Direction: Jean Delannoy

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jean Delannoy. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


This Special Friendship

1964 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Francis Lacombrade · Didier Haudepin · François Leccia · Dominique Maurin

Plot Jean Delannoy's This Special Friendship (Les Amities partculieres) is set in a boy's boarding school of the early 1930s. Two of the students, Francis Lacombrade and Francois Leccia, become close...

7.4

236 votes

7.4

236 votes

Pastoral Symphony

1946 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Pierre Blanchar · Michèle Morgan · Line Noro · Rosine Luguet

Plot A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but the man already is married.

7.0

58 votes

7.0

58 votes

Maigret Sets a Trap

1958 · Movie · 116 min. · France

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Jean Gabin · Annie Girardot · Jean Desailly · Olivier Hussenot

Plot For some time now, women coming home at night have been savagely murdered by a mysterious serial killer. Inspector Lagrume thinks he has found the culprit in the person of...

6.8

491 votes

6.8

491 votes

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

1959 · Movie · 101 min. · France

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Jean Gabin · Michel Auclair · Valentine Tessier · Jacques Morel

Plot Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few...

6.8

125 votes

6.8

125 votes

Mayerling

1949 · Movie · 90 min. · France

6.4

21 votes

6.4

21 votes

Obsession

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · France

6.4

22 votes

6.4

22 votes

Action Man

1969 · Movie · 100 min. · France

6.2

94 votes

6.2

94 votes

La minute de vérité

1952 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Michèle Morgan · Jean Gabin · Walter Chiari · Daniel Gélin

Plot On the night of their tenth anniversary, Doctor Rene Richard accidentally discovers that his wife, actress Madeleine Richard, has been having an affair with a disturbed artist, Daniel Prevost who...

6.2

22 votes

6.2

22 votes

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1956 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Anthony Quinn · Jean Carmet · Alain Cuny

Plot Better known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this opulent French production is the second talkie version of Victor Hugo's famous novel. Buried under mounds of latex, Anthony Quinn does...

6.0

358 votes

6.0

358 votes

Imperial Venus

1963 · Movie · 140 min. · Italy

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Raymond Pellegrin · Micheline Presle · Liana Del Balzo

Plot The life of Pauline, the favourite sister of Napoléon Bonaparte, is one of sacrifice and thwarted romance. Her first engagement was broken by her brother for political reasons. Then, whilst...

5.3

29 votes

5.3

29 votes

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The Majordomo

1965 · Movie · 93 min. · France

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Le diamant noir

1941 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Charles Vanel · Louise Carletti · Gaby Morlay · Maurice Escande

Plot A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash;she is survived by him and their daughter .The father learns that he's not her biological father.

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Princess of Cleves

1961 · Movie · 101 min. · France

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La route Napoléon

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · France

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The Little Rebels

1955 · Movie · 93 min. · France

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Macao, l'enfer du jeu

1942 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Mireille Balin · Henri Guisol · Erich von Stroheim

Plot In Jean Delannoy’s sexy, funny, and uber dark adventure-melodrama, Macao, L’enfer Du Jeu (aka Gambling Hell 1939), starring a charming Erich von Stroheim as an arms dealer, the luminous Mireille...

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Guinguette

1959 · Movie · 104 min. · France

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Bernadette

1988 · Movie · 119 min. · Switzerland

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Sydney Penny · Jean-Marc Bory · Jean-Marie Bernicat · Philippe Brigaud

Plot In 1857, an unemployed miller moves his family into grim lodgings; his wife takes in laundry. In February of 1858, at the Massabielle grotto, their 14-year old asthmatic, illiterate daughter,...

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