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Jean Desailly



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Jean Desailly - what members say


  • The Soft Skin
  • The Soft Skin review by from Dorset
    Rated - 2.0 stars Does Truffaut age well? 1 June 2004
    ...oor. We don't do this plot any more unless it has a lot more besides: Man (Jean Desailly) has wife, family and very successful career. Man takes mistress (Françoise Do...   Read customer review

Jean Desailly - filmography


  • Le Professionnel
  • Le Professionnel on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo,  Jean Desailly,  Robert Hossein
    Director: Georges Lautner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 156 members
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  • The Soft Skin
  • The Soft Skin on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Jean Desailly,  Francoise Dorleac,  Nelly Benedetti
    Director: Francois Truffaut
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    THE SOFT SKIN, from one of the New Wave's most prolific directors, Francois Truffaut, is a brilliant classic replete with intrigue, emotion, and stunning imagery. This anatomy of an affair between successful publisher and novelist Pierre Lachenay (Jean Desailly), and airline stewardess Nicole (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,040 member
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  • Le Doulos
  • Le Doulos on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo,  Serge Reggiani,  Jean Desailly
    Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This complex down-beat thriller follows the fatalistic relationship between two men: Maurice Faugel, a crook just out of prison and Silien (Belmondo), who may or may not be a doulos or finger man (a kind of high-class informer). Maurice, wasting no time, immediately begins to put himself on the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,419 member
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Jean Desailly facts

5 most recent films

Le Professionnel - 3.5 stars
The Soft Skin - 3.0 stars
Le Doulos - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Le Doulos - 3.5 stars
Le Professionnel - 3.5 stars
The Soft Skin - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Soft Skin - 3.0 stars
Le Professionnel - 3.5 stars
Le Doulos - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jean-Paul Belmondo - 2 times - show films
Jean-Louis Richard - 1 times - show films
Carl Studer - 1 times - show films
William Warfield - 1 times - show films
Laurence Badie - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Francois Truffaut - 1 times - show films
Jean-Pierre Melville - 1 times - show films
Georges Lautner - 1 times - show films
Henry Brandt - 1 times - show films
Heinz Sielmann - 1 times - show films

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