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
Direction Alain Corneau
Cast Michel Bouquet · Allyn Ann McLerie · Roland Dubillard · Joel Barcellos
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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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Against Oblivion
1991 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Patrice Chéreau · Philippe Muyl · Chantal Akerman · René Allio
Cast Paul Amar · Robert Badinter · Guy Bedos · Jane Birkin
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Nocturne indien
1989 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Alain Corneau
Cast Jean-Hugues Anglade · Clémentine Célarié · Otto Tausig · T.P. Jain
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