The best Jean-Pierre Melville’s drama movies

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean-Pierre Melville

20/10/1917- 02/08/1973
Today we present the best Jean-Pierre Melville’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 Jean-Pierre Melville’s movies.
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Breathless

Breathless
7.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/03/1960
  • Character: Parvulesco, writer interviewed at Orly
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Bob le Flambeur

Bob le Flambeur
7.6/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/08/1956
  • Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.

Bluebeard

Bluebeard
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/01/1963
  • Character: Georges Mandel
France, WWI. Landru, the father of four Children, contacts Parisian women through newspapers, seduces and eventually kills them in order to feed his little family.

Sign of the Lion

Sign of the Lion
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/05/1962
  • Character: Un Consommateur (uncredited)
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.

Two Men in Manhattan

Two Men in Manhattan
6.6/10
Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.

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