Cast: Micheline Presle

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Micheline Presle. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Love of a Woman

1953 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Jean Grémillon

Cast Micheline Presle · Massimo Girotti · Gaby Morlay · Paolo Stoppa

Plot A young woman named Marie is dispatched to a small coastal island to become the local doctor, but she must first overcome the locals' reluctance and the male population's built-in...

7.5

98 votes

7.5

98 votes

La Religieuse (The Nun)

1966 · Movie · 136 min. · France

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Anna Karina · Liselotte Pulver · Francine Bergé · Micheline Presle

Plot In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal...

7.3

490 votes

7.3

490 votes

Falbalas

1945 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Raymond Rouleau · Micheline Presle · Jean Chevrier · Gabrielle Dorziat

Plot Micheline arrives in Paris to prepare her marriage to Daniel Rousseau. There she falls in love with her fiancé’s best friend, dress designer Philippe Clarence, an impenitent ladies’ man who...

7.2

117 votes

7.2

117 votes

The Prize

1963 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

Le diable au corps (Devil in the Flesh)

1947 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Gérard Philipe · Micheline Presle · Jean Debucourt · Jean Varas

Plot During World War I, underage student Francois Jaubert meets and falls in love with Marthe Grangier, who is engaged to Jacques, a soldier at the Front. Though Francois pursues her...

6.8

108 votes

6.8

108 votes

Les misérables

1995 · Movie · 170 min. · France

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Michel Boujenah · Alessandra Martines · Annie Girardot

Plot A variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered...

6.8

310 votes

6.8

310 votes

King of Hearts

1966 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Alan Bates · Geneviève Bujold · Jean-Claude Brialy · Julien Guiomar

Plot During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German army has...

6.8

166 votes

6.8

166 votes

Blind Date

1959 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Stanley Baker · Robert Flemyng · Gordon Jackson · Hardy Krüger

Plot Superb thriller from Joseph Losey ("The Servant") starring Hardy Kruger as a Dutch painter accused of murdering his mistress after her body is found in his cottage. Investigator Stanley Baker...

6.6

326 votes

6.6

326 votes

The Assassin

1961 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Micheline Presle · Cristina Gaioni · Salvo Randone

Plot A socialite is murdered and her playboy lover, is brought in for questioning. During his stay in custody we get to see the real sneaky playboy in action via flashback....

6.5

178 votes

6.5

178 votes

Donkey Skin

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean Marais · Jacques Perrin · Micheline Presle

Plot The education of a princess wrapped in a love story. A king and queen live happily until her sudden death. The king decides to marry his lovely daughter. She's willing,...

6.5

744 votes

6.5

744 votes

Christine

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Cast Romy Schneider · Alain Delon · Micheline Presle · Sophie Grimaldi

Plot Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner (Alain Delon) and the young Christine (Romy Schneider). Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning...

6.4

74 votes

6.4

74 votes

6.4

44 votes

It Happened in the Park

1953 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio De Sica · Gianni Franciolini

Cast Eduardo De Filippo · Vittorio De Sica · Franca Valeri · Anna-Maria Ferrero

Plot VILLA BORGHESE is a film consisting of six vignettes (cut to five in its U.S. release) that are all set in the Roman park that bears that name. All the...

6.3

24 votes

6.3

24 votes

Bad Company

1999 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Améris

Cast Maud Forget · Lou Doillon · Robinson Stévenin · Maxime Mansion

Plot Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to...

6.2

84 votes

6.2

84 votes

The Seven Deadly Sins

1962 · Movie · 113 min. · France

Direction Philippe de Broca · Claude Chabrol · Jacques Demy · Sylvain Dhomme

Cast Jacques Charrier · Marie-José Nat · Eddie Constantine · Nicole Mirel

Plot Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film.

6.2

102 votes

6.2

102 votes

6.0

46 votes

Fanfan

1993 · Movie · 89 min. · France

6.0

344 votes

6.0

344 votes

The Blood of Others

1984 · Movie · 130 min. · France

5.8

146 votes

5.8

146 votes

Under My Skin

1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast John Garfield · Micheline Presle · Luther Adler · Orley Lindgren

Plot After expatriate American jockey Danny Arnold double-crosses ruthless gambler Louis Bork, he flees Italy with his adoring son Joe, who isn't aware of his father's lies and corruption. While in...

5.8

23 votes

5.8

23 votes

Thieves After Dark

1984 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Véronique Jannot · Bobby Di Cicco · Victor Lanoux · Stéphane Audran

Plot François and Isabelle meet in an unemployment office, a likely place to find others in their profession: he is a cellist and she, an art historian. While there, Isabelle gets...

5.6

40 votes

5.6

40 votes