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Michel Piccoli
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Films to Rent
French Can Can (French Cancan, Only the French Can) (1955)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Michel Piccoli, Dora Doll… - Jean Renoir returned to France after 15 years absence to make this vibrant tribute to the Parisian world of his father, the Impressionist painter…
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Georges Geret, Michel Piccoli - Maid Jeanne Moreau manipulates two blue–blooded households to ascend her status in pre–war France. Another shrewd political jape from the…
Belle De Jour (Beauty of the Day) (1967)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli… - Cool and elegant comedy of manners about a virginal newlywed who works the day shift in a high class brothel. Bunuel's surrealist…
Milky Way, The (1968)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny… - Bunuel experiments with narrative in relating theories of traditional Catholicism to the encounters of two wandering vagrants.
Danger Diabolik (1968)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli… - Cat–burgling cool from the pop–art 1960's, outfitted in futuristic chic and the effortless glamour of John Phillip Law and blonde…
La Chamade (Heartbeat) (1968)- Dir. Alain Cavalier
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli - Catherine Deneuve flitters between youthful passion and the comfort of an older, wealthy lover in this elegant menage a trios, lessened only by an…
Topaz (1969)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. John Forsythe, Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin… - Intelligence spooks John Forsythe and Frederick Stafford run through the gamut of spy moves in the 60s Cold War world. Needless to say, Hitch ain't…
Dillinger is Dead (1969)- Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Annie Girardot - Indefinable late–sixties curio finds gas mask designer Michel Piccoli at a loose end in his gaudy suburban home. A gun that may have belonged…
Things of Life, The (Les Choses De La Vie) (1970)- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Jean Bouise - Golden Palm nominated French comedy focusing on the life of a fatally injured man who upon seeing his life flash before his eyes realizes he must…
Grande Bouffe, La (1973)- Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli… - A wonderful bare–faced satire that indulges its social metaphor through a dinner party of four rich, bored middle–aged men who decide to…
Themroc (1973)- Dir. Claude Faraldo
Feat. Michel Piccoli - Satirical in a most primitive, bestial way, this astonishing fable sees frustrated factory–worker Michel Piccoli cease to speak one morning,…
Vincent, François, Paul et les autres (1974)- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani… - French drama following three friends facing mid–life crises, based on the novel La grande Marrade by Claude Néron.
Passion (1982)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli - 'Film within a film' from France's thorniest director, sowing narrative confusion in his story of director Michel Piccoli trying to make a arthouse…
Une Chambre en Ville (1982)- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli - Another entirely sung–through French musical from the director of THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, this time set against the backdrop of a workers'…
Mauvais Sang (The Night Is Young) (1986)- Dir. Leos Carax
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche - A street–punk joins a gang of hoods intent on stealing a top–secret serum, but complications prevail. Romantic thriller contains…
Milou En Mai (May Fools) (1989)- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou - In May of '68, a rural family gather for the reading of their matriarch's will, an event that will strangely affect their idyllic existence. Stephane…
Martha and I (1990)- Dir. Jiri Weiss
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Marianne Sagebrecht - A touching, humourous yarn from the director's childhood memoirs. He witnesses his eccentric uncle (Michel Piccoli) marry his under–educated…
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Beart - Rivette's four–hour portrait of an artist as an old man explores the process and politics of a retired artist painting a nude model. Subtle,…
Passion in the Desert, A (1998)- Dir. Lavinia Currier
Feat. Ben Daniels, Michel Piccoli, Paul Meston - An intense, almost supernatural relationship develops between a leopard and its prey, a French soldier from Napoleon's Army lost in the Egyptian…
I'm Going Home (2001)- Dir. Manoel de Oliveira
Feat. Michel Piccoli, John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve - Calmly balanced between drama and sly comedy, this excursion into the trials and experiences of old age, is a late tour–de–force by the…
Don't Touch the Axe (Duchess of Langeais, The) (2007)- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier… - A duchess and a general play out an unusual courtship in this engrossing period chamber piece, elevated by the superb interplay between the two…
We Have a Pope (Habemus Papam) (2011)- Dir. Nanni Moretti
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy - Michel Piccoli plays a reluctant successor to the recently deceased pope in this comic look inside the Vatican Church.
Holy Motors (2012)- Dir. Leos Carax
Feat. Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes… - Leos Carax's first feature in over a decade is an unclassifiable romp through the streets of Paris, led by a world–weary actor (Denis Lavant)…
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