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Actors: Jean-Pierre Melville
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna, Simone Valere
Synopsis: Parisian police commissioner Coleman (Alain Delon) is not a happy man, but he does what he can to get through each day. He has recently started having an affair with Cathy (Catherine Deneuve), and that helps a little. Cathy is also Simon's girlfriend and Simon (Richard Crenna) is Coleman's friend. Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, François Perier
Synopsis: Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel (Gian-Maria Volonté) hides in the trunk of Corey's car. The two enlist the help of an alcoholic former cop (Yves Montand) for an elaborate jewelry-store robbery. Police Read More
Actors: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Serge Reggiani
Synopsis: In this war drama set during the French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo headquarters and returns to Marseille. There he and his gang capture a traitor and throttle him. They then try to rescue a Resistance fighter in Lyons. As they do so, the hero is again captured and Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Natalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, François Perier, Michel Boisrond
Synopsis: Long considered a classic of European film noir, this existential gangster drama from French director Jean-Pierre Melville was released in the United States only in a severely truncated, re-edited, and overdubbed version entitled The Godson. Thirty years after its initial public airing, Le Read More
Actors: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, Christine Fabrega, Pierre Zimmer
Synopsis: Veteran gangster Gustave (Lino Ventura) escapes from prison to find his sister is being blackmailed by some petty thugs in this crime thriller. He plans one last caper to steal enough money in hopes of retiring to a tropical paradise. He and his gang are sought by a detective (Paul Meurisse), the Read More
Actors: Charles Denner, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Juliette Mayniel
Synopsis: This black comedy is based on the dastardly deeds of French serial killer Henri-Desire Landru, who wined, dined, scammed, and dismembered over 10 women during WW I. He obtained his victims by placing ads in the Personals section of the paper. He then chose wealthy dowagers in their fifties. First Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Monique Hennessy, Michel Piccoli, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre
Synopsis: Confusion and wrong assumptions are the cause of tragedy in this stylish gangster noir by director Jean-Pierre Melville. Maurice (Serge Reggiani) and Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) are friends going way back, and both have had a shady past. Silien wants to leave his illegal activities behind him Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michele Mercier, Stefania Sandrelli
Synopsis: A venerable banker from Paris leaves for America when he discovers there will be an investigation into his questionable business deals. Accompanied by his faithful protégé Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the pair travels to New York by plane and eventually to New Orleans by car. Michel plans to make Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel
Synopsis: Jean-Paul Belmondo portrays Leon Morin, an altruistic priest who believes that any sin can be expunged by a good dose of faith. Emmanuelle Riva plays a wayward woman who long ago decided that the easiest way was the best. Belmondo makes it his mission to steer Riva onto the right path. Given the Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane David, Henri-Jacques Huet
Synopsis: The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International Herald Tribune along the Read More
Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Pierre Grasset, Jean-Pierre Melville
Synopsis: The primary protagonists in this routine drama are two French journalists, Delmas (Pierre Grasset) and Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville, the director), and also the city of New York at night. The two journalists are on the trail of a story -- a French diplomat has disappeared from the U.N. for no Read More
Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy, Howard Vernon, Guy Decomble
Synopsis: Both a tribute to classic American gangster films and the source of inspiration for French New Wave filmmakers, Bob le Flambeur is the first in a series of stylish noirs that Jean-Pierre Melville started in the mid-'50s. Co-scripted by the popular crime writer Auguste Le Breton (Rififi), this is a Read More
Actors: Philippe Lemaire, Juliette Greco, Yvonne Sanson, Daniel Cauchy
Synopsis: The English-language title of this French romantic melodrama is When You Read This Letter. Juliette Greco plays Therese, a nun-in-training who returns to "civilian" life to care for her young sister Denise (Irene Gatter). When Denise is compromised by love-'em-and-leave-'em stud Max (Philippe LeMaire Read More
Crew: Director, Producer, Production Designer, Screenwriter
Actors: Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dermit, Renée Cosima, Jacques Bernard, Roger Gaillard, Melvyn Martin
Synopsis: Adapted by Jean Cocteau from his own novel and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Les Enfants Terribles is set in motion when a sensitive youth, Paul (Edouard Dermit), is injured by a snowball flung by school bully Dargelos (Renée Cosima, an actress in male drag). The bully later reappears in the Read More
Actors: Jean Marais, Marie Déa, François Perier, Maria Casarés, Juliette Greco
Synopsis: Cinematic poet Jean Cocteau explored the myth of Orpheus on no fewer than three occasions: Le Sang d'Un Poete (Blood of a Poet, 1930), Orphee (Orpheus, 1949) and Le Testament d'Orphee (1960). This second of his "Orpheus" trilogy stars Jean Marais in the title role. Updated to contemporary Paris Read More
Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Howard Vernon, Jean-Marie Robain, Nicole Stephane
Synopsis: Le Silence de la Mer was based upon a popular wartime "underground" novel by Vercours. Most of the film is confined to the living room of a bourgeois French family. Howard Vernon plays Von Ebrennae, a cultured Nazi officer who is billeted in this household. As the residents stare at him in mute Read More
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