Jacques Demy — Director (10)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) [Movie] WikiData Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
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...
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
6.8 (6 ratings) director: Jacques Demy actor: Catherine Deneuve / Nino Castelnuovo
other title: Pigen med paraplyerne / Os Chapéus de Chuva de Cherburgo
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Lola (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB
Lola
director: Jacques Demy actor: Anouk Aimée / Marc Michel
other title: Lola - Donna di vita / Lola, das Mädchen aus dem Hafen
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
The Pied Piper (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Pied Piper
director: Jacques Demy actor: Donovan / Diana Dors
other title: Il pifferaio di Hamelin / O Tocador de Flauta
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
Dead Horizons (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Les Horizons morts
director: Jacques Demy actor: Jacques Demy
other title: Les Horizons morts
Jacques Demy's first surviving live-action project. A man alone in his crumbling apartment recalls being left by his girl for another man.
Lady Oscar (1979) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Lady Oscar
director: Jacques Demy actor: Catriona MacColl / Barry Stokes
other title: Lady Oscar - Il film
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.