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Jeanne Moreau
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Jeanne Moreau - what members say
review by from west sussex
Diary of Despair 20 May 2005
review by Savage from London, England
A failure, but an interesting one 10 July 2007
review by from Aylesbury/Bucks/England
The Cold and Depressing End of a Relationship... 16 March 2008
Jeanne Moreau - filmography
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Time to Leave
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Director: Francois Ozon
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A 30-year-old man faces up to the reality of his own mortality in this intimate and lyrical movie. The perfect life of a fashion photographer is turn upside down with the shock diagnosis of a serious illness. Full of anger and denial, he only tells his grandmother - until he meets a waitress...
 
63%
from 2,713 members
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Firestarter 2
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Malcolm McDowell, Dennis Hopper
Director: Robert Iscove
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Charlie McGhee (Marguerite Moreau) has grown into a beautiful young woman. She still does not have control over her ability to channel her emotions into flame, though. She also is not free from a corporate goon squad who seek the girl who they have given these powers to. She is again joined by ..read more »
56%
from 354 members
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Ever After
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott
Director: Andrew Tennant
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In a re-telling of one of our most beloved tales, a resourceful young woman must overcome the schemes of her evil stepmother to be with the one she loves -- the Prince of France -- who has fallen for her beauty and intelligence. With the ingenuity of Leonardo Di Vinci and the strength of love, the ..read more »
68%
from 6,456 members
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I Love You, I Love You Not
(1996)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Claire Danes, Jude Law
Director: Billy Hopkins
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Prep school student Daisy and her European-born grandmother Nana share the sad stories of their lives: Daisy tells Nana of her romance with young Ethan and problems in school because she's Jewish; and Nana tells of her young years under Nazis when she was sent to ghetto and then to concentration camp.
47%
from 34 members
Currently unavailable
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Beyond The Clouds
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Irene Jacob, John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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The many ways in which men are fascinated, compelled, and confused by their attraction to women are explored in this four part drama. As a filmmaker (John Malkovich) tries to sort out his plans for his next film, he considers several stories about women and the men who love them. Silvano (Kim Rossi ..read more »
51%
from 847 members
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A Foreign Field
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Edward Herrmann
Director: Charles Sturridge
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Five decades after blood flowed freely on its shores, Normandy is revisited by a handful of nostalgic World War Two veterans (Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, and John Randolph). It isn't long before the men begin to reopen old wounds as they explore the battlefield that shaped their lives. Two of the ..read more »
70%
from 381 members
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The Lover
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frederique Meininger
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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In the Indo-China of the 1920's, a 15 year old French schoolgirl and a wealthy Chinese man more than twice her age are thrown together by a twist of fate. It is a moment of instant attraction and before long the couple find themselves caught up in an affair of uncontrollable desires. But this is a ..read more »
59%
from 1,785 member
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Nikita - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean Reno
Director: Luc Besson
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A beautiful junkie condemned to death for the murder of a policeman is given a chance to live - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government. Her lonely existence is warmed when she falls in love with a gentle, humorous man who knows nothing of her bizarre and mysterious life. Remade ..read more »
71%
from 1,246 member
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Nikita
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean Reno
Director: Luc Besson
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The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne Parillaud) fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then injected ..read more »
69%
from 16,923 members
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Le Paltoquet
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Jeanne Moreau, Daniel Auteuil
Director: Michel Deville
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Four men, a journalist, a doctor, a professor and a merchant, meet up every evening in a deserted bar to play cards. One night the police arrive with the news that a dead body has been found nearby and the inspector in charge is sure that one of them did it.
41%
from 286 members
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Querelle
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Brad Davis, Jeanne Moreau, Franco Nero
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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A sailor learns to take, and give, it like a man in this surrealistic adaptation of writer and thief Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest by avant-garde German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In a colourful brothel in the port of Brest, proprietor Nono (Gunther Kaufmann) is known for wagering ..read more »
49%
from 1,411 member
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That Obscure Object of Desire
(1977)
Starring: Carole Bouquet, Fernando Rey, Angela Molina
Director: Luis Bunuel
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Luis Buñuel's last film is as just audacious as any of his classics. Wealthy sadomasochist Fernando Rey falls hard for a young maid and she's only too happy to make him suffer. Buñuel's bizarre stroke is having Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina alternate playing the maid!
71%
from 958 members
Not currently released
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The Last Tycoon
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg). Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and ..read more »
55%
from 423 members
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Les Valseuses
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Isabelle Huppert, Gerard Depardieu
Director: Bertrand Blier
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Director Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses features Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere as a pair of sociopaths wending their way across France. Though Depardieu is the more dominant of the two, both men are equally culpable in their disregard for common decency. They are particularly rough on women, ..read more »
65%
from 1,455 member
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The Immortal Story
(1968)
Starring: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio
Director: Orson Welles
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The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and is now quite old. He likes his clerk Levinsky to read the company's accounts to him at night for relaxation. Tonight Mr. Clay recounts a true ..read more »
55%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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Belle De Jour - Blu-ray
(1967)
Starring: Genevieve Page, Angela Molina, Catherine Deneuve
Director: Luis Bunuel
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
An exquisite tale of self-discovery and tragic passion, Luis Bunuel's Golden Lion Award-winning drama chronicles a French housewife's awakening passions as she spends her days living out her fantasies in a brothel and her nights in the arms of her loving husband. Based on Joseph Kessel's 1928 novel,..read more »
63%
from 327 members
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Belle De Jour
(1967)
Starring: Angela Molina, Catherine Deneuve, Franco Nero
Director: Luis Bunuel
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Severine is married to a French doctor. She is unable to deal with his sexual advances so seeks work in a brothel. Based on a novel by Joseph Kessel.
67%
from 3,205 members
Not currently released
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Mademoiselle
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Ettore Manni, Jane Beretta, Umberto Orsini
Director: Tony Richardson
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Mademoiselle (Jeanne Moreau: Jules et Jim) is the local school teacher of a small French village which has recently been terrorized by clandestine acts of arson; several farms have been torched and the townspeople are quick to accuse the Italian , Manou (Ettore Manni), who has been seducing the ..read more »
55%
from 67 members
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Made in USA
(1966)
Starring: Anna Karina, jean-Pierre Leaud, Laszlo Szabo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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A woman is investigating the death of her lover Richard, at an undisclosed point in the future. She encounters a series of shady gangsters, and leaves behind a lot of corpses.
58%
from 567 members
Not currently released
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The Train
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Director: John Frankenheimer
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The duo of director John Frankenheimer and actor Burt Lancaster again join forces with the latter starring as French railway inspector Labiche. With Allied forces closing in on occupied Paris, Herman Goering orders Col. Franz von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) to move the priceless art from the Jeu de ..read more »
69%
from 1,253 member
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Orson Welles - The Trial
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles
Director: Orson Welles
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Orson Welles, director of Citizen Kane & Touch of Evil, directs and appears in Kafta's classic tale of an ordinary man trying to make sense ot a world that is governed by bizarrely inexplicable rules and giant unyielding machines of power.
66%
from 478 members
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The Victors
(1963)
Starring: Vince Edwards, Albert Finney, George Hamilton
Director: Carl Foreman
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War has no victors, only survivors. Killing destroys the killers as well as the killed; because it murders decency, self-respect and ultimately life itself. The story follows in the footsteps of a squad of young American solders from the early days of the Battle of Britain, through the fierce ..read more »
80%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Bay of the Angels
(1963)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers
Director: Jacques Demy
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Jackie Demaistre (Jeanne Moreau), a compulsive gambler on holiday in Nice, falls in love with Jean Fournier (Claude Mann), a bank clerk who also succumbs to the thrill of the casino. At first, the love affair seems destined for greatness, as does their success at gambling. Relying on each other for ..read more »
67%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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The Trial
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli
Director: Orson Welles
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THE TRIAL is Orson Welles's claustrophobic adaptation of Franz Kafka's surreal tale of fear and paranoia in a nameless society. Tinged with background jazz, filmed in shadowy black and white--mostly with direct light--THE TRIAL looks like a classic film noir, with angled close-ups and characters ..read more »
69%
from 489 members
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La Notte
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita, 8 1/2) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim, Bay of Angels). He is a renowned author and "public intellectual"; she is "the wife." Over the course of one day and the night into which ..read more »
72%
from 716 members
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Jules Et Jim
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Oskar Werner, Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre
Director: Francois Truffaut
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Possibly the most acclaimed of Truffaut's films, 'Jules et Jim' tells of two men in love with a capricious, amoral woman. The photography highlights some of Europe's most stunning locations, from Paris to the Austrian Alps
66%
from 7,272 members
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Breathless
(1960)
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism ..read more »
67%
from 8,418 members
Not currently released
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Five Branded Women
(1960)
Starring: Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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The savagery of the Yugoslav partisans as they fight off Nazi occupation forces is also vented on five women accused of Nazi sympathies because of their sexual association with one German officer. The women (played by Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, and Carla Gravina)..read more »
13%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Breathless - Blu-ray
(1959)
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism ..read more »
70%
from 297 members
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Les Amants
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Marc Bory
Director: Louis Malle
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Malle's second film Les Amants stars Jeanne Moreau as a middle-class wife and mother who is bored with her life. But when she meets Bernard, a younger man she find herself alive again as she embarks on an affair.
67%
from 477 members
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Lift to the Scaffold
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau
Director: Louis Malle
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Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex - paratrooper want to murder her husband by faking a suicide. But after Julien has killed him and he puts his things in his car, he finds he has forgotten the rope outside the window and he returns to the building to remove it...
76%
from 966 members
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Touchez Paz Au Grisbi
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura
Director: Jacques Becker
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Gabin, the quintessential tough-guy, and Moreau, resplendent as always, pair up for this heist film, one of the best of the French gangster films of the 1950s. In it, Gabin is an aging thief who has already pulled off what he thinks was his last big job, scoring enough gold to last him through his ..read more »
74%
from 473 members
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Luis Bunuel collection
(8 discs)
Starring: Angela Molina, Franco Nero, Jean Sorel
Director: Luis Bunuel
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A box set of movies from the renowned director, Luis Bunuel.
Featuring:
1. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
2. The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie (1972)
3. The Diary of A Chambermaid (1964)
4. Phantom Of Liberty (1974)
5. Milky Way (1969)
6. Tristana (1970)
7. La Joven (La Jeune Fille) (B?)..read more »
68%
from 1,902 member
Not currently released
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Louis Malle Collection - Vol. 1
(4 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Jeanne Moreau
Director: Louis Malle
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A collection of four French films spanning the late 1950s and early 1960s by the highly-regarded director Louis Malle, who later made the Hollywood films MY DINNER WITH ANDRE and PRETTY BABY. After his role as a camera operator on the Jacque Cousteau documentary THE SILENT WORLD in 1956, Malle ..read more »
75%
from 24 members
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Jean-Luc Godard Collection Vol.1
(4 discs)
Starring: Laszlo Szabo, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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One of the founders of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard has been responsible for creating some of the most innovative and daring films during the past four decades. This set features four of his best known films - ALPHAVILLE, PASSION, A BOUT DE SOUFFLE and MADE IN THE USA.
67%
from 1,803 member
Not currently released
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Jeanne Moreau facts
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...sentimentality, in this case as brutish Fascists or ignorant selfish people.
Jeanne Moreau gives a brilliant performance, capturing the cool detachment which is necessary...
