17 Movies Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo

Breathless

Breathless

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-02-07

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

(46737 Reviews)

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Fullplot:

Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American.

Two Women

Two Women

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-05-09

Languages:

Italian, German

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (5807 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Alberto Moravia (novel)

Cesare Zavattini (adaptation)

Fullplot:

Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second world war. They travel to the village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village, the mother does everything to protect Rosetta. However, on one occasion they both get raped by soldiers hiding in a church. This cruel event is too much for the always powerful fighting Cesira and she suffers from a breakdown. During their stay in the village, a young intellectual, Michele falls in love with Cesira who does not know how to reply to the advances of such a gentleman.

Lèon Morin, Priest

Lèon Morin, Priest

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-09-22

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

117 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (2013 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Bèatrix Beck (novel)

Jean-Pierre Melville (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to live in a farm in the countryside and finds that Sabine's brother has been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. The atheist Barny decides to baptize her daughter to protect her and chooses priest Lèon Morin to discuss with him themes related to religion and Catholicism and Lèon lends books to her. Barny converts to the Catholicism and becomes closer to Lèon, feeling an unrequited desire for him.

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.

La viaccia

La viaccia

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-06-13

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (249 Reviews)

Director:

Mauro Bolognini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Mario Pratesi (novel)

Vasco Pratolini

Pasquale Festa Campanile

Massimo Franciosa

Fullplot:

That Man from Rio

That Man from Rio

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1964-02-05

Languages:

French, English, Portuguese

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

112 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (2564 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Paul Rappeneau (screenplay)

Ariane Mnouchkine (screenplay)

Daniel Boulanger (screenplay)

Philippe de Broca (screenplay)

Daniel Boulanger (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a murdered man who possessed one of two other such figurines. Moments after her sweetheart, Adrien, an Army private with a week's leave, arrives in Paris to see her, Agnes too is kidnapped, drugged, and loaded on a plane to Rio. Adrien is in hot pursuit, and before he can rescue her (with the help of a shoeshine boy), foil the murderous thieves, and solve the riddle of the Maltecs, he must traverse Rio, Brasèlia, and the Amazon heartland... all before the end of his week's leave.

Pierrot le Fou

Pierrot le Fou

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-01-08

Languages:

French, English, Italian

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (17085 Reviews)

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Fullplot:

Ferdinand Griffon is married with his wealthy Italian wife and has been recently fired from the television where he worked. His wife forces him to go to a party in the house of her influent father that wants to introduce Ferdinand to a potential employer. Her brother brings the babysitter Marianne Renoir to take care of their children. Ferdinand feels bored in the bourgeois party and borrows his brother-in-law's car to return home. He meets Marianne, who was his lover five years ago and insists to call him Pierrot, and offers to take her home; however, he spends the night with her and finds that she is involved in smuggling weapons. When Marianne is chased by terrorists, they decide to travel to the beach without any money, leaving Paris and his family behind in a crazy journey to nowhere.

Is Paris Burning?

Is Paris Burning?

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1966-10-26

Languages:

French, German, English

Countries:

France, USA

Runtime:

173 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (2570 Reviews)

Director:

Renè Clèment

Cast:

Writer:

Larry Collins (book)

Dominique Lapierre (book)

Gore Vidal (screenplay)

Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay)

Marcel Moussy (additional material for French scenes)

Beate von Molo (additional material for German scenes)

Jean Aurenche

Pierre Bost

Claude Brulè

Fullplot:

In this sprawling, star-laden film, we see the struggles of various French resistance factions to regain control of Paris near the end of World War II. The Nazi general in charge of Paris, Dietrich von Cholitz (Frèbe), is under orders from Hitler himself to burn the city if he cannot control it or if the Allies get too close. Much of the drama centers around the moral deliberations of the general, the Swedish ambassador (Welles), and the eager but desperate leaders of the resistance.

The Thief of Paris

The Thief of Paris

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-08-23

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (927 Reviews)

Director:

Louis Malle

Cast:

Writer:

Georges Darien (novel)

Jean-Claude Carrière (screenplay)

Louis Malle (screenplay)

Daniel Boulanger (dialogue)

Fullplot:

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 rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.

Borsalino

Borsalino

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-08-13

Languages:

French, Italian

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

125 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (2037 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Deray

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Claude Carrière

Jean Cau

Jacques Deray

Eugène Saccomano (book)

Claude Sautet

Fullplot:

In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.

Swashbuckler

Swashbuckler

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-04-07

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy, Romania

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (855 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Paul Rappeneau (scenario)

Jean-Paul Rappeneau (adaptation)

Maurice Clavel (adaptation)

Claude Sautet (adaptation)

Fullplot:

After his escape to America in the year 1787 Nicolas Phillibert wants to marry a rich American heiress. In his homeland France he is still married however to the pretty Charlotte. In order to obtain the divorce, he must return therefore to France. In confusions of the french revolution he soon gets between Royalisten and republicans. After numerous bold adventures he finds his life-merry wife as bride of the best sword fighter of the Bourbonen.

Stavisky...

Stavisky...

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-05-15

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1173 Reviews)

Director:

Alain Resnais

Fullplot:

Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.

Animal

Animal

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-10-05

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

91 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1475 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Zidi

Cast:

Writer:

Michel Audiard (dialogue)

Michel Audiard (screenplay)

Dominique Fabre

Claude Zidi

Fullplot:

A movie about a good-for-nothing stuntman called Mike Gaucher who can't do one single job without something going wrong. His fiancèe wants to kill him, the film studios don't want to give him any more work and, as King Kong for a promotion in a supermarket, he winds up destroying some display shelves. The only role he plays well is pretending not to be able to hear, speak and walk in order to get money from the government. Then along comes the "beautiful" actor called Bruno Ferrari. Supposedly a fearless stuntman, Ferrari turns out to be afraid of heights once his feet leave the ground. So a stuntman is needed to prevent a scandal. And who is the man who looks most (or exactly) like Bruno? You guessed it, good-for-nothing Mike...

Cop or Hood

Cop or Hood

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-03-28

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

107 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1250 Reviews)

Director:

Georges Lautner

Cast:

Writer:

Michel Grisolia (novel)

Jean Herman (adaptation)

Michel Audiard (dialogue)

Fullplot:

The Professional

The Professional

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-10-21

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

108 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (8442 Reviews)

Director:

Georges Lautner

Cast:

Writer:

Patrick Alexander (novel)

Jacques Audiard

Michel Audiard

Georges Lautner

Fullplot:

French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation changes and the French secret service turns him in to the African authorities, and he is sentenced to a long-term imprisonment. After the daring escape he returns to France and deliberately informs his former chiefs of his presence promising them to kill Njala who has just arrived to the country with the official visit.

Itinèraire d'un enfant gètè

Itinèraire d'un enfant gètè

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-11-30

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, West Germany

Runtime:

125 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1346 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Lelouch

Fullplot:

Les Misèrables

Les Misèrables

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-11-03

Languages:

French, German, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

175 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (3121 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Lelouch

Genres:

DramaHistory

Fullplot:

Henri Fortin is poor and iliterate former boxer. Ziman is rich Jewish lawyer from Paris. During WWII they meet when Fortin agrees to drive Ziman's family to Switzerland. Intrigued by Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables", Fortin asks the Zimans to read that book to him during the travel. Before the end of movie every main character would see his character in situations similar to those in Hugo's novel.

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