Direction: Louis Malle
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Louis Malle. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Goodbye Children
1987 · Movie · 104 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Gaspard Manesse · Raphaël Fetjo · Francine Racette · Stanislas Carré de Malberg
Plot During the winter of 1943, Julien Quentin, a pampered mother's boy who acts tough to the students at the school but is actually a soft kid who wets the bed,...
7.8
14K votes
7.8
14K votes
The Fire Within
1963 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Maurice Ronet · Léna Skerla · Jeanne Moreau · Yvonne Clech
Plot In a private nursing home near to Paris, a burnt out writer, Alain Leroy, is being treated for alcoholism. Despite being almost cured of his addiction, Alain, in his mid-thirties,...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
Phantom India (TV Miniseries)
1969 · Documentary · 378 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
7.7
46 votes
7.7
46 votes
Murmur of the Heart
1971 · Movie · 115 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Lea Massari · Benoît Ferreux · Daniel Gélin · Michael Lonsdale
Plot This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather...
7.6
3K votes
7.6
3K votes
Elevator to the Gallows
1958 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Jeanne Moreau · Maurice Ronet · Georges Poujouly · Yori Bertin
Plot Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper want to murder her husband by faking a suicide. But after Julien has killed him and he puts his things in...
7.6
6K votes
7.6
6K votes
My Dinner with André
1981 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Wallace Shawn · Andre Gregory · Jean Lenauer · Roy Butler
Plot The sheer audacity of My Dinner with Andre drew throngs of curious filmgoers who made the film the most talked-about art-house hit of 1981. After all, who'd ever heard of...
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
Atlantic City
1980 · Movie · 104 min. · Canada
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Burt Lancaster · Susan Sarandon · Hollis McLaren · Kate Reid
Plot Lou is a small time gangster, who thinks he used to be something big. He meets up with a younger girl, Sally, who is learning to be a croupier. Her...
7.3
4K votes
7.3
4K votes
Lacombe Lucien
1974 · Movie · 140 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Pierre Blaise · Aurore Clément · Thérèse Giehse · Holger Lowenadler
Plot A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Vanya on 42nd Street
1994 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Julianne Moore · George Gaynes · Brooke Smith · Wallace Shawn
Plot David Mamet wrote the screenplay for this staging of Andre Gregory's play, "Vanya," itself based on Chekhov's masterpiece, "Uncle Vanya." A group of actors enter a theatre on New York's...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
Milou in May
1990 · Movie · 108 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Michel Piccoli · Miou-Miou · Michel Duchaussoy · Dominique Blanc
Plot Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. The brother who is the London correspondent...
7.1
939 votes
7.1
939 votes
The Lovers
1958 · Movie · 88 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Jeanne Moreau · Alain Cuny · Jean-Marc Bory · Judith Magre
Plot Bored with her husband, bored with her polo-playing lover, will the middle-aged heroine go away with the young man who gave her a lift that day when her car broke...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Vive le Tour (S)
1962 · Documentary · 19 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Jean Bobet
Plot It chronicles the Tour de France and focuses on issues such as providing food for the racers, dealing with injuries and doping. The New York Times describes the film as...
6.9
231 votes
6.9
231 votes
God's Country
1986 · Documentary · 95 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Plot Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle...
6.9
49 votes
6.9
49 votes
The Silent World
1956 · Documentary · 86 min. · France
Direction Jacques-Yves Cousteau · Louis Malle
Plot This is a worldwide acclaimed color documentary film, written by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and co-directed by Cousteau and famous french director Louis Malle. Cousteau was a pioneer in underwater filming. 1957...
6.8
410 votes
6.8
410 votes
Calcutta
1969 · Documentary · 105 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Plot With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960's: rich and poor,...
6.8
115 votes
6.8
115 votes
Damage
1992 · Movie · 111 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Jeremy Irons · Juliette Binoche · Miranda Richardson · Rupert Graves
Plot A member of Parliament (Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do...
6.6
5K votes
6.6
5K votes
Place de la République
1974 · Documentary · 94 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Plot Louis Malle film the comments of the people he meets at Place de la république, in Paris.
6.6
45 votes
6.6
45 votes
Pretty Baby
1978 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Brooke Shields · Susan Sarandon · Keith Carradine · Frances Faye
Plot The inspiration for Malle’s first American film was E. J. Bellocq’s remarkable photographic record of New Orleans’ red-light district, Storyville, in the early years of the twentieth century. A fourteen-year-old...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
6.4
45 votes
Zazie in the Subway
1959 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Louis Malle
Cast Catherine Demongeot · Philippe Noiret · Hubert Deschamps · Jacques Dufilho
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes