The best Jean-Claude Brialy’s movies

Jean-Claude Brialy

Jean-Claude Brialy

30/03/1933- 30/05/2007
Jean-Claude Brialy (born 30 March 1933, Aumale, French Algeria (now Sour El-Ghozlane), Algeria) was a French actor, director, and socialite.
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The 400 Blows

The 400 Blows
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/06/1959
  • Character: Man in Street
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.

Queen Margot

Queen Margot
7.4/10
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.

Cléo from 5 to 7

Cléo from 5 to 7
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/04/1962
  • Character: L'infirmier
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Elevator to the Gallows

Elevator to the Gallows
7.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 29/01/1958
  • Character: Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black
7.2/10
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/03/1962
  • Character: Arthur
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie ...

The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/09/1974
  • Character: M. Foucault
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

Claire's Knee

Claire's Knee
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/12/1970
  • Character: Jérôme
On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.

An Impudent Girl

An Impudent Girl
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/12/1985
  • Character: Sam
Charlotte is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.

A Woman Is a Woman

A Woman Is a Woman
7.3/10
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

I Knew Her Well

I Knew Her Well
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/12/1965
  • Character: Dario Marchionni
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.

The Monster

The Monster
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/10/1994
  • Character: Roccarotta
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and ...

Deadly Circuit

Deadly Circuit
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 09/03/1983
  • Character: Voragine
Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never approaches her directly, he follows her and increasingly feels to be telepathically connected to her, because she reminds him of his daughter he never met. After he led a blind artist, Catherine's truly beloved spouse, into a bus accident, she makes a living by bank robbery with young Betty till Betty gets shot. Alone again, Catherine leads a sad, uneventful life as a waitress, when she meets her follower.

Robert et Robert

Robert et Robert
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/06/1978
  • Character: Jacques Millet
Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their common name, the two Roberts are as different as night and day. Oh, there is one more resemblance: both Roberts are lonely, and both hope to meet suitable mates through a computer dating service. As they await the arrival of their new dates, Robert et Robert become fast friends. Of the three favorite film subjects of writer/director Claude Lelouch--romance, crime, and politics--Robert et Robert falls firmly into the first category.

My New Partner II

My New Partner II
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 07/02/1990
  • Character: Le banquier
The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.

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.

Gramps Is in the Resistance

Gramps Is in the Resistance
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 26/10/1983
  • Character: le joueur de tennis flagorneur
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

Actors

Actors
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/04/2000
  • Character: Self
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.

Bolero: Dance of Life

Bolero: Dance of Life
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 27/05/1981
  • Character: Le directeur du Lido
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.

The Lady Banker

The Lady Banker
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/08/1980
  • Character: Paul Cisterne
The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...

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