Direction: Alain Corneau

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


All the Mornings of the World

1991 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Anne Brochet · Caroline Silhol

Plot It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Série noire

1979 · Movie · 111 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Myriam Boyer · Marie Trintignant · Bernard Blier

Plot Frank is a small time salesman in a Paris industrial suburb who supplements his meager earnings by stealing from his boss, Staplin. The latter has Frank tossed in jail, whereupon...

7.0

466 votes

7.0

466 votes

Police Python 357

1975 · Movie · 128 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · François Périer · Stefania Sandrelli

Plot A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot (Yves Montand) is a hard-as-nails police detective...

6.9

401 votes

6.9

401 votes

Choice of Arms

1981 · Movie · 135 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Gérard Depardieu · Catherine Deneuve · Michel Galabru

Plot Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber,...

6.8

238 votes

6.8

238 votes

Fear and Trembling

2003 · Movie · 107 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Sylvie Testud · Kaori Tsuji · Taro Suwa · Bison Katayama

Plot Amélie, a dreamy and romantic young Belgian woman, arrives in Japan to begin work as a translator for the giant Yumimoto Corporation. For Amélie, who spent her childhood in Japan,...

6.6

323 votes

6.6

323 votes

The Threat

1977 · Movie · 117 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Carole Laure · Marie Dubois · Jean-François Balmer

Plot After many years of managing a trucking concern for his lover Dominique (Marie Dubois), Savin (Yves Montand) is planning to leave her for the girl who is bearing his child....

6.4

87 votes

6.4

87 votes

Lumière and Company

1995 · Documentary · 88 min. · France

Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Hugh Hudson · David Lynch · John Boorman

Cast Romane Bohringer · Pascal Duquenne · Bruno Ganz · Neil Jordan

Plot In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using...

6.2

813 votes

6.2

813 votes

Le cousin

1997 · Movie · 112 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Patrick Timsit · Alain Chabat · Samuel Le Bihan · Caroline Proust

Plot Nounours is the nickname of a "cousin" an informer with a special arrangement with the police: he gets 10% of the drugs seized thanks to his help. When his personal...

6.1

71 votes

6.1

71 votes

Love Crime

2010 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Ludivine Sagnier · Kristin Scott Thomas · Mike Powers · Patrick Mille

Plot Isabelle works under Christine. They think alike. They are quite different. They might be lovers. But Christine takes credit for Isabelle's brilliant ideas. A struggle ensues between these two attractive...

6.0

407 votes

6.0

407 votes

Fort Saganne

1984 · Movie · 180 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Philippe Noiret · Catherine Deneuve · Sophie Marceau

Plot French civilization in the desert. Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will. In 1911, he volunteers and is posted to the Sahara under the aristocratic Colonel...

5.8

103 votes

5.8

103 votes

The Second Wind

2007 · Movie · 155 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Monica Bellucci · Michel Blanc · Jacques Dutronc

Plot Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job...

5.3

51 votes

5.3

51 votes

The Prince fo the Pacific

2000 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Patrick Timsit · Thierry Lhermitte · Marie Trintignant · François Berléand

Plot In 1918, Alfred de Morsac, the heroic captain of a French military naval ship happens upon Fenua Poerava, a lost paradise island in the Polynesian archipelago. There he and his...

4.8

61 votes

4.8

61 votes

Le môme

1986 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Richard Anconina · Ambre · Michel Duchaussoy · Yan Epstein

Plot The meeting of a marginal cop and a rootless mixed-race woman led by an investigation into a dangerous world which they did not suspect.

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New World

1995 · Movie · 117 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Nicolas Chatel · Sarah Grappin · James Gandolfini · Alicia Silverstone

Plot Born in 1943 during German occupation of their French town, Patrick and Marie-José have been best friends; now teens, they experiment with sex, which doesn't seem to bring them closer....

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France, Incorporated

1974 · Movie · 98 min. · France

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Some Kind of Blue

2005 · Movie · 114 min. · France

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Sylvie Testud · Sergi López · Camille Gauthier · Mar Sodupe

Plot Clara works in a birdshop. She is concerned about her deaf-mute daughter Anna, whom she is bringing up on her own. She has never spoken a single word. Clara herself...

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Nocturne indien

1989 · Movie · 110 min. · France

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