14 Movies Starring Jean-Claude Brialy

Le Beau Serge

Le Beau Serge

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-01-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1723 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Chabrol

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Francois comes back to his home village in France after more than a decade. He notices that the village hasn't changed much, but the people have, especially his old friend Serge who has become a drunkard. Francois now tries to find out what happened to him and tries to help him.

The Big Night

The Big Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-11-12

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (313 Reviews)

Director:

Mauro Bolognini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Pier Paolo Pasolini (novel)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay)

Jacques-Laurent Bost (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Una notte di due balordi, Scintillone e Ruggero, a cui si aggiunge in seguito un terzo, Bellabella, che dopo un furto vengono a loro volta derubati. Tentano poi di rubare un'apparecchio fotografico da una macchina; sorpresi dal proprietario, Achille, ci fanno amicizia e si recano a casa sua. Qua rubano nuovamente, duecentomila lire, e scappano. Ma litigano per il bottino. Cosè tra liti, arresti e donne continua la notte finchè all'alba Ruggeretto si ritrova con mille lire e la nausea.

Les Cousins

Les Cousins

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-11-23

Languages:

French, German

Countries:

France

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (1447 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Chabrol

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Claude Chabrol (scenario)

Paul Gègauff (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films.

The Big Night

The Big Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-11-12

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (313 Reviews)

Director:

Mauro Bolognini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Pier Paolo Pasolini (novel)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay)

Jacques-Laurent Bost (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Una notte di due balordi, Scintillone e Ruggero, a cui si aggiunge in seguito un terzo, Bellabella, che dopo un furto vengono a loro volta derubati. Tentano poi di rubare un'apparecchio fotografico da una macchina; sorpresi dal proprietario, Achille, ci fanno amicizia e si recano a casa sua. Qua rubano nuovamente, duecentomila lire, e scappano. Ma litigano per il bottino. Cosè tra liti, arresti e donne continua la notte finchè all'alba Ruggeretto si ritrova con mille lire e la nausea.

The Big Night

The Big Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-11-12

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (313 Reviews)

Director:

Mauro Bolognini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Pier Paolo Pasolini (novel)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay)

Jacques-Laurent Bost (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Una notte di due balordi, Scintillone e Ruggero, a cui si aggiunge in seguito un terzo, Bellabella, che dopo un furto vengono a loro volta derubati. Tentano poi di rubare un'apparecchio fotografico da una macchina; sorpresi dal proprietario, Achille, ci fanno amicizia e si recano a casa sua. Qua rubano nuovamente, duecentomila lire, e scappano. Ma litigano per il bottino. Cosè tra liti, arresti e donne continua la notte finchè all'alba Ruggeretto si ritrova con mille lire e la nausea.

A Woman Is a Woman

A Woman Is a Woman

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-09-06

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

84 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (9481 Reviews)

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Fullplot:

Angela,a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she goes after Emile's friend Alfred.

I Knew Her Well

I Knew Her Well

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-12-01

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, West Germany, France

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (533 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Ruggero Maccari

Antonio Pietrangeli

Ettore Scola

Fullplot:

The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-06-25

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (6072 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Cornell Woolrich (novel)

Franèois Truffaut (adaptation)

Jean-Louis Richard (adaptation)

Fullplot:

After trying to commit suicide, the widow Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) pretends to her mother that she will leave her town. Actually she stays, chases and assassinates the five men that accidentally killed her beloved husband in the stairs of the church immediately after their wedding ceremony.

Claire's Knee

Claire's Knee

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-02-21

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

GP

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (5152 Reviews)

Director:

Eric Rohmer

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, an Italian writer and old friend. She talks him into a flirt with his landlady's teenage daughter, Laura, but he falls for Laura's half-sister Claire and develops a desire to caress her knee.

The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-10-27

Languages:

French

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(9512 Reviews)

Director:

Luis Buèuel

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Luis Buèuel

Jean-Claude Carrière

Fullplot:

One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on lavatories round a dinner table on, occasionally retiring to a little room to eat.

The Judge and the Assassin

The Judge and the Assassin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-08-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

128 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (969 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jean Aurenche

Bertrand Tavernier

Jean Aurenche (original story)

Pierre Bost (original story)

Fullplot:

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier, a former Sergeant in the French military, shoots his beloved and attempts to kill himself. Having survived with two bullets in his brain, he is released from the Dole medical facility, a place of mental and physical filthiness. Then begins a five-year period of wandering on the roads of the South East of France, during which Bouvier rapes and eventually kills two dozen defenseless shepherds and farm servants of both sexes. Judge Rousseau thinks this case would help his career as a right wing politician and therefore issues warrants of arrests to find any hobo fitting the description. But if Bouvier was declared insane, the Judge's plan may become a trap...

Barocco

Barocco

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-12-08

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (511 Reviews)

Fullplot:

The story of Barocco is about a girl in love with a boxer. They plan to go abroad after making a lot of money by participating in an interview intended to discredit a politician at elections time. But the boxer is killed before, and the killer, little by little, fall in love with the girl that accept him finally at the condition that he looks like the boxer he killed.

Les innocents

Les innocents

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-12-23

Languages:

French, Arabic

Countries:

France

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (181 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Pascal Bonitzer (adaptation)

Pascal Bonitzer (screenplay)

Andrè Tèchinè (adaptation)

Andrè Tèchinè (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Malady of Love

Malady of Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-09-30

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

122 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (140 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Deray

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Danièle Thompson

Andrzej Zulawski (story)

Fullplot:

Mad love. Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clèment, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clèment's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clèment makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancèe, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clèment, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?

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