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1. Cousteau: My First 85 Years (1995 TV Movie)
Documentary, Biography
Special celebrating the 85th birthday of oceanic explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Includes archival footage from his many voyages.
Star: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Votes: 9
2. Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (1974– )
Documentary
Stars: Armand Panigel, Christian-Jaque, Marcel Carné, Marcel L'Herbier
Votes: 22
3.
AFI Life Achievement Award (1973– )
Episode:
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis
(1977)
90 min | Documentary
Jane Fonda hosts the AFI Life Achievement Awards ceremony honoring Bette Davis featuring clips from her films and the reminiscences of many co-workers.
Stars: Diahnne Abbott, Lou Adler, Eddie Albert, Susan Anspach
Votes: 535
4. Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years (1985)
99 min | Documentary
Director: John Soh | Stars: Jacques Chancel, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, John Denver, José Ferrer
Votes: 28
5. De película (1982–1990)
60 min
Stars: Isabel Mestres, José Ruiz, Emilio Linder, María Salerno
Votes: 136
6. Streetwise (1984)
91 min | Documentary, Drama
Gritty documentary that looks at the lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle.
Director: Martin Bell | Stars: Annie, Eddie, Antoine, Erica
Votes: 2,963 | Gross: $0.01M
7. Phantom India (1969– )
378 min | Documentary
"Phantom India" is regarded as the crowning achievement of Louis Malle's career.
Stars: Louis Malle, Thomas Frederick Howard, Rajani Desai, Namboodiripad
Votes: 500
8. Goodbye, Children (1987)
PG | 104 min | Drama, War
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg
Votes: 36,135 | Gross: $4.54M
9. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin
Votes: 28,662 | Gross: $0.11M
10. The Fire Within (1963)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps
Votes: 10,481
11.
Phantom India (1969– )
Episode:
A Look at Castes
(1969)
52 min | Documentary
Malle starts the episode by interviewing Thomas Howard, a US Peace Corps agricultural specialist who's one of 700 volunteers there, then he shows footage from Haryana, a village in ... See full synopsis »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Louis Malle, Thomas Frederick Howard
Votes: 20
12.
Phantom India (1969– )
Episode:
The Impossible Camera
(1969)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Ambu, Jyoti Basu, Simon Coder, Rajani Desai
Votes: 24
13.
Phantom India (1969– )
Episode:
The Indians and the Sacred
(1969)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Louis Malle
Votes: 17
14. My Dinner with Andre (1981)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler
Votes: 25,806 | Gross: $5.25M
15. Camera Three (1955–1980)
30 min | Drama
A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.
Stars: James Macandrew, Faubion Bowers, Margaret Croyden, Alfredo Antonini
Votes: 63
16.
Murphy Brown (1988–2018)
Episode:
My Movie with Louis
(1994)
TV-PG | Comedy
Murphy accepts a part in a Louis Malle film and Frank desperately tries to get himself included. Stan Lansing, a top network network executive, tells them they can't appear in movies ... See full summary »
Director: John Rich | Stars: Candice Bergen, Pat Corley, Faith Ford, Charles Kimbrough
Votes: 58
17.
Phantom India (1969– )
Episode:
Things Seen in Madras
(1969)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Louis Malle | Star: Hema Malini
Votes: 20
18.
Phantom India (1969– )
Episode:
Dream and Reality
(1969)
51 min | Documentary
Director Louis Malle, who also narrates, continues his epic documentary by discussing how he and his crew are gradually losing track of time and living as Indians do. Things noted are done ... See full synopsis »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jyoti Basu, Gopal, Mohammad Koya, Namboodiripad
Votes: 17
19. Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
R | 138 min | Drama, War
In 1944, an 18-year-old boy from small-town France collaborates with the Gestapo and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler, Therese Giehse
Votes: 7,717
20. The Bohemian Life (1992)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite setbacks and tragedies.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen
Votes: 6,435
21.
Phantom India (1969– )
Episode:
Bombay
(1969)
52 min | Documentary
Director/narrator Malle concludes his epic documentary by examining the capital city, Bombay, built by the English for colonial needs. He notes the sidewalk vendors are mainly Muslim ... See full synopsis »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Rajani Desai, Pashabhai Patel, Vinayak Purohit, Bal Thackery
Votes: 15
22. Murmur of the Heart (1971)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama
As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 10,855 | Gross: $0.35M
23. God's Country (1985 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Louis Malle, Lowell Barnum, Arnold Beneke, Millie Beneke
Votes: 941
24.
Phantom India (1969– )
Episode:
On the Fringes of Indian Society
(1969)
52 min | Documentary
In this episode, director/narrator Malle concentrates on small pockets of people he has discovered with unique ways of life but that are endangered due to external pressures. First, he ... See full synopsis »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Ambu, Simon Coder
Votes: 16
25. World Without Sun (1964)
93 min | Documentary
Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen and mostly filmed in deep-water seas from within a special designed batiscaff, by the Cousteau family of sea explorers.
Director: Jacques-Yves Cousteau | Stars: Pierre Bidault, Louis Bidegant, Christian Bonnici, Jacques Bourdes
Votes: 533
26. Vive le tour (1962)
18 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
Chronicles the cyclists of the Tour de France and their daily trails along the race.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jean Bobet, Jacques Anquetil, Raymond Poulidor
Votes: 981
27. Atlantic City (1980)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 18,304
28. Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
PG | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Wallace Shawn, Phoebe Brand, George Gaynes, Jerry Mayer
Votes: 5,162 | Gross: $1.75M
29. Young Törless (1966)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
In a boarding school, a student observes in passive disgust as his two friends manipulate, humiliate and torture a fellow student, justifying their every act.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Fred Dietz
Votes: 2,667
30. Hollywood's Children (1982 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary
A Documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures. Narrated by Roddy McDowell.
Directors: Gene Feldman, Suzette Winter | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Melissa Sue Anderson, Baby Peggy, Freddie Bartholomew
Votes: 53
31. The Lovers (1958)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre
Votes: 5,926
32. May Fools (1990)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy, Marcel Bories
Votes: 3,414 | Gross: $1.58M
33. Calcutta (1969)
105 min | Documentary
With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960's: rich and poor, exotic and ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Malle | Star: Louis Malle
Votes: 782
34. ...and the Pursuit of Happiness (1986 TV Movie)
80 min | Documentary
After acknowledging his own immigrant background, Malle, tries to present the range of immigrant experiences in the US during the 1980's. In an attempt to be comprehensive, the film ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Franklin Chang-Diaz, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Lenwood Johnson, Boris Lyoskin
Votes: 523
35. Cinépanorama (1956–1966)
Documentary
Stars: François Chalais, France Roche, Yves Montand, Martine Carol
Votes: 63
36. Jean Renoir: Part Two - Hollywood and Beyond (1993 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
A thoughtful look at Jean Renoir's attempts to work within the Hollywood system during the 1940's, and his return to Europe as an international filmmaker in the 1950's.
Director: David M. Thompson | Stars: Jean Renoir, Françoise Arnoul, Maurice Baquet, Bernardo Bertolucci
Votes: 41
37. Film '72 (1971–2018)
30 min | Talk-Show
The BBC's flagship cinema review television programme featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the programme changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.
Stars: Barry Norman, Danny Leigh, Claudia Winkleman, Jonathan Ross
Votes: 535
38. Place de la République (1974)
94 min | Documentary
Vibrant scenes of individuals' daily life are filmed in Place de la République.
Director: Louis Malle | Star: Louis Malle
Votes: 439
39. The Road to Bresson (1984)
54 min | Documentary
A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
Directors: Leo De Boer, Jurriën Rood | Stars: Robert Bresson, Louis Malle, Dominique Sanda, Paul Schrader
Votes: 262
40. The Silent World (1956)
86 min | Documentary, Adventure
A documentary about the undersea explorers and how they penetrate into the underwater world.
Directors: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle | Stars: Frédéric Dumas, Albert Falco, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, François Saout
Votes: 1,816
41. Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (1993 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Director: David M. Thompson | Stars: Jean Renoir, Peter Bogdanovich, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Votes: 41
42. Murphy Brown (1988–2018)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The personal and professional misadventures of an opinionated but beloved woman working as a television journalist.
Stars: Candice Bergen, Grant Shaud, Robert Pastorelli, Faith Ford
Votes: 10,652
43. Zazie in the Metro (1960)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy
With her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike under her uncle's not-so-watchful eye. But can a little girl cause so much chaos in the city centre?
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Carla Marlier
Votes: 6,756
44. A Very Curious Girl (1969)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
An oppressed and exploited young woman (Marie) begins charging for her sexual favors and completely disrupts the smug patriarchal capitalist society of the village of Tellier.
Director: Nelly Kaplan | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Georges Géret, Henri Czarniak, Claire Maurier
Votes: 991
45. The Thief of Paris (1967)
Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama
In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 2,237
46. Cannes Film Festival (1952– )
News
A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.
Stars: Bjorn Jiskoot Jr., Isabelle Huppert, Pedro Almodóvar, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 119
47. Dominique Sanda ou Le rêve éveillé (1977 TV Movie)
26 min | Documentary
Director: Louis Malle | Star: Dominique Sanda
Votes: 13
48. Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1995)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary
Henry Jaglom was hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic, egomaniac fraud and the "world's worst director,"
Directors: Henry Alex Rubin, Jeremy Workman | Stars: Candice Bergen, Karen Black, Peter Bogdanovich, Seymour Cassel
Votes: 209
49.
Pour le plaisir (1964–1968)
Episode:
Un Metteur En Ordre: Robert Bresson
(1966)
60 min | Documentary
Several fellow directors as well as several participants in the film Au Hasard Balthazar engage in an in depth discussion of that work and of its creator Bresson.
Director: Roland Darbois | Stars: Robert Bresson, Ghislain Cloquet, Marguerite Duras, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 5
50. Damage (1992)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance
A Member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's girlfriend despite the obvious dangers.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves
Votes: 20,556 | Gross: $7.53M