Direction: Michel Deville
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Michel Deville. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Dossier 51
1978 · Movie · 108 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Françoise Béliard · Patrick Chesnais · Jenny Cleve · Jean Dautremay
Plot French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes...
6.7
171 votes
6.7
171 votes
Sachs' Disease
1999 · Movie · 107 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Albert Dupontel · Béatrice Bruno · Valérie Dréville · Nathalie Boutefeu
6.7
842 votes
6.7
842 votes
Voyage en Douce
1980 · Movie · 98 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Dominique Sanda · Geraldine Chaplin · Jacques Zabor · Jean Crubelier
Plot Lucie and Hélène are best friends since childhood. They take a car trip from Paris to the country. Their conversations are overtly intimate, but more revealing is their tacit understanding...
6.6
28 votes
6.6
28 votes
The Woman in Blue
1973 · Movie · 93 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Michel Piccoli · Lea Massari · Michel Aumont · Geneviève Fontanel
Plot One day, a music critic, Pierre, catches sight of a woman dressed in blue and immediately becomes obsessed about meeting her. He persuades his adoring mistress, Aurélie, to help him...
6.3
46 votes
6.3
46 votes
The Reader
1988 · Movie · 98 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Miou-Miou · Christian Ruché · Sylvie Laporte · Michel Raskine
Plot Constance is asked by her boyfriend to read out loud a novel in which a young woman called Marie decides to become a professional reader. Having placed an advertisement in...
6.3
365 votes
6.3
365 votes
Peril
1985 · Movie · 100 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Anémone · Richard Bohringer · Nicole García · Christophe Malavoy
Plot A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's...
6.2
55 votes
6.2
55 votes
Benjamin: The Diary of an Innocent Young Boy
1968 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Michèle Morgan · Michel Piccoli · Pierre Clémenti · Catherine Deneuve
Plot A callow teenager of the 18th century, Benjamin spends a summer with his worldly relatives on their summer estate. An orphan girl (Catherine Deneuve) living on a neighboring estate, inaugurates...
6.2
34 votes
6.2
34 votes
Love at the Top
1974 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Romy Schneider · Jane Birkin
Plot A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul,...
6.2
145 votes
6.2
145 votes
6.0
154 votes
Eaux profondes
1981 · Movie · 94 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Sandrine Kljajic · Éric Frey
Plot Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed.
6.0
99 votes
6.0
99 votes
Toutes peines confondues (Sweetheart)
1992 · Movie · 107 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Jacques Dutronc · Patrick Bruel · Vernon Dobtcheff · Mathilda May
Plot A cop (Patrick Bruel) who has been sent to investigate the corruption in a small French town, encounters a mysterious rival (Jacques Dutronc), who is trying on his own to...
5.5
46 votes
5.5
46 votes
Le Paltoquet (The Nonentity)
1986 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Fanny Ardant · Daniel Auteuil · Richard Bohringer · Philippe Léotard
Plot Four men, a journalist, a doctor, a professor and a merchant, meet up every evening in a deserted bar to play cards. One night the police arrive with the news...
5.3
59 votes
5.3
59 votes
The Bear and the Doll
1970 · Movie · 85 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Brigitte Bardot · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Daniel Ceccaldi · Georges Claisse
Plot Cellist Gaspard is living in a big house in the country with his son and three nieces. He likes being quiet. One day, his modest car bumps into a Rolls-Royce,...
5.0
23 votes
5.0
23 votes
The Little Bunch (The Little Gang)
1983 · Movie · 91 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Andrew Chandler · Hélène Dassule · Nicole Palmer · Hamish Scrimgeour
Plot This children's fantasy tale by Michel Deville was inspired by a real-life drama of some British schoolchildren who smuggled themselves into France and had quite a good time until the...
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Adorable menteuse
1962 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Marina Vlady · Macha Méril · Michel Vitold · Jean-Marc Bory
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Life's Little Treasures
1994 · Movie · 103 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Anémone · Xavier Beauvois · André Dussollier · Nicole García
Plot This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music...
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Tonight or Never
1961 · Movie · 104 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Anna Karina · Claude Rich · Georges Descrières · Jacqueline Danno
Plot Focusing more on the personalities of the characters involved, Michel Deville in his first solo directing effort, has created a "New Wave"-style, slightly strident, routine romantic comedy. Set in an...
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A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville · Charles Gérard
Cast Pierre Vaneck · Mijanou Bardot · Paul Frankeur · Roger Hanin
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Un fil à la patte
2005 · Movie · 79 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Emmanuelle Béart · Charles Berling · Dominique Blanc · Jacques Bonnaffé
Plot Bois d’Enghien loves Lucette, the diva, his appointed mistress, but must break up with her urgently because…he has to sign his marriage settlement, that very afternoon, with the pretty Viviane...
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Because, Because of a Woman
1963 · Movie · 116 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Jacques Charrier · Mylène Demongeot · Juliette Mayniel · Marie Laforêt
Plot A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him...
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