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Louis Malle - what members say

Atlantic City review by from Shropshire

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 review by from London

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 review by uhygtiuplkuh from Eastbourne

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

Vanya On 42nd Street (1994)
Starring: Julianne Moore, Phoebe Brand, Lynn Cohen
Director: Louis Malle
Certificate:
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a rundown theater.

69% from 39 members
Currently unavailable

Damage (1992)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson
Director: Louis Malle
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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 »

55% from 1,988 member
Currently unavailable

Louis Malle - Milou En Mai on DVD (1990)
Starring: Michael Lonsdale, Aurore Clement, Benoit Fereux
Director: Louis Malle
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Against the background of the 1968 student unrest, Milou's children, grandchildren, in-laws, and assorted others gather at his vineyard for his mother's funeral. To start with everyone is squabbling over the inheritance but gradually the countryside, the May weather, and life with unexpected ..read more »

72% from 494 members

Louis Malle - Au Revoir Les Enfants on DVD (1987)
Starring: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Gaspard Manesse/ Raphael Fejto
Director: Louis Malle
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"Au Revoir Les Enfants' is drawn from the most dramatic experience of my childhood. In 1944 when I was eleven I was boarding in a catholic school near Fontainebleu. One of my classmates, who had arrived at the beginning of the year, intrigued me a great deal. He was different, secretive. I was ..read more »

78% from 2,798 members

Before The Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema... on DVD (1982)
Starring: Blanche Sweet, Milos Forman, Louis Malle
Director: Charles Musser
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Before the Nickelodeon, an award-winning and intricately detailed documentary on the genesis of early cinema, focuses on one of the craft's most ingenious pioneers: Edwin S Porter. The film is based on the research of the leading scholar of early American film, Charles Musser, who also co-wrote and ..read more »

62% from 51 members

My Dinner with Andre on DVD (1981)
Starring: Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer
Director: Louis Malle
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Two old friends, one a playwright/actor, the other a theatre director, sit down to dinner together and discuss their fascinating life experiences.

63% from 718 members

Atlantic City (1980)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid
Director: Louis Malle
Certificate:
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 »

65% from 629 members
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Pretty Baby on DVD (1978)
Starring: Keith Carradine, Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon
Director: Louis Malle
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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 »

56% from 1,317 member

Louis Malle - Black Moon on DVD (1975)
Starring: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart
Director: Louis Malle
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There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her ..read more »

55% from 249 members

Louis Malle - Lacombe Lucien on DVD (1974)
Starring: Pierre Blaise, Ave Ninchi
Director: Louis Malle
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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.

73% from 904 members

Spirits Of The Dead - Blu-ray (1973)
Starring: Terence Stamp, Salvo Randone, Marina Yaru
Director: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim
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Fellini's Toby Dammit, a forty minute film made in 1968, is one of three short films adapted from stories by Edgar Allan Poe for the anthology Histoires extraordinaires. Fellini's film is an adaptation set in contemporary Rome of Poe's "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" published in 1841. Poe's work ..read more »

58% from 83 members

Louis Malle - Le Souffle Au Coeur on DVD (1971)
Starring: Michael Lonsdale, Aurore Clement, Benoit Fereux
Director: Louis Malle
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This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France.

70% from 665 members

Spirits Of The Dead on DVD (1968)
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda
Director: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim
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Three giants of world cinema conspire to bring the dark prose of Edgar Allan Poe to the screen in Spirits of the Dead. Roger Vadim, Luis Malle, and Federico Fellini direct Jane and Peter Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, and Terence Stamp in three separate stories of souls tormented by their own ..read more »

58% from 370 members

The Thief of Paris (1967)
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois
Director: Louis Malle
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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 »

36% from 3 members
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Viva Maria! on DVD (1965)
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Paulette Dubost
Director: Louis Malle
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Two gunslinging show girls suddenly find themselves heading a Latin American revolution.

55% from 133 members

Feu Follet, Le on DVD (1963)
Starring: Maurice Ronet, Lena Skerla, Yvonne Clech
Director: Louis Malle
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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.

73% from 520 members

A Very Private Affair (1962)
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni, Nicolas Bataille
Director: Louis Malle
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When Jill becomes a movie star, she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won't leave her alone. Her mother's ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.

52% from 5 members
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Zazie Dans Le Metro on DVD (1960)
Starring: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret
Director: Louis Malle
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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.

63% from 594 members

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 486 members

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 991 members

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 »

76% from 26 members

Louis Malle Collection - Vol.2 (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Michael Lonsdale, Aurore Clement, Benoit Fereux
Director: Louis Malle
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A collection of five films from acclaimed filmmaker Louis Malle. Includes BLACK MOON, MILOU ET MAI, LACOMBE LUCIEN, LE SOUFFLE AU COEUR (MURMUR OF THE HEART) and AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS.

72% from 41 members

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