Jean-Pierre Melville

Michel Marsilya'da bir otomobil çalar ve yolda bir polis öldürür. Paris'te Champ Elysees'te New York Harold Tribune gazetesi için stajyerlik yapan Patricia'yı bulur. Daha önce birkaç kez birlikte olmuşlardır. Michel polis tarafından aranırken eski arkadaşlarıyla buluşup Roma'ya gitmek için gerekli parayı elde etmeye çabalar. Ancak ikisi de duygularından bir türlü emin olamaz. Başının polisle belaya girmesini istmeyen Patricia büyük bir ikilemde kalır. Onun bu kararsızlığına aldırış etmeyen Michel ise tam bir güven içinde son hazırlıkları yapmaktadır.

Gözden düştüğü hissine kapılan orta yaşlı bir şair olan Orphée (Jean Marais)'nin küçümsediği genç rakibi bir trafik kazasında ölünce onun patroniçesi olan güzel Prenses Ölüm (María Casares) ile tanışır ve ondan çok etkilenir. Bu arada ihmal ettiği eşi Eurydice (Marie Déa) de benzer bir kazada ölünce Orphée, onu geri getirebilmek için ölüler diyarına iner.

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

İhtiyar Bob eski bir hırsızdır 20 seneönce hapishaneye girmiştir ve tahliye olduktan sonra sadecekumar oynamayı tercih etmiştir.Fakat son bir büyük vurgun yapma hırsı Bob’un yaşamında yeni bir heyecan oluşturur. Artık soygunu bir saplantı haline getiren Bob arkadaşlarıyla beraber kusursuz bir kumarhane soygunu planlar. Ancak unuttuğu bir şey vardır, o da hiçbir şeyin kusursuz olmadığıdır. Soygun yapacakları, ekiptekilerin hataları yüzünden polis tarafından tespit edilir. Fakat soygun gecesi nedense Bob’un şansı yaver gider ve ummadığı bir günde kazanmaya başlar. Acaba Bob’un talihi geri mi gelmiştir?

An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.

Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to appearances, his destiny was full of pitfalls. This film lifts the veil on a founding childhood that allowed him to overcome many obstacles throughout his life thanks to the tutelary figures of his father and mother. Told from the inside with the help of his autobiography, interviews and unpublished archives, this epic story traces the career of this turbulent young actor who launched the New Wave in Breathless before becoming the popular Bebel, an indestructible and provocative vigilante. From film to film, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who built himself up to reach the top: his triumphs but also his trials, his doubts, his secrets, his angers, his clowning, his disappointments or his personal dramas.

Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.

The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément, leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When he’s ratted out after a failed assassination attempt on a prominent politician, Clément and his long-suffering wife Anne flee Paris to the idyllic country home of his childhood friend, pacifist print-maker Paul. As affection blossoms between Paul and Anne, the emotional, as well as political tensions, soar and eventually explode.

A childhood in boarding school, volunteered at 17 for the war and dismissed for indiscipline, thug in Marseille turned gigolo in Paris, he became actor thanks to some inspired women. Then flying high, fast and far, thanks to his director masters René Clément, Luchino Visconti & Jean-Pierre Melville.

The fall of 2017 marked the 30th anniversary of Lino Ventura's death. Whether in the role of tough cops or tough guys - in the 1960s, Lino Ventura was one of the most popular French character actors. The new portrait begins with the actor's childhood. He came to Paris from Parma in Italy as a child with his single mother and faced many humiliations in a xenophobic environment. The documentary explores the man behind the rough exterior and the tough characters he embodied, most of whom were courageous but introverted loners.

Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.

With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of the essential stars of French cinema.

Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in impossible movies and works without meaning... I believe in the anti-movie. I believe in the non-movie. I believe in Urgent... My first full length movie that is so anti-everything that I sometimes wonder if it really does exist!"

Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming the father of the Nouvelle Vague and one of the most iconic directors of French cinema.

Documentary exploring the friendship between French director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Alain Delon, and their collaboration on the 1967 film Le samouraï.

A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.

The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a meal, looks at photos and goes to bed to rise, spend a day in the village and perform with his new partner.

Shot while he was preparing Un Flic, Melville carefully leads Labarthe through the trajectory of his career, from his daring debut The Silence of the Sea to his great successes of the 1960s, Le Samourai and Le cercle rouge. Labarthe also details the development of the Melville “myth: the dark glasses, the trenchcoats, the Ford Mustang, and his general tough-guy demeanor. This documentary first appeared as an episode on the French television series "Cinéastes de notres temps".