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,...

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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...

Max

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...

Max

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

A Human Condition

1974 · Documentary · 75 min. · France

Direction Louis Malle

6.4

45 votes

6.4

45 votes

Zazie in the Subway

1959 · Movie · 92 min. · France

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes