Michel Piccoli — Actor (59)
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The Audience (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
L'udienza
director: Marco Ferreri actor: Enzo Jannacci / Claudia Cardinale …
other title: L'udienza / A Audiência …
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
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Max and the Junkmen (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Max et les ferrailleurs
director: Claude Sautet actor: Michel Piccoli / Romy Schneider …
other title: Il commissario Pelissier / O Estranho Caso do Inspector Max …
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
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Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Touche pas à la femme blanche
director: Marco Ferreri actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Catherine Deneuve …
other title: Non toccare la donna bianca / Berühre nicht die weiße Frau …
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
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The War Is Over (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
La guerre est finie
director: Alain Resnais actor: Yves Montand / Ingrid Thulin …
other title: La guerra è finita / A Guerra Acabou …
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
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The Game Is Over (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La Curée
director: Roger Vadim actor: Jane Fonda / Michel Piccoli …
other title: La calda preda / Die Beute …
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.
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The Witches of Salem (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Les Sorcières de Salem
director: Raymond Rouleau actor: Simone Signoret / Yves Montand …
other title: Le vergini di Salem / Die Hexen von Salem …
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.
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Far West (1973) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Le Far West
director: Jacques Brel actor: Jacques Brel / Gabriel Jabbour …
other title: Le Far West / Le Far-West
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process.
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Bardot et Godard (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Le Parti des choses : Bardot et Godard
director: Jacques Rozier actor: Jean Lescot / David Tonelli …
other title: Le Parti des choses : Bardot et Godard / Le Parti Des Choses …
A documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt.
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The Accuser (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
L'Imprécateur
director: Jean-Louis Bertuccelli actor: Jean Yanne / Michel Piccoli …
other title: L'Imprécateur / Der Ankläger
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
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Romy: Anatomy of a Face (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Romy - Portrait eines Gesichts
director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg actor: Romy Schneider / Hans-Jürgen Syberberg …
other title: Romy - Portrait eines Gesichts / Romy – Portrait eines Gesichts …
Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream "Unterhaltungskino" ("entertainment cinema") and her second one as acknowledged European arthouse actress.
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Death in the Garden (1956) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
La Mort en ce jardin
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Simone Signoret / Charles Vanel …
other title: La selva dei dannati / Labirinto Infernal …
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.
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The Bellman (1945) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Sortilèges
director: Christian-Jaque actor: Lucien Coëdel / Fernand Ledoux …
other title: Das Geheimnis der Berghütte / Sortilèges …
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to bribe the daughter of his only friend, a head injury victim considered the village simpleton, into marrying him, despite her love for a lowly woodsman who is, in turn, being cajoled into marriage by the daughter of the wealthy innkeeper.
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Success Is the Best Revenge (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Success Is the Best Revenge
director: Jerzy Skolimowski actor: Michael York / John Hurt …
other title: Il successo è la miglior vendetta / Le Succès à tout prix …
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
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Liza (1972) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
La cagna
director: Marco Ferreri actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Catherine Deneuve …
other title: La cagna / Allein mit Giorgio …
Liza meets the artist Giorgio and falls in love with him. She dreams of becoming the wife of Giorgio, but he is married. She dreams of being a close friend to him, but he has a favorite dog. Liza is ready for any sacrifice for the sake of her love. She kills Giorgio's dog and takes her place. Now she is a woman who always and everywhere follows her master.
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All About Loving (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
De l'amour
director: Jean Aurel actor: Michel Piccoli / Anna Karina …
other title: La calda pelle / De l'amour …
Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her too.
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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...
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F as in Fairbanks (1976) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
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.