Belle de Jour (1967) more movies like this

directed by Luis Buñuel
featuring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Francisco Rabal, Macha Meril, Pierre Clémenti

Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a tree, and gang-raped. It turns out that this is only ...

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Atlantic City (1980) more movies like this

directed by Louis Malle
featuring Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Kate Reid, Robert Joy

Burt Lancaster stars as Lou, an aging mob flunkey, barely making a living in Atlantic City. Susan Sarandon plays Sally, a casino croupier whose husband Dave (Robert Joy) steals a large supply of drugs from the mob. When he is killed, the narcotics pass to the unwilling Sally. Lou, in the midst of longtime affair with middle-aged gangster's widow ...

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Topaz (1969) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli

Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford, a veteran of European-filmed James Bond rip-offs of the 1960s, is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the months prior to the 1962 missile crisis. Someone is ...

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May Fools (1990) more movies like this

directed by Louis Malle
featuring Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Blanc, Harriet Walter

This comic excursion from Louis Malle is set in May 1968, concurrent with a series of Parisian student uprisings. After the death of family matriarch Mme. Vieuzac (Paulette Dubost), the survivors converge on the French countryside for her funeral; they include her two sons, Milou (Michel Piccoli) and Georges (Michel Duchaussoy); Camille (Miou-Miou ...

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La Belle Noiseuse (1991) more movies like this

directed by Jacques Rivette
featuring Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Béart, Jane Birkin, David Bursztein, Marianne Denicourt

In this fascinating and unconventional examination of the creative process, an artist near the end of his career finds new inspiration in a young model. Edouard Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) is a famous and well-respected artist who lives in a comfortable estate in the French countryside. At the age of 60, Frenhofer considers his career as a painter ...

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Contempt (1963) more movies like this

directed by Jean-Luc Godard
featuring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, Giorgia Moll

Contempt is the story of the end of a marriage. Camille (Brigitte Bardot) falls out of love with her husband Paul (Michel Piccoli) while he is rewriting the screenplay Odyssey by American producer Jeremiah Prokosch (Jack Palance). Just as the director of Prokosch's film, Fritz Lang, says that The Odyssey is the story of individuals confronting ...

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Passion in the Desert (1998) more movies like this

directed by Lavinia Currier
featuring Ben Daniels, Michel Piccoli, Paul Meston, Kenneth Collard, Nadi Odeh

Loosely based on a story by Honore de Balzac, this historical drama is set in Egypt in 1798, as Napoleon was leading the French army into the Middle East. Officer Augustin Robert (Ben Daniels) has been assigned to escort artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis (Michel Piccoli), who is to record and catalog his findings as he studies the ...

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Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) more movies like this

directed by Luis Buñuel
featuring Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret, Francoise Lugagne, Daniel Ivernel, Jean Ozenne

The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir), Diary of a Chambermaid charts the ambitions of Celestine (Jeanne Moreau), a woman who comes to work in the 1930s for a Normandy estate occupied by Monsieur Rabour (Jean Ozenne), his daughter (Francoise Lugagne), and the daughter's husband, Monsieur ...

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I'm Going Home (2001) more movies like this

directed by Manoel de Oliveira
featuring Michel Piccoli, Antoine Chappey, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Leonor Baldaque

A man who's been confronted with new responsibilities must decide what to do with his career in this drama with comic undertones. Gilbert Vance (Michel Piccoli) is an aging but highly respected actor who, after completing a performance of Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King in which he plays opposite an attractive and talented actress named Sylvie ...

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Oltre la Porta (1982) more movies like this

directed by Liliana Cavani
featuring Marcello Mastroianni, Eleonora Giorgi, Tom Berenger, Michel Piccoli

Tom Berenger seems bemused by his surroundings in the Italian Beyond Obsession. An American engineer, Berenger falls in love with Eleanora Giorgi, and as these things are wont to happen, he ends up in bed with her. But Eleanora carries a great deal of emotional baggage in the person of her political-prisoner father Marcello Mastroianni. Soon ...

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Dangerous Moves (1984) more movies like this

directed by Richard Dembo
featuring Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski

Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He is pitted against Soviet exile Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who, since childhood, has dreamed of nothing but defeating Liebskind. Both men soon become obsessed with winning. Already suffering from a weak heart, Liebskind courts a coronary, ...

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The Phantom of Liberty (1974) more movies like this

directed by Luis Buñuel
featuring Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur, Paul Le Person, François Maistre, Claude Piéplu, Jean Rochefort, Marie-France Pisier, Bernard Verley, Milena Vukotic, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Michel Piccoli

One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a man sells postcards of French tourist attractions, calling them "pornographic." A sniper in Montparnasse is hailed as a hero for killing passersby. A "missing" child helps the police fill out the report on her. A group of ...

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Genealogies of a Crime (1997) more movies like this

directed by Raúl Ruiz
featuring Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn, Bernadette Lafont

Raul Ruiz directed this typically eccentric look at the nature of crime, the human mind, and life in the modern world. Solange (Catherine Deneuve) is a defense attorney with a reputation for taking on cases that can't be won -- and proving it by losing them. Her latest lost cause is Rene (Melvil Poupaud), a young man on trial for murdering his ...

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L'État Sauvage (1978) more movies like this

directed by Francis Girod
featuring Marie-Christine Barrault, Jacques Dutronc, Michel Piccoli, Claude Brasseur, Doura Mane

L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) suffers the outrage of her white acquaintances, ...

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Danger: Diabolik (1968) more movies like this

directed by Mario Bava
featuring John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, Terry-Thomas

Diabolik (John Phillip Law) is the criminal mastermind who has just pulled off a huge heist. He spends most of his free time with his girlfriend, Eva (Marisa Mell), in fond embrace. The police minister (Terry-Thomas) is approached by Valmont (Adolfo Celi), a master criminal who proposes to use his underworld connections to catch Diabolik for the ...

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Le Prix du Danger (1982) more movies like this

directed by Yves Boisset
featuring Gérard Lanvin, Michel Piccoli, Marie-France Pisier, Bruno Cremer, Andréa Ferréol

Despite a fast-paced story that slams the broadcast industry and lotto mentality, this sci-fi action thriller emphasizes action over anxiety, and so its hunt-and-kill premise is less exciting than it sounds. Based on a Robert Sheckley tale, the action is brought about by a television show invented by money-motivated executives with ratings on the ...

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Ten Days' Wonder (1971) more movies like this

directed by Claude Chabrol
featuring Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Guido Alberti

In this ponderous French mystery-drama, based on an Ellery Queen story, blackmail would seem to be the least of the problems of Charles (Anthony Perkins). His adoptive father Theo (Orson Welles) has a madwoman for a mother, and a gorgeous woman of Charles' age (Marlene Jobert) for a wife. In fact, Charles is deeply attracted to her. In addition, ...

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Vincent, François, Paul et les Autres (1974) more movies like this

directed by Claude Sautet
featuring Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Gérard Depardieu, Stéphane Audran

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others is a gentle character study of a group of friends who meet each weekend in the country for food, drink and conversation. Over the course of the film, the three main characters undergo a variety of personal and professional struggles, which are all vividly evoked by Claude Sautet's direction and the cast's ...

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The Empire in Africa (2006) more movies like this

directed by Philippe Diaz
featuring Michel Piccoli

Located in Western Africa, Sierra Leone is a nation caught in a struggle between extreme poverty and extreme wealth; while diamond mining provides the bulk of the country's income, most of its people struggle to survive by raising their own crops. In 1991, a civil war broke out in Sierra Leone, with a rebel group called the Revolutionary United ...

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La Chamade (1968) more movies like this

directed by Alain Cavalier
featuring Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Roger Van Hool, Jacques Sereys, Irène Tunc

In this romantic melodrama, Lucille (Catherine Deneuve) is a young woman who takes comfort in the arms of her older wealthy lover Charles (Michel Piccoli). She meets a young man, Antoine (Roger van Hool) who is involved with an icy socialite (Irène Tunc). Lucille and Antoine become lovers and the former leaves Charles to move in with the young ...

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A Hundred and One Nights (1995) more movies like this

directed by Agnès Varda
featuring Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie memorabilia. To help him remember the important ...

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Mauvais Sang (1986) more movies like this

directed by Leos Carax
featuring Denis Lavant, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Hans Meyer, Julie Delpy

This critically acclaimed French drama blends film noir and science fiction elements in a story about a strange and deadly plague. A sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the country; it's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment. ...

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Passion (1982) more movies like this

directed by Jean-Luc Godard
featuring Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Laszlo Szabo

Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses innovative forms to explore political and economic questions. Jerzy Radziwilowicz plays a director shooting a film whose scenes are all reproductions of paintings by Goya, Valasquez, and other European masters. Production comes to a ...

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Péril en la Demeure (1985) more movies like this

directed by Michel Deville
featuring Christophe Malavoy, Nicole Garcia, Michel Piccoli, Anémone, Richard Bohringer

Mixing together the erotic and a theme of imminent death, director Michel Deville has fashioned an increasingly unsettling tale, based on the French novel Sur la Terre Comme au Ciel by Rene Belletto. When David (Christophe Malavoy) arrives at the home of Julia (Nicole Garcia) and Graham (Michel Piccoli) to teach guitar to their teenage daughter, a ...

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Gli Occhi, la bocca (1982) more movies like this

directed by Marco Bellocchio
featuring Lou Castel, Ángela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva, Michel Piccoli, Antonio Piovanelli

Giovanni (Lou Castel) comes home after his brother's suicide to encounter the same family problems that have been around for years: his mother is a religious fanatic now obsessed with her son's errant spirit, his older brother has a cold and uncaring relationship with his children and his wife, and Giovanni's uncle who runs the wealthy family's ...

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