The Monster

1994

Italian

7.3

♡ 6

40%

Roberto Benigni Director

Massimo Girotti as Distinguished Resident

Dominique Lavanant as Jolanda Taccone

Ivano Marescotti as Pascucci

Jean-Claude Brialy as Roccarotta

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.

No Fear, No Die

1990

French

6.7

♡ 2

100%

Claire Denis Director

Isaach De Bankolé as Dah

Jean-Claude Brialy as Pierre Ardennes

Pipo Sarguera as Pipo

Gilbert Felmar as TiEmile

Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.

The Big Night

1959

Italian

7.1

♡ 6

Mauro Bolognini Director

Elsa Martinelli as Anna

Mylène Demongeot as Laura

Tomas Milian as Moretto

Jean-Claude Brialy as Scintillone

The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day, beginning with arms theft, leading to an encounter with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but the ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time. It's back to the city for the boys, where they continue their destructive games...

Inspector Lavardin

1986

French

6.5

♡ 2

57%

Claude Chabrol Director

Jean-Claude Brialy as Claude Alvarez

Chantal Grebbet as Eve

Bernadette Lafont as Hélène Mons

Philippe Froger as Stage Manager

Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.

Lévy et Goliath

1987

French

4.6

♡ 1

Gérard Oury Director

Olivia Brunaux as

Danielle Volle as (as Daniel Volle)

Jean-Claude Brialy as Bijou / Delaroche

Robert Hossein as Client de Goliath

A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.

Fool's Mate

1956

French

7.0

♡ 3

56%

Jacques Rivette Director

Jean-Claude Brialy as Claude, l'amant

François Truffaut as Un invité à la fête

Jean-Luc Godard as Un invité à la fête

Claude Chabrol as Un invité de la surprise-partie

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?

Elena and Her Men

1956

French

6.2

♡ 4

71%

Jean Renoir Director

Ingrid Bergman as Elena Sokorowska

Jean-Claude Brialy as Extra

Mel Ferrer as Le comte Henri de Chevincourt

Magali Noël as Lolotte

Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men—as well as the future of France—in her hands.

The Lovers

1958

French

7.1

♡ 7

91%

women's sexual identity

Louis Malle Director

Jean-Marc Bory as Bernard Dubois-Lambert

Michèle Girardon as Hélène Cavalier

Jeanne Moreau as Jeanne Tournier

Jean-Claude Brialy as Un Garçon a Manège

A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.

Le 4ème pouvoir

1985

French

6.1

♡ 1

Action

Drama

Serge Leroy Director

Christian Erickson as

Artus de Penguern as

Jean-Claude Brialy as TV director

Philippe Noiret as Yves Dorget

Yves Dorget, major reporter in a daily newspaper, finds on an "affair" part of a simple news item Catherine Carré, his former friend, editor and chief and star presenter of a television newscast.

Kennedy et moi

1999

French

6.6

♡ 2

Sam Karmann Director

Eléonore Bernheim as Alice Polaris

Jean-Claude Brialy as Benny Grimaldi

Bernard Blancan as (scenes deleted)

François Chattot as Victor Kuriakhine

If he buys a gun, visits his wife's lover, and ends up savagely biting his dentist, Samuel Polaris is in bad shape. Very bad. Unless the others, the “normal” people – with their career plans, their adulteries, their arrogant incompetence – have fallen into a sort of collective madness. Who knows. Because he has no choice, because he is in love with his wife and because he refuses to resign himself to the worst, Samuel Polaris decides to regain his dignity. Even if, to do this, he has to steal from his psychiatrist the watch that Kennedy was wearing the day he was assassinated.

L'effrontée

1985

French

6.9

♡ 4

Claude Miller Director

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Charlotte Castang

Clothilde Baudon as Clara Bauman

Bernadette Lafont as Léone

Jean-Claude Brialy as Sam

Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.

The Kreutzer Sonata

1956

French

6.1

♡ 3

Crime

Drama

Éric Rohmer Director

François Truffaut as

Jean-Luc Godard as Ami journaliste

Éric Rohmer as Poznyecev

Jean-Claude Brialy as Trukhacevskij

Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the “Sonata to Kreutzer” appears, the young woman blooms in a new passion. From then on, her husband is eaten away by jealousy.

A Woman Is a Woman

1961

French

7.3

♡ 15

83%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Alfred Lubitsch

Marie Dubois as Angela's friend

Jean-Claude Brialy as Émile Récamier

Jeanne Moreau as Woman in Bar

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

The Telephone Always Rings Twice

1985

French

5.8

♡ 4

Comedy

Jean-Pierre Vergne Director

Jean-Claude Brialy as Le commissaire

Patrick Sébastien as Le faux aveugle au café

Jean Reno as L'homme de confiance de Marraine

Dominique Pinon as Monsieur Pichon - l'instituteur

Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord.

Marriage of the Century

1985

French

4.6

♡ 1

Action

Comedy

Philippe Galland Director

Dominique Lavanant as Adrienne de la Roussette, l'attachée de presse

Katrine Boorman as Clarissie

Jean-Claude Brialy as Kaffenberg

Thierry Lhermitte as Paul Deschamps

Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up.

Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures

1965

French

6.2

♡ 2

Claude de Givray Director

Jean-Paul Janssen as Jumeau 2

Olga Valéry as La veuve

Jean-Claude Brialy as Le spectateur du cabaret

Hella Petri as Thaïs

Catherine Guérande, a 19-year-old Parisian girl, decides to become a prostitute after a messy love affair. She did not count on Pornotropos, a brutal racketeer who runs the profitable business of model agencies, cabarets, and camping sites, backed by Thanatos, his brother, who runs the mugging and murder side of their business. Pornotropos is not taking it well that a freelancer is around reducing his profits, and he sets his girls to harass and beat her up. Catherine does not take his mistreatment and moves to another brothel. But luck has it that an old man dies in her room, and that he was the owner of a marketing agency. Paul, a young and handsome executive in his company, decides to investigate the shady causes of death of his late boss, and when Paul meets Catherine it's love at first sight.

Cléo from 5 to 7

1962

French

7.8

♡ 43

93%

Agnès Varda Director

Corinne Marchand as Florence 'Cléo' Victoire

Sami Frey as Le croque-mort

Jean-Luc Godard as L'homme aux lunettes noires / Actor in silent film

Jean-Claude Brialy as L'infirmier

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Claire's Knee

1970

French

7.5

♡ 16

96%

Éric Rohmer Director

Aurora Cornu as Aurora, the novelist

Jean-Claude Brialy as Jérôme

Béatrice Romand as Laura

Fabrice Luchini as Vincent

On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.

Love at Sea

1965

French

7.3

♡ 9

long distance relationship

sailor

Guy Gilles Director

Alain Delon as L'acteur du film

Romy Schneider as La vedette

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Le gars du métro

Jean-Claude Brialy as L'homme qui aime la nuit et la jeunesse

During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...

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The Monster

No Fear, No Die

The Big Night

Inspector Lavardin

Lévy et Goliath

Fool's Mate

Elena and Her Men

The Lovers

Le 4ème pouvoir

Kennedy et moi

L'effrontée

The Kreutzer Sonata

A Woman Is a Woman

The Telephone Always Rings Twice

Marriage of the Century

Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures

Cléo from 5 to 7

Claire's Knee

Love at Sea