Actors: Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frederique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit

Synopsis: The concluding chapter in filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colors" trilogy, Red stars the luminous Irène Jacob as Valentine, a young student and fashion model who befriends a bitter former judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant, his character a proxy for Kieslowski himself). Their accidental meeting Read More

1994
Regarde les Hommes Tomber

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Yanne, Mathieu Kassovitz, Bulle Ogier, Christine Pascal

Synopsis: This French crime thriller was the directorial debut of screenwriter Jacques Audiard and won three Césars. Jean Yanne stars as Simon Hirsch, a bored, middle-aged salesman who accompanies his best friend, cop Mickey (Yvon Back), on a stakeout for the sake of excitement. When Mickey is shot and put Read More

1994
L'Oeil Ecarlate

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Grégoire Colin, Delphine Zentout

1992
L'Instinct de L'ange

Actors: Lambert Wilson, François Cluzet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: As directed by Richard Dembo, the period adventure drama L'Instinct de l'ange (Angel's Wing) unfurls in early 20th century France, where Henry, a wealthy young Frenchman from an aristocratic family, undergoes an extensive cure for tuberculosis at a sanitarium and gets released soon afterward. He Read More

1992
Merci La Vie

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together after discovering sufficient provocations in their lives to deliberately set out to wreak havoc in the world around them. Joelle (Anouk Grinberg) has just been thrown out Read More

3/13/91
Bunker Palace Hotel

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Benoit Regent, Maria Schneider, Roger Dumas, Yann Collette

Synopsis: The French Bunker Palace Hotel is set in the Future. Rebels have taken over the totalitarian government, compelling the officials to flee for safety to the underground hotel of the title. Clara (Carole Bouquet), a spy for the rebels, infiltrates the hotel to observe the last moves of the crumbling Read More

1989
Rendez-Vous

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Lambert Wilson, Wadeck Stanczak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Juliette Binoche teams with Lambert Wilson in this erotic drama. Binoche plays Nina, the young lady friend of timid Paulot (Wadeck Stanczak). Though she intends to be true to Paulot, Nina falls hard for his roommate, Quentin (Wilson), a thoroughly self-centered actor who performs in live sex Read More

5/15/87
Le Moustachu

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Grace de Capitani, Jean-Claude Leguay

Synopsis: Duroc (Jean Rochefort) is a secret agent called on to deliver an exploding car to a gang of terrorists in this spy spoof. When someone leaks the plan to the terrorists, Duroc becomes the hunted rather than the hunter. He encounters several situations where people unwittingly interfere with his Read More

1987
La Vallée fantôme

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laura Morante, Caroline Cartier, Ray Serra

Synopsis: This uneven drama concerns the efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling female in his production. Paul (Jean-Louis Trintignant) finds difficulty deciding on a location for his film and angrily throws out his script. Jean (Jacob Berger) is the film student who is sent by Paul to Read More

1987
L'Été Prochain

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: The emotional ups-and-downs of a closely-knit but often feuding family is the focus of this sentimental drama by Nadine Trintignant. She is the wife of Jean-Louis Trintignant, who appears as Paul, an impoverished playwright married to Dino (Fanny Ardant). Dino and Paul argue all the time, enough Read More

8/15/86
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

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

8/15/86
La Femme De Ma Vie

Actors: Jane Birkin, Christophe Malavoy, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Béatrice Agenin, Andrzej Seweryn

Synopsis: The personal tragedy of an alcoholic hemmed in by a domineering wife is the focus of this drama of hope lost and regained. Simon (Christophe Malavoy) is a solo violinist in an orchestra managed by his wife Laura (Jane Birkin). Haunted by specters of his own inadequacy, he loses his insecurities in Read More

1986
Quinze Aout

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Ann-Gisele Glass, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Rochefort

1986
Sortuz Egy Fekete Bivalyert

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Cottençon, Miklos B. Szekely, Laszlo Mate

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama about human foibles, the aftermath of war undoubtedly has something to do with the behavior and feelings of the people living in a small Hungarian village. The lives of the villagers are seen through the eyes of David (Laszlo Mate), an orphaned Jewish boy who has come to Read More

1985
Partir, Revenir

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

1985
L'Homme Aux Yeux D'Argent

Actors: Alain Souchon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lambert Wilson, Tanya Lopert

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Robert Rossner, this routine detective-thriller focuses on the unfortunate Thierry (Alain Souchon), a released convict who returns to dig up the loot he buried near, a tree 15 years earlier. To his dismay the tree is so huge it is impossible to simply take his money and run. As Read More

1985
Le Bon Plaisir

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Serrault, Michel Auclair, Hippolyte Girardot

Synopsis: A stolen letter creates all sorts of trouble for the president of France in this political comedy. The letter is hidden inside the purse of a woman who was once lovers with the leader. Their union resulted in a son, but the president is unaware of this until she, who moved to the US to have her Read More

1984
Viva la Vie!

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

1984
Femmes De Personne

Actors: Marthe Keller, Caroline Cellier, Fanny Cottençon, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: Femmes De Personne is a French "feminist" film that comes off as slightly misogynistic (not to mention misanthropic) at times. Is it possible to be happy in business and still be happy in bed? The four leading ladies, all successful career women, don't seem particularly blissful. On the contrary Read More

1984
Colpire al Cuore

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laura Morante, Fausto Rossi, Sonia Gessner

Synopsis: In this rich, complex drama, the threat of terrorism serves as a backdrop to an examination of dysfunctional family relationships. Fausto Rossi portrays neglected teenager Emilio, whose father Dario (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a university professor, introduces him to his student, Giulia (Laura Morante Read More

3/25/83
Confidentially Yours

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach, Caroline Sihol, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Morier-Genoud

Synopsis: In this light, sometimes tongue-in-cheek mystery based on a Charles Williams thriller -- with snippets of Hitchcock, Kubrick, and even Victor Hugo -- director François Truffaut showcases one of his favorite actresses, Fanny Ardant, as an enterprising secretary in love with her boss but up against Read More

1983
La Crime

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gabrielle Lazure

Synopsis: Violent scenes, such as a woman doused with gasoline and set on fire, do nothing to help this melodramatic crime-drama rise above others in its genre. When a police commissioner is determined to track down sources of corruption that reach up to the higher echelons of government he has no idea who Read More

1983
Under Fire

Actors: Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ed Harris

Synopsis: This gripping, emotional story of a roving photographer's transformation from a neutral artist with a camera to an involved human rights activist with a camera begins in Chad, travels to Nicaragua in the early 1980s, and ends when the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza takes off for the palm trees and Read More

1983
Credo

1983
La Nuit De Varennes

Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee Paris during the 1791 revolution. While en route to Varennes, the couple encounter and have philosophical debates with a number of fascinating historical figures including Read More

5/15/82
Boulevard des Assassins

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant

1982
Passione D'Amore

Actors: Valeria D'Obici, Bernard Giraudeau, Laura Antonelli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: Professional soldier Bernard Giraudeau is enmeshed in an affair with the beautiful but very much married Laura Antonelli. Transferred to a remote outpost, Giraudeau discovers to his chagrin that the only woman in the region (Valeria D'Obici) is about as appealing as a plate of pickles. Even so, Giraudeau Read More

5/7/81
Eaux Profondes

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert, Philippe Clevenot, Christian Benedetti, Robin Renucci, Jean-Luc Moreau

Synopsis: Jean-Louis Trintignant's sinister yet subtle performance as a man who gives the most insane proof of love to his wife enlivens this adaptation of the novel Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith. In public, Vic Allen (Trintignant) puts up with his wife Mélanie's (Isabelle Huppert) amorous games, showing Read More

1981
Le Grand Pardon

Actors: Roger Hanin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bernard Giraudeau, Richard Berry, Robert Hossein, Clio Goldsmith

Synopsis: A Jewish Mafia-like family is running a prostitution ring, selling "protection," and operating gambling casinos -- more or less with impunity, and at peace with their Arab counterparts -- until a young gangster (Bernard Giraudeau) decides to pit the two ethnic factions against each other. Jewish Read More

1981
Une Affaire d'hommes

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Carmet, Eva Darlan, Patrice Kerbrat

Synopsis: Servolle (Claude Brasseur) is a police inspector and Faguet (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a real estate dealer who become good friends because of their shared love of bicycling -- something they do each Sunday with others of like mind, circling a wooded park area. While they are pedaling away one Read More

1981
Un Assassin Qui Passe

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Laure, Richard Berry, Féodor Atkine, Didier Flamand

Synopsis: Pauline (Carole Laure), an attractive woman, becomes the obsession of a killer, Jacques (Richard Berry) who has murdered several women. He breaks into her apartment, makes her strip, does not touch her, and leaves. Ravic (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is the police inspector trying to track down the Read More

1981
Eu Te Amo

Actors: Sonia Braga, Paulo Cesar Pereio, Tarcisio Meira, Regina Case

Synopsis: This Brazilian erotic exercise stars Sonia Braga and Paulo Cesar Pereio as lovers who aren't in love. Attracted to each other's all-stops-out sexuality, Braga and Pereio use one another in every sense of the word. It is only at fadeout time that they learn to their surprise that they have Read More

1981
Malevil

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Robert Dhéry, Jacques Villeret, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: In this French science fiction thriller, nuclear war breaks out over Europe, and a group of visitors to a local chateau take cover in the basement. When they venture outside after the fighting stops, they discover that the chateau has sustained serious damage and the surrounding lands have been Read More

1981
La Terrazza

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis: Perhaps a little over-ambitious for the casual audience unfamiliar with the Italian world of entertainment and politics, La Terrazza involves a total of eight main protagonists and how they have changed or are changing. All eight are sitting on a terrace talking, while flashbacks and flashforwards Read More

2/8/80
Je Vous Aime

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gérard Depardieu, Alain Souchon, Christian Marquand

Synopsis: Claude Berri abandons his usual straightforward brand of filmmaking for the French I Love All of You. Catherine Deneuve plays a 35-year-old career woman who doesn't think she has time for a lasting relationship. Thus, her love life has been, and probably always will be, a series of trysts and Read More

1980
La Banquière

Actors: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Brasseur, Daniel Mesguich

1980
Melancholy Baby

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jane Birkin, Jean-Luc Bideau, François Beukelaers

Synopsis: Olga (Jane Birkin) is a bored housewife who is frequently left alone by her husband as he attends to business ventures on the road. She offers herself to Pierre (Jean-Louis Trintignant), but her husband's friend spurns her advances. Olga then makes herself available to Claude (Jean-Luc Bidneau) Read More

1979
L'Argent des Autres

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Brasseur, Michel Serrault, Catherine Deneuve, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: The most powerful officers of a bank are implicated in a financial scandal, despite their efforts to disassociate themselves from it. When the top brass fire Henri Rainier (Jean-Louis Trintignant) because one of his clients has been accused of fraud, he doesn't take it lying down. He knows that Read More

1978
Le Maitre Nageur

Crew: Director

Actors: Guy Marchand, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean-Claude Brialy, Moustache

Synopsis: A down-on-her-luck dreamer finds her fantasies drifting into reality in the second film from actor-turned-director Jean-Louis Trintignant. Marie's (Stefania Sandrelli) dreams seem to have a way of coming true, a fact that she clings to given her onetime vision that she would fall madly in love and Read More

1978
Les Passagers

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bernard Fresson, Mireille Darc, Richard Constantini, Adolfo Celi

Synopsis: Alex (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is newly married, and he and his wife are setting up housekeeping together in Paris. However, to complete their domestic arrangement, he must drive to pick up his new 12-year-old stepson Marc (Richard Constantini) from his school in Rome. The boy is extremely cynical Read More

3/9/77
Reperages

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Delphine Seyrig, Lea Massari, Valérie Mairesse, Roger Jendly

Synopsis: In the story of Reperages, Victor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a film director who has arranged to shoot a version of Anton Chekhov's play The Three Sisters. Casting her in the lead will enable his troubled wife, who has separated from him, to earn some money and receive some much-needed emotional Read More

1977
Le Désert des Tartares

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a Tartar army--which attacked the fort years ago. One young soldier (Jacques Perrin), however, can't wait for the boredom to end and the fighting to begin. Ennio Morricone provided the musical score. Read More

10/29/76
Le Voyage de Noces

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Francois Marthouret, Serge Marquand, Pascale Rivault

Synopsis: While on their second honeymoon, a long-married couple discuss the past and are surprised to discover their separate infidelities but decide to stick with their marriage. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

4/21/76
L'Ordinateur des Pompes Funèbres

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mireille Darc, Bernadette Lafont, Lea Massari, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: In this black comedy, Fred (Jean-Louis Trintingnant) works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. Fred is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings Read More

4/7/76
Flic Story

Actors: Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori, Maurice Barrier, André Pousse

Synopsis: Borniche (Alain Delon) has three difficult tasks before him: to keep a rein on police violence, to cut through bureaucratic red tape in order to do his job, and to find Buisson (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and put him behind bars. Based on a true story which takes place in 1947, Buisson is a Read More

10/1/75
L'Agression

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Milena Vukotic, Jacques Rispal

Synopsis: 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 Read More

4/16/75
Jeu Avec Le Feu

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Anicée Alvina, Sylvia Kristel, Philippe Ogouz

Synopsis: When Carolina (Anicee Alvina), the daughter of wealthy banker Georges de Saxe (Philippe Noiret), is reported kidnapped, it is upsetting to him even though he knows it isn't true. The kidnappers have taken the wrong person. The banker hires Frantz (Jean-Louis Trintignant) a disheveled, seedy Read More

2/19/75
It's Raining on Santiago

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Maurice Garrel, John Abbey, Riccardo Cucciolla, André Dussollier, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Salvador Allende was a Marxist who became the President of Chile. Forces within that country and from outside, including the U.S.'s CIA, conspired to bring about an end to his rule, and his life, on September 11, 1973. This French/Bulgarian drama explores the events leading up to his election and Read More

1975
Love at the Top

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jane Birkin, Florinda Bolkan, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: In this French satire, a meek little bank (Jean-Louis Trintignant) clerk finds fame and fortune when he begins getting lessons from an impoverished novelist (Jean-Pierre Cassel) . Soon the clerk is wowing the Parisians with his ability to make the women swoon, and for his talent at attracting Read More

3/13/74
Les Violons Du Bal

Actors: David Drach, Michel Drach, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-José Nat

Synopsis: In this WW II drama based on an autobiographical story by director Michel Drach, a Jewish boy and his family living in Nazi occupied France, attempt to escape the cruel invaders. Later the boy grows up to become a filmmaker obsessed with chronicling his childhood. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Le Secret

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert, Jean-François Adam

Synopsis: Le Secret, based on a novel by Francis Ryck, begins with the escape of mental patient David Daguerre (Jean-Louis Trintignant), who kills an asylum guard in the process. Daguerre hides out in the home of writer Thomas Berthelot (Philippe Noiret), explaining that his wounds and bruises are the Read More

1974
The Last Train

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Nike Arrighi, Regine, Maurice Biraud

Synopsis: At the beginning of World War II, while the Germans entered France from the north, many people had reason to believe that the Germans would not treat them kindly, and they fled by train to the south. This French film tells the story of a few of them. Because they were fleeing the best-organized Read More

10/31/73
Defense de Savoir

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bernadette Lafont, Juliet Berto, Michel Bouquet

Synopsis: The very modest lawyer (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in this case of murder finds much more than he is looking for and then must decide what to do with the unwelcome information. He is defending a woman who is accused of killing her lover. It turns out that the lover was actually killed during a Read More

8/30/73
Glissements Progressifs du Plaisir

Actors: Anicée Alvina, Olga Georges-Picot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: The erotomaniac girl in this French film likes to tie her boyfriend up and make love to him. She also likes to cover herself with various unlikely unguents and make love to him. On one occasion, after she has tied him up but before she can return to him covered in raw egg and paint, someone Read More

1973
The Outside Man

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Michel Constantin, Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: This French-produced thriller was shot entirely in English. Jean-Louis Tritignant stars as Lucien, a hit man who goes to Los Angeles to end the life of an important local mobster. The mobster's heirs, who hired Lucien, had already hired yet another hit man (Roy Scheider) to kill him. He speaks Read More

1973
Une Journée bien remplie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Dufilho, André Falcon, Luce Marquand, Vittorio Caprioli

Synopsis: This black comedy is the first film directed by the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. The story concerns a baker (Jacques Dufilho) who has carefully planned the execution of the nine jurors who sent his son to the gallows for murder. Before the police or anyone else can stop him, he calmly does Read More

1973
L'Escapade

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: Auguste (Georges Wod) goes to a remote Swiss village for a meeting in the course of doing some research. Instead of meeting his informant there, he comes across a girl who has been thrown out of the house by her writer boyfriend; she is too distracting and he can't work with her around. Ferdinand Read More

1973
L'Attentat

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Seberg, Gian Maria Volontè

Synopsis: L'Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French government and the American CIA connived to have a socialist in exile murdered before he could return to his homeland and start a revolution. Darien, a French journalist Read More

10/4/72
La Course Du Lièvre à Travers les Champs

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray, Tisa Farrow

Synopsis: In this decidedly offbeat and rather arty crime drama, a French fugitive heads for Canada and ends up joining a gang of desperate criminals who have been plotting to kidnap a crimelord's retarded daughter. Things go well until she accidentally dies. Despite the unfortunate turn of events, the Read More

9/15/72
Sans Mobile Apparent

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Sacha Distel, Carla Gravina

Synopsis: This hard-boiled French crime thriller begins with the bold murder of a well-heeled Frenchman. The detective assigned to the case is most puzzled for there seems to be no motive. Then a old man and an astrologer are killed in exactly the same way, leaving the detective to figure out how the three Read More

9/15/71
The Crook

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

11/20/70
The Conformist

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clémenti, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: The conformist is 1930s Italian Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a coward who has spent his life accommodating others so that he can "belong." Marcello agrees to kill a political refugee, on orders from the Fascist government, even though the victim-to-be is his college mentor. The film Read More

10/22/70
Las Secretas Intenciones

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Teresa del Rio, Julio Nunez

Synopsis: This depressing story find a young woman being followed by a man after a party. Chasing her through the streets to meet her, he discovers the scars on her wrists from a suicide attempt. Her mood is despondent and he tries to cheer her up. The two take comfort in each others company and the girl Read More

1970
Remparts d'Argile

Actors: Leila Schenna, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: Ramparts of Clay stars Leila Schenna as a Tunisian woman torn between traditionalism and modernism. The citizens in her village have long considered themselves beholden to the absentee owners of the salt mines which serve as the community's chief source of income. When the owners refuse to raise Read More

1970
Kiss Me, Kill Me

Actors: Erika Blanc, Horst Frank, Carroll Baker, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: Before making the string of cannibal adventures which made him notorious, Umberto Lenzi directed three kinky giallo thrillers starring Carroll Baker (Baby Doll). This one is a bisexual round-robin, in which chemist Jean (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is married to Danielle (Erika Blanc), a Read More

10/31/69
Metti Una Sera a Cena

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Florinda Bolkan, Lino Capolicchio, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking on another man as well, and the writer has an affair with the another dinner guest. Soon the three men and two women are entangled in a confusing series of partner-swapping Read More

4/3/69
Le Voleur De Crimes

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Hossein, Florinda Bolkan, Giorgia Moll, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: An unhappily married man with two children watches a beautiful woman kill herself when she ties herself inside a car and drives off a cliff. Jean (Jean-Louis Trintignant) tries to save the woman but is too late. After hanging out with his bohemian friends, he writes a letter to the local newspaper Read More

2/22/69
Z

Actors: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, François Perier

Synopsis: Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a political assassination. Zei (Yves Montand) is a scientist who is scheduled to give a speech against the use of the atomic bomb. On the way to the event, he is attacked outside Read More

1969
My Night at Maud's

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Antoine Vitez, Marie-Christine Barrault, Anne Dubot

Synopsis: The "my" in My Night At Maud's belongs to the protagonist played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, a Catholic engineer whose struggle with his faith is renewed when he falls instantly in love with a woman he's never met (Marie-Christine Barrault) while attending mass. A chance meeting with an amoral old Read More

1969
L'Americain

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Simone Signoret, Marcel Bozzuffi, Jacques Perrin, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: A man returns to France after living in America for 11 years to find the old hometown has changed. Bruno (Jean-Louis Trintignant looks up some old friends that he left behind. One man was killed in the war with Algeria, and others are resigned to live out their lives in a sullen acceptance of Read More

1969
The Libertine

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Luigi Pistilli

Synopsis: When Catherine Spaak's husband dies, she discovers a hitherto hidden room on their estate. The room is surrounded by mirrors and curious sexual devices; when Spaak takes a peek at hubby's diary, she learns he was carrying on a secret life that made Sacher-Masoch and Krafft-Ebbing look like pikers. Read More

12/23/68
The Great Silence

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Vonetta McGee

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci directed this serious-minded populist spin on the spaghetti western, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence, whose vocal cords have been slashed by sadistic bounty-hunters. Silence joins with local hillfolk in fighting the corrupt and tyrannical authorities in Read More

11/19/68
Les Biches

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jacqueline Sassard, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Nane Germon, Henri Attal

Synopsis: Bored, wealthy Parisian socialite Frederique (Stéphane Audran, then director Claude Chabrol's wife and the star of many of his films) picks up young sidewalk artist Why (Jacqueline Sassard), brings her home, offers her a nice hot bath and coffee, and seduces her. Then Why follows Frederique to the Read More

3/22/68
La Morte Ha Fatto l'Uovo

Synopsis: This is a deliriously strange thriller about a scientist (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who is breeding headless, boneless chickens at a high-tech farm. He's having an affair with Ewa Aulin, who is plotting with him to kill his wife (Gina Lollobrigida)...and she's plotting with Aulin to kill him...and Read More

1/9/68
Trans-Europ-Express

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nadine Verdier, Charles Millot, Catherine Robbe-Grillet, Daniel Emilfork

Synopsis: This complex and witty crime drama is set aboard a Paris train bound for Antwerp. Aboard are a husband and wife. Also aboard, but during a different time and space, is a gangster. The husband and wife are planning to make a film, Trans-Europ-Express featuring an actor who looks exactly like the Read More

1968
L'Homme Qui Ment

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ivan Mistrik, Sylvie Breal, Sylvia Turbova

Synopsis: This enigmatic, plodding story concerns a man who may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter in his hometown during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town. Mourning the death of an unseen comrade, he is taken in by the family of the dead rebel. He Read More

1968
Col Cuore in Gola

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Roberto Bisacco, Charles Kohler, Luigi Bellini

Synopsis: This Italian-French co-production weds the giallo thriller with pop hipness in a manner akin to Blow-Up, but comes across as a less-inspired variant on the same year's La Morte Ha Fatto l'Uovo. Like that film, Col Cuore in Gola stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin in a loud, deranged Read More

1967
Un Homme à Abattre

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Valerie Lagrange, André Oumansky

Synopsis: A former SS member living in Spain becomes the target of a death squad led by shadowy agents who may have ties to Israeli intelligence. Although the theme is interesting, the characters are not fully developed. An elderly man lured to an old house by an agent seems to be an unnecessary side plot Read More

1967
Mon Amour, Mon Amour

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Valerie Lagrange, Annie Fargue, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer in this plodding romantic drama. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as she contemplates having an abortion. The viewer must decide whether it was all real or all a figment of the young Read More

1967
Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

1966
Safari Diamants

Actors: Marie-José Nat, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Horst Frank, Helmut Lange

Synopsis: Raphael (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a bored young man who gets more excitement than he bargained for in this crime drama. He is a former paratrooper who jumps at the chance to get involved in a jewel heist. Raphael is lured by the exotic Electre (Marie-Jose Nat) before he learns he is being Read More

1966
La Longue Marche

Actors: Robert Hossein, Maurice Ronet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: A doctor (Maurice Ronet) is kidnapped by a resistance group fighting the Nazis in this World War II action drama. A young lieutenant (Robert Hossein) saves the doctor from being executed by people who believe the doctor had turned their names over to the authorities. In spite of the heroic effort Read More

1966
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1966
A Man and a Woman

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

1966
The Sleeping Car Murders

Actors: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Mondy, Simone Signoret, Catherine Allegret, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: The first film directed by Costa-Gavras, The Sleeping Car Murders was based on a novel by Sebastien Japrisot. During a Marseilles-to-Paris overnight train trip, a girl is found dead in a sleeping car. As Paris detective Yves Montand steps up his investigation, more and more passengers turn up Read More

11/17/65
Merveilleuse Angelique

Actors: Michele Mercier, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Toja, Giuliano Gemma

Synopsis: Angelique (Michele Mercier) is saved by the king of the cutthroats (Giuliano Gemma) when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman in this costume-drama sequel based on the book by Serge and Anne Golon. Read More

4/28/65
La Bonne Occase

Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Marie-José Nat, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: This comedy is built around a car and the various characters who own the vehicle throughout the feature. A Countess takes her terrified secretary on a wild ride in the country before she sells the car to a dealer. The auto serves as the connection for a series of predictable situations and sight Read More

1965
Le Dix-Septieme Ciel

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie Dubois, Jean Lefebvre, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: Francois Jean Louis Trintigant is a window washer who mistakes the pretty maid Marie Marie Dubois for the wealthy lady of the house in this romantic comedy. He follows her to a castle that is run by her parents as a tourist attraction, but Francois believes she lives there. The two meet and fall Read More

1965
Il Successo

Synopsis: An ambitious Italian financier (Vittorio Gassman) will stop at nothing to further his economic expansion. He forsakes old friends, relatives and his wife as he compromises his integrity in the pursuit for more money. He becomes a shameless bootlicker for a wealthy man who can help his financial Read More

1965
Mata Hari Agent H 21

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frank Villard, Claude Rich, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: This French version of the notorious spy's life centers less on her romantic escapades, and more on those that reveal the person she actually was during WW I when her German superiors ordered her to seduce the French captain Trintignant so she can steal classified papers from him. Instead she Read More

12/31/64
Les Pas Perdus

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Rouvel

Synopsis: Between his successful film appearances with Vittorio Gassman in Dino Risi's Il Sorpasso (1962) and Il Successo (1965), Jean-Louis Trintignant appeared in this little-known romance. He plays Georges, a young worker who, while waiting for a train, meets an attractive woman (Michele Morgan) in the Read More

1964
Un Château en Suède

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Monica Vitti, Jean-Claude Brialy, Curd Jürgens, Françoise Hardy

Synopsis: Nutty, Naughty Chateau is summed up in the encyclopedic book The United Artists Story as "Sex comedy drama." No more, no less. Actually, there is more: The film was originally titled Chateau en Suede, and it was directed by Roger Vadim. Based on a Francoise Sagan play, the film involves a group Read More

11/20/63
Il Successo

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Maria Grazia Spina

1963
The French Game

Synopsis: In this romance, a youthful painter, vacationing in the French Riviera, falls in love with a beautiful woman who, unfortunately, has come there to tryst with her older, married lover, a Chilean diplomat. To her disappointment, he does not come, so the painter and the girl team up and begin Read More

1963
Il Sorpasso

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak, Luciana Angiolillo, Linda Sini

Synopsis: Regarded by many as Dino Risi's finest film, The Easy Life (Il Sorpasso) casts Vittorio Gassman as Bruno, a jaded, aging roue, who introduces young Roberto Mariani Jean-Louis Trintignant to his hedonistic lifestyle.. Previously a man with a purpose in life, Roberto soon becomes as wanton and Read More

12/5/62
Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Marie-José Nat, Eddie Constantine, Nicole Mirel, Dany Saval, Marina Vlady, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by Dhomme, chronicles a single horrific day when every bowl of soup in France is found to contain a fly. This causes a devastating nationwide revolt. "Envy" by Molinaro tells the Read More

1962
Journey Beneath the Desert

Synopsis: Three mining engineers are marooned in the Sahara after their helicopter crashes and end up finding a secret doorway to the lost city of Atlantis where they capture the fancy of a ruthless Egyptian queen. She manages to seduce one of the men with her magic, but the other two meet grim fates after Read More

5/5/61
Le Combat dans l'île

Actors: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Henri Serre

Synopsis: The political overtones in this action-oriented drama may be a little murky outside of its time and place, yet the story is well told. Clement (Jean-Louis Tritignant) is a right-wing rabblerouser married to aspiring young actress Anne (Romy Schneider). He belongs to an underground terrorist group Read More

1961
Le Jeu de la Verité

Actors: Jean Servais, Robert Hossein, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Paul Meurisse, Françoise Prevost, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: Robert Hossein serves as both director and star of The Game of Truth. The scene is a party thrown by a capricious novelist. During an elaborate word game, one of the guests, a late arrival, is murdered. Thus begins a round robin of accusations, recriminations and surprising revelations. Cunningly Read More

1961
Pleins Feux Sur l'Assassin

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: Pleins Feux sur l'Assassin is a passable murder mystery by Georges Franju set in the atmospheric interior of an old chateau and involving the heirs to a fortune. The dying man whose fortune it is has played an unusual trick on those who would have his riches. He has hidden himself in a secret room Read More

1961
Horace 62

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Charles Aznavour, Raymond Pellegrin, Danielle Godet

Synopsis: Following the pattern of a classical Greek tragedy, this first-time drama by director Andre Veraini focuses on a vendetta originating in Corsica and ending in Paris. Accomplished French singing star Charles Aznavour plays Horace, the gentle pacifist who is forced into becoming a tool in the Read More

1961
The Battle of Austerlitz

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio De Sica, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol, Jean Marais

Synopsis: In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly legendary, 1927 historical drama Napoleon with this tale of Napoleon's life after his victories in Italy. The first half of Austerlitz delves into the private life of Napoleon Read More

6/17/60
Le Coeur Battant

Actors: Françoise Brion, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Raymond Gerome

1960
La Millieme Fenetre

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Julien Carette

Synopsis: A comedy with a situation that is built up by a cast of sharply delineated characters, this first-time feature by director Robert Menegoz revolves around a housing development and one stubborn old codger. Armand (Pierre Fresnay) has lived in his home for ages and has no intention of leaving it Read More

1960
L'Estate Violenta

Actors: Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Cathia Caro, Lilla Brignone, Jacqueline Sassard, Raf Mattioli

Synopsis: Jean-Louis Trintignant's star was just rising when he took on the role of Carlo in this engrossing wartime coming-of-age story. Carlo is a young man living in his own world and blithely inattentive to the real war that is happening not very far away. This is particularly striking because he is the Read More

11/13/59
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Valerie, Annette Vadim, Simone Renant

Synopsis: Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos's 18th century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses was filmed several times. In Roger Vadim's version, Jeanne Moreau coerces her husband Gerard Philippe into ruining the reputation of pious Annette Vadim (the director's wife at the time). Philippe spoils Moreau Read More

1959
Club De Femmes

Actors: Nicole Courcel, Dany Carrel, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de Femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house. Forced to band together because of a housing shortage, the film's heroines set up camp in a deserted structure, despite the tongue-cluckings of local busybodies and do-gooders. Read More

12/7/56
Si Tous Les Gars Du Monde

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, André Valmy, Jean Gaven, Hélène Perdrière

Synopsis: Si Tous Les Gars du Monde is an entertaining tribute to the ham radio operators of the world. The story begins when a French shipping boat takes on an Arab passenger. While on the high seas, the Arab becomes seriously ill with a communicable disease that threatens the lives of everyone on board. Read More

2/24/56
La Loi des Rues

Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Silvana Pampanini, Jean-Louis Trintignant

1956
... And God Created Woman

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Isabelle Corey

Synopsis: This Roger Vadim production was released in the US as ...And God Created Woman. Vadim's then-wife Brigitte Bardot plays the central character, a curvaceous nymphet with a voracious sexual appetite. In fact, it isn't what Bardot does in bed but what she might do that drives the three Read More

1956

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