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

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

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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

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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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The Apprentice Heel

1977 · Movie · 98 min. · France

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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

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