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  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Cinema Paradiso review by Halliwelll from Essex, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Transforming Magic of Cinema 26 January 2007
    ...mes Stewart, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart and Charlie Chaplin; but also Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), the middle aged and congenial projectionist at the Cinema Paradiso. We learn...   Read customer review
  • Coup De Torchon
  • Coup De Torchon review by 2ManyFilms from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars So what? 6 May 2008
    ...This should work. It stars Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino) and the hypnotic Isabelle Hupert. It's based on a Jim Thompson novel (Pop. 1280). Its director Bert...   Read customer review
  • The Watchmaker of St. Paul
  • The Watchmaker of St. Paul review by from Aylesbury/Bucks/En
    Rated - 4.0 stars Tavernier's tribute to the old wave... 16 March 2008
    ...y call its direction `heavy-handed.' They note the over-the-top performances of Philippe Noiret and Jacques Denis (not to mention Yves Afonso. runner-up to Alain Delon in the ...   Read customer review

Philippe Noiret - filmography


  • Time of The Wolf on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy,  Philippe Noiret,  Maurice Benichou
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Isabelle Huppert stars in this tense post-apocalyptic drama, set in a world in which society has completely broken down. Anne (Huppert) flees the city with her husband and two children, hoping to find refuge at the family's country home. But when they arrive they realise they have made a terrible ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,953 members
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  • Le Bossu on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Claire Nebout,  Philippe Noiret,  Jean-Francois Stevenin
    Director: Philippe de Broca
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    1997 adaptation of the 1858 novel by Paul Feval. After meeting his hero, the wealthy Duc de Nevers (Vincent Perez), in Paris, swordsman Legardere (Daniel Auteuil) becomes his sworn protector. Nevers' life is under threat from his cousin, Gonzague (Fabrice Luchini), who has employed an assassin to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,708 members
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  • Il Postino on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Sergio Solli,  Maria Grazi,  Philippe Noiret
    Director: Michael Radford
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this remake of the 1983 Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skarmeta, the time and place have been changed to Italy in the 1950s, but the relationship between the Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda and Mario (Massimo Troisi), the postman who delivers his copious mail, is still the focus of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11,459 members
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  • D'Artagnan's Daughter on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Sophie Marceau,  Philippe Noiret,  Claude Rich
    Director: Bertrand Tavernier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Humorous swashbuckling adventure from renowned director Bertrand Tavernier. A beautiful young woman (Sophie Marceau) discovers a plot to assassinate King Louis XIV (Stephane Legros) so she hurries off to Paris to get help from her father. Her father is the retired musketeer D'Artagnan (Philippe ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 330 members
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  • Tango on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Michèle Laroque,  Judith Godreche,  Philippe Noiret
    Director: Patrice Leconte
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    If such a thing as gentle humor can be wrung from murderous misogyny, this all-star comedy is the embodiment of it. The basic point of the film seems to be this: unattached men long to live with women, and once they do, they long to live without them. In this story, Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 533 members
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  • Cinema Paradiso (2 discs) on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Agnes Nano,  Philippe Noiret,  Salvatore Cascio
    Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in a small Sicilian village, the story depicts three stages in the life of Salvatore, who leaves his village on the advice of his mentor as a boy and returns home many years later as a prominent Roman movie director. He returns to attend the funeral of the town's former film projectionist and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 25,469 members
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  • The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
    Starring: Michael York,  Oliver Reed,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Richard Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbot, and Athos, a brawler raising ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 14 members
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  • Masks on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Philippe Noiret,  Anne Brochet,  Jean Rochefort
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Chabrol's mystery thriller centres on the investigation a by writer, Roland Wolf (Robin Renucci), into the unsolved murder of his sister. His quest leads him to the door of TV show host Legagneur (Philippe Noiret) whose affable public persona may conceal some rather more unpleasant qualities. As he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 73 members
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  • Le Cop (1984)
    Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire,  Philippe Noiret,  Thierry Lhermitte
    Director: Claude Zidi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The humorous story of an unscrupulous 20-year veteran of the Paris Police Force who is assigned a new partner, a recent graduate of the police academy. Their opposing personalities make for many comic situations.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 25 members
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  • Tre fratelli (1981)
    Starring: Philippe Noiret,  Michele Placido,  Vittorio Mezzogiorno
    Director: Francesco Rosi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 11 members
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  • Grande Bouffe, La on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Michel Piccoli,  Philippe Noiret,  Michel Piccoli
    Director: Marco Ferreri
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of life, and so meet at a remote villa with the goal of literally eating themselves to death. The quartet comes from various walks of life --..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 920 members
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  • Night Flight from Moscow (1972)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Henry Fonda,  Dirk Bogarde
    Director: Henri Verneuil
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The tension-filled days of Cold War espionage and international intrigue return to life in this edge-of-the-seat political thriller. Yul Brynner plays a Soviet spy who defects to the West and brings along with him a list of several high-ranking Western officials who are in fact Soviet double agents...read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 14 members
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  • Topaz on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Michel Piccoli,  Philippe Noiret,  John Vernon
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Hitchcock spy thriller. CIA agent Michael Nordstrom (John Forsythe) learns from a Soviet defector that Russia has become embroiled in the Cuban missile crisis via a NATO spy codenamed Topaz. Enlisting the help of French agent Andre Devereaux (Frederick Stafford), Nordstrom attempts to discover the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 974 members
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  • Zazie Dans Le Metro on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Catherine Demongeot,  Philippe Noiret
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The story of Zazie (Catherine Demongeot), a ten year old girl who desperately wants to ride on the Paris Metro during her holidays. But when she arrives and finds out that there is a 24 hour strike on, she runs riot through the city instead.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 647 members
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  • Copacabana
    Starring: Aure Atika,  Chantal Banlier,  Rudy Blomme
    Director: Marc Fitoussi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Boldly unconventional and cheerful, that's how one could describe Babou. Never having cared about social conventions, she is suddenly faced with the realization that her own daughter is ashamed of her and therefore refuses to invite her to her wedding. Hurt in her pride, Babou tries to regain her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 13 members
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Philippe Noiret facts

5 most recent films

Villa Amalia - 3.0 stars
Time of The Wolf - 3.0 stars
Le Bossu - 3.5 stars
Il Postino - 3.5 stars
D'Artagnan's Daughter - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Cinema Paradiso - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Cinema Paradiso - 4.0 stars
Il Postino - 3.5 stars
Le Bossu - 3.5 stars
The Watchmaker of St. Paul - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Playing With Fire - 1.5 stars
Les Copains - 2.0 stars
Tre fratelli - 2.5 stars
Vie de Chateau, La - 2.5 stars
Night Flight from Moscow - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Isabelle Huppert - 7 times - show films
Jean Rochefort - 4 times - show films
Michel Piccoli - 3 times - show films
Michel Piccoli - 3 times - show films
Marcello Mastroianni - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Bertrand Tavernier - 5 times - show films
Giuseppe Tornatore - 4 times - show films
Claude Chabrol - 3 times - show films
Marco Ferreri - 2 times - show films
Michael Haneke - 2 times - show films