Michel Piccoli — Actor (77)
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The Sleeping Car Murder (1965) IMDb TMDB
Compartiment tueurs
director: Costa-Gavras actor: Yves Montand / Pierre Mondy …
other title: Vagone letto per assassini / Compartiment tueurs …
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
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Atlantic City (1980) IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Atlantic City
director: Louis Malle actor: Burt Lancaster / Susan Sarandon …
other title: Atlantic City, USA / Atlantic City, U.S.A.
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
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Adieu Philippine (1962)
Adieu Philippine
director: Jacques Rozier actor: Jean-Claude Aimini / Yveline Cery …
other title: Desideri nel sole / Adiós Filipina …
Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.
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French Cancan (1955) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
French Cancan
director: Jean Renoir actor: Jean Gabin / Françoise Arnoul …
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
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The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
★ 6.8 (6 ratings) director: Jacques Demy actor: Catherine Deneuve / Françoise Dorléac …
other title: Josephine / Pigerne fra Rochefort …
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close...
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Topaz (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Topaz
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Frederick Stafford / Dany Robin …
other title: Topázio / Topas …
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
director: Theodoros Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas … actor: Gina Clayton / Golshifteh Farahani …
other title: A ciascuno il suo cinema / Cada um o seu Cinema …
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
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The Milky Way (1969) IMDb TMDB Douban
La Voie lactée
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Paul Frankeur / Laurent Terzieff …
other title: La via lattea / La Voie lactée …
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
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The Finger Man (1962)
Le Doulos
director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo / Serge Reggiani …
other title: Lo spione / Der Teufel mit der weißen Weste …
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
★ 7.4 (21 ratings) director: Luis Buñuel Portolés actor: Fernando Rey / Delphine Claire Belriane Seyrig …
other title: Il fascino discreto della borghesia / O Charme Discreto da Burguesia …
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Le Fantôme de la liberté
★ 9.4 (5 ratings) director: Luis Buñuel Portolés actor: Adriana Asti / Milena Vukotić …
other title: Il fantasma della libertà / O Fantasma da Liberdade …
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
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The Prize of Peril (1983) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Le prix du danger
director: Yves Boisset actor: Michel Piccoli / Marie-France Pisier …
other title: Le prix du danger / Kopfjagd - Preis der Angst …
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.
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Contempt (1963)
Le Mépris
★ 7.4 (8 ratings) director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Brigitte Bardot / Michel Piccoli …
other title: Il disprezzo / O Desprezo …
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
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The Night Is Young (1986)
Mauvais Sang
★ 7.4 (13 ratings) director: Leos Carax actor: Juliette Binoche / Denis Lavant …
other title: Rosso sangue / Má Raça …
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.
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Belle de Jour (1967)
Belle de jour
★ 7.1 (11 ratings) director: Luis Buñuel Portolés actor: Catherine Deneuve / Jean Sorel …
other title: Bella di giorno / Dagens Skønhed …
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.