Michel PiccoliFilmography

Born:: December 27, 1925 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli
Biography:: French leading man Michel Piccoli spent most of his time from 1945 through 1955 on the French stage, primarily with Theatre Babylone and the Reynauld-Barrault Company. He enjoyed nominal film stardom from 1955 onward, though it was not until 1961's Le Doulos that he truly became "box office,"...Read More

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The Duchess of Langeais

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli, Barbet Schroeder

Synopsis: Guillaume Depardieu, Jeanne Balibar, and Michel Piccoli star in director Jacques Rivette's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. The story begins as grieving French general Read More

2/22/08
The Dust of Time

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irène Jacob

Synopsis: A filmmaker looks to his family's history as the basis for a historical epic that reflects some of the most tumultuous events of the 20th Century in this grand-scale drama from Theo Angelopoulos. A. (Willem Dafoe) is a director struggling to complete shooting on his latest project, a sweeping Read More

2008
On War

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Asia Argento, Guillaume Depardieu, Clotilde Hesme, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: A filmmaker going though a midlife crisis stumbles into a new way of examining life in this comedy-drama from France. Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric) is a movie director who has lost touch with his muse and is desperate to come up with an idea for his next picture. While visiting a funeral home as he Read More

2008
Magic Mirror

Actors: Ricardo Trepa, Leonor Silveira

Synopsis: Adapted from author Agustina Bessa-Luis' novel The Soul of the Righ, writer/director Manoel de Oliveira's Magic Mirror travels deep into the restless psyche of a well-to-do woman who longs to experience a divine vision. Previously imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Luciano (Ricardo Trepa) Read More

5/25/07
Otar Iosseliani, The Whistling Blackbird

Actors: Otar Iosseliani, William Lubtchansky, Martine Mariganc, Manu de Chauvigny, Narda de Blanchet

Synopsis: Though far better known in Europe than in the United States, Eastern European director Otar Iosseliani (who hails from Georgia) claims a bevy of international awards and a devoted fanbase, and commands a formidable amount of respect in film circles for his meticulous cinematic craftsmanship. Read More

2007
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Mylène Demongeot, Maurice Bénichou, Marie Kremer, Birol Ünel

Synopsis: Acclaimed Kurdish director Hiner Saleem (Vodka Lemon, Dol) takes the reins once again for his seventh feature outing, the offbeat drama Beneath the Rooftops of Paris (AKA Sous les toits de Paris, 2007 - not to be confused with the famous 1930 René Clair film of the same title). French screen Read More

2007
Boxes

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Natacha Régnier

Synopsis: The French-language psychological drama Boxes - which represents veteran actress Jane Birkin's (Blow-up) directorial debut on a narrative feature - constitutes an extended, theatrically garrulous meditation on the rift of understanding inevitable between parents and children. In addition to Read More

2007
The Empire in Africa

Actors: Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Located in Western Africa, Sierra Leone is a nation caught in a struggle between extreme poverty and extreme wealth; while diamond mining provides the bulk of the country's income, most of its people struggle to survive by raising their own crops. In 1991, a civil war broke out in Sierra Leone Read More

12/8/06
Gardens in Autumn

Actors: Severin Blanchet, Michel Piccoli, Muriel Motte, Pascal Vincent, Uly Lavina

Synopsis: A French government minister named Vincent (Severin Blanchet) resigns from his official duties to experience a loose life of drink, women and good times in this satirical comedy from writer/director Otar Losseliani. His provincial mother (Michel Piccoli) watching bemused from the sidelines as her Read More

2006
Belle Toujours

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Ricardo Trepa, Leonor Baldaque, Julia Buisel

Synopsis: Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira pays homage to Luis Bunuel's masterful exercise in surreal eroticism, Belle de Jour, with this latter-day "sequel." Years ago, Henri Husson (Michel Piccoli) lusted after Severine, a beautiful and innocent young housewife who satisfied her less than wholesome Read More

2006
La Petite Lili

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ludivine Sagnier, Robinson Stévenin

Synopsis: Anton Chekhov's The Seagull receives an updated adaptation in this drama from veteran French filmmaker Claude Miller. Mado (Nicole Garcia) is a successful actress who is spending the summer at her country estate with her boyfriend, Brice (Bernard Giraudeau), a noted filmmaker who directed her Read More

11/12/04
Ce Jour-La

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-François Balmer, Christian Vadim

Synopsis: Master filmmaker Raúl Ruiz adds a black comedy to his far-reaching body of work with That Day, a playful meditation on money, death, and false spirituality. Livia (Elsa Zylberstein) and Pointpoirot (Bernard Girardeau) are, respectively, a spoiled society woman who suffers from delusional visions Read More

6/4/03
La Prophetie Des Grenouilles

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Anouk Grinberg, Annie Girardot, Michel Galabru, Laurentine Milebo

2003
Un Homme, Un Vrai

Actors: Hélène Fillières, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Pellet, Philippe Suner, Daniel Cohen

2003
I'm Going Home

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Antoine Chappey, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Leonor Baldaque

Synopsis: A man who's been confronted with new responsibilities must decide what to do with his career in this drama with comic undertones. Gilbert Vance (Michel Piccoli) is an aging but highly respected actor who, after completing a performance of Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King in which he plays opposite Read More

2001
La Plage Noire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Dominique Blanc, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Ignacy Gogolewski

Synopsis: Respected French actor Michel Piccoli directed and co-wrote this allegorical drama. A (Jerzy Radziwilowicz) is a veteran political activist in an unnamed country with a long history of human rights abuses. When the nation's dictatorial government is overthrown and a new democratic leadership comes Read More

2001
Les Acteurs

Actors: André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret, Claude Rich

Synopsis: The son of actor Bernard Blier, director Bertrand Blier is known throughout France for his documentaries and dark depictions of sex and its impact on society. Though his influences and personal opinions clearly shine through, Les Acteurs is a satirical take on the ups, downs, and numerous Read More

4/5/00
Tout Va Bien On S'en Va

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natacha Régnier

2000
A propósito de Buñuel

Actors: Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: Surrealist master Luis Bunuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently Read More

2000
Paris-Tombuctu

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Concha Velasco, Amparo Soler Leal, Juan Diego, Eusebio Lazaro

Synopsis: Veteran Spanish director Luis Garcia Berlanga created this anarchic black comedy about sexual impotence and millennial anxiety. Though a Paris-based plastic surgeon spends much of his time and wealth on prostitutes, he is plagued by impotence. Despondent, he plans to commit suicide. After Read More

1999
Rien sur Robert

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Valentina Cervi, Michel Piccoli, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: Rien sur Robert is a smart comedy about a man haunted by his experiences. Didier Temple (Fabrice Luchini) is a journalist who writes an article about a Bosnian film he had never seen, calling it "pure fascist propaganda." (The director, Pascal Bonitzer, was once the editor of the celebrated film Read More

1999
Passion in the Desert

Actors: Ben Daniels, Michel Piccoli, Paul Meston, Kenneth Collard, Nadi Odeh

Synopsis: Loosely based on a story by Honore de Balzac, this historical drama is set in Egypt in 1798, as Napoleon was leading the French army into the Middle East. Officer Augustin Robert (Ben Daniels) has been assigned to escort artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis (Michel Piccoli), who is to record and Read More

6/12/98
Alors Voilà

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maurice Garrel, Dominique Blanc, Arno, Roland Amstutz, Bernard Bloch

Synopsis: Distinguished French actor Michel Piccoli was 72-years-old when he made his directorial debut with this keen black comedy of a wildly dysfunctional family and the destructive games they play whenever they force themselves to get together. Piccoli also penned the screenplay. Constantin is the Read More

10/22/97
Genealogies of a Crime

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: Raul Ruiz directed this typically eccentric look at the nature of crime, the human mind, and life in the modern world. Solange (Catherine Deneuve) is a defense attorney with a reputation for taking on cases that can't be won -- and proving it by losing them. Her latest lost cause is Rene (Melvil Poupaud Read More

3/26/97
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
Beaumarchais L'Insolent

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Jacques Weber, Sandrine Kiberlain

Synopsis: This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The story begins in the 1770s with a rehearsal of his "The Barber of Seville." Young friend of Voltaire, Philipp Gudin introduces himself to the great Read More

1996
Party

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Irene Papas, Leonor Silveira, Rogério Samora

Synopsis: This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of international jet-setters while simultaneously examining an obsessive romantic relationship between an aging Lothario and a beautiful married woman. The tale begins at a garden Read More

1996
Traveling Companion

Synopsis: This is a movie about walls, no not physical walls of wood and stone, but the psychological walls that protect and ultimately imprison certain souls, effectively isolating them from the most teeming crowds. 19-year-old Cora's are walls of anger that keep her militantly aloof from the world around Read More

1996
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

1995
Deux Fois Cinquante Ans De Cinema Francais

Synopsis: Internationally renowned French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard offers this documentary for his entry in the British Film Institute commissioned series, "Century of Cinema," designed to be a collection of the personal opinions of renowned international filmmakers concerning the cinema of their native Read More

1995
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

1995
L'Ange Noir

Actors: Sylvie Vartan, Michel Piccoli, Tchéky Karyo, Alexandra Winisky, Lisa Heredia

Synopsis: In this stylish French drama fits well into the film noir genre. A visitor comes to the home of Stephane, the wife of an important magistrate. She, claiming attempted rape, calmly shoots him. The visitor is the legendary gangster Wadek Aslanian who was beloved as a latter day Robin Hood. Read More

1994
The Emigrant

Actors: Yousra, Mahmoud Hemida, Michel Piccoli, Safia el-Emari

Synopsis: The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers Read More

1994
Bete De Scene

Actors: Emmanuel Salinger, Bulle Ogier, Patrice Chéreau, Michel Piccoli

1994
Ruptures

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Piccoli, Laurent Grévill, Anouk Aimée

Synopsis: In this drama, filmed in a series of vignettes, a diverse cast of characters tries to pick up the pieces of their lives after Paul's ladyfriend commits suicide. Not only that, but Paul (Michel Piccoli) must cope with having four house guests, including an infant baby, the infant's recently Read More

1993
La Cavale des Fous

Actors: Pierre Richard, Michel Piccoli, Dominique Pinon, Florence Pernel, Edith Scob

Synopsis: This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal Read More

1993
La Vie Crevee

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Arielle Dombasle, Geraldine Danon

Synopsis: Two couples traveling together in the same car are forced to take refuge at the country manor of a hermit-like old man when their car breaks down. In a star turn, Michel Piccoli plays the old man, who skillfully manipulates these virtually spineless people, destroying relationships between them Read More

1992
Le Souper

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Ticky Holgado, Yann Collette, Stephane Jobert

Synopsis: France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand (Claude Rich), a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous Read More

1992
Le Bal des Casse-Pieds

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Odette Laure, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible number of irritating or even genuinely upsetting encounters with inveterate pains-in-the-neck. He suffers from the rudeness (and worse) of Parisian drivers, his relatives, and Read More

1992
La Belle Noiseuse - Divertimento

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Béart, Jane Birkin, David Bursztein, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: In this fascinating and unconventional examination of the creative process, an artist near the end of his career finds new inspiration in a young model. Edouard Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) is a famous and well-respected artist who lives in a comfortable estate in the French countryside. At the age Read More

1991
Archipel

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Claire Nebout, Melvil Poupaud, Ludmila Mikael

Synopsis: A wealthy woman owns an exclusive private boarding school off the coast of England, where young men are taught in French and English, becoming completely fluent. In general, the school is exactly what it purports to be, but the owner selects some of her young scholarship students for special Read More

1991
La Belle Noiseuse

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Béart, Jane Birkin, David Bursztein, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: In this fascinating and unconventional examination of the creative process, an artist near the end of his career finds new inspiration in a young model. Edouard Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) is a famous and well-respected artist who lives in a comfortable estate in the French countryside. At the age Read More

1991
Les Equilibristes

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Lilah Dadi, Polly Walker, Doris Kunstmann, Patrick Mille

Synopsis: The story of this film was allegedly based on a true story witnessed by the director Nico Papatakis during his filmmaking collaboration with the controversial and much-lionized monstre sacrée Jean Genet. In the story, Marcel Spadice (Michel Piccoli) is a famous writer with a criminal Read More

1991
Le Voleur d'enfants

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Ángela Molina, Michel Piccoli, Daniel Martin, Virginie Ledoyen

Synopsis: Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they Read More

1991
May Fools

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Blanc, Harriet Walter

Synopsis: This comic excursion from Louis Malle is set in May 1968, concurrent with a series of Parisian student uprisings. After the death of family matriarch Mme. Vieuzac (Paulette Dubost), the survivors converge on the French countryside for her funeral; they include her two sons, Milou (Michel Piccoli) Read More

1/24/90
Martha Et Moi

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marianne Sägebrecht, Ondrej Vetchý

Synopsis: Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a Read More

1989
Y'a Bon Les Blancs

Actors: Maruschka Detmers, Michele Placido, Juan Diego, Michel Piccoli, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: A European humanitarian organization tries to bring relief to the famine-stricken Sahel region of North Africa in this satirical comedy. The convoy of five trucks is victimized by rebel guerillas and marauding tribes and is soon lost in the desert. When two party members try to leave, they end up Read More

1988
Blanc De Chine

Actors: Robin Renucci, Marguerite Tran, Michel Piccoli, Denys Hawthorne

Synopsis: Mathieu (Robin Renucci) is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris in this routine thriller. With Chinese and Vietnamese engaged in a bloody slaughterfest, the key to the mystery lies with the orphan girl (Marguerite Tran) who Mathieu helped to Read More

1988
L'Homme Voilé

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Michel Piccoli, Laure Marsac, Michel Albertini, Sandrine Dumas

Synopsis: Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini). While Pierre stalks two Read More

1987
La Rumba

Actors: Roger Hanin, Michel Piccoli, Niels Arestrup, Guy Marchand, Patachou

Synopsis: The carefree life at a decadent cabaret in Paris is overshadowed by the darkening cloud of war in this thrilling drama. Beppo (Roger Hanin) is a club owner with ties to the mob who wages a secret war against the evil forces of fascism who control the local police. Vivian Reed gives a memorable Read More

1987
Das Weite Land

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Milena Vukotic

Synopsis: Set in Vienna, Austria before World War I, an industrialist grows weary of his cold-hearted wife. He seeks vengeance in a dual with the young officer who desires her affections. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Maladie d'Amour

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud, Jean-Claude Brialy, Souad Amidou

Synopsis: Juliette (Nastassja Kinski) is a hairstylist who is diagnosed with cancer in this tearjerking romantic drama. Her illness leads her to oncologist Raoul Bergeron (Michel Piccoli), and she ends up as his mistress. When Juliette falls in love with Raoul's intern Clement (Jean-Hughes Anglade), the Read More

1987
Mauvais Sang

Actors: Denis Lavant, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Hans Meyer, Julie Delpy

Synopsis: This critically acclaimed French drama blends film noir and science fiction elements in a story about a strange and deadly plague. A sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the country; it's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who Read More

1986
La Puritaine

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Michel Piccoli, Sabine Azéma, Laurent Malet, Brigitte Coscas

Synopsis: This portrayal of the reunion of an estranged father and daughter is set against the backdrop of a theatrical production. The father Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon (Sandrine Bonnaire) lets him know that she is coming to see him after a Read More

1986
Mon Beau-Frere A Tue Ma Soeur

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Jean Carmet, Milva Biolcati

Synopsis: This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well, making it more of an exercise in verbal gymnastics than a narrative with a mission. Esther (Juliette Binoche) is a veterinarian who is certain that her sister has been murdered by her brother-in-law. She Read More

1986
Le Paltoquet

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

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

1986
Péril en la Demeure

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Nicole Garcia, Michel Piccoli, Anémone, Richard Bohringer

Synopsis: Mixing together the erotic and a theme of imminent death, director Michel Deville has fashioned an increasingly unsettling tale, based on the French novel Sur la Terre Comme au Ciel by Rene Belletto. When David (Christophe Malavoy) arrives at the home of Julia (Nicole Garcia) and Graham (Michel Piccoli Read More

1985
Adieu, Bonaparte

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Mohsen Mohiedine, Mohamed Atef, Patrice Chéreau, Mohsena Tewfik, Christian Patey

Synopsis: This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli 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
Success is the Best Revenge

Actors: Michael York, Janna Szerzerbic, Michael Lyndon, George Skolimowski, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam (Michael Lyndon) who is struggling with an identity crisis, his wife (Joanna Szerzerbic), and another son. Rodak is in the throes of putting together a major show about 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
Dangerous Moves

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He is pitted against Soviet exile Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who, since childhood, has dreamed of nothing but defeating Liebskind. Both men soon become obsessed with winning. Already suffering Read More

1984
Le General de I'Armee Morte

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée, Gerard Klein, Sergio Castellitto

Synopsis: Falling a little short of either comedy or drama or whatever the intent may have been, this bland film directed by first-timer Luciano Tovoli is about an Italian general (Marcel Mastroianni) sent to Albania along with an army chaplain (Michel Piccoli) to bring back the remains of 3,000 compatriot Read More

10/19/83
Oltre la Porta

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Eleonora Giorgi, Tom Berenger, Michel Piccoli, Cicely Brown

Synopsis: Tom Berenger seems bemused by his surroundings in the Italian Beyond Obsession. An American engineer, Berenger falls in love with Eleanora Giorgi, and as these things are wont to happen, he ends up in bed with her. But Eleanora carries a great deal of emotional baggage in the person of her Read More

9/17/82
Gli Occhi, la bocca

Actors: Lou Castel, Ángela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva, Michel Piccoli, Antonio Piovanelli

Synopsis: Giovanni (Lou Castel) comes home after his brother's suicide to encounter the same family problems that have been around for years: his mother is a religious fanatic now obsessed with her son's errant spirit, his older brother has a cold and uncaring relationship with his children and his wife Read More

9/10/82
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
La Passante Du Sans-Souci

Actors: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem, Mathieu Carrière, Wendelin Werner, Gerard Klein

Synopsis: A man's tragic past leads him to take justice into his own hands in this troubling look at life in Europe after WWII. Max Baumstein (Michel Piccoli) is a well-known human rights activist and avowed pacifist who, to the shock and puzzlement of many, murders a politician from South America. As Read More

1982
Une Chambre En Ville

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Richard Berry, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: In the style of an operetta, like director Jacques Demy's more famous film the Umbrellas of Cherbourg, this melodramatic story is set in Nantes in 1955 and centers around the tragedies of three or four intertwined lives. First, there is the young steel worker (Richard Berry) who is out on strike Read More

1982
Espion, Lève-Toi

Actors: Lino Ventura, Krystyna Janda, Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Sebastien Grenier (Lino Ventura), a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich and cultivating an on-going relationship with Anna Gretz (Krystyna Janda), a German teaching at the university. Then his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French Read More

1982
Que les Gros Salaires Levent le Doigt!!!

Actors: Jean Poiret, Daniel Auteuil, Michel Piccoli, Marie Laforêt, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: Andre Joeuf (Jean Poiret) is the coldly calculating president of an insurance company who, when faced with the imperative of firing some of his highly paid executives, invites them all over to his country estate for a weekend to indulge in a few games of musical chairs. Anyone left standing after Read More

1982
Le Prix du Danger

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Michel Piccoli, Marie-France Pisier, Bruno Cremer, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Despite a fast-paced story that slams the broadcast industry and lotto mentality, this sci-fi action thriller emphasizes action over anxiety, and so its hunt-and-kill premise is less exciting than it sounds. Based on a Robert Sheckley tale, the action is brought about by a television show invented Read More

1982
Passion

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Jean-Luc Bideau, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses innovative forms to explore political and economic questions. Jerzy Radziwilowicz plays a director shooting a film whose scenes are all reproductions of paintings by Goya, Valasquez Read More

1982
La Fille Prodigue

Actors: Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Natasha Parry, René Feret, Eva Renzi

Synopsis: Anne (Jane Birkin) is a seriously disturbed young woman who is driven to leave her husband for awhile and go home to her parents in the countryside. Once there, she comes up against many of the primal causes of her own imbalanced mind. Her father is in an indecisive relationship with both his wife Read More

1981
Une Étrange Affaire

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: Louis (Gerard Lanvin), an advertising executive in a Paris department store, is not the world's most ambitious man, but he has a good marriage and is content with his job -- until his world is turned upside-down by a new, manipulative, controlling manager (Michel Piccoli) who slowly starts to Read More

1981
Salto nel Vuoto

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée, Michele Placido, Gisella Burinato

Synopsis: The old Guy De Maupassant story The Devil would seem to be the springboard for the Italian-made Leap Into the Void. Michel Piccoli plays an Italian jurist whose sister Anouk Aimee is a bit "light in the belfry". Piccoli entreats Michele Placido to convince the awkward Aimee to kill herself. The Read More

2/14/80
Atlantic City

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Kate Reid, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster stars as Lou, an aging mob flunkey, barely making a living in Atlantic City. Susan Sarandon plays Sally, a casino croupier whose husband Dave (Robert Joy) steals a large supply of drugs from the mob. When he is killed, the narcotics pass to the unwilling Sally. Lou, in the midst of Read More

1980
Der Preis Fürs Überleben

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Martin West, Marilyn Clark, Suzie Galler, Daniel Rosen

Synopsis: German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph (Martin West), a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply Read More

1980
Giallo Napoletano

Synopsis: Crime specialist Sergio Corbucci directed this madcap comic mystery that is just waiting to be discovered by cult audiences. It stars Marcello Mastroianni as a café mandolin player who performs on a streetcorner to help pay for his father's gambling debts. After a murder and a suicide occur, the Read More

4/12/79
Le Mors Aux Dents

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Michel Piccoli, Michel Galabru, Charles Gerard

Synopsis: Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many Read More

1979
Le Divorcement

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Lea Massari, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Anne Lonnberg, Maurice Baquet

Synopsis: In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Their flabbergasted children have mixed Read More

1979
La Petite Fille En Velours Bleu

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Claudia Cardinale, Lara Wendel, Umberto Orsini, Denholm Elliott, Bernard Fresson, Marius Goring

Synopsis: The French Riviera felt the heavy hand of German occupation much later than the rest of the country, and was a haven for wealthy misfits who had no other place to go to escape that regime. Despite the certain knowledge that their doom is approaching, the characters in this film party and quarrel Read More

1978
Le Sucre

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: In this story, the ambitions of the get-rich-quick crowd come crashing down around their ears as they hitch a ride on a speculation bubble involving sugar-commodities pricing. Raoul (Gerard Depardieu) is a hot-shot commodities broker who sweet-talks Adrien (Jean Carmet), a quiet and unassuming Read More

1978
Strauberg Ist Da

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Theodor Kotulla, Bernadette Lafont, Udo Heiland

Synopsis: A group of carping critics and whiny would-be artists who have never been confronted with the reality of having their works accepted and promulgated are vacationing in the house of the publisher Strauberg on the Greek island of Mykonos. All of them have huge egos and even larger pretensions, and Read More

1978
L'État Sauvage

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Jacques Dutronc, Michel Piccoli, Claude Brasseur, Doura Mane

Synopsis: L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) Read More

1978
René la Canne

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Sylvia Kristel, Jean Rigaux

Synopsis: In this sardonic crime comedy, Rene (Gerard Depardieu) and Marchand (Michel Piccoli) are best friends. What makes their friendship special is that Rene is a professional thief, and Marchand is a policeman, albeit somewhat corrupt. They have even shared the same girlfriend, for Krista (Sylvia Kristel Read More

2/16/77
L'Imprecateur

Actors: Jean Yanne, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought Read More

1977
La Part du Feu

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Rufus, Roland Bertin

Synopsis: La Part du Feu is a French idiom, and has to do with making a sacrifice for some gain. Hansen (Michel Piccoli) is a wheeler-dealer and building developer, who apparently manipulates people and situations just for the joy of it. In this melodrama, it was his wife Catherine's (Claudia Cardinale) Read More

1977
Des Enfants Gatés

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Christine Pascal, Michel Aumont, Gérard Jugnot, Arlette Bonnard

Synopsis: Spoiled Children (Des enfants gates) finds director Bertrand Tavernier tempering his New Wave impulses with an overwhelming desire to entertain a mass audience. The "children" of the title are actually artistically inclined grown-ups. Filmmaker Bernard (Michel Piccoli), who is suffering a creative Read More

1977
Mado

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Romy Schneider, Charles Denner

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Simon, a French businessman reluctantly venturing into middle age. As he deals with his own midlife crisis, Simon becomes virtually oblivious to the social changes around him. The businessman tries to counter advancing age with an increased sex life, but finds that women Read More

10/27/76
L'Ultima Donna

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli, Renato Salvatori, Zouzou

Synopsis: This otherwise straightforward movie that chronicles the conflict between a man's romantic urges and the feminist ideal and a custody battle over the man's young son has a cataclysmic ending which is not for the fainthearted. In the story, Gerard (Gerard Depardieu) is an engineer who has just been Read More

9/4/76
Todo Modo

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Set at an indeterminate time in the near future, this routine, well-acted drama by Elio Petri tackles favorite Italian topics: religion and politics. A bit of macabre fantasy is added to the mix, but the end product remains somewhat muddled. Don Gaetano (Marcello Mastroianni) is a priest who is Read More

4/30/76
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Actors: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Elsa De Giorgi, Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange

Synopsis: The final work of notorious Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, this film updates the Marquis de Sade's most extreme novel to fascist Italy in the final days of WW II. Dispensing with the novel's meditations on sexual liberation and the search for truth, Pasolini presents four decadents who Read More

1/10/76
F Comme Fairbanks

Actors: Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Michel Piccoli, John Berry, Jean-Michel Folon

Synopsis: Patrick Dewaere plays Andre, a hot-tempered young man who whiles away his spare time by fantasizing about the action films of Douglas Fairbanks. For years, a relative of his has promised him a job. For years, he has waited for the job, but to no avail. Finally too frustrated to stand it any more Read More

1976
Leonor

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Michel Piccoli, Ornella Muti, Antonio Ferrandis, Jose Maria Caffarel

Synopsis: Richard (Michel Piccolo) is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor (Liv Ullmann) comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to Read More

9/10/75
Le Faille

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi, Mario Adorf, Adriana Asti, Dimos Starenios

Synopsis: This international collaboration has five unrelated titles in four languages, and includes filmmakers and stars from France, Germany, Italy and Greece. It is set in the modern period in Greece, during that time known as "the rule of the Colonels." The story concerns the cat-and-mouse police Read More

6/18/75
Sept Morts Sur Ordonnance

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Marina Vlady, Jane Birkin, Charles Vanel

Synopsis: Losseray (Michel Piccoli) is a surgeon who has recently suffered a heart attack but has returned to work. He is being hassled by the owner of a nearby medical clinic and becomes obsessed with the story of Berg (Gerard Depardieu), another surgeon who was similarly hassled by the same man some years Read More

1975
Vincent, François, Paul et les Autres

Actors: Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Gérard Depardieu, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others is a gentle character study of a group of friends who meet each weekend in the country for food, drink and conversation. Over the course of the film, the three main characters undergo a variety of personal and professional struggles, which are all vividly Read More

10/20/74
The Phantom of Liberty

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur, Paul Le Person, François Maistre, Claude Piéplu, Jean Rochefort, Marie-France Pisier, Bernard Verley, Milena Vukotic, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a man sells postcards of French tourist attractions, calling them "pornographic." A sniper in Montparnasse is hailed as a hero for killing passersby. A "missing" child helps Read More

9/11/74
Grandeur Nature

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Valentine Tessier, Rada Rassimov

Synopsis: When Michel (Michel Piccoli) gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsiveness of the thing begins to haunt him, and he finds himself reacting to it as if it were an equally unresponsive living woman. As time Read More

8/21/74
Le Trio Infernal

Actors: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Mascha Gonska, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli is irresistibly slimy in the role of a conniving attorney. Making the acquaintance of two lovely sisters (Romy Schneider and Andrea Ferreol), Piccoli seduces them both. He then invites the sisters into his latest scam: marrying and murdering gullible men and women, then cheating Read More

5/22/74
Don't Touch the White Woman

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this French farce, an absurd "western" set in Paris, with Mastroianni as the incurably vain General George Armstrong Custer. Richard Nixon is the American president, but everyone is costumed appropriately for the previous century. Buffalo Bill (Michel Piccoli), the Read More

1/23/74
La Grande Bouffe

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of life, and so meet at a remote villa with the goal of literally eating themselves to death. The quartet comes from various walks of life Read More

5/17/73
Les Noces Rouges

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu, Clotilde Joano

Synopsis: In this Hitchcockian French thriller directed by Claude Chabrol, marital infidelity once again leads to murder. Set in a small village, the plot gets underway when Mayor Paul Delamaire (Claude Piéplu) discovers that his wife Lucienne (Stéphane Audran) is cheating on him. Her lover is the mayor's Read More

4/12/73
Themroc

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Jeanne Herviale, Marilù Tolo

Synopsis: This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. When a salt crystal is dropped into a solution of water that contains all the salt it can handle, something extraordinary happens: the swift formation of large crystals of salt from the apparently clear water. When Read More

3/1/73
The Woman In Blue

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Lea Massari, Michel Aumont, Simone Simon

Synopsis: In this French tragicomedy, once Pierre sees Auriele, he cannot rest until he finds her. Pierre is just minding his own business, when this woman walks by. He does not know who she is, where she lives, what she does or anything. Pierre, a music critic and TV commentator, uses his resources to try Read More

1/14/73
Le Far-West

Actors: Jacques Brel

Synopsis: This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in Read More

1973
Cesar & Rosalie

Actors: Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Sami Frey, Umberto Orsini, Bernard Le Coq

Synopsis: Claude Sautet's romantic drama César et Rosalie (Cesar and Rosalie) stars Romy Schneider as Rosalie, a beautiful young woman happily married to successful businessman Cesar (Yves Montand). One day, Rosalie's former flame David (Sami Frey) appears and attempts to win her back. Cesar reacts with a Read More

10/27/72
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
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Actors: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: In typical Luis Buñuel fashion, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie surrealistically skewers the conventions of society. Buñuel applies his surrealist touch to a mundane event: a dinner party that may never come to pass. A group of well-to-do friends attempt to gather for a social evening, but Read More

9/15/72
Liza

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: This dark offbeat comedy features Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. Mastroianni plays Giorgio, who lives on a island somewhere off the Mediterranean coast of France. He lives there with his dog, and the remains of an old German World War II airbase. He earns his living drawing cartoons. Read More

8/11/72
L'Udienza

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Alain Cuny, Vittorio Gassman, Enzo Jannacci, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: This tiresome comedy features pop singer Enzo Jannacci as Amedeo, a country rube who comes to Vatican City seeking a personal audience with the Pope. Detailing Amedeo's battle with officious Vatican bureaucrats and bungling attempts to catch the Pope off-guard, the film rarely rises to the level Read More

3/31/72
Ten Days' Wonder

Actors: Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Guido Alberti

Synopsis: In this ponderous French mystery-drama, based on an Ellery Queen story, blackmail would seem to be the least of the problems of Charles (Anthony Perkins). His adoptive father Theo (Orson Welles) has a madwoman for a mother, and a gorgeous woman of Charles' age (Marlene Jobert) for a wife. In fact Read More

12/1/71
La Poudre d'escampette

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Michael York, Louis Velle

Synopsis: Before the Allied invasion of North Africa in World War II, there was still plenty of confusion, and wartime national alliances often conflicted with personal friendships. Valentin (Michel Piccoli), a French black marketer, rescues Basil (Michael York), an English fighter pilot, off the coast of Read More

9/1/71
Max et les Férrailleurs

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, François Perier, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Max (Michel Piccoli) is a former judge obsessed with seeing criminals brought to justice. The frustrations of the courtroom, where evidence matters more than guilt, lead him to join the police force. Independently wealthy, he uses all his official and personal resources to make criminals pay for Read More

2/17/71
L'Invitata

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Joanna Shimkus, Jacques Perrin, Lorna Heilbron, Clotilde Joano

Synopsis: When she discovers her husband has come home with a mistress, Anne (Joanna Shimkus) leaves her home in Paris and spends the night in her office where she meets Francois (Michel Piccoli), an architect who, without asking any questions, invites her on a trip to the South of France. The two make the Read More

8/27/70
L'Invasion

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Lisa Gastoni, Enzo Cerusico, Marzio Margine, Elio Marconato

Synopsis: A group of amoral students pay a visit to their professor, a noted architect with plans to construct his buildings in Africa. Marcello (Michel Piccoli) and his wife Marina (Lisa Gastoni) invite the dissident students into their home and a philosophical discussion develops. They start to paint his Read More

4/23/70
Les Choses de la Vie

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Lea Massari, Jean Bouise, Bobby Lapointe

Synopsis: After laboring in obscurity for several years, French filmmaker Claude Sautet finally struck a responsive chord with moviegoers in Les Choses de la Vie. The plot isn't much: the hero, businessman Michel Piccoli, must choose between his wife and his mistress, two women whom he loves with equal Read More

1/1/70
La Voie Lactée

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Alain Cuny, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: While arch surrealist Luis Bunuel never made a secret of his skepticism about the existence of God, he was also raised as a strict Spanish Catholic and remained fascinated with the church's teaching throughout his life, and his obsessions with both faith and the contradictions of dogma provided Read More

2/28/69
Dillinger e Morto

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: This offbeat combination of reality and fantasy finds Glauco (Michel Piccoli) returning home from his job as an industrial engineer to find his wife (Anita Pallenberg) in bed with a headache. Deciding to fix dinner for himself, he reads from a gourmet cookbook as he watches television, or listens Read More

1/23/69
Topaz

Actors: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford, a veteran of European-filmed James Bond rip-offs of the 1960s, is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the Read More

1969
Les Creatures

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Charrier, Eva Dahlbeck, Nino Castelnuovo

Synopsis: French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda writes and directs the intellectual drama Les Creatures. Michel Piccoli plays a novelist who gets in a severe car accident. He is injured and his wife (Catherine Deneuve) is rendered mute. They move to a small village on an island in order to recuperate, and Read More

1969
La Prisonnière

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Elisabeth Wiener, Bernard Fresson, Dany Carrel, Dario Moreno

Synopsis: A young female film editor specializes in discovering why other women degrade themselves in pornography and prostitution. She has a relationship with a boring artist, and her life is uneventful until she encounters an older, more worldly art dealer. The man shows her his photographs and she is Read More

11/20/68
La Chamade

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Roger Van Hool, Jacques Sereys, Irène Tunc

Synopsis: In this romantic melodrama, Lucille (Catherine Deneuve) is a young woman who takes comfort in the arms of her older wealthy lover Charles (Michel Piccoli). She meets a young man, Antoine (Roger van Hool) who is involved with an icy socialite (Irène Tunc). Lucille and Antoine become lovers and the Read More

10/30/68
Danger: Diabolik

Actors: John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: Diabolik (John Phillip Law) is the criminal mastermind who has just pulled off a huge heist. He spends most of his free time with his girlfriend, Eva (Marisa Mell), in fond embrace. The police minister (Terry-Thomas) is approached by Valmont (Adolfo Celi), a master criminal who proposes to use his Read More

1/24/68
Benjamin

Actors: Francine Bergé, Pierre Clémenti, Catherine Deneuve, Anna Gael

Synopsis: Pierre Clementi plays the title role in the French-filmed Benjamin. A callow teenager of the 18th century, Benjamin spends a summer with his worldly relatives on their summer estate. An orphan girl (Catherine Deneuve) living on a neighboring estate, inaugurates an affair with Benjamin. In true La Ronde Read More

1968
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
Un Homme De Trop

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gérard Blain, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, twelve captured French soldiers await their impending executions in a German prison camp. Fortunately, a wily resistance fighter and his men come to rescue the ill-fated dozen. The rescue attempt succeeds, but the rebels become worried when they discover a thirteenth prisoner Read More

1967
The Young Girls of Rochefort

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, Grover Dale, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: Jacques Demy directed this frothy tribute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s, a follow-up to his earlier success The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). Twin sisters Delphine and Solange (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorleac) live in the small coastal town of 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
The Game Is Over

Actors: Jane Fonda, Peter McEnery, Michel Piccoli, Tina Aumont, Folco Jacques Monod

Synopsis: Under the tutelage of one-time husband, director Roger Vadim, Jane Fonda plays the much-younger wife of stuffed-shirt millionaire Michel Piccoli. When Piccoli's handsome young stepson Peter McEnery comes to visit, Fonda is immediately smitten. When Piccoli forces McEnery into a marriage of Read More

6/22/66
La Voleuse

Actors: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Hans-Christian Blech

Synopsis: Julia (Romy Schneider) gave away her infant son to a foster couple before she married Werner (Michel Piccoli). Now she selfishly wants her child from the foster parents who have never officially adopted the boy. Radek (Hans Christian Blech) is the foster father who refuses to give up the boy he Read More

1966
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
La Guerre Est Finie

Actors: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Michel Piccoli, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few "linear" films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his beloved flashbacks and flashforwards, Resnais sticks to a logical progression of events in relating this jaundiced tale of political activism. Yves Montand plays a tired 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
Parodie Parade

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Vera Norman, Daniel Gélin, Anne Campion

1965
Le Coup de Grace

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Riva, Oliver Hussenot

Synopsis: Bruno (Michele Piccolo) returns for some strange reason to the small French town where he was an informant to the Nazis in this plodding drama. Sophie (Emmanuelle Riva) is a single woman who falls for Bruno partially out of fear of becoming an old maid, but Bruno falls in love with the sister of a Read More

1965
Masquerade

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Marisa Mell, Christopher Witty, Bill Fraser

Synopsis: In this blend of action-adventure and spy satire, the British government has been negotiating with the Middle Eastern nation of Ramaut to lease their oil fields for drilling by U.K. petroleum companies, but at the last minute, the deal collapses, and Col. Drexel (Jack Hawkins), a military leader Read More

1965
Les Roses Du Diable

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jean-Claude Drouot, Genevieve Thenier

1965
Marie Soleil

Actors: Danièle Delorme, Jacques Charrier, Chantal Darget, Genevieve Brunet, Michel Piccoli, Roger Blin

Synopsis: In the film directorial debut of Antoine Bourseiller, Marie (Daniele Delorme) is a barmaid and single mother to a child fathered by a black man. She is cautious to commit to another man until she nearly falls for Axel (Jacques Charrier), a younger man who has dreams of social-climbing ambition. Read More

1965
Les Ruses du Diable

Actors: Genevieve Thenier, Jean-Claude Drouot, Daniele Ajoret, Michel Piccoli

1965
Lady L

Actors: Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven, Claude Dauphin, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While working as a laundress, Lady L falls for the gambler and anarchist Armand (Paul Newman), who gets mixed up with an inept group trying to assassinate the senile Prince Otto (Peter Ustinov Read More

1965
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 Chance et l'Amour

Actors: Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier, Sophie Desmarets, Michel Piccoli

12/28/64
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

3/4/64
Contempt

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, Giorgia Moll

Synopsis: Contempt is the story of the end of a marriage. Camille (Brigitte Bardot) falls out of love with her husband Paul (Michel Piccoli) while he is rewriting the screenplay Odyssey by American producer Jeremiah Prokosch (Jack Palance). Just as the director of Prokosch's film, Fritz Lang, says that The Read More

10/29/63
The Day and the Hour

Actors: Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Dux, Reggie Nalder

Synopsis: This French/Italian effort travelled under the titles Le Jour Et L'Heure, Il Giorno e L'Ora and Viviamo Oggi in Europe. In Great Britain, it was known as Today We Live. No matter the title, the film stars Simone Signoret as a world-weary French aristocrat who finds a purpose in life by joining the Read More

4/5/63
Le Doulos

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

12/13/62
Climats

Actors: Marina Vlady, Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Alexandra Stewart

1962
Le Rendez-Vous

Actors: Annie Girardot, Odile Versois, Andréa Parisy, Jean Pascal, George Sanders

Synopsis: Upper-crust intrigue, murder, and passions are mixed together in this routine, slow-paced murder mystery by Jean Delannoy. A wily photographer has been murdered, and there are several suspects. The victim was a blackmailer, and his target was a wealthy family headed by the rich and ruthless J.K. (George Sanders Read More

10/4/61
Le Vergini di Roma

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Nicole Courcel, Sylvia Syms, Jean Chevrier

Synopsis: This French/Italian sword 'n' sandal effort is set in the Rome of 476 BC. The Eternal City is threatened with invasion from the Etruscans, with soldier-of-fortune Louis Jourdan in the vanguard. When offered a truce, Jourdan demands that the Romans offer hostages as a sign of good faith. He is Read More

3/24/61
La Chevelure

1961
Le Bal des espions

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Michel Piccoli, Francois Patrice, Charles Regnier

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a crook tries to pull off the biggest job of his illustrious career by stealing extremely important, valuable documents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

9/2/60
La Bete a L'affut

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Henri Vidal, Françoise Arnoul, Gaby Sylvia

Synopsis: Not reaching much beyond a routine and predictable crime-romance story, La Bete a L'Afflut features (Francoise Arnoul) as an attractive widow faced with an unusual dilemma. A convict has escaped from prison and gets into her place, whereupon she is prevented from calling the police. The Read More

1959
La Dragee Haute

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Odile Versois, Dany Saval, Yves Vincent

1959
Tabarin

Actors: Sylvia Lopez, Sonja Ziemann, Michel Piccoli, Annie Cordy

Synopsis: Though much of its glory had faded by 1958, France's Tabarin nightclub still held a fascination for tourists and patrons. Filmed on location at the fabled nightspot, Tabarin is a colorful 110-minute dramatized documentary. Its narrative is held together by the efforts of American choreographer Lee Read More

5/21/58
Rafles Sur la Ville

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard, Francois Guerin

Synopsis: The English-language title of this French gangster melodrama is Raids on the City. Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his Read More

1958
Nathalie

Actors: Martine Carol, Michel Piccoli, Lise Delamare, Philippe Clay, Mischa Auer, Aimé Clariond

Synopsis: Martine Carol plays the title character in the comedy melodrama Nathalie. The heroine is a professional model who becomes innocently mixed up in a robbery/murder case. Deciding to play detective, Nathalie leads both the authorities and the underworld on a merry chase. She also wins the heart of Read More

12/4/57
Les Sorcières de Salem

Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Mylène Demongeot, Raymond Rouleau, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: American playwright Arthur Miller was still under an "unfriendly" cloud in 1958, so far as the anti-Communist brigades were concerned. Thus, the film version of Miller's stage play The Crucible was lensed in France. Drawing several parallels to the McCarthy era, Miller dramatizes the Salem Witch Read More

4/26/57
Marie Antoinette, Reine de France

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Richard Todd, Jacques Morel, Aimé Clariond, Jeanne Boitel

Synopsis: Though nearly as lavish as the 1938 MGM film of the same name, the 1955 French historical epic Marie Antoinette is not nearly as coherent or entertaining. Michele Morgan stars as the Austrian princess who becomes the last Queen of France in waning years of the 18th century. Jacques Morel costars Read More

4/27/56
La Mort En Ce Jardin

Actors: Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, Georges Marchal, Michel Piccoli, Michéle Girardon

Synopsis: Recharging his creative batteries with a "commercial" venture, director Luis Bunuel came up with the stylish if undistinguished La Mort en ce Jardin (Death in This Garden). Set in a steaming jungle, the film concerns a disparate group of refugees from a despotic military regime. Among these Read More

1956
Les Mauvaises Rencontres

Actors: Jean Pascal, Anouk Aimée, Claude Dauphin, Philippe Lemaire, Yves Robert

Synopsis: Anouk Aimee stars as a young woman of humble means who maneuvers her way into the uppermost rungs of French society. How she does it, and the price she has to pay along the way, is unfolded through a series of flashbacks. Since Anouk is recalling her life while in the offices of an abortionist Read More

1955
French Cancan

Actors: Jean Gabin, Maria Felix, Françoise Arnoul, Gaston Modot, Gianni Esposito

Synopsis: Beautifully photographed, this comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge. The film is also title Only the French Can. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

12/27/54
Tout Chante Autour de Moi

Actors: Marcel Mouloudji, Christine Carère

1954
Interdit de Sejour

Actors: Claude Laydu, Joelle Bernard, Daniel Cauchy

1953
Raiders of the Seven Seas

Actors: John Payne, Donna Reed, Gerald Mohr, Lon Chaney, Jr., Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: John Payne stars as legendary pirate Barbarossa -- aka Redbeard -- in Raiders of the Seven Seas. Capturing a Spanish galleon almost single-handedly, Barbarossa claims haughty Contessa Alida (Donna Reed) as his own property. Engaged to marry naval officer Alfredo (Gerald Mohr), Alida despises Read More

1953
Chicago Digest

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Michel Piccoli, Anne Campion

1952
Saint-Tropez, Devoir de Vacances

1952
Destinées

1952
Terreur En Oklahoma

1951
Sans laisser d'adresse

Actors: Bernard Blier, Danièle Delorme, Pierre Trabaud

1950
Le Point du Jour

Actors: Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre, Michel Piccoli, Loleh Bellon

Synopsis: Veteran French filmmaker Louis Daquin was the recipient of worldwide plaudits for his realistically detailed drama Le Point du Jour. Shot on location in a mining town, the film relates the story of a young miner named Larzac (Rene Lefevre). Unlike his elders, Larzac is terrified at the prospect of Read More

1949
Le Parfum de la Dame En Noir

Actors: Hélène Perdrière, Serge Reggiani, Lucien Nat

1949
The Bellman

Synopsis: Bellman was based on the novel Horseman of Riouclare by Claude Boncompain. Lucien Coedel stars in this steadily-paced melodrama as an alpine bell-ringer. His job is to toll the village bells in order to prevent strangers from getting lost in the snowy peaks. Somewhere along the line, Coedel snaps Read More

1947

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