Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

The Infernal Trio

1974

French

6.2

♡ 5

Francis Girod Director

Luigi Zerbinati as

Michel Piccoli as Georges Sarret

Romy Schneider as Philomena Schmidt

Jean Rigaux as Villette

Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...

The Sleeping Car Murder

1965

French

7.2

♡ 4

79%

Costa-Gavras Director

Charles Denner as Bob Vaski - l'amant de Georgette

Simone Signoret as Eliane Darrès - une comédienne - 4e victime

Bernadette Lafont as La soeur de Georgette

Michel Piccoli as René Cabourg - un représentant - 2e victime

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.

Passion in the Desert

1997

English

6.3

♡ 5

74%

Lavinia Currier Director

Ben Daniels as Augustin Robert

Michel Piccoli as Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis

Kenneth Collard as Officer

Abdul Latif Salazar as Soldier

Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.

Belle de Jour

1967

French

7.6

♡ 58

95%

husband wife relationship

jealousy

prostitute

Romance

Luis Buñuel Director

Michel Piccoli as Henri Husson

Bernard Fresson as Le grele

Macha Méril as Renee

Catherine Deneuve as Séverine Serizy / Belle de Jour

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Lines of Wellington

2012

Portuguese

6.0

♡ 6

42%

Valeria Sarmiento Director

John Malkovich as Duke of Wellington

Michel Piccoli as Leópold Scheitzer

Maria João Bastos as Maria de Jesus Almeida

Catherine Deneuve as Severina

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

The Grand Maneuver

1955

French

6.7

♡ 2

Comedy

Drama

Romance

René Clair Director

Paul Faivre as Le patron de la pension

Michèle Morgan as Marie-Louise Rivière

Michel Piccoli as Un officier

Jean Desailly as Victor Duverger

Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.

The Creatures

1966

French

6.4

♡ 7

50%

Agnès Varda Director

Michel Piccoli as Edgar Piccoli

Pierre Danny as Max Picot

Eva Dahlbeck as Michele Quellec

Catherine Deneuve as Mylène

A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book.

Viva la vie

1984

French

6.1

♡ 2

Claude Lelouch Director

Raymond Pellegrin as Barret

Charlotte Rampling as Catherine Perrin

Michel Piccoli as Michel Perrin

Myriam Boyer as Pauline

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

1996

French

6.7

♡ 1

70%

Édouard Molinaro Director

Claire Nebout as Chevalier d'Eon

José Garcia as Figaro

Michel Piccoli as Prince de Conti

Richard Durden as Smith

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.

The Young Girls of Rochefort

1967

French

7.7

♡ 24

98%

Jacques Demy Director

Catherine Deneuve as Delphine Garnier

Agnès Varda as Music-Loving Nun

Michel Piccoli as Simon Dame

Françoise Dorléac as Solange Garnier

Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close...

Godard Cinema

2022

French

7.0

♡ 4

50%

Cyril Leuthy Director

Macha Méril as

François Truffaut as Self

Michel Piccoli as Self

Mireille Darc as Self

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.

French Cancan

1955

French

7.3

♡ 9

100%

Jean Renoir Director

Valentino Garavani as Extra

Michel Piccoli as Le Capitaine Valorgueil

Giani Esposito as Prince Alexandre

Jacques Marin as Un spectateur

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.

Marx Can Wait

2021

Italian

7.3

♡ 1

100%

Marco Bellocchio Director

Michel Piccoli as Agostino

Sergio Castellitto as Ernesto Picciafuoco

Benito Mussolini as Self

Marco Bellocchio as Self

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory.

The Last Woman

1976

French

6.4

♡ 3

60%

Marco Ferreri Director

Gérard Depardieu as Gerard

Vittorio Fanfoni as Il flic coi cani

Michel Piccoli as Michel

Ornella Muti as Valerie

Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

1972

French

7.7

♡ 25

98%

Luis Buñuel Director

Stéphane Audran as Alice Sénéchal

Fernando Rey as Don Rafael Acosta

Michel Piccoli as Interior Minister

Delphine Seyrig as Simone Thévenot

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

Adieu Bonaparte

1985

Arabic

6.2

♡ 8

Youssef Chahine Director

Michel Piccoli as Caffarelli

Seif Abdelrahman as Kourayem

Abla Kamel as La femme de Bakr

Salah Zulfikar as Le cheikh Hassouna

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.

Divine Intervention

2002

Arabic

6.6

♡ 4

81%

Elia Suleiman Director

Sébastien Peres as Marksman 2

Michel Piccoli as Santa Claus Breathing

Ronin Zindenfeld as Soldier 3

Menashe Noy as Soldier at Checkpoint

Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through his mail methodically each morning has a heart attack. His son visits him in the hospital. The son regularly meets a woman at Al-Ram; they sit in a car, hands caressing. Once, she defies Israeli guards at the checkpoint; later, ninja-like, she takes on soldiers at a target range. A red balloon floats free overhead. Neighbors toss garbage over walls. Life goes on until it doesn't.

Le mystère Bardot

2012

French

6.0

♡ 5

Biography

Documentary

History

Sophie Agacinski Director

Michel Piccoli as Self

Annie Girardot as Self

Sami Frey as Self

Jack Palance as Self

Who hides behind Brigitte Bardot? Extraordinarily photogenic, a tumultuous love life, the ultimate sex symbol for the 1950s and 1960s, the actress, singer and animal rights activist left an indelible mark on her era. Despite over 30,000 photos published in the press, her true personality has long-remained in the shadows.—jakkepoes