Jean-Pierre Melville
Also Known As: Jean-Pierre Grumbach, 让-皮埃尔·梅尔维尔, 장피에르 멜빌, 장-피에르 멜빌, 장 피에르 멜빌
Biography: Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969). Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over. His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 20, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 02, 1973
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Breathless
Overview: A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-16
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Belmondo, le magnifique
Overview: With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of the essential stars of French cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-03
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Bluebeard
Overview: Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-25
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Les Rois de la comédie
Overview: At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel with “The Cow and the Prisoner”, Bourvil with “The Hunchback”, Jacques Tati with “My Uncle” and Louis de Funès with “Oscar” at the theater. On the big screen or on stage, each of these artists has a unique style of humor. They are the kings of French comedy. But how did they manage to become true box office champions? How did they experience their immense popularity? How do they still influence the comedy genre? And above all, are- are they funny in life? Where is the line between their character in the cinema and their real personality?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-01
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24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Overview: The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a meal, looks at photos and goes to bed to rise, spend a day in the village and perform with his new partner.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Two Men in Manhattan
Overview: Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-10-16
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Le Combat dans l’île
Overview: The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément, leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When he’s ratted out after a failed assassination attempt on a prominent politician, Clément and his long-suffering wife Anne flee Paris to the idyllic country home of his childhood friend, pacifist print-maker Paul. As affection blossoms between Paul and Anne, the emotional, as well as political tensions, soar and eventually explode.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-08-16
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Orpheus
Overview: A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-29
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Code Name: Melville
Overview: Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-27
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Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Overview: A childhood in boarding school, volunteered at 17 for the war and dismissed for indiscipline, thug in Marseille turned gigolo in Paris, he became actor thanks to some inspired women. Then flying high, fast and far, thanks to his director masters René Clément, Luchino Visconti & Jean-Pierre Melville.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-07
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Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
Overview: Shot while he was preparing Un Flic, Melville carefully leads Labarthe through the trajectory of his career, from his daring debut The Silence of the Sea to his great successes of the 1960s, Le Samourai and Le cercle rouge. Labarthe also details the development of the Melville “myth: the dark glasses, the trenchcoats, the Ford Mustang, and his general tough-guy demeanor. This documentary first appeared as an episode on the French television series "Cinéastes de notres temps".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Overview: Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in impossible movies and works without meaning... I believe in the anti-movie. I believe in the non-movie. I believe in Urgent... My first full length movie that is so anti-everything that I sometimes wonder if it really does exist!"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-01
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A Girl in a Pocket
Overview: A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-06
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Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
Overview: Documentary exploring the friendship between French director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Alain Delon, and their collaboration on the 1967 film Le samouraï.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-31
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Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-02-14
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Lino Ventura, la part intime
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-04
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Bob le Flambeur
Overview: In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-08-24
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Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
Overview: Director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Lino Ventura are interviewed about their 1966 film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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Melville, le dernier samouraï
Overview: Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming the father of the Nouvelle Vague and one of the most iconic directors of French cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-03-29
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Sign of the Lion
Overview: An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-03
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