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6.8

♡ 1

Comedy

Jean-Pierre Blanc Director

Edith Scob as Edith, Monod's wife

Philippe Noiret as Gabriel Marcassus

Michael Lonsdale as Monod

Annie Girardot as Muriel Bouchon

Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French film, Muriel gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.

A Week's Vacation

1980

6.6

♡ 1

Bertrand Tavernier Director

Jean Sourbier as André

Nathalie Baye as Laurence Cuers

Philippe Noiret as Michel Descombes

Gérard Lanvin as Pierre

On the verge of an emotional collapse, schoolteacher Laurence takes a week off from work to figure out her life. She reconnects with friends and family and wrestles with everything from whether she should continue her job to whether she should have a child with her boyfriend.

Une femme à sa fenêtre

1976

6.1

♡ 3

greece

Pierre Granier-Deferre Director

Vasilis Kolovos as Andréas

Martine Brochard as Avghi

Philippe Noiret as Raoul Malfosse

Umberto Orsini as Rico

Greece, 1936. An aristocratic woman engages in a series of loveless affairs before finding herself falling for a political activist.

Tout l'or du monde

1961

6.1

♡ 1

bourvil

Comedy

René Clair Director

Françoise Dorléac as La journaliste

Christian Marin as Le régisseur à la télévision

Paul Bisciglia as Un photographe

Philippe Noiret as Victor Hardy

Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell...

Playing with Fire

1975

5.6

♡ 6

brothel

father daughter relationship

kidnapping

ransom

Alain Robbe-Grillet Director

Sylvia Kristel as Diana Van Den Berg

Philippe Noiret as Georges de Saxe / Ses doubles

Vernon Dobtcheff as Un messager

Charles Millot as Un ravisseur

A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.

'Round Midnight

1986

English

7.4

♡ 10

100%

89%

jazz

jazz singer or musician

Bertrand Tavernier Director

Arthur French as Booker

Victoria Gabrielle Platt as Chan Turner

Martin Scorsese as Goodley

Philippe Noiret as Redon

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.

L'été prochain

1985

5.6

♡ 3

woman director

Nadine Trintignant Director

Fanny Ardant as Dina

Philippe Noiret as Edouard

Claudia Cardinale as Jeanne

Judith Godrèche as Nickie

Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. As the marriage between them unravels, Edouard's daughters experience their own emotional shock waves. Dina, in a relationship with playwright Paul, wants more from her daily life, while Sidone is married to a fellow musician but is terrified of performing in public. Fast-forward seven years: Edouard is gravely ill, and the family shares their issues, hopes and fears.

Ripoux 3

2003

5.8

♡ 2

Claude Zidi Director

Bernadette Lafont as Carmen

Thierry Lhermitte as François Lesbuche

Marc Hoang as Le pilote moto #2

Philippe Noiret as René Boirond

It's been ten years since the paths of René and François parted ways. From the glorious era when, as cops, they roamed the Montmartre district, they only have a handful of memories left, the money from their cronies having evaporated over time. Everything comes to an end. Until it starts again.

Le 4ème pouvoir

1985

6.1

♡ 1

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.

La Pointe Courte

1955

♡ 12

complicated relationships

Agnès Varda Director

Albert Lubrano as Albert Soldino

Silvia Monfort as Elle

Philippe Noiret as Lui

Marcel Jouet as Raphäel Scotto

A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.

Amici miei

1975

Italian

7.9

♡ 11

91%

Mario Monicelli Director

Philippe Noiret as Giorgio Perozzi

Adolfo Celi as Professor Sassaroli

Bernard Blier as Righi Niccolò

Silvia Dionisio as Titti

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

The Postman

1994

Italian

7.8

♡ 28

94%

Michael Radford Director

Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Beatrice Russo

Mariano Rigillo as Di Cosimo

Philippe Noiret as Pablo Neruda

Renato Scarpa as Telegrapher

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

Clean Slate

1981

7.3

♡ 9

88%

Bertrand Tavernier Director

Stéphane Audran as Huguette / Lucien's wife

Gérard Hernandez as Leonelli

Philippe Noiret as Lucien Cordier

Isabelle Huppert as Rose Marcaillou

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

L'Étoile du Nord

1982

6.5

♡ 3

Crime

Thriller

Pierre Granier-Deferre Director

Michel Koniencny as Domb

Philippe Noiret as Edouard Binet

Simone Signoret as Mme Louise Baron

Fanny Cottençon as Sylvie Baron

Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.

Olivia

1951

6.9

♡ 2

100%

girls' boarding school

Jacqueline Audry Director

Philippe Noiret as L'amoureux de Béatrice

Suzanne Dehelly as Mademoiselle

Simone Simon as Mademoiselle Cara

Danièle Delorme as Une ancienne élève

"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress Julie and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Julie and the other head of the school Cara in its final months.

Les grands ducs

1996

5.9

♡ 1

Comedy

Patrice Leconte Director

Jean Rochefort as Eddie Carpentier

Albert Delpy as Harry

Jacques Mathou as Janvier

Philippe Noiret as Victor Vialat

Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.

The Big Feast

1973

7.0

♡ 19

60%

Marco Ferreri Director

Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello

Michel Piccoli as Michel

Philippe Noiret as Philippe

James Campbell as Zack

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

My New Partner at the Races

1990