In San Francisco, a group of down-and-out friends and a local pimp concoct a convoluted burglary plan on their pawnshop operator friend, all while navigating unexpected romantic entanglements that threaten to derail their heist.

Alamo Bay

1985

English

6.1

♡ 4

36%

Louis Malle Director

Caroline Williams as Diane

Amy Madigan as Glory

William Frankfather as Mac

Ed Harris as Shang

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.

Vanya on 42nd Street

1994

English

7.3

♡ 8

89%

Louis Malle Director

Larry Pine as Dr. Astrov

Brooke Smith as Sonya

Wallace Shawn as Vanya

Julianne Moore as Yelena

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 1899 play "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

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.

Zazie in the Metro

1960

French

6.9

♡ 6

Louis Malle Director

Sacha Distel as Cameo appearance

Odette Piquet as La mère de Zazie

Jacques Gheusi as Le gérant

Little Bara as Permanent

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.

Place de la République

1974

French

7.0

♡ 2

100%

Louis Malle Director

Louis Malle as Self

Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris.

May Fools

1990

French

7.2

♡ 6

100%

Louis Malle Director

Miou-Miou as Camille

Harriet Walter as Lily

Michel Piccoli as Milou

Valérie Lemercier as Mrs. Boutelleau

An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.

Black Moon

1975

English

6.1

♡ 9

42%

Louis Malle Director

Joe Dallesandro as Brother Lily

Cathryn Harrison as Lily

Therese Giehse as Old Lady

Alexandra Stewart as Sister Lily

There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio.

Au Revoir les Enfants

1987

French

8.0

♡ 32

97%

parent child relationship

resistance

vichy regime

War

Louis Malle Director

Stanislas Carré de Malberg as François Quentin

Sergio Kato as Jean-Pierre

Irène Jacob as Mlle Davenne, piano teacher

François Berléand as Père Michel

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

Spirits of the Dead

1968

French

6.4

♡ 10

86%

Louis Malle Director

James Robertson Justice as Countess' Advisor

Vincent Price as Narrator

Terence Stamp as Toby Dammit

Alain Delon as William Wilson

Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.

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.

Lacombe, Lucien

1974

French

7.6

♡ 10

100%

Louis Malle Director

Gaëtan Bloom as

Aurore Clément as France

Jacqueline Staup as Melle Chauvelot

Jean Rougerie as Tonin

In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.

Elevator to the Gallows

1958

French

7.9

♡ 27

93%

Louis Malle Director

Jeanne Moreau as Florence Carala

Maurice Ronet as Julien Tavernier

Charles Denner as L'adjoint du commissaire Cherrier

Lino Ventura as Le commissaire Cherrier

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

My Dinner with Andre

1981

English

7.7

♡ 36

93%

Louis Malle Director

Andre Gregory as Andre Gregory

Deborah Eisenberg as Patron

Jean Lenauer as Waiter

Wallace Shawn as Wally Shawn

Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years prior in order to travel the world. Meeting at a posh Manhattan restaurant, the two share life stories, anecdotes and philosophical musings over the course of an evening meal.

Viva Maria!

1965

French

6.3

♡ 2

Louis Malle Director

George Hamilton as Flores

Brigitte Bardot as Maria Fitzgerald O'Malley aka Maria I

Jeanne Moreau as Maria Fitzgerald O'Malley aka Maria II

Claudio Brook as The Great Rodolfo

An IRA operative escapes to the Americas and teams up with a circus singer to create a popular vaudeville act. When the singer falls for a rebel, they leave the circus behind to become fierce revolutionaries.

Murmur of the Heart

1971

French

7.5

♡ 20

94%

Louis Malle Director

Lea Massari as Clara Chevalier

Michael Lonsdale as Father Henri

Jacques Gheusi as Hotel receptionist

Henri Poirier as Uncle Leonce

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

Atlantic City

1980

English

7.3

♡ 15

100%

Louis Malle Director

Michel Piccoli as Joseph

Susan Sarandon as Sally

Robert Goulet as Singer

Wallace Shawn as Waiter

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

Pretty Baby

1978

English

6.5

♡ 30

70%

new orleans, louisiana

Louis Malle Director

Keith Carradine as Bellocq

Diana Scarwid as Frieda

Susan Sarandon as Hattie

Brooke Shields as Violet

Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.

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