Michel Piccoli — Actor (76)
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Beaumarchais, l'insolent
director: Édouard Molinaro actor: Fabrice Luchini / Sandrine Kiberlain …
other title: L'insolente / Beaumarchais – Der Unverschämte …
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
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The Black Angel (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
L'Ange noir
director: Jean-Claude Brisseau actor: Tchéky Karyo / Sylvie Vartan …
other title: Ein schwarzer Engel / L'Ange noir …
Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies and subterfuges concerning her past.
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Vous n'avez encore rien vu
director: Alain Resnais actor: Lambert Wilson / Mathieu Amalric …
other title: You Ain´t Seen Nothin´ Yet / Vocês Ainda Não Viram Nada …
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play 'Eurydice'. These actors watch a recording performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...
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The Woman in Blue (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
La Femme en bleu
director: Michel Deville actor: Michel Piccoli / Lea Massari …
other title: La femme en bleu / Die unbekannte Schöne …
Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful woman dressed in blue and soon spends all of his time trying to track her down. After roaming the streets of Paris in search of the mystery woman, he recruits an old friend to help find her.
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Atrocious Tales of Love and Death (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Giallo napoletano
director: Sergio Corbucci actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Ornella Muti …
other title: Giallo napoletano / Leichen muß man feiern, wie sie fallen …
Raphael, a restaurant mandolin player with a limp, a father to support, and a lot of debt, accepts a job offered by his friend, Giardino, to play a serenade under an apartment window at the behest of a mysterious blonde. As he’s playing, a man high up on a balcony is pushed to his death. Raffaele is compelled to conduct his own investigation and becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a macabre secret...
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Long Live Life (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Viva la vie
director: Claude Lelouch actor: Charlotte Rampling / Michel Piccoli …
other title: Viva la vita / Es lebe das Leben …
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.
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Divertimento (1992) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
director: Jacques Rivette actor: Emmanuelle Béart / Michel Piccoli …
other title: La bella scontrosa - Divertimento / La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
Edouard Frenhofer es un artista famoso y muy respetado, que vive cómodamente en la campiña francesa. A la edad de 60 años, considera que su carrera como pintor ha terminado, porque no siente ninguna inspiración para crear. Pero le queda por terminar un cuadro que lleva parado más de 10 años, el retrato desnudo de su musa, su mujer Liz. El problema es que ya no siente ningún tipo de entusiasmo por su mujer. La solución la encontrará en Marianne, la novia de su protegido Nicolás, que posará para él.
Lejos de ser una mera versión acortada de 'La belle noiseuse' (1991), Rivette ofrece un nuevo montaje del mismo material con importantes diferencias de punto de vista. Aquí se trata más bien de la perspectiva de Marianne.
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The Passerby (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
La Passante du Sans-Souci
director: Jacques Rouffio actor: Romy Schneider / Michel Piccoli …
other title: La signora è di passaggio / Die Spaziergängerin von Sans-Souci …
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
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The Assassination (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
L'Attentat
director: Yves Boisset actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant / Michel Piccoli …
other title: L'attentato / Das Attentat …
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. Sadiel, the exiled leader of a North African state, is being hunted by the ruthless Colonel Kassar, who will stop at nothing to capture his political rival. Once Sadiel arrives in Paris, Darien realizes he has been manipulated. He tries to turn back the clock, not realizing what or who he’s truly dealing with.
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Spy, Stand Up (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Espion, lève-toi
director: Yves Boisset actor: Lino Ventura / Michel Piccoli …
other title: Alzati spia / Der Maulwurf …
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
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Sinners of Paris (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Rafles sur la ville
director: Pierre Chenal actor: Charles Vanel / Bella Darvi …
other title: Rafles sur la ville / Nacht über Paris
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Vincent, François, Paul… et les autres
director: Claude Sautet actor: Yves Montand / Michel Piccoli …
other title: Tre amici, le mogli e (affettuosamente) le altre / Vincent, François, Paul und die Anderen …
Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles strain friendships, a younger man captures the attention of one friend's wife, complicating their lives further.
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F as in Fairbanks (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
F… comme Fairbanks
director: Maurice Dugowson actor: Patrick Dewaere / Miou-Miou …
other title: Come è cambiata la nostra vita / F wie Fairbanks …
André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and falls in love with Marie, an aspiring actress who is rehearsing for a stage production of 'Alice in Wonderland'. All his attempts to find a job and a way out end up in failure, his friends Étienne and Jean-Pierre are powerless to help him, and the dreamy yet desperate hero loses his mind.
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The Infernal Trio (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Le Trio Infernal
director: Francis Girod actor: Michel Piccoli / Romy Schneider …
other title: Trio infernale / Trio Infernal …
Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...