List of the best Michel Piccoli movies: The Things of Life(1970), The Infernal Trio(1974), Dillinger Is Dead(1969), I'm Going Home(2001), Dangerous Moves(1985), We Have a Pope(2011), Traveling Companion(1996), Adieu, Bonaparte(1985), Belle Toujours(2006), Tykho Moon(1996), The Prodigal Daughter(1981), La puritaine(1986) ... ...
Drama
Switzerland|France|Italy
1970
90 Minutes
Pierre Bérard
Michel Piccoli Romy Schneider Léa Massari Gérard Lartigau Jean Bouise Bobby Lapointe Herve Sand Jacques Richard
husband wife mistress son father brooding moving tender melodramatic france party estate hospital failing marriage love triangle infidelity jealousy family accident forbidden love
A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.
Comedy
USA
1974
100 Minutes
Georges Sarret
Michel Piccoli Romy Schneider Mascha Gomska
sister younger sister insurance investigator husband wife attorney chilling suspenseful melodramatic france house office bathroom insurance fraud crime murder cover-up schemes sadism discovery
A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.
Crime, Drama
Italy
1969
90 Minutes
Michel Piccoli Anita Pallenberg Gino Lavagetto
A man decides to cook for himself, but finds the revolver of John Dillinger hidden in his kitchen instead.
Comedy, Drama
France|Portugal
2001
90 Minutes
Gilbert Valence
Michel Piccoli Antoine Chappey Catherine Deneuve John Malkovich Leonor Baldaque Leonor Silveira
actor director grandson actress agent nanny sad profound emotional tender paris theater café film set house france tragic death aging retirement mourning
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
Mystery & Thriller
France|Liechtenstein|Switzerland
1985
100 Minutes
Akiva Liebskind
Michel Piccoli Alexandre Arbatt Leslie Caron Liv Ullmann Daniel Olbrychski Michel Aumont
chess player protégé wife hypnotist defector government official suspenseful intricate geneva hospital gas station press conference swimming pool chess cold war student-teacher relationship alcoholism smoking death threat rivalry
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
2011
101 Minutes
Cardinal Melville
Michel Piccoli Jerzy Stuhr Renato Scarpa Franco Graziosi Camillo Milli Roberto Nobile Ulrich von Dobschutz Gianluca Gobbi Nanni Moretti Margherita Buy Leonardo Della Bianca
pope cardinal therapist engaging rome vatican journey responsibility panic underdog
A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist.
Drama
Italy
1996
106 Minutes
Cosimo
Michel Piccoli Asia Argento Lino Capolicchio Silvia Cohen Max Malatesta
In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue. She also has a bruised history: her mother's suicide, her ... See full summary »
Drama, History
Egypt|France
1985
113 Minutes
Michel Piccoli Mohsen Mohiedine Mohamed Atef Patrice Chéreau Christian Patey Mohsena Tewfik Hassan Husseiny Claude Cernay Gamil Ratib Ahman Abdel Asiz Farid Mahmoud
A story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradintion and modernization in the context of fighting the French invadors.
Drama
Portugal|France
2006
72 Minutes
Henri Husson
Michel Piccoli Bulle Ogier Ricardo Trêpa Leonor Baldaque Júlia Buisel
38 years after their last encounter, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine in a concert. He follows her and sadistically takes out a slow and painful revenge.
Sci-Fi
France|Germany|UK
1996
104 Minutes
The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious ... See full summary »
Drama
France
1981
92 Minutes
Le père
A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her direction.
Drama
France|Belgium
1986
90 Minutes
Pierre
Michel Piccoli Sandrine Bonnaire Laurent Malet Sabine Azéma Brigitte Coscas Anne Coesens Corinne Dacla
The reunion of an estranged father and daughter is set against the backdrop of a theatrical production.
Comedy, Drama
1990
105 Minutes
Milou
Michel Piccoli Miou-Miou Michel Duchaussoy Dominique Blanc Bruno Carette Harriet Walter François Berléand Martine Gautier Paulette Dubost
matriarch son brother daughter truck driver student calm quirky tender countryside family home france funeral family dysfunction reunion rivalry love 1960s
During the 1968 riots. French relatives (Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy) carry on at a country house, where a will is read.
Drama
Netherlands|India
1996
95 Minutes
Michel
Michel Piccoli Irene Papas Leonor Silveira Rogério Samora Sofia Alves
India's Project X type of film.
Drama
1991
238 Minutes
Edouard Frenhofer
Michel Piccoli Emmanuelle Béart Jane Birkin Marianne Denicourt David Bursztein Gilles Arbona Bernard Dufour
A young model (Jane Birkin) replacing his wife (Emmanuelle Béart) inspires a tired painter (Michel Piccoli) to pick up a work he quit 10 years before.
Comedy
1980
120 Minutes
Mauro Ponticelli
brother sister judge actor mentally ill person offbeat dark uneasy melodramatic rome courtroom apartment mental illness suicide brother/sister relationship attempted murder manipulation sibling rivalry temptation rivalry
An Italian judge (Michel Piccoli) with a batty sister (Anouk Aimée) tries to get an actor (Michele Placido) to drive her to suicide.
Drama
1976
135 Minutes
Simon
Michel Piccoli Ottavia Piccolo Jacques Dutronc Romy Schneider Charles Denner Julien Guiomar Michel Arnaud Bernard Fresson
businessperson prostitute rival partner bleak somber uneasy france financial crisis aging prostitution shady dealings fall discovery quest 1970s
A prostitute (Ottavia Piccolo) is the common denominator in a middle-aged businessman's (Michel Piccoli) land swindle.
Drama
1992
125 Minutes
Edouard Frenhofer
Michel Piccoli Jane Birkin Emmanuelle Béart Marianne Denicourt David Bursztein Gilles Arbona
painter wife artist model friend girlfriend fascinating cool provence, france house café dining room kitchen painting creative process nudity marriage relationships inspiration transformation
A celebrated painter's inactivity causes him to search for inspiration in the young woman who models for him.
Comedy, Drama
France|Italy
1974
112 Minutes
Yves Montand Michel Piccoli Serge Reggiani Gérard Depardieu Stéphane Audran Marie Dubois Ludmila Mikaël Antonella Lualdi
Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming ... See full summary »
Drama
France|Italy
1964
97 Minutes
Jeanne Moreau Michel Piccoli Georges Geret Francoise Lugagne Jean Ozenne Daniel Ivernel Gilberte Geniat Bernard Musson Jean-Claude Carrière Claude Jaeger Dominique Sauvage
maid husband wife father driver young girl creepy suspenseful tense france household countryside abduction rape murder deception sex mystery transformation 1930s
A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.
Sci-Fi, Drama, Action
France|Yugoslavia
1983
94 Minutes
Gérard Lanvin Michel Piccoli Marie-France Pisier Bruno Cremer Andréa Ferréol Henri-Jacques Huet Jean Rougerie Jean-Claude Dreyfus Jean-Pierre Bagot
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.
Drama
France|Portugal
1997
114 Minutes
Catherine Deneuve Michel Piccoli Melvil Poupaud Andrzej Seweryn Bernadette Lafont Monique Melinand Hubert Saint-Macary Laurence Clement
At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the ... See full summary »
Fantasy
USA
1997
93 Minutes
Ben Daniels Michel Piccoli Paul M. Meston Kenneth Collard Nadia Odeh Mohammed Alì Auda Mohammed Badoul
guard artist leopard officer bedouin profound offbeat dreamy fascinating egypt desert survival desperation human-animal friendship abandonment nature transformation discovery 1790s
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments ... See full summary »
Drama
Italy|France
1983
105 Minutes
Marcello Mastroianni Michel Piccoli Anouk Aimée Gerard Klein Daniele Dublino
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, is sent to Albania to locate and ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Canada|USA
1994
100 Minutes
Sylvie Vartan Michel Piccoli Tcheky Karyo Alexandra Winisky
The neurotic and newlywed Barbara (Robin Strasser) finds her husband (Arthur Roberts) in bed with his old flame Eva (Iva Jean Saraceni). Robin doesn't get mad-she gets even. Using funds ... See full summary »
Drama
France
2007
95 Minutes
Geraldine Chaplin Michel Piccoli Jane Birkin Natacha Régnier Adèle Exarchopoulos Lou Doillon John Hurt Maurice Bénichou
A woman sifts through boxes filled with memories of her past seeks forgivness from the ghosts who still haunt her.
Drama
1982
110 Minutes
Romy Schneider Michel Piccoli Helmut Griem Mathieu Carrière Wendelin Werner Gérard Klein Dominique Labourier Maria Schell Jean Reno Raymond Aquilon Beatrice Avoine
man murderer ambassador wife police officer assassin engaging thrilling suspenseful shocking intense gripping paraguay paris embassy secret life story danger surprises unexpected death
A woman (Romy Schneider) holds the key to a human-rights activist's (Michel Piccoli) shooting of a South American ambassador.
Drama
2012
115 Minutes
Mathieu Amalric Michel Piccoli Hippolyte Girardot Denis Podalydès Andrzej Seweryn Michel Vuillermoz Jean-Noel Broute Sylvain Dieuaide
A who's-who of French actors are summoned to hear the reading of a playwright's last will and testament. They are asked to view a recording of a play in which all have starred over the years, and as video rolls, they all act out their old roles.
Fantasy
Switzerland|France
1986
128 Minutes
Marc
Denis Lavant Juliette Binoche Michel Piccoli Hans Meyer Julie Delpy Carroll Brooks Hugo Pratt Serge Reggiani Mireille Perrier Jerome Zucca Charles Schmitt
As a deadly virus which infects people who have loveless sex sweeps Paris, a lonely pariah attempts to steal a potent antidote, only to fall for the mistress of his partner-in-crime. Is the infectious young love the cure to the bad blood?
Sci-Fi
Italy|France
1968
98 Minutes
Inspector Ginko
John Phillip Law Marisa Mell Michel Piccoli Adolfo Celi Terry-Thomas Mario Donen Annie Gorassini Caterina Boratto
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensual lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada
1984
100 Minutes
Graham Tombsthay
guitarist teacher woman murderer husband intense emotional passionate gory thrilling garden house affair murder crimes of passion jealousy guns temptation escape rescue
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Drama
France|Italy
1966
95 Minutes
Alexandre Saccard
Jane Fonda Peter McEnery Michel Piccoli Jacques Monod Tina Marquand Simone Valere
In Paris, Maxime visits his wealthy industrialist father Alexandre and his beautiful young Canadian wife, Renée. Alexandre fathered him years ago in a prior marriage and he has come to stay... See full summary »
Drama
France|Italy
1976
97 Minutes
Inspecteur Marchand
Gérard Depardieu Sylvia Kristel Michel Piccoli Stefano Patrizi Riccardo Garrone Jacques Jouanneau Jean Rigaux Orchidea de Santis Venantino Venantini Valérie Mairesse
Rene and Marchand are best friends. What makes their friendship special is that Rene is a professional thief, and Marchand is a policeman, albeit somewhat corrupt.
Drama
France|Canada
1980
104 Minutes
Joseph
Burt Lancaster Susan Sarandon Kate Reid Michel Piccoli Hollis McLaren Robert Joy Al Waxman Robert Goulet Moses Znaimer Angus MacInnes Sean Sullivan
pretty woman mobster husband drug dealer criminal engaging spirited new jersey waterfront atlantic city, n.j. aspirations gambling drug trafficking crime romance aging quest underdog 1970s
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Drama, Romance, War
France|Italy
1963
115 Minutes
Antoine
Simone Signoret Stuart Whitman Genevieve Page Michel Piccoli Reggie Nalder Bill Kearns Marcel Bozzuffi Henri Virlojeux
During WW2, in Nazi-occupied France, a French woman helps 2 downed Allied airmen to evade capture by the Germans and make their way into neutral Spain.
Romance, Drama, History
France|Italy
2007
137 Minutes
Vidame de Pamiers
Jeanne Balibar Guillaume Depardieu Bulle Ogier Michel Piccoli Barbet Schroeder Anne Cantineau Mathias Jung Julie Judd Marc Barbé Nicolas Bouchaud Thomas Durand
general nun engaging tense uneasy spain paris obsession search love quest love transformation escape 19th century
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched... See full summary »
Comedy
France
1978
99 Minutes
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1965
102 Minutes
George Sarrassin
Cliff Robertson Jack Hawkins Marisa Mell Michel Piccoli Bill Fraser Christopher Witty Tutte Lemkow Keith Pyott Jose Burgos Charles Gray John Le Mesurier
colonel american prince woman accomplice amusing madcap spirited canyon spain duplicity oil kidnapping political intrigue negotiation temptation adventure rescue escape 1960s
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
Drama
1972
100 Minutes
Giorgio's friend
Catherine Deneuve Marcello Mastroianni Corinne Marchand Michel Piccoli Claudine Berg Pascal Laperrousaz Dominique Marcas Valérie Stroh
Comedy
1998
105 Minutes
Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
Fabrice Luchini Sandrine Kiberlain Valentina Cervi Michel Piccoli Bernadette Lafont Laurent Lucas Denis Podalydès Nathalie Boutefeu Micheline Boudet Édouard Baer Violeta Sanchez
A magazine critic's (Fabrice Luchini) life goes downhill quickly, from the strange looks he is getting from strangers to his now jobless girlfriend.
Drama
France|Sweden
1966
121 Minutes
Yves Montand Ingrid Thulin Geneviève Bujold Dominique Rozan Michel Piccoli Anouk Ferjac Marie Mergey
A middle-aged political activist tries to dissuade his young followers from taking radical action.
Comedy
1974
104 Minutes
Le second préfet de police, Second Prefect
Jean-Claude Brialy Monica Vitti Milena Vukotic Claude Piéplu Michel Piccoli Julien Bertheau Adriana Asti Paul Frankeur Paul Le Person Bernard Verley Adolfo Celi
aunt father nurse prefect police officers monks disturbing frenetic outlandish shocking spain hotel police station incest execution sex police corruption wretched excess forbidden love 20th century
Chance encounters lead to a man who sells postcards, to a sniper, to monks playing poker and to guests at a dinner party.
Drama
1961
108 Minutes
Nuttheccio
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.
Comedy
1972
114 Minutes
Padre Amerin
Enzo Jannacci Ugo Tognazzi Claudia Cardinale Vittorio Gassman Michel Piccoli Alain Cuny Daniele Dublino Sigelfrido Rossi
Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
France|Germany|Belgium
2012
116 Minutes
L'Homme à la tache de vin
Denis Lavant Édith Scob Eva Mendes Kylie Minogue Elise Lhomeau Michel Piccoli Jeanne Disson Leos Carax Nastya Golubeva Carax Reda Oumouzoune
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the shadowy life of a mystic man named Monsieur Oscar.
Drama, Romance, History
France
1996
97 Minutes
Prince de Conti
Fabrice Luchini Manuel Blanc Sandrine Kiberlain Michel Serrault Jacques Weber Michel Piccoli Jean-François Balmer Claire Nebout Florence Thomassin Dominique Besnehard Jean-Claude Brialy
The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1969
125 Minutes
Jacques Granville
Frédérick Stafford John Forsythe Dany Robin John Vernon Karin Dor Michel Piccoli Philippe Noiret Claude Jade Michel Subor Roscoe Lee Browne
cia agent spy kgb agent wife journalist suspenseful intense moscow copenhagen new york city harlem, n.y. cuba espionage nuclear weapons cold war mystery pursuit 1960s
A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Mystery & Thriller
France
1965
95 Minutes
René Cabourg
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 »
Adventure
1963
105 Minutes
Console Publicola
Louis Jourdan Sylvia Syms Jean Chevrier Nicole Courcel Ettore Manni Renaud Mary Michel Piccoli Corrado Pani Nicolas Vogel María Luisa Rolando Carlo Giustini
A warrior dashes between his barbaric allies and a city that's being defended by embattled women warriors.
Drama
France|UK
1984
90 Minutes
French Official
Michael York Michael Lyndon Maureen Bennett Suzan Crowley Felicity Dean Hilary Drake John Hurt Claude Le Sache Jane Asher Michel Piccoli Mike Sarne
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.