Michel Piccoli
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli is the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Piccoli. In 1966, he married the singer Juliette Gréco, then in 1978 the screenwriter Ludivine Clerc, with whom he adopted two children of Polish origin, Inord and Missia.
Placed in an establishment for problem children, the commitments of the young Piccoli, are made in opposition to his maternal grandfather, senator of the Third Republic, financier of the Radical Party, and important industrial painter, accused by the trade union left and by Georges Clemenceau, of having intoxicated his workmen through lead white which causes lead poisoning.
Michel Piccoli then trained as an actor first with Andrée Bauer-Théraud and then during Simon. After an appearance as an extra in "Sortilèges" by Christian-Jaque in 1945, Michel Piccoli made his film debut in "Le Point Du Jour" by Louis Daquin. In the theater he distinguished himself with the Renaud-Barrault and Grenier-Hussot companies as well as at the Théâtre de Babylone. Noticed in the film "French Cancan" in 1954, he continued on stage and worked with directors Jacques Audiberti, Jean Vilar, Jean-Marie Serreau, Peter Brook, Luc Bondy, Patrice Chéreau and André Engel, and became also know in popular TV movies. Having become an atheist after a family bereavement, he met Luis Buñuel in 1956, and ironically took on the role of a priest in "La Mort En Ce Jardin". In 1959, he shot "Le Rendez-Vous De Noël", a short film by André Michel based on the short story by Malek Ouary "Le Noël Du Petit Cireur", in Algiers. The 1960s sounded his consecration, noticed in "Le Doulos" by Jean-Pierre Melville, he was revealed internationally with "Le Mépris" by Jean-Luc Godard alongside Brigitte Bardot. From then on, he toured with the greatest French and international filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Youssef Chahine, Manoel de Oliveira...
He began the 1980s with the interpretation prize at the Cannes festival in 1980, with "Le Saut Dans Le Vide" by Marco Bellocchio, and that of the Berlin festival in 1982, with "Une Étrange Affaire" by Pierre Granier-Deferre. . He worked with Jacques Doillon, Leos Carax, before trying his hand at directing. In 2001 he received the IX Europe Prize for Theatre. He was part of the jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007, chaired by Stephen Frears. In 2011, he played in "Habemus Papam" by Nanni Moretti. The last film in which Michel Piccoli appears is the film "Le Goût Des Myrtilles", by Thomas de Thiers in 2013.
Politically committed to the left, member of the Peace Movement (communist), Michel Piccoli distinguished himself by his positions against the National Front, and mobilized for Amnesty International.
Michel Piccoli died on May 12, 2020 following a stroke in his mansion in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle in Eure. His funeral takes place in Évreux on May 19, 2020, where he is cremated, his ashes are scattered within the family property.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.691 |
| Birthday | 1925-12-27 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, Ile-de-France, France |
| Also Known As | Мишель Пикколи, ميشيل بيكولي, |
1963
Contempt
7.076/788
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an...
Watch Now
Contempt
1967
Belle de Jour
7.374/842
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her...
Watch Now
Belle de Jour
1990
May Fools
6.844/77
An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
Watch Now
May Fools
1973
La Grande Bouffe
7.181/472
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
Watch Now
La Grande Bouffe
1977
Spoiled Children
6.4/17
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for...
Watch Now
Spoiled Children
1969
Topaz
6.022/365
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and...
Watch Now
Topaz
1968
Danger: Diabolik
6.256/193
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and e...
Watch Now
Danger: Diabolik
1965
Masquerade
5/12
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
Watch Now
Masquerade
1970
The Things of Life
7.074/224
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memo...
Watch Now
The Things of Life
1976
Mado
6.519/52
Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts....
Watch Now
Mado
1971
Max and the Junkmen
7.1/113
Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save...
Watch Now
Max and the Junkmen
1974
The Infernal Trio
5.2/22
Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his l...
Watch Now
The Infernal Trio
1976
The Last Woman
6.225/40
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him wit...
Watch Now
The Last Woman
1982
A Room in Town
6.5/72
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
Watch Now
A Room in Town
1957
The Witches of Salem
7/38
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon...
Watch Now
The Witches of Salem
1965
The Sleeping Car Murder
6.903/72
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead...
Watch Now
The Sleeping Car Murder
1966
La Voleuse
5.5/17
Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.
Watch Now
La Voleuse
1972
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
7.503/754
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a v...
Watch Now
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1966
Is Paris Burning?
7.129/198
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if...
Watch Now
Is Paris Burning?
1966
The War Is Over
6.4/35
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages t...
Watch Now
The War Is Over
1982
The Passerby
6.053/38
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an...
Watch Now
The Passerby
1974
The Phantom of Liberty
7.464/276
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Pr...
Watch Now
The Phantom of Liberty
2003
Raining Cats and Frogs
6.942/130
It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little g...
Watch Now
Raining Cats and Frogs
1973
Themroc
6.7/41
Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, "Themroc" is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life...
Watch Now
Themroc
1980
Atlantic City
6.772/254
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 a...
Watch Now
Atlantic City
1985
Death in a French Garden
6.1/63
The wealthy Tombsthays hire a guitar tutor, David Aurphet, for their daughter Vivian. The wife, Julia, begins a passionate affair with David. Edwige,...
Watch Now
Death in a French Garden
1981
Strange Affair
6.2/40
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his fa...
Watch Now
Strange Affair
1982
Godard's Passion
6/51
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did no...
Watch Now
Godard's Passion
1991
La Belle Noiseuse
7.383/236
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visit...
Watch Now
La Belle Noiseuse
2008
On War
4.913/23
After a freak accident changes his perspective on life, a Parisian filmmaker meets a stranger who brings him to a commune that's populated by free-spi...
Watch Now
On War
1969
The Milky Way
7.072/152
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some trucu...
Watch Now
The Milky Way
1956
Death in the Garden
6.478/68
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.
Watch Now
Death in the Garden
1964
Diary of a Chambermaid
7.128/195
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job a...
Watch Now
Diary of a Chambermaid
1974
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
7/128
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...
Watch Now
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
1973
Wedding in Blood
6.3/54
Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been we...
Watch Now
Wedding in Blood
1997
Passion in the Desert
5.8/11
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Para...
Watch Now
Passion in the Desert
1982
Espion, lève-toi
7.375/60
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is...
Watch Now
Espion, lève-toi
2011
We Have a Pope
6.813/515
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince...
Watch Now
We Have a Pope
1981
The Prodigal Daughter
7.3/46
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...
Watch Now
The Prodigal Daughter
1972
Liza
6.1/43
Liza meets the artist Giorgio and falls in love with him. She dreams of becoming the wife of Giorgio, but he is married. She dreams of being a close f...
Watch Now
Liza
1978
Sugar
6.7/34
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Watch Now
Sugar
2006
Gardens in Autumn
5.7/10
When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileg...
Watch Now
Gardens in Autumn
1991
Walking a Tightrope
4.8/6
A famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a tightrope artist, as his lover and protege, but suffers tragic...
Watch Now
Walking a Tightrope
1986
Mauvais Sang
7.109/233
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them br...
Watch Now
Mauvais Sang
1968
Heartbeat
6.5/22
The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
Watch Now
Heartbeat
1986
The Prude
4.9/8
Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre d...
Watch Now
The Prude
1984
Dangerous Moves
5.8/31
World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet...
Watch Now
Dangerous Moves
1987
The Veiled Man
4.1/7
Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a...
Watch Now
The Veiled Man
1966
Le coup de grâce
5/3
During WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face given by plastic surgery, he is back and becomes friend...
Watch Now
Le coup de grâce
2007
The Duchess of Langeais
5.2/21
General Montriveau, having returned from the Napoleonic Wars in despair, quickly becomes enamored with Duchess Langeais. Across a series of nocturnal...
Watch Now
The Duchess of Langeais
1996
Tykho Moon
5.446/28
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 f...
Watch Now
Tykho Moon
1977
The Accuser
5.688/8
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundate...
Watch Now
The Accuser
1991
The Children Thief
5.1/9
Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who ha...
Watch Now
The Children Thief
2006
Belle Toujours
5.9/16
38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her and ma...
Watch Now
Belle Toujours
1992
The Supper
6.6/35
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle...
Watch Now
The Supper
2000
Actors
5.7/82
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the stor...
Watch Now
Actors
1996
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
6.6/68
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities...
Watch Now
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
1991
Against Oblivion
6.5/2
Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea...
Watch Now
Against Oblivion
1957
Sunday Buddies
6.2/4
Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation clu...
Watch Now
Sunday Buddies
1968
Woman in Chains
7/62
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gi...
Watch Now
Woman in Chains
2008
The Dust of Time
6.3/39
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy...
Watch Now
The Dust of Time
2003
Little Lili
5.6/39
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overl...
Watch Now
Little Lili
1980
Leap Into the Void
5.947/19
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal tho...
Watch Now
Leap Into the Void
1972
The Audience
6.7/29
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
Watch Now
The Audience
1987
La Rumba
5.2/2
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charlesto...
Watch Now
La Rumba
1966
The Creatures
6.488/40
After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recover...
Watch Now
The Creatures
1999
Nothing About Robert
5.89/41
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.
Watch Now
Nothing About Robert
1976
F as in Fairbanks
6.5/15
André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and falls...
Watch Now
F as in Fairbanks
1974
Don't Touch the White Woman!
5.6/38
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Pari...
Watch Now
Don't Touch the White Woman!
2007
Le Roi Lear
0/0
Watch Now
Le Roi Lear
2009
Le Bel Âge
4.4/10
At 18, Claire is torn between swim practice and the pangs of first love. The elderly and eccentric Maurice Reverdy takes her in in his big house, but...
Watch Now
Le Bel Âge
1971
Ten Days' Wonder
6.5/23
Charles Van Horn, son of rich and powerful Théo Van Horn, calls upon his former teacher Paul Régis to help him solve the mystery of his recurring bout...
Watch Now
Ten Days' Wonder
1999
Libero Burro
4.2/3
Watch Now
Libero Burro
1966
The Game Is Over
5.1/13
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of...
Watch Now
The Game Is Over
1969
Dillinger Is Dead
7.045/122
A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen.
Watch Now
Dillinger Is Dead
1992
Le bal des Casse-pieds
5.7/44
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
Watch Now
Le bal des Casse-pieds
1995
One Hundred and One Nights
6.222/45
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all...
Watch Now
One Hundred and One Nights
1952
Torticola contre Frankensberg
5/2
Watch Now
Torticola contre Frankensberg
1963
The Day and the Hour
6.7/18
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her fat...
Watch Now
The Day and the Hour
1975
Seven Deaths by Prescription
6/39
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
Watch Now
Seven Deaths by Prescription
1986
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
4.9/7
Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister. Esther is con...
Watch Now
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
1982
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
5.5/38
The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also i...
Watch Now
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
1985
Going and Coming Back
6.4/17
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot the...
Watch Now
Going and Coming Back
1973
The Woman in Blue
5.2/7
Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful woman dressed in blue and soon spends all of his ti...
Watch Now
The Woman in Blue
1987
Malady of Love
5/9
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; th...
Watch Now
Malady of Love
2012
Holy Motors
7.014/1097
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwov...
Watch Now
Holy Motors
2000
Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
3.7/7
Three French sisters have their lives interrupted and their relationship called into question when their father returns to visit 15 years after having...
Watch Now
Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
2012
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
6.5/52
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice....
Watch Now
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
1975
Leonor
5.7/19
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his secon...
Watch Now
Leonor
1994
The Black Angel
5.7/18
Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her la...
Watch Now
The Black Angel
1974
Life Size
5.6/18
When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsivenes...
Watch Now
Life Size
1979
Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
6.2/27
Raphael, a restaurant mandolin player with a limp, a father to support, and a lot of debt, accepts a job offered by his friend, Giardino, to play a se...
Watch Now
Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
1997
Genealogies of a Crime
6.6/26
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
Watch Now
Genealogies of a Crime
2007
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
6.2/4
An old man living in an attic in a rundown part of Paris, becomes increasingly lonely and prey to ill-health.
Watch Now
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
1982
Beyond the Door
4.375/8
Nina lives a morbid relationship with her stepfather, who is serving time in prison for the murder of the girl's mother. Nina could exonerate the man...
Watch Now
Beyond the Door
1968
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
6.1/29
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced...
Watch Now
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1984
Long Live Life
6.1/16
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection...
Watch Now
Long Live Life
1981
Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.
0/0
Watch Now
Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.
1988
Un coupable
7.5/1
The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses designate...
Watch Now
Un coupable
1972
The Assassination
6.6/33
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World....
Watch Now
The Assassination
2002
Il bambino di Betlemme
0/0
Watch Now
Il bambino di Betlemme
1993
Loonies at Large
6/0
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been loc...
Watch Now
Loonies at Large
1958
Sinners of Paris
4.7/9
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Van...
Watch Now
Sinners of Paris
1988
How Good the Whites Are
6/5
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger...
Watch Now
How Good the Whites Are
1961
Amazons of Rome
4.5/7
Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over ho...
Watch Now
Amazons of Rome
1995
The World of Jacques Demy
6.5/13
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Watch Now
The World of Jacques Demy
1957
Nathalie
5.9/4
Haute Couture model in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
Watch Now
Nathalie
1949
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
5/1
Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very much...
Watch Now
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
1982
The Eyes, the Mouth
5.5/18
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover.
Watch Now
The Eyes, the Mouth
1984
Success Is the Best Revenge
5.5/4
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the...
Watch Now
Success Is the Best Revenge
1989
The Monkey Folk
6.5/1
This comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred different simians species. Footage from such diverse plac...
Watch Now
The Monkey Folk
2007
Boxes
5.2/5
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives...
Watch Now
Boxes
1987
The Distant Land
5/1
The Distant Land (German: Das weite Land) is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc Bondy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section...
Watch Now
The Distant Land
1985
Adieu Bonaparte
5.8/10
This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The...
Watch Now
Adieu Bonaparte
1993
Archipel
2/1
A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season.
Watch Now
Archipel
1964
All About Loving
4.9/12
Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her to...
Watch Now
All About Loving
1996
Traveling Companion
6.3/9
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.
Watch Now
Traveling Companion
1976
One Way or Another
7.65/143
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, cl...
Watch Now
One Way or Another
1971
Touch and Go
4.5/13
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, tran...
Watch Now
Touch and Go
1978
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
4.5/2
An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
Watch Now
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1945
The Bellman
6.875/8
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to b...
Watch Now
The Bellman
1977
Rene the Cane
4.5/6
"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquièr...
Watch Now
Rene the Cane
1990
Martha and I
7/1
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying...
Watch Now
Martha and I
2012
Lines of Wellington
5.8/34
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
Watch Now
Lines of Wellington
1963
Salut les Cubains
7.393/42
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white docu...
Watch Now
Salut les Cubains
1965
Dom Juan
6.1/5
This telefilm in black and white is diffused on the first French chain the November 6th 1965. It undoubtedly remains the most known adaptation of the...
Watch Now
Dom Juan
1979
The Bit Between the Teeth
5.6/7
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math w...
Watch Now
The Bit Between the Teeth
1981
Confused Feelings
4.4/5
It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in t...
Watch Now
Confused Feelings
2010
Portrait Of My Father
7.3/3
A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.
Watch Now
Portrait Of My Father
1960
Les joueurs
0/0
Ikhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty thousand roubles, he comes to try his luck again at a new...
Watch Now
Les joueurs
1964
Marie Soleil
0/0
He's twenty-five. She's thirty-five. He is a young agricultural engineer. She runs a nightclub in Cahors. He's a runner and a pretty boy. She's beauti...
Watch Now
Marie Soleil
1999
París-Tombuctú
5.7/13
The frustration and vital weariness of Michel des Assantes, a prestigious plastic surgeon in Paris, is unbearable: he has a wife whom he does not love...
Watch Now
París-Tombuctú
1983
The General of the Dead Army
5.5/5
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,...
Watch Now
The General of the Dead Army
1961
La Chevelure
6/1
A man developes an obsession with a wig.
Watch Now
La Chevelure
2014
The Taste of Blueberries
0/0
An elderly couple in their eighties with a mixed past escape into a fantastic world, full of their desires and fears, the door to which is a motorway...
Watch Now
The Taste of Blueberries
1954
Daughters of Destiny
4/4
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war w...
Watch Now
Daughters of Destiny
2015
Our Lady of Hormones
5.4/15
Two actresses rehearse a play during a week-end in a country house. But one of them digs up a strange thing from earth while walking in the woods. A c...
Watch Now
Our Lady of Hormones
1978
Fire's Share
5.2/4
Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. He reacts calmly and even encourages their mee...
Watch Now
Fire's Share
1955
Price of Love
4.2/4
Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innocent, but implicated in the ransacking of a jewelry...
Watch Now
Price of Love
1967
Shock Troops
6.7/37
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is s...
Watch Now
Shock Troops
2001
I’m Going Home
7.173/26
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...
Watch Now
I’m Going Home
2006
Magic Mirror
6.4/8
Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her gr...
Watch Now
Magic Mirror
1995
Tödliches Geld
0/0
Watch Now
Tödliches Geld
1966
Elsa the Rose
6/19
Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.
Watch Now
Elsa the Rose
1983
The Prize of Peril
6.447/76
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 li...
Watch Now
The Prize of Peril
1973
Far West
6.2/8
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throug...
Watch Now
Far West
1964
Paparazzi
6.8/13
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the s...
Watch Now
Paparazzi
1955
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
6.4/4
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918:...
Watch Now
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
1978
The Savage State
6.2/5
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 bo...
Watch Now
The Savage State
1967
My Love, My Love
6.2/5
An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as...
Watch Now
My Love, My Love
1988
La Ruelle au clair de lune
7/1
Watch Now
La Ruelle au clair de lune
1969
The Uninvited
5.9/7
When her husband returns from his work abroad with a guest, a young girl, his wife suspects a liaison. She leaves her home. Her boss takes her to the...
Watch Now
The Uninvited
1986
The Nonentity
6.1/24
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner,...
Watch Now
The Nonentity
1962
Le Doulos
7.424/242
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what sh...
Watch Now
Le Doulos
2003
That Day
5.5/14
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the a...
Watch Now
That Day
1964
Cinéastes de notre temps : Luis Buñuel
7.2/4
An overview of Luis Buñuel's career. Includes an interview with the filmmaker.
Watch Now
Cinéastes de notre temps : Luis Buñuel
1959
Beast at Bay
4.7/7
Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison....
Watch Now
Beast at Bay
1993
The Young Girls Turn 25
7.3/21
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
Watch Now
The Young Girls Turn 25
1949
The Mark Of The Day
8/2
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young enginee...
Watch Now
The Mark Of The Day
1996
Party
6.5/6
The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his enigmatic wife...
Watch Now
Party
1984
Le Matelot 512
4.5/6
Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.
Watch Now
Le Matelot 512
2006
Otar Iosseliani, le merle siffleur
5/1
Watch Now
Otar Iosseliani, le merle siffleur
2005
Everything's Connected
6/1
An analysis of French director Jacques Tati's 1957 film "Mon oncle" which discusses the stylistic similarities between it and the other Monsieur Hulot...
Watch Now
Everything's Connected
1993
Rupture(s)
5/1
When a woman fed-up with life in general commits suicide, what's left ? In the same vein, a lover, a mother, a friend, a few buddies, all orphans, all...
Watch Now
Rupture(s)
1995
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
6.4/10
At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated wh...
Watch Now
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
1961
Rendezvous
6.2/5
A soap-opera/murder mystery that builds to a deliriously melodramatic finale.
Watch Now
Rendezvous
2009
Once Upon a Time… Contempt
8/1
Fourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to comment on it and its tumultuous production. Featuring inte...
Watch Now
Once Upon a Time… Contempt
2007
To Each His Own Cinema
6.5/126
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...
Watch Now
To Each His Own Cinema
1972
Cesar and Rosalie
7.12/166
Rosalie, a beautiful young woman gets involved with successful businessman Cesar. One day, Rosalie's former flame David appears and attempts to win he...
Watch Now
Cesar and Rosalie
1967
The Dinosaur and the Baby
6/5
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaborati...
Watch Now
The Dinosaur and the Baby
1978
Strauberg ist da
0/0
German film.
Watch Now
Strauberg ist da
1967
Romy: Anatomy of a Face
6.5/4
Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream "Unterhaltun...
Watch Now
Romy: Anatomy of a Face
1991
The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
3/4
The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted sin...
Watch Now
The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
1960
La dragée haute
0/0
Taking the place of the police, whom he finds neither fast nor efficient enough, a journalist named Hugo sets out to find the perpetrator of a murder....
Watch Now
La dragée haute
1954
Tout chante autour de moi
0/0
Georges works in a small-town drugstore. Passionate about music, he writes songs. When Anne-Marie, whom he loves, loses her parents, he leaves with he...
Watch Now
Tout chante autour de moi
2017
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
6.9/4
A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of rema...
Watch Now
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
1964
Bardot et Godard
6.083/6
A documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt.
Watch Now
Bardot et Godard
1975
Weak Spot
6.321/14
Greece 1974 - during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the illega...
Watch Now
Weak Spot
1992
La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
6.6/9
More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one bein...
Watch Now
La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
1994
Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
0/0
Watch Now
Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
1959
La Nuit de Tom Brown
0/0
How did Master Brown turn from a man of faith into a cantankerous, distrustful and cynical man? Nathaniel Hawthorne's character recounts the night whe...
Watch Now
La Nuit de Tom Brown
1955
Bad Liaisons
6/9
Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a...
Watch Now
Bad Liaisons
1970
Invasion
0/0
A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest.
Watch Now
Invasion
1982
The Night of Varennes
6.789/57
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
Watch Now
The Night of Varennes
1974
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
0/0
A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg
Watch Now
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
1974
Un amour de pluie
4.5/8
Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, G...
Watch Now
Un amour de pluie
1988
Blanc de Chine
0/0
Mathieu is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris. With Chinese and Vietnamese engaged in a bloody...
Watch Now
Blanc de Chine
1980
The Price of Survival
0/0
German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri...
Watch Now
The Price of Survival
1967
The Young Girls of Rochefort
7.668/566
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poeta...
Watch Now
The Young Girls of Rochefort
1966
The Devil's Tricks
5.5/4
Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and...
Watch Now
The Devil's Tricks
1965
Lady L
5.9/20
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through...
Watch Now
Lady L
1951
Without Leaving an Address
6.3/13
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
Watch Now
Without Leaving an Address
1982
Scénario du film Passion
5.6/9
Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t want to write...
Watch Now
Scénario du film Passion
1994
Train de nuit
5/1
The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this...
Watch Now
Train de nuit
2003
A Man, a Real One
6.8/3
A shy computer expert falls in love with a beautiful colleague while trying to become a film director. Five years later, they have two children, she h...
Watch Now
A Man, a Real One
1994
The Emigrant
5.9/13
The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired o...
Watch Now
The Emigrant
2017
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
7.5/2
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his stu...
Watch Now
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
1959
Le Chalet sous la neige
0/0
Watch Now
Le Chalet sous la neige
2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
8.2/3
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.
Watch Now
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
1955
The Grand Manoeuvre
6/28
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothi...
Watch Now
The Grand Manoeuvre
1964
Chance at Love
5.8/2
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
Watch Now
Chance at Love
1958
Tabarin
4/1
Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-...
Watch Now
Tabarin
1951
Terreur en Oklahoma
0/0
Watch Now
Terreur en Oklahoma
1951
La Leçon d'humour dans un parc
0/0
Watch Now
La Leçon d'humour dans un parc
1951
Chicago Digest
0/0
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.
Watch Now
Chicago Digest
1954
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
0/0
Watch Now
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1955
Croissance de Paris
0/0
Watch Now
Croissance de Paris
1956
La France romane
0/0
Watch Now
La France romane
1960
Le Rendez-vous de Noël
0/0
Watch Now
Le Rendez-vous de Noël
1961
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
0/0
Watch Now
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
1961
Quarante fontaines
0/0
Watch Now
Quarante fontaines
1962
Parisienne... Parisiennes
0/0
Watch Now
Parisienne... Parisiennes
1962
Le Temps des assassins
0/0
Watch Now
Le Temps des assassins
1964
Café tabac
0/0
Watch Now
Café tabac
1961
Hauteclaire
2/1
The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Docto...
Watch Now
Hauteclaire
2000
Close to Kiarostami
0/0
A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works...
Watch Now
Close to Kiarostami
1985
La Lune
0/0
Michel Piccoli reads the first pages of Victor Hugo's 'Promontoire du songe'. In this text, Hugo describes his sensations when he sees, enlarged 40 ti...
Watch Now
La Lune
1960
Danger in the Middle East
0/0
A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting...
Watch Now
Danger in the Middle East
2017
Coming Apart
0/0
"Our analysis of such a rich film should not be a rigid, either/or proposition. It remains for us, almost 55 years on from Contempt’s initial release,...
Watch Now
Coming Apart
2010
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
0/0
Watch Now
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
1951
Without Leaving an Address
6.3/13
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
Watch Now
Without Leaving an Address
1957
Le plus heureux des trois
0/0
The incredible story of three promiscuous friends who share more things than they think. Ernest, Jobelin and Marjavel collect pranks and exchange wive...
Watch Now
Le plus heureux des trois
1968
Délire à deux
0/0
The absurd argument of an old couple in their apartment which is being destroyed by the bombardments of war.
Watch Now
Délire à deux
1964
L'Été en hiver
8/1
Movie for French TV - Jean, a highly sought-after reporter, and Diane, an actress, have been married for three years, but are often separated by their...
Watch Now
L'Été en hiver
1982
La Cerisaie
0/0
Watch Now
La Cerisaie
2021
Marx Can Wait
7.6/27
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated day...
Watch Now
Marx Can Wait
1991
Les Équilibristes - Nico Papatakis, Jean Genet
0/0
Les équilibristes, a film by Nico Papatakis with Michel Piccoli, inspired by Jean Genet, was broadcast in two parts on October 11 and 18, 1991, on the...
Watch Now
Les Équilibristes - Nico Papatakis, Jean Genet
1962
Climates of Love
10/1
The Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity and Philippe's jealousy drive the couple apart. Philippe...
Watch Now
Climates of Love
1955
French Cancan
7.157/83
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays...
Watch Now
French Cancan
2002
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
0/0
Star at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love of Alain Delon. From Luchino Visconti to Otto Preminge...
Watch Now
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
7.7/3
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions wa...
Watch Now
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2017
Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
0/0
Watch Now
Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
2019
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
6.4/9
An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.
Watch Now
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
2000
Speaking of Buñuel
5.9/11
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminat...
Watch Now
Speaking of Buñuel
2023
Godard by Godard
7.8/4
Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic r...
Watch Now
Godard by Godard
2021
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
8.5/2
In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His political career was at a standstill and, after 19 years o...
Watch Now
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
1979
Le divorcement
6/1
In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it...
Watch Now
Le divorcement
2007
Sole Meeting
0/0
A silent film depicting a meeting between Nikita Khrushchev (Michel Piccoli) and Pope John XXIII (Duarte d'Almeida) is screened.
Watch Now
Sole Meeting
1989
Les Grandes Familles
0/0
A clear-cut and ruthless depiction of the French ruling class between the two World Wars. Whether it's the circles of literature, medicine, journalism...
Watch Now
Les Grandes Familles
1994
Bête de scène
6/1
Bernard Nissille’s little gem imagines a love triangle between the director, the Queen, and the Bear during a staging of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Ta...
Watch Now