9 Movies Starring Laurent Terzieff

Araya

Araya

Basic Info:

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Venezuela, France

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (285 Reviews)

Genres:

Documentary

Cast:

Writer:

Margot Benacerraf

Pierre Seghers

Fullplot:

"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.

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.

Kapè

Kapè

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1960-09-29

Languages:

Italian, German, Russian, Polish

Countries:

Italy, France, Yugoslavia

Runtime:

116 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (1148 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Gillo Pontecorvo

Franco Solinas

Fullplot:

Kapo is a black and white film that tells the story of a Jewish teenager sent to a concentration camp together with her parents. She manages to survive with the help of a Jewish doctor who gives her the identity of another woman who had died recently. Thus, Edith becomes Nicole and she is no longer a Jew, at least not in the papers. At first she is very sad about her parents' death but as time passed she realized she had to get out of that mood if she wanted to survive. So, she accepts an affair with a German officer even if she is only 14 and she starts getting privileges, becoming with time a Kapo, one of the women prisoners who were in charge with disciplining the other women. She knows it's the only way to survive but same time she lives in deep remorse even though she never shows any feelings.

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.

Vanina Vanini

Vanina Vanini

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-10-12

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

127 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (178 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Stendhal (short story: Chronique italienne)

Franco Solinas (adaptation)

Antonello Trombadori (adaptation)

Roberto Rossellini (screenplay)

Diego Fabbri (screenplay)

Monique Lange

Fullplot:

Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Free Masons.

The Milky Way

The Milky Way

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-03-15

Languages:

French, Italian, Latin

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

M

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (4655 Reviews)

Director:

Luis Buèuel

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Luis Buèuel

Jean-Claude Carrière

Fullplot:

Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.

Dètective

Dètective

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-08-23

Languages:

French, English, Italian

Countries:

France, Switzerland

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (1099 Reviews)

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:

Writer:

Alain Sarde (screenplay)

Philippe Setbon (screenplay)

Jean-Luc Godard (adaptation)

Anne-Marie Mièville (adaptation)

Fullplot:

In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-year-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxing manager, who owes them a huge amount of money. But Jim also owes money to the Mafia, and it seems the boxing match he is counting on to bail out will not be sufficient...

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-03-26

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

113 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1510 Reviews)

Fullplot:

This is just another roadside cafeteria. Gino, who enters it discreetly, is an armed robber ... without an arm! He tries to hold up the place but fails pitifully: the pretty waitress won't allow! Two amateur kidnappers take a rich teenage girl hostage and want to exchange her for ransom. But their victim is not easy to deal with. Two singers meet in the cafeteria by chance and talk about a stolen song and a stolen woman. Five seventy-year-old retired robbers also meet at the cafeteria - where their hideout used to be - and work out a last caper. In the end, after having tried to steal from each other, go away together.

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