Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969). Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over. His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Breathless
as Parvulesco the WriterA small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the...
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Bob le Flambeur
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind,...
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Bluebeard
as Clemenceau's AideParis, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the...
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Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
as Self (archive footage)Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's...
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Two Men in Manhattan
as MoreauTwo French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a...
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Orpheus
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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Sign of the Lion
as Un Consommateur (uncredited)An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using...
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24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
as Narrator (uncredited)The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for...
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Le Combat dans l’île
as Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément, leads a double life as a member...
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Les rois de la comédie
as Self (archive footage)At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition....
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Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
as Self (archive footage)
Code Name: Melville
as SelfMixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works...
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A Girl in a Pocket
as Le commissaireA professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his...
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Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
as Self (archive footage)Documentary exploring the friendship between French director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor...
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Belmondo, le magnifique
as Self (archive footage)With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one...
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Melville, le dernier samouraï
as (archives)Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his...
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