Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.

The Champagne Murders

1967

French

5.8

♡ 4

40%

Claude Chabrol Director

Anthony Perkins as Christopher Belling

Catherine Sola as Denise

Suzanne Lloyd as Evelyn Wharton

Maurice Ronet as Paul Wagner

A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.

Death of a Corrupt Man

1977

French

6.8

♡ 3

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Georges Lautner Director

Mireille Darc as Françoise

Maurice Ronet as Philippe Dubaye

Ornella Muti as Valérie

Alain Delon as Xavier 'Xav' Maréchal

In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...

The Sensuous Assassin

1970

French

5.6

♡ 3

Léonard Keigel Director

Suzy Hannier as (as Susie Hannier)

Romy Schneider as Marina

Maurice Ronet as Serge

Antonio Ramirez as (uncredited)

Marina and her boyfriend have an argument while on a trip in France. While driving with the car among the cliffs, he starts speeding and the car falls into the sea. Marina can jump out of the car, but her boyfriend seems to be drowned. She gets to know his brother and he falls in love with her. But why does she always feel watched? What reasons are behind her strange behaviour anyway? Did she really murder her boyfriend? But is he dead anyway?

Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman

1973

French

5.1

♡ 7

Roger Vadim Director

Mathieu Carrière as L'abbé Paul

Ann Zacharias as La jeune Suédoise blessée

Robert Hossein as Louis Prévost

Maurice Ronet as Pierre Gonzague

Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has seduced. The seduction is easy, she tells him, it's destruction that takes planning. We watch her with an upright elected official, a wealthy boor, and a folk singer. She describes herself as a spider. Her friend Léporella tries to be Jeanne's conscience. What does Jeanne want?

La balance

1982

French

6.5

68%

Bob Swaim Director

Albert Dray as Carlini

François Berléand as L'inspecteur de la Mondaine

Tchéky Karyo as Petrovic

Maurice Ronet as Roger Massina

A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.

He Who Must Die

1957

French

7.5

80%

79%

Drama

Jules Dassin Director

Grégoire Aslan as Agha

Melina Mercouri as Katerina / Mary Magdalene

Maurice Ronet as Michelis

Gert Fröbe as Patriarcheas

Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, choose those that will play the parts in the Passion. A stuttering shepherd is chosen to play Jesus. The town butcher (who wanted to be Jesus) is chosen as Judas. The town prostitute is chosen as Mary Magdalene. The rest of the disciples are also chosen. As the movie unfolds, the Passion Play becomes a reality. A group of villagers, uprooted by the war and impoverished, arrive at the village led by their priest. The wealthier citizens of the town want nothing with these people and manipulate a massacre. In the context of the 1920s, each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality.

Madame Claude

1977

French

4.9

♡ 10

Just Jaeckin Director

Dayle Haddon as Elizabeth

Maurice Ronet as Pierre

Ed Bishop as Smith

Karl Held as Stanfield

Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets...

The Swimming Pool

1969

French

7.1

♡ 23

95%

ex-husband ex-wife relationship

husband wife relationship

relationship problems

Romance

southern france

Jacques Deray Director

Maurice Ronet as Harry

Alain Delon as Jean-Paul

Romy Schneider as Marianne

Jane Birkin as Pénélope

Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.

Circle of Love

1964

French

5.5

♡ 5

50%

Roger Vadim Director

Françoise Dorléac as

Maurice Ronet as Henri

Marie Dubois as La fille

Jane Fonda as Sophie

In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."

The Fire Within

1963

French

7.8

♡ 15

82%

Louis Malle Director

Maurice Ronet as Alain Leroy

Micha Bayard as Bit part

Henri Serre as Frédéric

Alexandra Stewart as Solange

Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and for all. His wife, living in New York, continues to pay for his treatment, but no longer contacts him directly. He intends to commit suicide, but first takes a ride to Paris to catch up with old friends.

Line of Demarcation

1966

French

7.1

♡ 3

nazi collaborationism

War

world war ii

Claude Chabrol Director

David O'Brien as L'aviateur écossais

Jean Seberg as Mary, comtesse de Damville

Jacques Perrin as Michel, le radio

Maurice Ronet as Pierre, comte de Damville

It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom. A French officer, Pierre, is released by the Nazi soldiers to find his chateau converted into a German command centre. Whilst he is obliged to co-operate with the enemy, his wife Mary supports the resistance movement and is willing to risk her life for it. The Nazis step up their activity against the resistance, insisting that any who attempt to cross the line of demarcation will be shot. When his wife is arrested, Pierre decides to switch his allegiance.