List of the best Jean Desailly movies: The Soft Skin(1964), Le Doulos(1961), The Assassination of Trotsky(1972), Sylvia and the Phantom(1946), La Dilettante(1999), The 25th Hour(1967) ... ...
Romance
France
1964
110 Minutes
Jean Desailly Françoise Dorléac Nelly Benedetti Daniel Ceccaldi Laurence Badie Jean Lanier Paule Emanuele Maurice Garrel
magazine editor stewardess husband wife mistress writer melodramatic sultry suspenseful paris lisbon, portugal airport family home infidelity jealousy crimes of passion love triangle obsession marriage forbidden love
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Drama
1961
108 Minutes
Commissaire Clain
Jean-Paul Belmondo Serge Reggiani Fabienne Dali Monique Hennessy Michel Piccoli René Lefèvre Jean Desailly Philippe March
friend jewel thief informant ex-convict gangster superintendent suspenseful melodramatic tense france prison police station house car undercover operations theft murder gangs deception mystery
A former convict (Serge Reggiani) suspects his best friend (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a burglar with police contacts, of being a stool pigeon.
Drama, History
1972
103 Minutes
Richard Burton Alain Delon Romy Schneider Valentina Cortesa Enrico Maria Salerno Luigi Vannucchi Jean Desailly Simone Valere Duilio Del Prete Peter Chatel
A Stalinist assassin (Alain Delon) tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton) to Mexico in 1940.
Comedy, Drama
France
1946
90 Minutes
Frederick
Odette Joyeux François Périer Jacques Tati Julien Carette Pierre Larquey Louis Salon Claude Marcy Jean Desailly Paul Demange Marguerite Cassan
On the eve of her 16th birthday, Sylvie's father needs cash to stay in his castle so he sells Sylvie's favorite thing, a painting of Alain, the lover of Sylvie's grandmother, killed in a ... See full summary »
Comedy
France
1999
118 Minutes
Edmond Thibault
Catherine Frot Bernard Verley Barbara Schulz Didier Bezace Marie-Christine Barrault Odette Laure Nathalie Lafaurie Jean-François Balmer Jean Desailly Clement Thomas Sebastien Cotterot
Pierrette Dumortier, a woman of character but weak-willed and defenseless against boredom, decides one fine day to leave her husband and her bourgeois life in Switzerland to return to Paris... See full summary »
Drama
France|Italy|Yugoslavia
1967
119 Minutes
Anthony Quinn Virna Lisi Michael Redgrave Gregoire Aslan Marcel Dalio Serge Reggiani Drewe Henley Paul Maxwell George Roderich Alexander Knox Albert Remy
In World War II, a Romanian gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he's drafted into the S.S.