Michel Delahaye Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter

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Actors: Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette's epic-scale meditation on art, politics and relationships is an eight-part, 740 minute drama that begins as an examination of two Parisian theater companies. Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's Seven Read More

2006
La Comedie Du Travail

Actors: Roland Blanche, Sabine Haudepin, Henri Deus, Antonietta Pizzorno, Jean Abeille

Synopsis: A female job counselor tries to find work for two very different unemployed men in this comedy. She is in love with a man who would rather climb mountains than work for a living. The second man is a former bank clerk who is embarrassed to admit he lost his job. Roland Blanche co-stars with Henri Deus Read More

1988
Exposed

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel, Ian McShane, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Exposed is the film in which concert violinist Rudolf Nureyev grabs his bow and "plays" the lissome body of Nastassja Kinski. This may well stand as the silliest bit of erotica in screen history, but in the context of the film it's a model of restraint. We're asked to believe that Kinski is Read More

1983
C'Est La Vie!

Actors: Chantal Delsaux, Hélène Surgère, Beatrice Bruno, Ingrid Bourgoin, Jean-Christophe Bouvet

1980
Simone Barbes ou la Vertu

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Bourgoin, Martine Simonet, Michel Delahaye

Synopsis: Featured in this evocative though still uneven first-time film by Marie-Claude Treilhou is the spunky Simone Barbes (Ingrid Bourgoin, a non-actress but an actual usher) who works as an usher in a porno cinema. She and a friend exchange witticisms while at work as the theater-goers sneak by looking Read More

1980
Passe Montagne

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Jean-François Stévenin, Texandre Barberat

Synopsis: This film marks the directorial debut of actor Jean-François Stevenin. Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian motorist in distress. Serge arranges for the car to be taken to a nearby garage. Georges' friends, who were with him Read More

1978
Corps a Coeur

Actors: Nicolas Silberg, Hélène Surgère, Madeleine Robinson, Myriam Mezieres, Beatrice Bruno

Synopsis: Pierre (Nicholas Silberg) is a garage mechanic in his mid-30s with a considerable yen for the ladies. It comes as something of a surprise even to him, though, when he falls passionately in love/lust with Jeanne (Helen Surgere), a much older woman in her 50s. She is unmoved by his advances, but Read More

1978
Femmes Femmes

Actors: Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange, Michel Duchaussoy, Noel Simsolo

Synopsis: The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris. In the end, their struggles are eased when the widow of a man they had both been married to Read More

1974
Last Tango in Paris

Actors: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: In Bernardo Bertolucci's art-house classic, Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in "emotional exile" who comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider) Read More

12/15/72
Romantika

Synopsis: This Hungarian film explores the interplay between the romantic, liberal ideals of a sickly young nobleman and the brutal world in which he finds himself. Having studied abroad, and absorbed ideas about human rights and dignity, the young man is unprepared for the brutality of his father's regime Read More

1972
Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Charles Denner, Claude Brasseur, Guy Marchand

Synopsis: Bernadette Lafont is as alluring as all get out in Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (original title: Une Belle Fille Comme Moi). She plays a crafty murderess who uses her not inconsiderable charms to disarm her victims and trap unwitting males into helping her. Claude Brasseur plays the ingenuous Read More

1972
L'Escardon Volapuk

Synopsis: This somewhat talky French-language film concerns a goofy bunch of military types and involves them in encounters with a variety of late '60s radicals who spout off a bit. It is notable chiefly because it was about to be subjected to severe censorship for its political content but was saved by the Read More

1971
Blanche

Actors: Michel Simon, Ligia Branice, Jacques Perrin, Georges Wilson, Lawrence Trimble

Synopsis: Walerian Borowczyk's Blanche is a tragic romantic tale set in 13th century France. While visiting the castle of an old landlord (Michel Simon), both the king (Georges Wilson) and his philandering page Bartolomeo (Jacques Perrin) try to seduce the landlord's young, naive wife Blanche (Ligia Read More

1971
Donkey Skin

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Delphine Seyrig, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: Originally titled Peau D'Ane, Jacques Demy's Dos Cruces en Danger Pass is better known by its English-language title Donkey Skin. Based on a fairy tale by Charles Perrault (of Cinderella fame), the bizarre story concerns the king (Jean Marais) of a strange, enchanted land. Catherine Deneuve plays Read More

1970
Shiver of the Vampires

Actors: Michel Delahaye, Jacques Robiolles

Synopsis: French cult director Jean Rollin had his roots in the avant-garde film movement, so it's no surprise that many of his early films are nearly unwatchable. This vexing piece of psychedelic nonsense concerns newlyweds Antonio and Ise, who visit an old castle owned by the bride's dead cousins. When Read More

1970
Sirocco D'Hiver

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Marina Vlady, Eva Swann, Jozsef Madaras, Istvan Bujtor

Synopsis: A group of anarchistic Croatians cross borders to carry out their assassination plots in order to create political chaos. There are no heroes, only a collection of despicable humans. A lesbian couple rapes and terrorizes a roomful of women who are ordered to disrobe and perform unwanted sex acts Read More

1969
Alphaville

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Laszlo Szabo, Howard Vernon

Synopsis: In Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard fuses a hardboiled detective story with science fiction. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to Alphaville, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human Read More

4/21/65
Bande à Part

Actors: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Louisa Colpeyn

Synopsis: One of pioneering director Jean-Luc Godard's most accessible films is this French spin on Dolores Hitchens' novel Fool's Gold. It tells the tale of three disaffected youths who plan a burglary, leading to deadly results. The alienated young trio is marvelous, particularly Anna Karina, and the Read More

1964
RoGoPaG

Actors: Alexandra Stewart, Rosanna Schiaffino, Jean-Marc Bory, Jean-Andre Fieschi, Orson Welles, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Delahaye

Synopsis: RoGoPaG is an omnibus of short films by Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Gregoretti and Jean- Luc Godard. Each episode is introduced by a quotation from the Bible which the episode illustrates with a fiction of contemporary life. Rossellini's film, "Illibatezza" ("Virginity"), is the Read More

2/19/63