Screenplay: Michel Deville
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Michel Deville. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Dossier 51
1978 · Movie · 108 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Françoise Béliard · Patrick Chesnais · Jenny Cleve · Jean Dautremay
Plot French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes...
6.7
171 votes
6.7
171 votes
Sachs' Disease
1999 · Movie · 107 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Albert Dupontel · Béatrice Bruno · Valérie Dréville · Nathalie Boutefeu
6.7
842 votes
6.7
842 votes
Voyage en Douce
1980 · Movie · 98 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Dominique Sanda · Geraldine Chaplin · Jacques Zabor · Jean Crubelier
Plot Lucie and Hélène are best friends since childhood. They take a car trip from Paris to the country. Their conversations are overtly intimate, but more revealing is their tacit understanding...
6.6
28 votes
6.6
28 votes
The Reader
1988 · Movie · 98 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Miou-Miou · Christian Ruché · Sylvie Laporte · Michel Raskine
Plot Constance is asked by her boyfriend to read out loud a novel in which a young woman called Marie decides to become a professional reader. Having placed an advertisement in...
6.3
365 votes
6.3
365 votes
Peril
1985 · Movie · 100 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Anémone · Richard Bohringer · Nicole García · Christophe Malavoy
Plot A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's...
6.2
55 votes
6.2
55 votes
Benjamin: The Diary of an Innocent Young Boy
1968 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Michèle Morgan · Michel Piccoli · Pierre Clémenti · Catherine Deneuve
Plot A callow teenager of the 18th century, Benjamin spends a summer with his worldly relatives on their summer estate. An orphan girl (Catherine Deneuve) living on a neighboring estate, inaugurates...
6.2
34 votes
6.2
34 votes
Eaux profondes
1981 · Movie · 94 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Sandrine Kljajic · Éric Frey
Plot Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed.
6.0
99 votes
6.0
99 votes
Le Paltoquet (The Nonentity)
1986 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Fanny Ardant · Daniel Auteuil · Richard Bohringer · Philippe Léotard
Plot Four men, a journalist, a doctor, a professor and a merchant, meet up every evening in a deserted bar to play cards. One night the police arrive with the news...
5.3
59 votes
5.3
59 votes
The Bear and the Doll
1970 · Movie · 85 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Brigitte Bardot · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Daniel Ceccaldi · Georges Claisse
Plot Cellist Gaspard is living in a big house in the country with his son and three nieces. He likes being quiet. One day, his modest car bumps into a Rolls-Royce,...
5.0
23 votes
5.0
23 votes
Adorable menteuse
1962 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Marina Vlady · Macha Méril · Michel Vitold · Jean-Marc Bory
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Tonight or Never
1961 · Movie · 104 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Anna Karina · Claude Rich · Georges Descrières · Jacqueline Danno
Plot Focusing more on the personalities of the characters involved, Michel Deville in his first solo directing effort, has created a "New Wave"-style, slightly strident, routine romantic comedy. Set in an...
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A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville · Charles Gérard
Cast Pierre Vaneck · Mijanou Bardot · Paul Frankeur · Roger Hanin
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Because, Because of a Woman
1963 · Movie · 116 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Jacques Charrier · Mylène Demongeot · Juliette Mayniel · Marie Laforêt
Plot A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him...
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L'appartement des filles
1963 · Movie · 88 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Jean-François Calvé · Daniel Ceccaldi · Mylène Demongeot · Renate Ewert
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The Apprentice Heel
1977 · Movie · 98 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Robert Lamoureux · Christine Dejoux · Claude Piéplu · Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
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Lucky Jo
1964 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Eddie Constantine · Pierre Brasseur · Georges Wilson · Christiane Minazzoli
Plot Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. But they never have luck - ever so often something inpredictable happens to Jo...
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Bye bye, Barbara
1969 · Movie · 102 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Eva Swann · Philippe Avron · Bruno Cremer · Alexandra Stewart
Plot A journalist meets a pretty, young woman in Biarritz and they fall in love with each other. Once they have returned to Paris the woman disappears mysteriously.
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Almost Peaceful
2002 · Movie · 94 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Simon Abkarian · Lubna Azabal · Zabou Breitman · Clotilde Courau
Plot Jewish tailor Albert (Abkarian) and his wife Lea (Breitman) are reestablishing their business in 1946 Paris. Albert hires six people, more than he needs to meet current slow season demand,...
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Soldier Martin
1966 · Movie · 91 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Robert Hirsch · Véronique Vendell · Walter Rilla · Anthony Sharp
Plot An actor disguises himself as a soldier during the Second World War, but is mistaken for a soldier and becomes involved in the events of WWII.
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The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
1966 · Movie · 104 min. · France
Direction Michel Deville
Cast George Chakiris · Marina Vlady · Margaret Lee · Paul Frankeur
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