Direction: Jean-Pierre Melville

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Alain Delon · Nathalie Delon · Caty Rosier · François Périer

Plot Hitman Jeff Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Alain Delon · Bourvil · Gian Maria Volonté · Yves Montand

Plot Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Serge Reggiani · Jean Desailly · Michel Piccoli

Plot Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Lino Ventura · Simone Signoret · Paul Meurisse · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Plot Army of Shadows is an intimate epic of the French Resistance in WWII. France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs....

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Lino Ventura · Paul Meurisse · Raymond Pellegrin · Christine Fabréga

Plot Gustave Manda, better known as Gu, a dangerous gangster, escapes from jail. He goes to Paris to join Manouche and other friends, and get involved in a gangland killing. Before...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Howard Vernon · Jean-Marie Robain · Nicole Stephane · Georges Patrix

Plot Le Silence de la Mer was based upon a popular wartime "underground" novel by Vercours. Most of the film is confined to the living room of a bourgeois French family....

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Roger Duchesne · Isabelle Corey · Daniel Cauchy · Guy Decomble

Plot Bob, a old gangster and gambler is almost broke, so he decides in spite of the warnings of a friend, a high official from the police, to rob a gambling...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Emmanuelle Riva · Iréne Tunc · Nicole Mirel

Plot A little French town during the Occupation. Barny is a young sexually frustrated widow, living with her little girl France. She is also a communist militant, and one days she...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Alain Delon · Richard Crenna · Catherine Deneuve · Riccardo Cucciolla

Plot Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just a asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville · Jean Cocteau

Cast Nicole Stephane · Edouard Dermithe · Renée Cosima · Jacques Bernard

Plot Elisabeth is very protective of her teenage brother Paul, who is injured in a snowball fight at school and has to rest in bed most of the time. The siblings...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Pierre Melville · Pierre Grasset · Christiane Eudes · Paula Dehelly

Plot Moreau, a French journalist assigned to New York, is sent out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a French United Nations diplomat, Fèvre-Berthier. When he fails to learn anything from...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Charles Vanel · Michèle Mercier · Malvina Silberberg

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Françoise Alban · Marcel Arnal · Adeline Aucoc · Claude Borelli

Plot Juliette Greco plays Therese, a nun-in-training who returns to "civilian" life to care for her young sister Denise (Irene Gatter). When Denise is compromised by love-'em-and-leave-'em stud Max (Philippe LeMaire),...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Beby · Maïss