Biography: Jean-Pierre Melville |
Jean-Pierre Melville (born Jean-Pierre Grumbach) was an amateur filmmaker as a teenager who, after the start of World War II, began making his own independent short and feature films. He hit his stride in the '50s with his memorable adaptation of Jean... more
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Cast: Catherine Deneuve
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Caper Police Detective Film Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 100min
Parisian police commissioner Coleman (Alain Delon) is not a happy man, but he does what he can to get through each day. He has recently started having an affair with Cathy (Catherine Deneuve), and that helps a little. Cathy is also Simon's girlfriend...
Cast: Yves Montand Bourvil
Tags: Police Detective Film Thriller Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Caper Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 135min
Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel (Gian-Maria Volonté) hides in the trunk of Corey's car. The two enlist the help of an alcoholic former cop (Yves Montand) for...
Cast: Alain Delon
Tags: Thriller Crime Crime Thriller Post-Noir (Modern Noir)
Length: 103min
Long considered a classic of European film noir, this existential gangster drama from French director Jean-Pierre Melville was released in the United States only in a severely truncated, re-edited, and overdubbed version entitled The Godson. Thirty...
Cast: Lino Ventura
Tags: Caper Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Gangster Film Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 150min
Veteran gangster Gustave (Lino Ventura) escapes from prison to find his sister is being blackmailed by some petty thugs in this crime thriller. He plans one last caper to steal enough money in hopes of retiring to a tropical paradise. He and his gang...
Cast: Simone Signoret
Tags: War Drama Drama Resistance Film
Length: 140min
In this war drama set during the French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo headquarters and returns to Marseille. There he and his gang capture a traitor and throttle him. They then try to rescue a Resistance fighter in Lyons....
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Tags: Romantic Drama Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 118min
Jean-Paul Belmondo portrays Leon Morin, an altruistic priest who believes that any sin can be expunged by a good dose of faith. Emmanuelle Riva plays a wayward woman who long ago decided that the easiest way was the best. Belmondo makes it his mission...
Tags: Psychological Drama Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Drama
Length: 104min
A venerable banker from Paris leaves for America when he discovers there will be an investigation into his questionable business deals. Accompanied by his faithful protégé Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the pair travels to New York by plane and...
Cast: Michel Piccoli Jean-Pierre Melville
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Crime Crime Thriller
Length: 110min
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...
Deux Hommes Dans Manhattan (1959)
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Mystery
Length: 85min
The primary protagonists in this routine drama are two French journalists, Delmas (Pierre Grasset) and Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville, the director), and also the city of New York at night. The two journalists are on the trail of a story -- a French...
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard
Tags: Psychological Drama Crime Drama Urban Drama Drama
Length: 90min
The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells...
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