Direction: Michel Deville

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Françoise Béliard · Patrick Chesnais · Jenny Cleve · Jean Dautremay

Synopsis 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 "Dossier no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Albert Dupontel · Béatrice Bruno · Valérie Dréville · Nathalie Boutefeu

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Dominique Sanda · Geraldine Chaplin · Jacques Zabor · Jean Crubelier

Synopsis 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 of each others' personality and desires.

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Michel Piccoli · Lea Massari · Michel Aumont · Geneviève Fontanel

Synopsis 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 find the mysterious woman in blue. As they pursue their...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Miou-Miou · Christian Ruché · Sylvie Laporte · Michel Raskine

Synopsis 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 the paper, Marie is offered work by a curious mix...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Anémone · Richard Bohringer · Nicole García · Christophe Malavoy

Synopsis 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 inquisitive neighbor. One night, David is mugged but rescued from...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Michèle Morgan · Michel Piccoli · Pierre Clémenti · Catherine Deneuve

Synopsis 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 an affair with Benjamin. In true La Ronde fashion, the...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Romy Schneider · Jane Birkin

Synopsis 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, a young woman he hadn't known before, in the streets...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Jean-Hugues Anglade · Marie Trintignant

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Sandrine Kljajic · Éric Frey

Synopsis 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.

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Jacques Dutronc · Patrick Bruel · Vernon Dobtcheff · Mathilda May

Synopsis 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 investigate the murder of his father.

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Fanny Ardant · Daniel Auteuil · Richard Bohringer · Philippe Léotard

Synopsis 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 that a dead body has been found nearby and the...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Daniel Ceccaldi · Georges Claisse

Synopsis 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, driven by Felicia, a young, beautiful, wealthy and temperamental woman....

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Andrew Chandler · Hélène Dassule · Nicole Palmer · Hamish Scrimgeour

Synopsis 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 police eventually caught them. In this version, three girls and...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Marina Vlady · Macha Méril · Michel Vitold · Jean-Marc Bory

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Anémone · Xavier Beauvois · André Dussollier · Nicole García

Synopsis 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 of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Anna Karina · Claude Rich · Georges Descrières · Jacqueline Danno

Synopsis 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 apartment where budding thespians are about to put on a...

Direction Michel Deville · Charles Gérard

Cast Pierre Vaneck · Mijanou Bardot · Paul Frankeur · Roger Hanin

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Emmanuelle Béart · Charles Berling · Dominique Blanc · Jacques Bonnaffé

Synopsis 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 Duverger, a young woman who also has a very pretty...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Jacques Charrier · Mylène Demongeot · Juliette Mayniel · Marie Laforêt

Synopsis 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 later to the police as the murderer of her fiance...