List of the best Jean-Louis Trintignant movies: The Conformist(1971), My Night at Maud's(1969), Amour(2012), The Crook(1970), See How They Fall(1994), The Outside Man(1973), Bunker Palace Hotel(1989), Les violons du bal(1974), Faces of Love(1977), A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later(1986), The Best Years of a Life(2019), The Great Silence(1968) ... ...
Drama
Italy|France|West Germany
1971
115 Minutes
Marcello
Jean-Louis Trintignant Stefania Sandrelli Dominique Sanda Pierre Clémenti Gastone Moschin Enzo Tarascio José Quaglio
assassin wife professor driver blind person priest dark somber paris rome church family home highway car assassination fascism marriage transformation 1940s
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Comedy, Drama
France
1969
105 Minutes
Jean-Louis
Jean-Louis Trintignant Françoise Fabian Antoine Vitez Marie-Christine Barrault Léonide Kogan Guy Léger
roman catholic engineer divorcée marxist old friend wife witty calm profound church provincial town france apartment beach café morality relationships religion desire difficult decision
The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
Drama
Austria|France|Germany
2012
127 Minutes
Georges
Jean-Louis Trintignant Emmanuelle Riva Isabelle Huppert Alexandre Tharaud William Shimell Ramón Agirre Rita Blanco Carole Franck Dinara Droukarova Laurent Capelluto Jean-Michel Monroc
husband wife elderly person daughter janitor tender sad intense france apartment aging husband/wife relationship illness physical disability death sacrifice love 2010s
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
France|Italy
1970
120 Minutes
Simon Duroc dit 'le Suisse'
Jean-Louis Trintignant Danièle Delorme Charles Gérard Christine Lelouch Yves Robert Judith Magre Charles Denner Aldo Maccione
kidnapper kidnapped child accomplice father ex-convict old flame cool witty crafty engaging france bank prison kidnapping crime blackmail ransom fall pursuit sacrifice
Story about an incurable thief, his success and his failures.
Drama
France
1994
98 Minutes
Marx
Jean-Louis Trintignant Jean Yanne Mathieu Kassovitz Bulle Ogier Christine Pascal Yvon Back Yves Verhoeven Marc Citti
criminal apprentice police officer salesman best friend creative suspenseful emotional france hospital street hideout office murder investigation crime mentorship grief friendship unlikely hero mystery
Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a ... See full summary »
Action
France|Italy|USA
1973
104 Minutes
Jean-Louis Trintignant Ann-Margret Angie Dickinson Roy Scheider Georgia Engel Felice Orlandi Carlo De Mejo Michel Constantin
After fulfilling a contract killing in Los Angeles, a French hit man becomes the target of a hit himself and tries to flee back to Paris.
Sci-Fi
France
1989
95 Minutes
Holm
Jean-Louis Trintignant Carole Bouquet Benoît Régent Maria Schneider Yann Collette Philippe Morier-Genoud Jean-Pierre Léaud Roger Dumas Hans Meyer Jezabelle Amato
In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. ... See full summary »
Drama
France
1974
100 Minutes
Lui (Michel)
Jean-Louis Trintignant Marie-José Nat Gabrielle Doucet
For many years, filmmaker Michel Drach wanted to tell the story of his childhood during WWII and his family's escape from the occupying Nazis. The film explores his bittersweet memories, ... See full summary »
Drama
Switzerland|France
1977
90 Minutes
Victor
Jean-Louis Trintignant Delphine Seyrig Léa Massari Valérie Mairesse Roger Jendly François Rochaix
The director Victor decides to bring Chekhov's play 'The Three Sisters' to the screen. He summons his actresses to rehearse in a city near Lake Geneva.
Romance
France
1986
120 Minutes
Jean-Louis Duroc
Jean-Louis Trintignant Anouk Aimée Evelyne Bouix Marie-Sophie Pochat Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu Charles Gérard Antoine Sire Andre Engel Richard Berry Thierry Sabine Robert Hossein
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big time director whose most recent film was a very ... See full summary »
Romance, Comedy, Drama
Norway|UK
2019
90 Minutes
Jean-Louis Duroc
Jean-Louis Trintignant Anouk Aimée Souad Amidou Antoine Sire Monica Bellucci Tess Lauvergne Marianne Denicourt
race car driver retiree elderly woman emotional heartwarming moving playful nursing home beach seaside car romance second chance retirement star-crossed lovers love pursuit mystery discovery 2010s
A Jewish girl Esther is forced to conceal her identity as a boy on a Nazi-Norwegian farm. Plotting her escape to Sweden, her daily challenge to keep her true identity a secret, leads to a series of choices and consequences.
Western
1968
105 Minutes
Silence
Jean-Louis Trintignant Klaus Kinski Frank Wolff Luigi Pistilli Vonetta McGee Mario Brega Carlo D'Angelo Marisa Merlini Vonette McGee
mute person gunman corrupt businessman enemy widow bounty hunter suspenseful shocking raw thrilling gory utah mountain wilderness fear bounty hunters gunfight poverty trust murder
The mountains in winter provide the backdrop for this tale of a mute gunslinger who battles a band of bounty hunters.
Mystery & Thriller
1966
105 Minutes
Elias
Jean-Louis Trintignant Marie-France Pisier Christian Barbier Charles Millot Daniel Emilfork Henri Lambert Alain Robbe-Grillet Catherine Robbe-Grillet Paul Louyet Virginie Vignon Nadine Verdier
Elias (Jean-Louis Trintignant) stumbles through train compartments, while a director, his assistant and a producer hash out a drug deal and the plot to a film.
Romance
France
1966
102 Minutes
Jean-Louis Duroc
Anouk Aimée Jean-Louis Trintignant Pierre Barouh Valerie Lagrange Simone Paris Antoine Sire Souad Amidou Yane Barry Paul Le Person Henri Chemin Gerard Sire
widower widow child race car driver emotional tender touching france boarding school train love grief death parenthood love transformation 1960s
A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.
Drama
Italy|France
1959
99 Minutes
Carlo Caremoli
Eleonora Rossi Drago Jean-Louis Trintignant Jacqueline Sassard Lilla Brignone Cathia Caro Raf Mattioli Federica Ranchi Enrico Maria Salerno
young man father widow son friend love interest engaging intense playful italy beach nightclub apartment romance world war ii father/son relationship mother/son relationship self-sacrifice ignorance discovery
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. ... See full summary »
Comedy, Western
France
1983
90 Minutes
Julien Vercel
Fanny Ardant Jean-Louis Trintignant Philippe Laudenbach Caroline Sihol Philippe Morier-Genoud Xavier Saint-Macary Jean-Louis Richard Roland Thenot
wife secretary boss lover real estate broker police officer amusing witty suspenseful tender france office small town hideout unrequited love secret life frame-ups wrongfully accused murder investigation infidelity
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers ... See full summary »
Drama
France|Austria|Germany
2017
107 Minutes
Isabelle Huppert Jean-Louis Trintignant Mathieu Kassovitz Fantine Harduin Franz Rogowski Laura Verlinden Aurélia Petit Toby Jones Hille Perl Hassam Ghancy Nabiha Akkari
family wife husband refugee suicidal person grandson engaging emotional melodramatic charming heartwarming sad france refugee camp restaurant family home family dysfunction immigrants helping others happiness
A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.
Drama
France
1998
122 Minutes
Pascal Greggory Jean-Louis Trintignant Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi Charles Berling Bruno Todeschini Sylvain Jacques Vincent Perez Roschdy Zem Dominique Blanc Nathan Cogan Marie Daëms
painter mourner friend lover teenager train passenger somber passionate gritty limoges, france cemetery train car paris death painful memories love-hate relationship journey relationships grief
Friends of a recently deceased minor painter Jean-Baptiste take a train in Paris for Limoges, where he wished to be buried, and all the people on the train have their problems.
Drama
France
1982
130 Minutes
Roger Hanin Jean-Louis Trintignant Bernard Giraudeau Clio Goldsmith Richard Berry Anny Duperey Jean-Pierre Bacri Richard Bohringer
With the help of his binoculars, commissioner Duche monitors from his car the reception at the villa of Raymond Bettoun, the head of the clan of Jewish Pied-Noir.
Drama
Italy
1969
94 Minutes
Dr. Carlo De Marchi
Catherine Spaak Jean-Louis Trintignant Gigi Proietti Luigi Pistilli Renzo Montagnani Fabienne Dali Nora Ricci Edda Ferronao
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
Drama
1994
99 Minutes
Irène Jacob Jean-Louis Trintignant Frédérique Feder Jean-Pierre Lorit Juliette Binoche Julie Delpy Benoît Régent Zbigniew Zamachowski
model judge boyfriend neighbor girlfriend dreamy emotional playful geneva english channel father/daughter relationship french resistance fate fraternity redemption discovery rescue transformation 1990s
Tapped phone lines connect a Swiss law student, a model (Irène Jacob) and an ex-judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who eavesdrops.
Drama
1956
90 Minutes
Michel Tardieu
Brigitte Bardot Curt Jurgens Jean-Louis Trintignant Christian Marquand Georges Poujouly Jean Tissier Jane Marken Mary Glory Isabelle Corey Jean Lefebvre Philippe Grenier
lover teenager rousing intense french riviera sexual obsession marriage proposal moving forbidden love 1950s
A scantily clad beauty (Brigitte Bardot) teases her husband (Jean-Louis Trintignant), his brother and a Riviera millionaire (Curd Jürgens).
Mystery & Thriller
1969
127 Minutes
The examining magistrate
Yves Montand Irene Papas Jean-Louis Trintignant Jacques Perrin Charles Denner François Périer Pierre Dux Julien Guiomar Bernard Fresson Renato Salvatori Marcel Bozzuffi
political activist government official doctor murderer dark dense powerful greece city hospital police corruption political corruption city life accident cover-up rivalry sacrifice 1960s
A judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) proves a leftist's (Yves Montand) hit-and-run death was a Fascist plot.
Drama
France
1985
82 Minutes
Scrutzler
Juliette Binoche Wadeck Stanczak Lambert Wilson Jean-Louis Trintignant Anne Wiazemsky Dominique Lavanant Jacques Nolot Jean-Louis Vitrac Michela Moretti Annie Noel
young woman aspiring actress love interest lover director father figure engaging melodramatic heartwarming intense paris france movie set love interest relationships attraction tragedy tragic love career adventure
Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.
Drama
1961
95 Minutes
Jean-Marie de Kerloguen
Pierre Brasseur Pascale Audret Marianne Koch Jean-Louis Trintignant Dany Saval Philippe Leroy Jean Babilée Georges Rollin Gérard Buhr Maryse Martin Serge Marquand
An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.
Comedy
France|Spain
2003
104 Minutes
M. Cannon
Sergi López Marie Trintignant François Cluzet Christopher Lambert Jean-Louis Trintignant Amparo Soler Leal Sacha Aubart Eric Hervé Reynald Tescaro
insurance salesman cousin wife actor mother lighthearted offbeat france household office money schemes rock 'n' roll impersonation obsession hippies pursuit quest 2000s
Insurance salesman tries to get money from his hippie cousin by fulfilling his dream: Arraigning for John Lennon and Janis Joplin's "second coming".
Sci-Fi
France|West Germany
1981
120 Minutes
Fulbert
Michel Serrault Jacques Dutronc Jacques Villeret Robert Dhéry Hanns Zischler Jean-Louis Trintignant Penelope Palmer
A group of ordinary French survived a nuclear war and found themselves in the face of what was left of civilization.
Drama
1959
108 Minutes
Danceny
Gérard Philipe Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Valérie Annette Vadim Simone Renant Jean-Louis Trintignant
husband wife beautiful woman boyfriend mistress lover passionate tense sultry melodramatic paris ski resort france apartment love triangle infidelity schemes reputation lust jealousy
Affairs strewn from Paris to the Alps disintegrate a couple's (Gérard Philipe, Jeanne Moreau) marriage.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1991
119 Minutes
SS Officer
Charlotte Gainsbourg Anouk Grinberg Gérard Depardieu Michel Blanc Jean Carmet Catherine Jacob Annie Girardot Jean-Louis Trintignant Thierry Frémont François Perrot Didier Benureau
Documentary on family issues of elders, aging, and death.
Mystery & Thriller
France
1965
95 Minutes
Éric Grandin
Yves Montand Simone Signoret Pierre Mondy Catherine Allégret Pascale Roberts Jacques Perrin Michel Piccoli Jean-Louis Trintignant Charles Denner Claude Mann Nadine Alari
Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, ... See full summary »
Fantasy
France|Germany|Spain|Belgium|USA
1995
111 Minutes
Ron Perlman Marc Caro Daniel Emilfork Judith Vittet Dominique Pinon Jean-Claude Dreyfus Geneviève Brunet Odile Mallet Mireille Mossé Serge Merlin Francois Hadji-Lazaro
young boy young girl siamese twins father scientist henchman spectacular creepy fantasy world hideout laboratory family home orphanage kidnapping chase unlikely allies father/son relationship dreams adventure rescue
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Adventure, Drama
USA|Mexico
1983
128 Minutes
Nick Nolte Joanna Cassidy Gene Hackman Ed Harris Alma Martinez Holly Palance Ella Laboriel Samuel Zarzosa Jonathan Zarzosa Raul Picasso Oswaldo Doria
photojournalist journalist love interest rebel soldier president gritty intense suspenseful nicaragua revolution death corruption media love triangle civil war love transformation 1970s
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.