Direction: Jacques Demy
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jacques Demy. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Movie · 88 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Catherine Deneuve · Anne Vernon · Nino Castelnuovo · Ellen Farner
Plot Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening...
7.3
6K votes
7.3
6K votes
Lola
1961 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Anouk Aimée · Marc Michel · Alan Scott · Jacques Harden
Plot In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland is letting life pass him by when he has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens: she's Lola,...
7.3
935 votes
7.3
935 votes
The Young Girls of Rochefort
1967 · Movie · 125 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Catherine Deneuve · Françoise Dorléac · Danielle Darrieux · George Chakiris
Plot In the little town Rochefort lives Delphine (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange Garnier (Françoise Dorléac), two musical twins that teach music and dance to kids. One day, Etienne (George Chakiris) and...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
Le sabotier du Val de Loire
1956 · Documentary · 26 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Yves Demy
Plot This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous...
7.0
71 votes
7.0
71 votes
Bay of Angels
1963 · Movie · 89 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Jeanne Moreau · Claude Mann · Paul Guers · Henri Nassiet
Plot Demy’s second feature centres upon a relationship forged between compulsive gamblers over the roulette tables of Nice and Monte Carlo. Moreau’s ravishing divorcée draws the eye of younger thrillseeker Jean...
6.9
458 votes
6.9
458 votes
A Room in Town
1982 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Dominique Sanda · Richard Berry · Danielle Darrieux · Michel Piccoli
Plot A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this...
6.8
200 votes
6.8
200 votes
Turning Table (La table tournante)
1988 · Movie · 80 min. · France
Direction Paul Grimault · Jacques Demy
Cast Paul Grimault
Plot While working at his editing table cartoon maker Paul Grimault is visited by a little clown, the star of his movie "Le Roi et l'Oiseau". Paul, who is delighted, shows...
6.6
25 votes
6.6
25 votes
Model Shop
1969 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Anouk Aimée · Gary Lockwood · Alexandra Hay · Carol Cole
Plot Gary Lockwood plays shiftless but innocuous George Matthews, who can't seem to get himself worked up about anything: the girlfriend he is about to lose, his soon-to-be repossessed car or...
6.6
181 votes
6.6
181 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
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
Le bel indifférent
1957 · Movie · 29 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Jeanne Allard · Angelo Bellini
6.1
32 votes
6.1
32 votes
The Pied Piper
1972 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Donovan · Donald Pleasence · Diana Dors · John Hurt
Plot The story of the Pied Piper who gets rid of the town of Hamelin’s rats, reveals a gripping story of evil in the Middle-Ages, a time when millions of people...
5.8
67 votes
5.8
67 votes
Three Places for the 26th
1988 · Movie · 106 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Yves Montand · Mathilda May · Françoise Fabian · Patrick Fierry
Plot A pseudo-documentary on the life of Yves Montand, who plays himself, in this tribute to his long career. During a musical tour, Montand returns to Marseille and revisits the many...
5.8
47 votes
5.8
47 votes
Les horizons morts (S)
1951 · Movie · 8 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Jacques Demy
Plot Les Horizons Morts is Jacques Demy's first surviving live-action project. A man alone in his crumbling apartment recalls being left by his girl for another man...
5.7
30 votes
5.7
30 votes
Lady Oscar
1979 · Movie · 124 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Catriona MacColl · Barry Stokes · Christine Böhm · Jonas Bergström
Plot When his wife dies in childbirth, a proud aristocrat refuses to accept that his new offspring is a girl. He names her Oscar and brings her up as a boy,...
5.4
134 votes
5.4
134 votes
4.9
46 votes
Parking
1985 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Francis Huster · Laurent Malet · Keiko Ito · Gérard Klein
4.9
22 votes
4.9
22 votes
L'événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune
1973 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Jacques Demy
Cast Catherine Deneuve · Marcello Mastroianni · Micheline Presle · Marisa Pavan
Plot Marco Mazetti, a driving school instructor, has a harmonious life with his girlfriend Irène, the owner of a hairdresser’s salon, and their young son. Then, one day, Marco begins to...
4.6
119 votes
4.6
119 votes
4.4
45 votes