List of the best Jean-Pierre Melville movies: Army in the Shadows(1969), Leon Morin, Priest(1961), The Strange Ones(1950), Le Doulos(1961), Dirty Money(1972), Breathless(1959) ... ...
War, Drama, History
France|Italy
1969
140 Minutes
Director
Lino Ventura Paul Meurisse Jean-Pierre Cassel Paul Crauchet Claude Mann Christian Barbier Simone Signoret Serge Reggiani Alain Libolt
engineer rebel traitor nazi intense gritty passionate paris marseilles, france london france submarine prison french resistance world war ii prisoners of war nazism underdog sacrifice 1940s
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
Drama
France|Italy
1961
130 Minutes
Director
Jean-Paul Belmondo Emmanuelle Riva Irene Tunc Nicole Mirel Marco Behar Patricia Gozzi Gisele Grimm Monique Bertho Marc Heyraud Nina Gregoire Monique Hennessy
communist widow mother priest daughter tense uneasy provincial town france church rectory religion world war ii unlikely friendship spirituality holocaust temptation forbidden love 1940s
Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.
Drama
France
1950
102 Minutes
Director
Nicole Stéphane Edouard Dermithe Renée Cosima Jacques Bernard Jean-Marie Robain Melvyn Martin Maria Cyliakus Maurice Revel
sibling bully teen boy teen girl orphan stranger dreamy disturbing melodramatic offbeat france house school bedroom coming of age isolation incest fantasy world jealousy brother/sister relationship
On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are discreetly repatriated to Hofburg, while ... See full summary »
Drama
1961
108 Minutes
Director
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.
Crime, Drama
1972
98 Minutes
Director
gangster man woman police chief bank robber drug smuggler thrilling emotional dark bank france nightclub train small town helicopter robbery drug smuggling law and order love triangle unusual friendship
A bank theft and a train robbery bring together a Frenchwoman (Catherine Deneuve), her criminal boyfriend (Alain Delon) and a detective (Richard Crenna).
Crime, Drama
1959
90 Minutes
Parvulesco
Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean Seberg Daniel Boulanger Jean-Pierre Melville Henri-Jacques Huet Van Doude Claude Mansard Jean-Luc Godard Richard Balducci Roger Hanin Jean-Louis Richard
criminal journalist police officer writer cool creative offbeat country road paris street apartment restaurant crime love meaning of life pursuit love 1960s
A French hood (Jean-Paul Belmondo) kills a policeman and heads for Italy with his American girlfriend (Jean Seberg).