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  • Atlantic City
  • Atlantic City review by from Shropshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars An American Tale 21 June 2005
    ... Burt Lancaster as the washed-up crook in the sea-side city. The direction (by Louis Malle) and the filming are flawlessly masterful in this tale of love and misdeeds. S...   Read customer review
  • Damage
  • Damage review by from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Compelling erotic drama 24 May 2004
    ...e further complicated by the fact that Anna is about to marry Fleming's son. Louis Malle's drama is a blistering examination of a man giving in to lust. Malle doesn't e...   Read customer review
  • My Dinner with Andre
  • My Dinner with Andre review by uhygtiuplkuh from Eastbourne
    Rated - 3.0 stars My dinner with andre 14 October 2009
    ...Sorry Louis Malle fans, I thought it was awful. So dated & just excruciating to watch & listen to. Maybe it got better but I suspect not. ...   Read customer review

Louis Malle - filmography


  • Damage (1992)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Juliette Binoche,  Miranda Richardson
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Adapted from Josephine Hart's spare novel by British screenwriter David Hare and French director Louis Malle, this brooding erotic drama concerns the obsessive sexual relationship between an English politician and his son's lover. Stephen Flemming (Jeremy Irons), an up-and-coming member of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,988 member
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  • Atlantic City (1980)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Susan Sarandon,  Kate Reid
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The legalization of gambling in Atlantic City brings about big changes in the life of an aging small time numbers runner when he becomes involved with big money and the mob. Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor--Burt Lancaster, Best Actress--Susan Sarandon,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 629 members
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  • Pretty Baby on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Keith Carradine,  Brooke Shields,  Susan Sarandon
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Louis Malle tackled a social taboo and made 12-year-old Brooke Shields a star with this controversial examination of child prostitution in turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Violet (Shields) is the daughter of a prostitute (Susan Sarandon) who works at one of the brothels in New Orleans' ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,317 member
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  • Louis Malle - Lacombe Lucien on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Pierre Blaise,  Ave Ninchi
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Lucien is a rough-and-ready peasant from the south-west of France, with little awareness of the war and its issues, who essentially becomes a collaborator by accident, after being rejected by the local Maquis man.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 904 members
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  • The Thief of Paris (1967)
    Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo,  Geneviève Bujold,  Marie Dubois
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who squanders his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance's family jewels, and enjoys the experience ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 3 members
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  • Feu Follet, Le on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Maurice Ronet,  Lena Skerla,  Yvonne Clech
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A recovering alcoholic (Maurice Ronet) decides to commit suicide. He spends 24 hours wandering through Paris and visiting old friends, hoping to find some meaning to life and a reason to go on living. Winner of a Special Jury prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1963.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 520 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 63% from 594 members
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  • Les Amants on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Jeanne Moreau,  Jean-Marc Bory
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 486 members
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  • Lift to the Scaffold on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Jeanne Moreau
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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...
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 991 members
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  • Louis Malle Collection - Vol. 1 (4 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Jeanne Moreau
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 76% from 26 members
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Louis Malle facts

5 most recent films

Vanya On 42nd Street - 3.5 stars
Damage - 3.0 stars
Louis Malle - Milou En Mai - 3.5 stars
Louis Malle - Au Revoir Les Enfants - 4.0 stars
Before The Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema Of Edwin S Porter - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Louis Malle - Au Revoir Les Enfants - 4.0 stars
Lift to the Scaffold - 4.0 stars
Feu Follet, Le - 3.5 stars
Louis Malle - Lacombe Lucien - 3.5 stars
Louis Malle - Milou En Mai - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Thief of Paris - 2.0 stars
A Very Private Affair - 2.5 stars
Vanya On 42nd Street - 3.5 stars
Louis Malle Collection - Vol.2 - 3.5 stars
Louis Malle Collection - Vol. 1 - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Brigitte Bardot - 4 times - show films
Jeanne Moreau - 4 times - show films
Gaspard Manesse - 4 times - show films
Aurore Clement - 3 times - show films
Michael Lonsdale - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Federico Fellini - 2 times - show films
Roger Vadim - 2 times - show films
Charles Musser - 1 times - show films