The best Bernadette Lafont’s crime movies

Bernadette Lafont

Bernadette Lafont

28/10/1938- 25/07/2013
Today we present the best Bernadette Lafont’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Bernadette Lafont’s movies.

The Sleeping Car Murder

The Sleeping Car Murder
7.2/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 17/11/1965
  • Character: la soeur de Georgette
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.

Paulette

Paulette
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 04/10/2012
  • Character: Paulette
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
6.5/10
Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He chooses Camille Bliss as his subject of study and begins to visit her in prison for interviews. Camille became acquainted with trouble at a young age and justifies her actions by "fate-bets." She is currently in prison for allegedly murdering one of her lovers. As she tells Stanislas of her life and love affairs, his interest in her grows to more than just professional. Can he resist her charm?

The Thief of Paris

The Thief of Paris
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/02/1967
  • Character: Marguerite - la bonne délurée
In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals 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 so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.

Violette

Violette
7.1/10
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

Inspector Lavardin

Inspector Lavardin
6.5/10
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.

Dog Day

Dog Day
5.8/10
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.

Genealogies of a Crime

Genealogies of a Crime
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/05/1997
  • Character: Esther
At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the Franco-Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, known for odd views and methods. She reads Jeanne's journal, documenting René's criminal tendencies. Solange believes him innocent, manipulated into the murder or framed. Odd psychiatrists turn up, including Georges Didier, who runs FBPS, and his rival, Christian, who believes crime originates in a story's taking hold of a person. After the verdict, René and Solange's relationship changes, Georges and his society commit a bizarre act, and the police record Solange's story.

Masques

Masques
6.8/10
In this deadly game of cat and mouse, Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of game show host Christian Legagneur--or is he?

Ville à vendre

Ville à vendre
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/02/1992
  • Character: inspectrice Claire Derain

The Other One's Mug

The Other One's Mug
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/12/1979
  • Character: Gisèle Brossard
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him. What Gilbert does no know is that the killer Kraus is bumping off the people who were implicated in the affair for which he was arrested, and that Perrin is next on his list.

Women in Prison

Women in Prison
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/10/1988
  • Character: Nelly Roux
Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from the warden Dessombes (Marie-Christine Barrault). The warden frames Nelly (Bernadette Lafont) for drug possession and has her thrown into solitary confinement. Sabien (Corinne Touzet) is a newcomer convicted of armed robbery who latches on to the lesbian Lucie (Milva), a longtime prisoner slated for release.

Défense de savoir

Défense de savoir
5.7/10
When the police find Simone seated near her husband's corpse it is predictable that she is charged with the murder. Jean-Pierre Laubray is appointed counsel for the defence. He begins an inquiry into the case and he finds out that the murdered man had killed a barman in a robbery the night before. He finds out as well he was a leg-man of Cristiani's for his election campaign. He tries to contact Juliette, Cristiani's daughter, and he discovers that also Bruno, Juliette's brother, died that same night in a car accident...

The Undertaker Parlor Computer

The Undertaker Parlor Computer
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 07/04/1976
  • Character: Louise
In this black comedy, Fred (Jean-Louis Trintingnant) works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. Fred is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.

Trap

Trap
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 11/03/1970
  • Character: La première voleuse
A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.

Mersonne ne m'aime

Mersonne ne m'aime
After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women.

Le pactole

Le pactole
5.8/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 22/04/1985
  • Character: La belle-mère

Crime Thief

Crime Thief
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/05/1969
  • Character: La Logeuse
A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.

The White Gloves of the Devil

The White Gloves of the Devil
4.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/04/1973
  • Character: Bernadette
Crime thriller.

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