Jeanne MoreauFilmography

Carmel

Actors: Amitai Ashkenazi, Amos Lavie, Ben Eidel, Ben Gitaï

Synopsis: Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai offers an impressionistic look at his nation's long history of armed conflict in this experimental feature. Carmel begins with a recreation of a battle from the first century, with Hebrews fighting off an invading Roman army, and the cascade of images that follows Read More

One Day You'll Understand

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Hippolyte Girardot, Emmanuelle Devos, Dominique Blanc, Daniel Duval

Synopsis: A middle-aged man studying the Mur des Noms in modern-day France recalls the time 20 years prior when he and his mother were viewing the trial of Klaus Barbie with rapt attention in this introspective drama from director Amos Gitai. The year was 1987, and Rivka lived with her son, Victor Read More

Château en Suède

Actors: Jeanne Moreau

Everywhere at Once

Actors: Jeanne Moreau

Synopsis: Filmmaker Holly Fisher and photographer Peter Lindbergh collaborated on this non-narrative exploration of the landscape of the human face and the stories it can tell. In Everywhere At Once, Fisher compares both vintage and recent photos by Lindbergh of the legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau Read More

Time to Leave

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Daniel Duval, Marie Rivière

Synopsis: Diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only a short while to live, a successful fashion photographer embarks on one final journey in the second of three films in a trilogy about death and mourning from French director François Ozon (the first entry in the the trilogy was Under the Sand) . After Read More

French Beauty

Synopsis: As directed by acclaimed and award-winning French documentarist Pascale Lamche, the non-fiction opus French Beauty rests on a decades-old question: what impalpable quality is it that so many French actresses exhibit, which explains their irresistible appeal to millions of moviegoers? Lamche Read More

Go West

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Mario Drmac, Tarik Filipovic, Rade Serbedzija, Mirjana Karanovic, Haris Burina

Synopsis: A Muslim cellist and a Serbian student make a desperate attempt to hide their love long enough to escape from war-torn Bosnia before the truth about their sexuality is revealed and they are put to death. Serbian aggression in Sarajevo is escalating, and now, due to his faith, Kenan's life is in Read More

Francois Truffaut, une Autobiographie

Cet Amour-Là

Actors: Jeanne Moreau

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Josée Dayan directs this portrait of a celebrated love affair between legendary novelist, scriptwriter, essaying, film director and television personality Marguerite Duras and Yann Andrea, a man who is almost half Duras's age. The film opens with Andrea (Aymeric Demarigny) Read More

Lisa

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Jeanne Moreau, Marion Cotillard, Sagamore Stévenin, Michel Jonasz

Synopsis: A young man's interest in film history leads to a revelation about his own past in this drama. Sam (Benoit Magimel) is a student and film fan who is fascinated by Sylvain Marceau (Sagamore Stevenin), an actor who had a brief career in the 1930s but seems to have vanished while working on "Princess Read More

Fur Mich Gab Es Nur Noch Fassbinder - Die Glucklichen Opfer Des Rainer Werner F

Actors: Irm Hermann, Peer Raben, Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis: A made-on-HD video documentary about fascinating European filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, directed by the equally notable Rosa von Prauheim, this feature attempts to shed light on his rocky life in a tell-all fashion. The film interviews several artists who worked with Fassbinder, dating back Read More

Il Manoscritto Del Principe

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Jeanne Moreau, Paolo Briguglia, Laurent Terzieff

Synopsis: Roberto Ando directs this biopic about Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- who gained posthumous fame with his novel The Leopard later made into a film by Luchino Visconti -- and his relationship with two young proteges. Set in Palermo during the 1950s, the film centers on Marco Read More

Les Miserables

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Virginie Ledoyen, Christian Clavier, Enrico Lo Verso

Synopsis: Victor Hugo's classic story of one man's struggle to redeem himself -- and another man's efforts to bring him down -- is brought to the screen again (there have been at least 18 previous screen adaptations) in this epic-scale television production with a distinguished international cast. Jean Read More

Balzac

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jeanne Moreau, Virna Lisi, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: Gérard Depardieu stars as the great French author Honoré de Balzac in this historical biography produced for French television. Balzac's childhood is marked by a difficult relationship with his mother, Charlotte-Laure (Jeanne Moreau), whose strident criticism and inability to show affection are Read More

Ever After

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey, Megan Dodds

Synopsis: Andy Tennant directed this Cinderella variant. The Brothers Grimm arrive at the home of a wealthy Grande Dame (Jeanne Moreau) who speaks of the many legends surrounding the fable of the cinder girl before telling the "true" story of her ancestor. In flashback, the story then focuses on Read More

Un Amour de Sorcière

Actors: Vanessa Paradis, Jeanne Moreau, Gil Bellows, Jean Reno

Synopsis: The good witch Morgane bears a son and finds herself faced with a painful choice. Tradition requires that she select a godfather for the child at the exact moment of its birth. The moral alignment of the godfather will determine that of the child. The trouble is that there are only six witches Read More

Amour et Confusions

Actors: Patrick Braoudé, Kristin Scott Thomas, Gérard Darmon, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: The debate between gender roles and the nature of masculinity and femininity in the '90s provides the basis of this romantic comedy. Dan is divorced and designs ladies lingerie for a living. Sarah is a powerful business executive. She and Dan spend one night making passionate love and then lose Read More

I Love You, I Love You Not

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Claire Danes, Jude Law, James Van Der Beek, Kris Park

Synopsis: Funded by the Ford Foundation, a one-act play by Wendy Kesselman about a teenage girl's coming of age was expanded to become the directorial debut of prominent casting director Billy Hopkins. Claire Danes stars as Daisy, a well-to-do but shy and bookish Manhattan teenager attending an exclusive Read More

The Proprietor

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Josh Hamilton, Sean Young, Austin Pendleton, Sam Waterston, Christopher Cazenove, Nell Carter

Synopsis: Noted producer Ismail Merchant stepped up to the director's chair for this drama. Adrienne Mark (Jeanne Moreau) is the most acclaimed French novelist of her generation, whose best known work, Je M'Appelle France, was an international best-seller made into an award-winning French film (and a Read More

Catherine the Great

Actors: Brian Blessed, Mel Ferrer, Hannes Jaenicke, Ian Richardson, Omar Sharif, Jeanne Moreau, Craig McLachlan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann

Synopsis: Marvin J. Chomsky's sweeping historical drama, Catherine the Great, features Catherine Zeta-Jones as the title character. The film traces how the leader was able to skillfully manipulate both the societal institutions of the day as well as the powerful men who surrounded her in order to gain Read More

Beyond the Clouds

Actors: John Malkovich, Kim Rossi Stuart, Ines Sastre, Sophie Marceau, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: The many ways in which men are fascinated, compelled, and confused by their attraction to women are explored in this four part drama. As a filmmaker (John Malkovich) tries to sort out his plans for his next film, he considers several stories about women and the men who love them. Silvano (Kim Rossi Stuart Read More

A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

The World of Jacques Demy

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third such tribute and is the only one to look deeply into Demy's vision as a director and his filmmaking techniques. To do so, she uses perfectly preserved film clips from each of Read More

Map of the Human Heart

Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, Robert Joamie, John Cusack, Annie Galipeau

Synopsis: A white, Inuit boy named Avik is the focus of New Zealand director Vincent Ward's meditation on race and romance. In the opening moments of the movie, set in 1931 in the Arctic-Canadian settlement Nunataaq, Avik (portrayed initially by Robert Joamie) lives under the watchful eye of his grandmother Read More

The Summer House

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, Julie Walters, Lena Headey, David Threlfall

Synopsis: Martin Sherman adapted Alice Thomas Ellis' novel for this comedy about a suburban Englishwoman who's about to settle on marriage with her mother-dominated next door neighbor until everyone's comfortable life is disrupted by a visit from her exotic and flamboyant friend Lili (Jeanne Moreau, in a Read More

A Foreign Field

Actors: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, John Randolph, Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, Geraldine Chaplin, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: In this sentimental comedy, two British World War II veterans (played by English stage and screen veterans Sir Alec Guinness and Leo McKern) have come back to Normandy together to revisit the site of their most harrowing wartime experiences, to look up the gravesite of a fallen comrade, and to Read More

Je M'appelle Victor

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Micheline Presle, Dominique Pinon, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile (Claudio Bucella) is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his Read More

The Lover

Actors: Jane March, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the film explores the erotic charge of forbidden love. Jane March plays a French teenager sent to a Saigon boarding school, while Tony Leung is a 32-year Chinese Read More

Die Abwesenheit

Actors: Alex Descas, Bruno Ganz

Synopsis: In this aimless and meandering film, five separate individuals drop out of their lives in order to drift around Europe with no clear end in mind. Despite the diversity of the individuals beginning these journeys, the film apparently offers no appealing characters, incidents, or insights, as it was Read More

À Demain

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, François Cluzet

Synopsis: In this affectionate feature, an adult child of a functional family recollects his largely satisfactory childhood in Paris in the 1960s. The large apartment Pierre grew up in not only housed his parents and himself, but his mother's aged mother and his grandfather. In addition, the premises serve Read More

Until the End of the World

Actors: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill, Max von Sydow, Rüdiger Vogler

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' sprawling cyberpunk noir epic -- shot in no less than nine different countries -- is set in 1999 and stars Solveig Dommartin as Claire, a young Frenchwoman who comes into contact with a large sum of money stolen during a bank heist; in her travels she picks up a mysterious American Read More

To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Ilias Logothetis

Synopsis: Four countries-France, Greece, Italy and Switzerland-converged upon the production of Suspended Step of Stork. The film is set on the Greek border, where a steady stream of refugees flows on a perpetual basis. Reporter Gregory Karr thinks that he's spotted a familiar face among the anonymous Read More

La Vieille Qui Marchait Dans la Mer

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Serrault, Luc Thuillier, Geraldine Danon

Synopsis: Originally Vielle qui Marchait dans la Mer, this elegiac French comedy is also known as The Old Lady Who Wades in the Sea. Based on a novel by San-Antonio (Frederic Dard), the film stars Jeanne Moreau as an ageing beauty, living with her travelling companion (and ex-lover) Michel Serrault in Read More

Alberto Express

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Nino Manfredi, Jeanne Moreau, Marco Messeri, Marie Trintignant

Synopsis: Alberto's family traditions are quite unusual. Living in Paris with his pregnant wife, he is now expected to return to Rome to pay back every cent that his family spent raising him. Totally without the kind of money expected of him, as Alberto speeds by train toward his family he tries to raise Read More

La Femme Nikita

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tchéky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Reno

Synopsis:
The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne Parillaud) fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then Read More

La Femme Fardée

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Jacqueline Maillan, Anthony Delon, André Dussollier, Philippe Khorsand

Synopsis: Except for the millionaire film producer, who undoubtedly only gets what he deserves, in this bedroom comedy almost everyone else on a luxury cruise liner headed for Mykonos seems to be having a good time with someone new. Doria (Jeanne Moreau) is a famed but aging opera singer whose career is Read More

Jour Apres Jour

Actors: Jacques Penot, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Gérard Blain, Sandrine Caron

La Nuit de L'ocean

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Assumpta Serna, Jean-Pierre Bisson

Le Paltoquet

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Moreau, Daniel Auteuil, Richard Bohringer, Fanny Ardant, Jean Yanne, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: With ingenious camera work, witty dialogue, and a setting that almost never wanders from the cavernous interior of a mod cafe-bar, this drama by Michel Deville has a lot of pluses. A woman (Jeanne Moreau) and a man (Michel Piccoli, the "nonentity" of the title) jointly run the vast cafe and every Read More

Le Miracule

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Jeanne Moreau, Sophie Moyse, Sylvie Joly, Jean Rougerie

Synopsis: Insurance investigator Ronald Fox Terrier (Michel Serrault) looks into a questionable claim of disability feigned by Papu (Jean Poiret) in this situation comedy. When both men are dunked into the waters at a holy shrine, the faking Papu finds himself unable to get out of his wheelchair, while Read More

Sauve-toi, Lola

Actors: Carole Laure, Sami Frey, Jeanne Moreau, Dominique Labourier, Robert Charlebois

Synopsis: Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Ania Francos, this tragi-comedy follows the diagnosis and internment of lawyer Lola Friedlander (Carole Laure) in the cancer ward of a large clinic. There Lola encounters Marie-Aude (Jeanne Moreau) and Cathy (Dominique Labourier), two very different Read More

Vivement Truffaut

Synopsis: A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he Read More

Lillian Gish

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Lillian Gish, Jeanne Moreau

Synopsis: Interviewed in her charming New York apartment at the age of 88, the indomitable Lillian Gish (her last name an Anglicized version of Guiche), comes across as the knowledgeable, talented, and beguiling woman of her many publicity releases. Gish recounts how she and her sister Dorothy first Read More

La Truite

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Olbrychski, Lisette Malidor

Synopsis: This French sex farce is translated in English as The Trout. Joseph Losey directed and co-wrote the film, which stars Isabelle Huppert as Frederique, a young woman living on her family's rural trout farm. Frederique is trapped in a dull marriage to a rube. She decides to leave him and the trout Read More

Querelle

Actors: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Hanno Pöschl

Synopsis: A sailor learns to take, and give, it like a man in this surrealistic adaptation of writer and thief Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest by avant-garde German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In a colorful brothel in the port of Brest, proprietor Nono (Gunther Kaufmann) is known for wagering Read More

The Wizard of Babylon

Actors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jeanne Moreau, Brad Davis, Franco Nero

Synopsis: German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder died of a drug overdose on June 10, 1982, before his last film, Querelle was edited. This documentary is both about the filming of Querelle -- a sailor of that name whose love life left nothing to be desired -- and about director Fassbinder's working Read More

Mille Milliards de Dollars

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Caroline Cellier, Anny Duperey, Jeanne Moreau, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: A young jounalist (Patrick Dewaere) stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is Read More

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

Actors: Richard Harris, Jeanne Moreau, George Peppard, Jennifer Dale

Synopsis: Sexual obsession provides the basis of this taut thriller, an adaptation of a Romain Gary novel. The story centers upon a prominent financier who must fight to save his crumbling business empire and his rapidly fading manhood. The obsession begins when the impotent magnate begins dreaming that a Read More

Plein Sud

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Clio Goldsmith, Jeanne Moreau, Guy Marchand, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: In his final film before taking his own life, Patrick Dewaere stars as Serge, a writer whose life is disrupted by an affair with the enigmatic Carol (Clio Goldsmith). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Adolescente

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Laetitia Chauveau, Simone Signoret, Jacques Weber, Edith Clever, Francis Huster

Synopsis: L'Adolescente (The Adolescent) was the second directorial stint for French film star Jeanne Moreau. This possibly autobiographical piece is set during the early war years. Laetitia Chauveau plays a twelve-year old girl whose future is determined by the events of one long summer holiday in the Read More

Mr. Klein

Actors: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Lonsdale, Juliet Berto

Synopsis: Alain Delon plays Mr. Klein, a French-Catholic art dealer during the Nazi occupation. Strapped for cash, Klein takes financial advantage of his Jewish neighbors, knowing that they have no legal recourse. Ironically, Klein is himself mistaken for a missing Jew, a man who has been using Mr. Klein's Read More

Lumière

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Francine Racette, Jeanne Moreau, Lucia Bosé, Caroline Cartier, Marie Henriau

Synopsis: Actress Jeanne Moreau made her directorial debut with this tale about a gathering of actresses who, over the course of an all-night conversation, come to reassess their careers and romantic lives. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Tycoon

Actors: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg). Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and Read More

Hu-Man

Actors: Terence Stamp, Jeanne Moreau, Agnes Stevenin

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, Terence Stamp (the name of the character as well as the actor who plays him) is an aging actor enlisted to participate in an experiment involving time travel organized by his former mistress. With her assistance, he travels into the past where he witnesses the death of his Read More

Le Jardin Qui Bascule

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Anouk Ferjac, Patrick Jouane, Sami Frey, Philippe Chemin

Synopsis: The young hit man in this movie cannot bring himself to fulfill his contract on Katie (Delphine Seyrig), and for a little while the two have an affair. Even after their affair is over, he hesitates, which has dire consequences for the two of them. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Joanna Francesca

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Carlos Kroeber, Eliezer Gomes, Pierre Cardin

Synopsis: As the players in this dark drama move across the screen, they symbolize aspects of the human psyche and society that force the viewer to judge them at a certain distance. Particularly jarring is the saga of a young child who was born out of an incestuous relationship and is kept locked up and Read More

Creezy

Actors: Alain Delon, Sydne Rome, Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich

Synopsis: This French political melodrama deals with the conflict between the political ambitions of Julien (Alain Delon) and his love for his mistress, fashion-model Creezy (Sydne Rome). Based on the novel Creezy, which won the "Prix de Goncourt" in 1969, it tells of Julien's schemes to win a ministerial Read More

Going Places

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Jeanne Moreau, Jacques Chailleux

Synopsis: Director Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses features Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere as a pair of sociopaths wending their way across France. Though Depardieu is the more dominant of the two, both men are equally culpable in their disregard for common decency. They are particularly rough on Read More

Je T'aime

Actors: Jeanne Moreau

Synopsis: The English-language title of the French-Canadian Je T'Aime is, of course, I Love You. Jeanne Moreau plays a middle-aged woman who, fed up with her family in her native France, relocates to Quebec. Content in her rural solitude, Moreau is not altogether pleased when her pregnant daughter Read More

Souvenirs d'en France

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Auclair, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Mann, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Director André Téchiné brings his usual obsessions -- including a preoccupation with the fortunes of the bourgeoisie -- to this episodic drama, which serves as a thinly-veiled portrait of France's economic peaks and valleys from the 1930s through the 1970s. Jeanne Moreau stars as Berthe Pedret, a Read More

Chère Louise

Actors: Jeanne Moreau

Synopsis: In this French romance, Louise (Jeanne Moreau) lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent death of her mother. Recently, she has moved to Annecy, a moderate-sized city, to take work as a schoolteacher. She encounters a much younger man, Luigi (Julian Negulesco Read More

Nathalie Granger

Actors: Nathalie Bourgeois, Dionys Mascolo, Jeanne Moreau, Lucia Bosé, Gérard Depardieu, Valerie Mascolo

Synopsis: With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She and her friend are seen doing yard work, talking about their families and receiving the occasional visitor. The brightest spot in the day is when a washing machine salesman Read More

Comptes a Rebours

Actors: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Charles Vanel, Michel Bouquet

Synopsis: Nolan (Serge Reggiani) was set up to take the fall for a crime committed by his whole gang, and as a result, his brother is dead and he is forced to do a stint in prison. Nolan comes out of prison looking for his former compatriots, and not just to shake their hands. He runs into an old Read More

L'Humeur Vagabonde

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Jeanne Moreau, Madeleine Renaud, Erick Penet

Synopsis: This satirical French drama is based on a novel by Antoine Blondin. Fired by wanderlust and urged on by his mother, Taitro leaves his wife and children to seek work in Paris. The mother is hoping to break up the marriage, as she doesn't like her daughter-in-law. Thanks to his mother, Taitro has Read More

Alex in Wonderland

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Ellen Burstyn, Meg Mazursky, Glenna Sergent

Synopsis: Made on the heels of Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, this cinematic experiment is one of the director's more personal films. With a big tip-'o-the-hat to Fellini's 8 1/2 (to make sure no one misses the references to the film, Federico Fellini appears in a cameo), Alex in Wonderland Read More

Langlois

Actors: Lillian Gish, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, Simone Signoret, Catherine Deneuve

Synopsis: This documentary follows noted film archivist Henri Langlois as he returns to Paris. Over 60,000 prints exist in his Paris museum, with 15,000 in the United States and 6,000 in Russia. Ingrid Bergman, Lillian Gish, Jeanne Moreau, Simone Signoret, Catherine Denueve, Francois Truffaut, and Viva all Read More

Monte Walsh

Actors: Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance, Mitchell Ryan, Jim Davis

Synopsis: Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin ) and his pal Chet Rollins (Jack Palance) are two over the hill cowboys seeking work in the town of Harmony, Arizona in the final days of the Old West. They take a job at the ranch of Cal Brennan (Jim Davis) and meet an old friend Shorty (Mitch Ryan). Monte goes off to Read More

Le Corps De Diane

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Charles Denner, Elisabeth Wiener, Joelle Latour, Henri-Jacques Huet

Synopsis: Diane (Jean Moreau) is married to an architect (Charles Denner) in this situation comedy. The two met in Czechoslovakia before marrying and moving to France. He becomes extremely jealous when he suspects her of having a Lesbian affair with a ballet dancer. His incessant questions and insane Read More

Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir

Actors: Fernand Sardou, Nini Formicola, Marguerite Cassan, Françoise Arnoul

Synopsis: Jean Renoir's last completed work was this made-for-television effort, comprised of three short films along with a musical interlude courtesy of Jeanne Moreau. Included are The Last Christmas Dinner, The Electric Floor Waxer and A Tribute to Tolerance. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bride Wore Black

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: This Francois Truffaut thriller is based ona novel by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich), whose books had been adapted by Alfred Hitchcock on many previous occasions. Jeanne Moreau stars as a woman whose fiancé is nastily murdered by five men. Utilizing a series of disguises, the cool-customer Read More

Great Catherine

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Hawkins, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: Mae West was never permitted to make a film version of her bawdy historical romp Catherine Was Great, yet this British adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine made it to the screen. Where is the justice in this? Anyway, Jeanne Moreau braves it through the nearly unplayable role of Read More

The Immortal Story

Actors: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley

Synopsis: Immortal Story was directed by Orson Welles, who also stars as a fabulously wealthy, but bitter and dictatorial, European merchant. Soured on life, Mr. Clay (Welles) decides to play games with the lives of others. He decides to make the "immortal" legend of a sailor seducing a rich man's wife come Read More

The Oldest Profession

Actors: Michele Mercier, Enrico Maria Salerno, Elsa Martinelli, Jeanne Moreau, Gabriele Tinti, Raquel Welch, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Chimes at Midnight

Actors: Orson Welles, John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau, Norman Rodway, Keith Baxter

Synopsis: The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the young Henry V, steps up from supporting character in several plays to the central focus of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight, considered by many critics the best of the Read More

The Sailor from Gibraltar

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Ian Bannen, Vanessa Redgrave, Hugh Griffith

Synopsis: Playwright Christopher Isherwood and co-writer/director Tony Richardson adapted the novel by Marguerite Duras into this romantic drama. Jeanne Moreau plays Anna, a Frenchwoman of means who experienced fleeting true love with a sailor many years before. In the interim, her husband killed himself Read More

Mademoiselle

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni, Umberto Orsini, Keith Skinner, Jeanne Beretta, Mony Rey

Synopsis: In 1951, French writer Jean Genet presented a screenplay called "Les Rêves Interdits/L'Autre Versant du Rêve" to actress Anouk Aimée as a wedding gift. He then proceeded to sell the rights three times without telling her. Eventually the script was reworked by Marguerite Duras and filmed by British Read More

Viva Maria!

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton, Claudio Brook, Paulette Dubost, Gregor Von Rezzori

Synopsis: Two of the most beautiful women in the European cinema of the 1960s -- Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau -- team up under the direction of Louis Malle in this engaging comedy/adventure. Maria Fitzgerald O'Malley (Bardot) is the daughter of an Irish political dissident who has traveled to Latin Read More

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

The Train

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer directs Burt Lancaster in the tense spy thriller The Train. Lancaster plays Labiche, a French railway inspector. Allied forces are threatening to liberate Paris, so Col. Franz von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) is ordered to move the priceless works of art from the Jeu de Paume Museum Read More

Diary of a Chambermaid

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret, Francoise Lugagne, Daniel Ivernel, Jean Ozenne

Synopsis: The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir), Diary of a Chambermaid charts the ambitions of Celestine (Jeanne Moreau), a woman who comes to work in the 1930s for a Normandy estate occupied by Monsieur Rabour (Jean Ozenne), his daughter (Francoise Lugagne Read More

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Actors: Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, Shirley MacLaine, George C. Scott, Moira Lister, Ingrid Bergman, Isa Miranda

Synopsis: In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their possession of an unusual car, a yellow Rolls Royce Phantom II. Lord Frinton (Rex Harrison) is a diplomat who purchases the exquisite auto as a gift for his wife (Jeanne Read More

Le Feu Follet

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Lena Skerla, Jeanne Moreau, Alexandra Stewart, Yvonne Clech, Mona Dol, Bernard Noel

Synopsis: Maurice Ronet plays an alcoholic writer, Alain Leroy, who is on the verge of suicide (his character is based on writer Jacques Rigaut, who killed himself in 1929). The psychiatrist assigned to Leroy is no help, advising his patient to seek a reconciliation with his wife, who is still smarting from Read More

Peau De Banane

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Brasseur, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gert Fröbe

Synopsis: In this lightweight French comedy a pair of sharpers, Cathy (Jeanne Moreau) and her ex-husband Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) attempt to bilk a miserly millionaire out of his fortune during his visit to the French Riviera. Unfortunately for them, he is just as crafty as they are. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Read More

The Trial

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Suzanne Flon, Elsa Martinelli, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an "unfathomable" genius rests upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story in clear, precise fashion. Sometimes, as in such films as Touch of Evil, Welles' spotty storytelling skills can be forgiven in the light of the excellent visuals. In other Read More

The Victors

Actors: George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, Vince Edwards, James Mitchum, Rosanna Schiaffino, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the novel The Human Kind by Alexander Baron. It follows the adventures of an American infantry platoon based in Sicily that participates in the invasion of France, marches into Read More

Bay of Angels

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers, Henri Nassiet

Synopsis: Bay of the Angels (La Baie des anges) stars Jeanne Moreau as a middle-aged Parisian gambling addict who leaves her husband and children and heads for the roulette tables of Nice. There she meets young and handsome Claude Mann--a meeting which coincides with Moreau's first winning streak. She Read More

Eva

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi, Giorgio Albertazzi, James Villiers

Synopsis: Joseph Losey's turbulent melodrama concerns a phony writer, Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker), who has recently sold the film rights to his autobiography as a Welsh coal miner (actually penned by his deceased brother). Tyvian is engaged to Francesca (Virna Lisi), an alluring screenwriter, but then Eva (Jeanne Moreau Read More

Jules and Jim

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Vanna Urbino

Synopsis: Acclaimed French director François Truffaut's third and, for many viewers, best film is an adaptation of a semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roché. Set between 1912 and 1933, it stars Oskar Werner as the German Jules and Henri Serre as the Frenchman Jim, kindred spirits who, while on Read More

La Notte

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Maria Pia Luzi, Rosy Mazzacurati

Synopsis: La Notte is another of Michelangelo Antonioni's cinematic interrupted journeys. Just as no one solved the central mystery in Antonioni's L'Avventura, neither does anyone truly enjoy the literary party that is La Notte's centerpiece. The party is being thrown to celebrate the publication of Read More

A Woman Is a Woman

Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Claude Brialy, Nicole Paquin, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Director Jean-Luc Godard's deceptively blithe tribute to the musical comedy features Anna Karina as an exotic dancer who decides that it is time for her to have a child. When her lover refuses to commit to the decision, she turns her romantic attentions to his best friend. This being a Godard Read More

Le Dialogue des Carmelites

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Alida Valli, Pascale Audret, Madeleine Renaud

Synopsis: This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrified of dying during the upheaval. The longer she associates with the nuns the more she is transformed by their faith and devotion. When the nuns are Read More

Moderato Cantabile

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Didier Haudepin, Jeanne Moreau, Pascale de Boysson

Synopsis: In this drama, an industrialist's wife finds herself bored by her opulent existence. One day, while she waits for her son to finish his music lesson, she hears a woman scream at a nearby bistro. She then sees a man being hauled away from a woman's body. Her curiosity piqued, she becomes a regular Read More

Five Branded Women

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, Carla Gravina

Synopsis: Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this standard wartime drama. Some of his better-known films (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Norma Rae) also deal with the question of social and Read More

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

The 400 Blows

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Robert Beauvais, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay

Synopsis: For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The 400 Blows stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's preteen alter ego. Misunderstood at home by his parents and tormented in school by his insensitive teacher (Guy Decomble Read More

Les Amants

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre, José-Luis de Villalonga

Synopsis: The Lovers (Les Amants) furthered the reputations of both director Louis Malle and star Jeanne Moreau -- and also pushed the boundaries of American censorship (1959 vintage) to the breaking point. Moreau plays a humdrum housewife whose life brightens considerably when she meets a handsome young Read More

Trois Jours A Vivre

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Jeanne Moreau, Roland Armontel, Aimé Clariond

Synopsis: Trois Jours a Vivre (Three Days to Live) takes off with a bang when two-bit actor Daniel Gelin witnesses a murder. He didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets Gelin as his next victim. Our Read More

Les Louves

Actors: François Perier, Micheline Presle, Jeanne Moreau, Madeleine Robinson

Synopsis: Les Louves was also released as Demoniaque and She Wolves. By any name, it's a puzzler, at least until the final fast-paced scenes. Gervais (François Perier) escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been Read More

Le Dos au Mur

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, Philippe Nicaud, Claire Maurier

Synopsis: When Jacques Decret (Gérard Oury) discovers that his wife Gloria (Jeanne Moreau) has been unfaithful, he devises an all-too-clever scheme of revenge in Edouard Molinaro's Le Dos au Mur (Back to the Wall): he sends her an anonymous blackmail letter. After she ignores the threat, he cranks up the Read More

Echec Au Porteur

Actors: Serge Reggiani, Jeanne Moreau, Paul Meurisse

Synopsis: Echec au Porteur (Not Delivered) is a nail-biting suspense tale in the Hitchcock manner. The disgruntled protagonist decides to kill an old enemy with a bomb concealed in a football. The bomb is misdelivered, ending up in the hands of a young boy. The rest of the picture is a race against time as Read More

Jusqu'au Dernier

Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Jeanne Moreau, Paul Meurisse

Synopsis: This French crime melodrama was released outside of Europe as Until the Last One. The film begins with a daring robbery, masterminded by a gang of clever thieves. Unfortunately, once the heist is a fait accompli, the crooks begin bickering with one another. Gradually, the crooks kill each Read More

L'Etrange Monsieur Steve

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Philippe Lemaire, Armand Mestral, Lino Ventura

Synopsis: L'Etrange Monsieur Steve (The Strange Mr. Stevens) features Armand Mestral as the title character. It is bank robber Mr. Steve (or Stevens) who introduces mild-mannered bank clerk Georges (Philippe Lemaire) to the criminal viewpoint. Fascinated by Mr. Steve's dangerous lifestyle, Georges Read More

Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Lino Ventura, Jean Wall, Felix Marten, Yori Bertin

Synopsis: The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the husband and make it look like suicide (reminiscent of The Postman Always Rings Twice). Jeanne Moreau, as Florence Carala, gives an astonishing Read More

Le Salaire Du Péché

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Pascal, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Debucourt

Les Hommes En Blanc

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Jean Chevrier, Raymond Pellegrin, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: Like its American namesake, Les Hommes et Blanc (Men in White) is a drama of the medical profession. Raymond Pellegrin stars as Nerac, an idealistic young doctor who feels unsuited to the hustle and bustle of a big-city hospital. Nerac believes that he can serve mankind better by taking a Read More

Gas-Oil

Actors: Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Ginette Leclerc, Henri Cremieux

M' Sieur La Caille

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Philippe Lemaire, Marthe Mercadier, Roger-Pierre

Monsieur La Caille

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Philippe Lemaire, Robert Dalban, Marthe Mercadier

La Reine Margot

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Françoise Rosay, Armando Francioli, Louis de Funès, Henri Genes, Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis: Though the screenplay for La Reine Margot (The Queen Margot) was written by legendary filmmaker Abel Gance, the directorial reins were handled by Jean Dreville. Adapted from a novel by Alexandre Dumas, the film centers around Margot (Jeanne Moreau), the headstrong sister of France's King Charles Read More

Secrets D'Alcove

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Richard Todd, Gianni Franciolini, Vittorio De Sica, Dawn Addams, Martine Carol, Marcel Mouloudji

Synopsis: Franciolin) FI An all-star lineup of actors and directors was responsible for the omnibus feature Secrets D'Alcove. The film is made up of four separate playlets; the only "character" common to the four stories is a huge bed. The characters whose behavior is governed by being in close proximity of Read More

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Actors: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll

Synopsis: This strangely-christened French film noir was released in the U.S. as Grisbi. Jean Gabin stars as a racketeer known by the Runyonesque nickname of Max the Liar. Seeking out the finer things in life, Max intends to pull one last job and retire. After stealing a fortune in gold, our "hero" is faced Read More

Les Intrigantes

Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Raymond Rouleau, Jeanne Moreau, Louis de Funès

Synopsis: The world of the theater is the backdrop for this sublimely assembled whodunit. A stage director (Raymond Rouleau) becomes the prime suspect in the death of his assistant, who may or may not have been messing around with the director's wife (Jeanne Moreau). The wife helps her husband hide out from Read More

Dortoir des Grandes

Actors: Jean Marais, Françoise Arnoul, Denise Grey, Jeanne Moreau

Julietta

Actors: Dany Robin, Jean Marais, Jeanne Moreau, Bernard Lancret, Georges Chamarat

Synopsis: Julietta (Dany Robin) is not fond of the wealthy older man (Bernard Lancret) whom her mother has selected for her husband. Dreaming of a Prince Charming who will rescue her from this loveless marriage, Julietta believes that handsome attorney Andre (Jean Marais) is the man of the hour. Trouble is Read More

Il Est Minuit Docteur Schweitzer

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Pierre Fresnay, Raymond Rouleau, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: Humanitarian Albert Schweitzer still had a dozen years worth of good works left in him in 1952; thus, the title of this French biopic, which translates to It is Midnight, Dr. Schweitzer, was a trifle premature. Pierre Fresnay stars as Schweitzer, while Jeanne Moreau co-stars as Marie, his Read More

Dr. Schweitzer

Synopsis: African republic of Gabon was the focus of Dr. Albert Schweitzer who wished to found a hospital for the poor inhabitants as told in this fact-based account. (AKA Schweitzer: Jungle Doctor) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

L'Homme De Ma Vie

Actors: Madeleine Robinson, Jeanne Moreau, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Henri Vilbert

Synopsis: L'Homme De Ma Vie (Man of My Life) stars Madeleine Robinson as Madeleine, who after being abandoned by her lover is forced to raise her baby all by herself. Supporting herself and her child as a prostitute, Madeleine manages to give her daughter an expensive girl's-school education, all the while Read More

Meurtres

Actors: Fernandel, Raymond Souplex, Jacques Varennes, Jeanne Moreau, Fernand Sardou

Synopsis: Produced in 1950, the French Three Sinners was adapted by Charles Plisnier from his own novel Meurtres. The film was billed as the dramatic debut of comic-actor Fernandel, and though it really wasn't, he acquits himself nicely in a rare serious assignment. The topic is euthanasia: Noel Annequin's (Fernandel Read More

Dernier Amour

Actors: Annabella, Suzanne Flon, Jeanne Moreau, Georges Marchal