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The Things of Life (1969)
7.8/10
Director: Claude Sautet
Starring: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli
AKA 'Les Choses de la Vie'. Pierre is involved in a terrible car accident. Fatally injured, he sees his life pass before his eyes. Only now he realize... Read more
La Chamade (1968)
Director: Alain Cavalier
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli
Aka "Heartbeat". Catherine Deneuve delivers a heartfelt and multi-layered performance as a beautiful young woman who finds herself having to choose be... Read more
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
7.8/10
Director: Jacques Rivette
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli
Aka 'The Beautiful Troublemaker'. The riveting story of the relationship between a once-famed artist and the young woman who inspires him to paint aft... Read more
I'm Going Home (2003)
7.1/10
Director: Manoel De Oliveira
Starring: Michel Piccoli, John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve
Hailed by critics as one of the finest films of the decade, acclaimed director Manoel de Oliveira's beautifully rendered film is a funny, humane and u... Read more
Passion (1982)
6.4/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
Godard takes the themes of love, work and the cinema, and weaves around them an extraordinary mix of sounds and images. The plot concerns a film direc... Read more
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
7.6/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Geret
This wicked adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel is classic Luis Bunuel. Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival... Read more
Milou en Mai ( May Fools ) (1989)
7.2/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Dominique Blanc
An entertaining comedy of manners set against the backdrop of the 1968 student uprising in Paris, the film follows the Vieu-sacs as they converge on t... Read more
The Night Is Young ( Mauvais Sang ) (1986)
5.7/10
Director: Leos Carax
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Michel Piccoli
'Mauvais Sang'. This exhilarating, affecting, romantic film mixes music and visuals to amazing effect and follows the exploits of Alex, a young card-t... Read more
Max and the Junkmen (1971)
7.4/10
Director: Claude Sautet
Starring: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Bernard Fresson
A classic French noir with Michel Piccoli as Max, a former judge who joins the police force in an obsessive attempt to bring criminals to justice. He... Read more
La Grande Bouffe (1973)
7.2/10
Director: Marco Ferreri
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli
Four men, bored with everything in life, decide to end it all in one impeccably well catered marathon assault on their systems in this chilling, humou... Read more
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
7.7/10
Director: Jacques Demy
Starring: George Chakiris, Gene Kelly, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli
Gloriously filmed musical romance from Jacques Demy ("The Umbrellas of Cherbourg") tells of twin sisters (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuv... Read more
We Have a Pope ( Habemus Papam ) (2012)
6.7/10
Director: Nanni Moretti
Starring: Margherita Buy, Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jerzy Stuhr
At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave to elect his successor settles on Cardinal Melville. But the faithful gathered in St Pe... Read more
Contempt ( Le Mepris ) (1963)
7.7/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Georgia Moll, Fritz Lang
Aka "Le Mepris". Featuring Brigitte Bardot in a tale of film producer Jack Palance making a film directed by Fritz Lang (who plays himself in the film... Read more
Holy Motors (2012)
7.1/10
Director: Leos Carax
Starring: Denis Lavant, Michel Piccoli, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Edith Scob
Leos Carax directs this surrealist French drama starring Denis Lavant, Kylie Minogue and Eva Mendes. Monsieur Oscar (Lavant) is a man of many identiti... Read more
Atlantic City (1980)
7.4/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kate Reid, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Robert Joy
Burt Lancaster delivers a stunning performance as the seemingly washed-up gangster, with Susan Sarandon as his lost-soul companion. A moving portrait... Read more
Danger: Diabolik (1967)
6.5/10
Director: Mario Bava
Starring: Adolfo Celi, John Phillip Law, Michel Piccoli, Marisa Mell, Terry-Thomas
The suave, psychedelic-era thief, Diabolik, can't get enough of life's good - or glittery - things. Not when there are currency shipments to steal fro... Read more
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
8/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Adolfo Celi, Adriana Asti, Bernard Verley, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Claude Brialy, M...
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel's surrealist gem "The Phantom of Liberty". Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet... Read more
Once Upon a Time... Les Enfants du Paradis & Le Mepris (2009)
Director: Antoine de Gaudemar, Julie Bonan
Starring: Arletty, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Jean-Louis Barrault, Michel Piccoli, Pi...
A behind-the-scenes look at two classic French films and the era in which they were created. "Les Enfants du Paradis" ("Children of Paradise") (1945)... Read more
Chacun Son Cinema ( To Each His Own Cinema ) (2007)
6.8/10
Director: Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel De Oliveira, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou
Starring: Georges Babluani, Josh Brolin, Farini Cheung, David Cronenberg, Emilie Dequenne,...
33 renowned directors from around the world (many of them Palme d'Or winners) contributed to this anthology of short films to commemmorate the 60th an... Read more