Jean SorelFilmography

Born:: France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Internationally known French leading man Jean Sorel made most of his films during the 1960s and '70s. He frequently appeared in French and Italian productions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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Marcello: A Sweet Life

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Ettore Scola, Armando Trovajoli, Chiara Mastroianni, Barbara Mastroianni

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) was arguably the most famous and respected leading man in the history of Italian cinema. A favorite of such directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Michelangelo Antonioni, Mastroianni's fame in Europe extended to the United States, where he was nominated Read More

2006
Un Piede in Paradiso

1990
Il Burbero

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Debra Feuer, Jean Sorel, Mattia Sbragia, Angela Finocchiaro

Synopsis: In this light comedy and mystery film, Mary is a waitress living in New York. She is also a newlywed, blonde, and none too bright into the bargain. One day, she gets a call from her husband, who instructs her to take the next plane to Florence because he's struck it rich. However, when she lands Read More

1987
Rosa La Rose, Fille Publique

Actors: Marianne Basler, Jean Sorel, Pierre Cosso, Catherine Lachens, Laurent Levy

Synopsis: In this drama with a nearly invisible storyline, Rosa (Marianne Basler), a very beautiful prostitute, finds that life as a hooker can be a downer. Nude scenes are plentiful, as Rosa goes about her business with the other hookers in the Les Halles district of Paris. Since Rosa is her pimp's main Read More

1985
Bonnie E Clyde All'italiana

2/17/83
Les Ailes de la Colombe

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Dominique Sanda, Michele Placido, Jean Sorel, Loleh Bellon

Synopsis: Very loosely based on the plot of Henry James' Wing of the Dove, this film resets the story about two lovers trying to steal everything from a dying millionairess, by putting it in the late-20th century instead of late-19th century; it has the lovers be a French prostitute and Italian low-life Read More

5/6/81
Aspern

Actors: Jean Sorel, Bulle Ogier, Alida Valli

1981
La Naissance Du Jour

Actors: Danièle Delorme, Dominique Sanda, Jean Sorel, Orane Demazis

1980
Aimee

Actors: Aurore Clément, Bruno Cremer, Jean Sorel, Francine Bergé

1980
Les Soeurs Bronte

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: The Bronte sisters are profiled in this biography. The film dramatizes the repressed Victorian lives of the three famed authors who all died young. Their writing, so full of life, was a total contrast to the reality of their existence, focused mostly upon arguing with their father and taking care Read More

1979
Mil Millones Para Una Rubia

Synopsis: The Spanish Mil Millones Para Una Rubia whisks the viewer from Vegas to Monte Carlo, then from Paris to Monaco. The scenery is gorgeous enough to take one's mind off the film's occasional dead spots. The plot concerns a gang of clever thieves who plan major heists in all the fleshpots of the Rich Read More

1978
L'Affaire Suisse

Actors: Jean Sorel, Brigitte Fossey, Franco Fabrizi, Paul Muller, Colette Descombes

Synopsis: In this complex political thriller, a police inspector operating out of Geneva discovers that the death of a Swiss journalist in Italy has more to do with Swiss international banking and high finance than is entirely comfortable. Indeed, as his investigation proceeds, he encounters car bombs and Read More

1978
Les Enfants Du Placard

Actors: Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Georges Marchal, Jean Sorel, Isabelle Weingarten

Synopsis: Nicola (Lou Castel) bears the psychological scars of unbearable guilt. As a boy, he was given the job of looking after his mentally unstable mother and protecting her from herself. One day, he and his sister went instead into a large closet and enacted a childishly intensive "I dare you" bonding Read More

1977
To Love, Perhaps to Die

1975
Trader Horn

Actors: Rod Taylor

Synopsis: This film is based on the 1931 film, Trader Horn. In the earlier picture, explorers (including Trader Horn) who stumbled on a hostile tribe of Africans have their lives saved by a white girl whom the tribe members regard as a goddess. They discover that she is the daughter of some missing Read More

1973
Murder in a Blue World

Actors: Sue Lyon, Christopher Mitchum, Jean Sorel, Ramon Pons, Charly Bravo

Synopsis: An outcast gang member is forced to take part in a clandestine mind-control experiment after witnessing the disposal of a dead body, and attempting to blackmail the killers. When his extensive criminal past is revealed, he is taken to a secret laboratory where scientists attempt to control the Read More

1973
The Day of the Jackal

Actors: Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Terry Alexander

Synopsis: In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles De Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) because of their disagreement with his policies during the Algerian War. They hire a professional killer, known only as "The Jackal" (Edward Fox Read More

1973
Le Bal Du Vaudou

Actors: Sue Lyon, Christopher Mitchum, Jean Sorel

1972
No Desearas Al Vecino Del Quinto

2/19/71
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

Actors: Stanley Baker, Florinda Bolkan

Synopsis: This cult movie classic, also known as Schizoid, is a psychodrama murder mystery thriller involving LSD, psychoanalysis, lesbianism, and having at least one extremely gory dream sequence which involves eviscerated dogs. The director had to prove in court that the dogs in question were fabricated Read More

1971
The Short Night of the Glass Dolls

Synopsis: A man is found one morning in the bushes of a city plaza in Prague. He is taken to a hospital where the doctors confirm that, although his eyes are wide open, he is dead. There is no heartbeat or sign of life, except, strangely enough, his body temperature is normal. No matter, he's certified as Read More

1971
Uccidete Il Vitello Grasso E Arrostitelo

Synopsis: The first color film by writer/director Salvatore Samperi is this grim family melodrama, a modern-day reinvention of the tale of the Prodigal Son. Upon hearing of his father's death, Enrico Merlo (Jean Sorel) leaves his boarding school in Switzerland and returns home to Padua. There he overhears a Read More

2/3/70
Love Problems

Synopsis: In this drama, an unhappy young computer student attempts to escape her unhappy homelife by getting involved with a self-centered law student. The 17-year old girl soon gets bored with him and begins affairs with two others. Unfortunately, she is impregnated by the law student who enlists the aid Read More

1970
Una Sull'altra

Synopsis: Filmed in English, this Italian mystery thriller/melodrama explores the murder of a doctor's wife. The doctor himself (Jean Morel) has long since taken up with a mistress. His wife begged out of engagements as an asthmatic, all the while actually entertaining herself with her part-time job as a Read More

8/15/69
Orgasmo

Actors: Carroll Baker, Lou Castel, Colette Descombes, Tino Carraro, Lilla Brignone

Synopsis: One of two thrillers starring Carroll Baker and directed by Umberto Lenzi, this one was released in the United States as Paranoia, the original title of the second one. Katherine West (Baker) is a wealthy alcoholic who travels to her late husband's Italian villa from New York. Soon, a slimy conman Read More

2/7/69
Una Ragazza Piuttosto Complicata

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Jean Sorel, Florinda Bolkan, Luigi Proietti, Gabriella Grimaldi

Synopsis: This erotic sexploitation feature concerns a couple and their pursuit of sexual fulfillment with each other -- and their mutually agreed upon third bed guests. Lesbian love angles includes the woman's step-daughter. Alberto (Jean Sorel) is soon left alone when the women decides his services are no Read More

1969
L'Età del Malessere

11/14/68
Adelaide

Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Sylvie Fennec, Faith Brook, Jacques Portet

Synopsis: A recently widowed woman in her early 40s receives a visit from a younger engineer. After the funeral of her husband, the two fall in love and marry. The woman's teenage daughter has eyes for her new stepfather and lets him know her attraction in no uncertain terms. Soon the man is sleeping with Read More

8/21/68
Il Dolce Corpo di Deborah

Actors: Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Evelyn Stewart, Luigi Pistilli, George Hilton

Synopsis: Romolo Guerrieri directed this well-constructed thriller from a screenplay from genre specialist Ernesto Gastaldi. Returning to Geneva from their honeymoon, newlyweds Deborah (Carroll Baker) and Marcel (Jean Sorel) meet a man named Philip (Luigi Pistilli), who blames Marcel for the suicide of his Read More

3/20/68
I Protagonisti

Actors: Sylva Koscina, Jean Sorel, Pamela Tiffin, Lou Castel, Luigi Pistilli

Synopsis: An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent gunfire, they make their way to the mountain hideout of the bandit. After a leisurely conversation and photo session, the encampment comes under fire Read More

2/27/68
Belle de Jour

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Francisco Rabal, Macha Meril, Pierre Clémenti

Synopsis: Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a Read More

5/23/67
Le Fate

Actors: Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Renzo Giovampietro, Franco Balducci, Claudia Cardinale

Synopsis: This melodramatic Italian and French anthology is comprised of four unrelated short films directed by four different directors. The first vignette, "Queen Sabina" (or "The Hitchhiker") chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" (aka "The Room with a Read More

11/22/66
L'Ombrellone

Actors: Enrico Maria Salerno, Sandra Milo, Jean Sorel, Daniela Bianchi, Lelio Luttazzi

Synopsis: The Franco-Italian L'Ombrellone stars Enrico Maria Salerno as a vacationing Roman engineer. He'd prefer a little peace and quiet, but his frisky wife (Sandra Milo) insists upon dragging him to party after party. At one of these Felliniesque get-togethers, Salerno notices that his wife is enjoying Read More

1966
The Man Who Laughs

Actors: Lisa Gastoni, Edmund Purdom, Jean Sorel

Synopsis: Those fun-loving Borgia's are back in yet another chronicle of their 16th century political and sexual shenanigans in this bizarre Italian exploitation film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Hypnosis

Synopsis: Hypnosis is a psychological thriller reminiscent of themes found in Magic and Dead of Night. Erik (Jean Sorel) is the assistant in a ventriloquist/hypnotist act starring Magda (Elenora Rossi-Drago) and her fiancé Georg (Massimo Serato) Because of his secret love for Magna, Erik kills off anyone Read More

1966
Made in Italy

Actors: Marina Berti, Anna Magnani, Andrea Checchi, Lando Buzzanca, Virna Lisi, Giulio Bosetti, Sylva Koscina, Walter Chiari, Rossella Falk

Synopsis: Made in Italy is a multistoried film, set...in Italy, of course. An all-star cast appears in brief seriocomic vignettes about rich and poor, tourist and native. Director Nanni Loy exhibits the realistic and somewhat earthy technique he'd used on his earlier documentaries, with heavy emphasis on Read More

12/22/65
Vaghe Stelle dell'Orsa

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig, Marie Bell, Amalia Troiani, Renzo Ricci

Synopsis: American Andrew (Michael Craig) comes with his young wife Sandra (Claudia Cardinale) to her Italian estate, where she again finds herself a prisoner of the past: the memories of her dead father, hostility towards her mother, and her strange relationship with her brother Gianni (Jean Sorel). Read More

9/16/65
Bambole!

Actors: Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Elke Sommer, Maurizio Arena

Synopsis: Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. The vignettes are "The Phone," about a woman so busy talking on the phone that she fails to notice that her husband is having sex with a neighbor; "Treatise on Eugenics," the chronicle of a Swedish girl's search Read More

1/27/65
De L'Amour

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jean Sorel, Anna Karina, Elsa Martinelli

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli stars as an amorous dentist whose philandering seemingly knows no bounds. He is no sooner shooing such lovelies as Anna Karina and Elsa Martinelli out the back door than he is welcoming such "new blood" as Joanna Shimkus into his living room. When Shimkus demands a commitment Read More

12/29/64
La Ronde

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Jane Fonda, Jean Sorel, Anna Karina, Catherine Spaak, Francine Bergé

Synopsis: This uneven remake of the 1950 Max Ophuls feature from the play by Arthur Schnitzler takes place in Paris just before World War I instead of Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. A soldier (Claude Giraud) sleeps with a prostitute (Marie Dubois) before he seduces Rose (Anna Karina), and a willing Read More

10/16/64
Chair de Poule

Actors: Robert Hossein, Catherine Rouvel, Jean Sorel, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: In this French crime drama, two safe-crackers are breaking into a safe when they are caught in the act by a guard. One of the crooks kills the guard and flees leaving his partner behind. The abandoned accomplice is captured and convicted. One year passes before the convict is able to escape from Read More

11/13/63
Germinal

Actors: Jean Sorel, Berthe Grandval, Claude Brasseur, Bernard Blier, Lea Padovani

Synopsis: Etienne (Jean Sorel) is a young man who seeks work in the coal mines of South France. After experiencing the harsh working conditions, he becomes a labor activist and tries to organize a strike to improve wages and conditions. He is tormented by the mine owner, whose promiscuous wife steps out on Read More

9/18/63
Nur Tote Zeugen Schweigen

1963
Le Quattro Giornate di Napoli

Actors: Regina Bianchi, Aldo Giuffré, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Franco Sportelli

Synopsis: This gripping, Oscar-nominated war drama is set in the fall of 1943 during the Nazi occupation of Italy when all the Neapolitan males from five to sixty are forced to work in slave camps. Tired of the cruelty and oppression, the people rise up and launch such a violent melee that they frighten the Read More

11/16/62
Il Disordine

Actors: Renato Salvatori, Sami Frey, Louis Jourdan, Curd Jürgens, Antonella Lualdi, Alida Valli, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: Disorder was a French/Italian co-production, released as Le Desordre in France and Il Disordine in Italy (somebody was in a rut). This leisurely paced modern fable stars Renato Salvatore as a poor young man, struggling to pay for his mother's medical bills. Virtually everyone whom Salvatore Read More

3/16/62
A View from the Bridge

Actors: Raf Vallone, Jean Sorel, Maureen Stapleton, Raymond Pellegrin, Carol Lawrence

Synopsis: A View from the Bridge is set in New York, but the alleged political undesirability of playwright Arthur Miller dictated that this film be lensed in France. Director Sidney Lumet shot the film in both English and French, with the English version sounding more recited than acted at times. Raf Vallone Read More

1/17/62
Adorable Julia

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Charles Boyer, Jean Sorel, Jean Valerie

Synopsis: Adorable Julia, by director Alfred Weidenmann, is perhaps a little too provincial or out-moded for most audiences in spite of the sophisticated allure of Lili Palmer and Charles Boyer in the lead roles. Palmer plays the title character Julia, the philandering wife of Michel (Boyer), a very Read More

1962
Vive Henri IV... Vive l'amour!

Actors: Daniele Gaubert, Jean Sorel, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: This is a ribald though talkative look at the life and loves, mainly loves, of Henri IV, France's lecherous, 17th-century king. Henri (Francis Claude) has the misfortune of being married to a sharp-tongued woman but the good fortune of being king. That position nets him plenty of mistresses and an Read More

4/5/61
Amelie or the Time to Love

Actors: Marie-José Nat, Clotilde Joano, Jean Sorel, Sophie Daumier, Jean Babilee

Synopsis: The vagaries of love are often tragic, as Amelie ou le Temps d'Aimer seems to say. Directed by Michel Drach in his second try at a feature-length film, the well-wrought romance revolves around the love that develops between Amelie (Marie-Jose Nat) and her cousin Alain (Jean Sorel). Amelie is an Read More

1961
La Giornata Balorda

Actors: Jean Sorel, Lea Massari, Jean Valerie, Isabelle Corey, Rik Battaglia

Synopsis: An uneven mix of right-on situations and two-dimensional characters or worse, La Giornata Balorda is all the more interesting because it was banned in Italy -- not because of sexual or anti-religious content, but because of its depiction of Italian society. David (Jean Sorel) is a poverty-stricken Read More

1961
Les Adolescentes

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Christian Marquand, Jean Sorel, Claudio Gora

1960
J'irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes

Actors: Antonella Lualdi, Christian Marquand, Fernand Ledoux, Paul Guers

Synopsis: Miscegenation, murder and revenge are the themes of this French crime drama set in the steamy American south. Joe Grant is a vengeful light-skinned black who leaves Memphis and moves to a small town after his brother is brutally lynched for attempting to marry a white woman. Joe's skin is so light Read More

1959
Les Lionceaux

Actors: Jean Sorel, Anna Gaylor

1959
Sky Liner

Actors: Richard Travis, Pamela Blake, Rochelle Hudson, Steven Geray, Greg McClure

Synopsis: Set virtually in its entirety in an airborne TWA Constellation (evidently the company agreed to the use of its name in exchange for free advertising), Sky Liner stars Richard Travis as FBI agent Steve Blair. At the beginning of the film, a government courier is murdered by a foreign spy during a Read More

1949

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