Les Biches

1968

French

6.9

♡ 10

77%

Claude Chabrol Director

Laure Valmée as

Stéphane Audran as Frédérique

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Paul Thomas

Jacqueline Sassard as Why

A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local architect and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.

Spotlight on a Murderer

1961

French

6.5

♡ 5

Georges Franju Director

Jean Babilée as Christian de Kerloguen

Marianne Koch as Edwige

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean-Marie de Kerloguen

Lucien Raimbourg as Julien

An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.

So Sweet... So Perverse

1969

Italian

6.0

♡ 6

31%

Umberto Lenzi Director

Beryl Cunningham as Black Stripper

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean Reynaud

Horst Frank as Klaus

Carroll Baker as Nicole Perrier

An industrialist's affair with a troubled woman entangles him in a dangerous situation with her abusive boyfriend. His glamorous life spirals into unexpected peril.

The Libertine

1968

Italian

5.4

♡ 8

Pasquale Festa Campanile Director

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Dr. Carlo De Marchi

Vittorio Caprioli as Il libraio

Catherine Spaak as Margherita aka Mimi

Paolo Stoppa as Professor Zauri

A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.

Le combat dans l'île

1962

French

6.5

♡ 3

Alain Cavalier Director

Romy Schneider as Anne

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Clément Lesser

Clara Tambour as Marthe

Henri Serre as Paul

The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément, leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When he’s ratted out after a failed assassination attempt on a prominent politician, Clément and his long-suffering wife Anne flee Paris to the idyllic country home of his childhood friend, pacifist print-maker Paul. As affection blossoms between Paul and Anne, the emotional, as well as political tensions, soar and eventually explode.

Violent Summer

1959

Italian

7.3

♡ 4

76%

Action

Drama

older woman younger man relationship

Romance

summer

War

Valerio Zurlini Director

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Carlo Caremoli

Bruno Carotenuto as Giulio

Jacqueline Sassard as Rosanna

Cathia Caro as Serena

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?

Un homme à abattre

1967

French

6.4

♡ 2

Philippe Condroyer Director

André Oumansky as Georges

Luis Prendes as Julius

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Raphael

Manuel Bronchud as Romain

Barcelona, 1967. Hans Fromm, a German-born architect, lives an well-ordered everyday life. He has become the target of an antifascist death squad though. Indeed their leader, Julius, whose brother was killed by Schmidt, a merciless S.S., believes, without being absolutely certain, that Fromm and Schmidt are the same man. The team, whose other members are Georges, the son of a deportee liquidated by Schmidt craving for action, Raphaël, a mercenary type, Nils, the photographer and Romain, watch Fromm's every move until Julius, convinced at last that the quiet German is their man, gives the green light for the operation. They manage to lure the former Nazi to an old house but Schmidt/Fromm won't let himself be captured so easily...

Deep Water

1981

French

6.6

♡ 10

95%

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

father daughter relationship

husband wife relationship

jersey island

perfumer

Michel Deville Director

Jean-Luc Moreau as Joël

Isabelle Huppert as Melanie

Jean-Michel Dupuis as Philip Cowan

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Vic Allen

On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference.

A Man and a Woman

1966

French

7.5

♡ 11

75%

Claude Lelouch Director

Anouk Aimée as Anne Gauthier

Gérard Sire as Announcer

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean-Louis Duroc

Yane Barry as Mistress of Jean-Louis

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

1974

French

6.1

♡ 9

Alain Robbe-Grillet Director

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Le commissaire de police

Michael Lonsdale as Le magistrat instructeur

Isabelle Huppert as L'étudiante

Olga Georges-Picot as Nora / L'avocate

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.

My Night at Maud's

1969

French

7.8

♡ 17

96%

Éric Rohmer Director

Marie-Christine Barrault as Françoise

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean-Louis

Françoise Fabian as Maud

Marie-Claude Rauzier as Student

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.

Confidentially Yours

1983

French

♡ 5

78%

François Truffaut Director

Fanny Ardant as Barbara Becker

Thi-Loan Nguyen as Chinese woman

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Julien Vercel

Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Massoulier

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is the prime suspect. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations.

La femme de ma vie

1986

French

6.6

♡ 1

Régis Wargnier Director

Andrzej Seweryn as Bernard

Elsa Lunghini as Eloïse

Jane Birkin as Laura

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Pierre

Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is also the manager of the orchestra in which he plays. But is she really helping him or is she exploiting his dependence on her? A man who has been through the same experience as Simon, offers to help him...

See How They Fall

1994

French

6.5

♡ 4

68%

Crime

Drama

Jacques Audiard Director

Yves Verhoeven as Homosexual

Mathieu Kassovitz as Johnny

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Marx

Rywka Wajsbrot as Mme Rajenski

A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a naive young man, who changes his name to please him.

Malevil

1981

French

6.5

♡ 9

based on novel or book

Drama

dystopia

nuclear explosion

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

survival

Christian de Chalonge Director

Jacques Dutronc as Colin

Eduard Linkers as Fabrelatre

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Fulbert

Hanns Zischler as Le vétérinaire

In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed...

The Best Years of a Life

2019

French

6.8

♡ 3

82%

50%

Drama

Claude Lelouch Director

Anouk Aimée as Anne Gauthier

Monica Bellucci as Elena

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean-Louis Duroc

Tess Lauvergne as Tess

They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up where they left it…

Amour

2012

French

7.9

♡ 46

93%

Michael Haneke Director

Isabelle Huppert as Eva

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Georges

Suzanne Schmidt as Neighbour

Damien Jouillerot as Paramedic #1

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

The Most Precious of Cargoes

2024

French

7.1

♡ 9

77%

1940s

adult animation

Animation

based on novel or book

Michel Hazanavicius Director

Adam Carage as Le soldat Armée Rouge

Matej Hofmann as L'interprète

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Narrator

Oleg Imbert as Un collègue bûcheron

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this "most precious of cargoes", will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter's wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross—including the man who threw her from the train. And some will try to protect her, whatever the cost. Their story will reveal the worst and the best in the hearts of men.