Louis Malle
Director, Actor
- Three Worlds of Jacques Cousteau, The (The Silent World, World Without Sun, Voyage to the Edge of the World) (1956-1976)
- Dir. Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle
- A trilogy of award–winning documentary feature films from famed oceanogragher, Jacques Cousteau.
The Silent World (1956) won the Palm D'Or…
- Elevator to the Gallows (Lift to the Scaffold, aka. Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud) (1958)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly…
- A young Jeanne Moreau stars in this elegant thriller about a crime of passion that backfires when the murderer gets trapped in a lift. Ambience par…
- Amants, Les (Lovers, The) (1959)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny
- This helped push the envelope of frank sexuality in cinema and made a star of Jeanne Moreau, as the rich, bored housewife whose extra–marital…
- Zazie Dans Le Metro (Zazie in the Underground) (1960)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret
- Anarchistic comedy drops the impudent 11yr old Zazie into the care of Uncle Phillipe Noiret and the whirlygig chaos of modern Paris.
Adapted from…
- Vive Le Tour / Human, Trop Humain / Place de la Republique (1962-1974)
- Dir. Louis Malle
- Louis Malle turns the camera on his homeland, France, in these three documentaries that reveal a curiosity in ordinary human lives: an encapsulation…
- Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within) (1963)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Alexandra Stewart
- Brilliantly measured account of an alcoholic (Maurice Ronet) who makes a final social round to find reason why he should not take his own life. Rich…
- Viva Maria! (1965)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton
- Louis Malle harnesses the assets of Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau, here playing two circus performing ‘Marias’ with a penchant for viva la…
- Thief of Paris, The (Le Voleur) (1967)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Genevieve Bujold, Marie Dubois
- Enjoyable comedy with Belmondo as a young man cheated of his inheritance who in turn develops a taste for thieving. Set in Paris at the turn of the…
- Spirits of the Dead (Histoires Extraordinaires) (1969)
- Dir. Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Terence Stamp, Alain Delon…
- A classy compendium of three Edgar Allan Poe stories directed by Europe's finest.
Metzengerstein (Dir. Roger Vadim) – Jane and Peter Fonda…
- Phantom India (1969)
- Dir. Louis Malle
- Captured on film, Louis Malle’s pilgrimage to India is relayed with remarkable and imposing gravitas as the director discovers the country, warts…
- Calcutta (1969)
- Dir. Louis Malle
- Louis Malle’s companion piece to PHANTOM INDIA isolates some extraordinary footage of Calcutta, presenting a fiery and tempestuous image of a city…
- Le Souffle Au Coeur (Murmur of the Heart) (1971)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Benoit Ferreux
- A much praised coming–of–age tale concerns a sickly, but promiscuous teenage boy growing up in a stilted bourgeois family in 1950s Dijon…
- Louis Malle: Youth & Conflict (Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; Au revoir les enfants) (1971-1987)
- Dir. Louis Malle
- Three poetic tales of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France. Tragic, amusing, and poignant, these three films are more…
- Lacombe Lucien (1974)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement
- A subtle, probing study of the psychology of collaboration set in WW2 rural France, sees young peasant lad Pierre Blaise drawn into the local…
- Black Moon (1975)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Joe Dallesandro
- A vastly ambitious and haunting fantasy excursion for dir. Malle proffers an allegorical future world in which civil war rages between the sexes,…
- Pretty Baby (1978)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Keith Carradine, Brooke Shields
- One of dir. Malle's finest American films, this period piece uses the soft, boyish charms of Keith Carradine to humanise its slowly–told tale…
- Atlantic City, USA (1981)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon
- An ageing petty crook finds a new self–respect with a struggling casino worker. Subtly drawn yet satisfying character study, expertly played by…
- My Dinner with Andre (1981)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory
- An honest exchange of philosophy transpires over dinner between an out–of–work playwright and a theatre director. Remarkably compelling…
- Alamo Bay (1985)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Amy Madigan, Ed Harris
- Gulf–coast fisherman clash with Vietnamese boat–people. Ry Cooder soundtrack.
- God's Country (1985)
- Dir. Louis Malle
- This early excursion to the States sees Louis Malle observe the everyday workings of a prosperous farming community in Minnesota, returning six years…
- And the Pursuit of Happiness (1986)
- Dir. Louis Malle
- A satisfying rumination on the nature of the 'American Dream', as it relates to the constrasting experiences of immigrants to the United States, from…
- Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette…
- Dir. Malle has transformed a childhood memoir into a powerful and vivid account of a catholic schoolboy who unknowingly witnesses anti–semitism…
- 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…
- Damage (1992)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson
- Jeremy Irons plays a Tory cabinet minister who becomes entangled, (especially physically) with his son's fiancee – a chic,…
- Vanya On 42nd Street (1994)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Andre Gregory
- The late director's final film recouples him with Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory from MY DINNER WITH ANDRE for another compulsive round of…