The best Michel Robin’s movies

Michel Robin

Michel Robin

13/11/1930- 18/11/2020
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Michel Robin’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Michel Robin.
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Amélie

Amélie
8.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/04/2001
  • Character: Mr. Collignon
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

Knock on Wood

Knock on Wood
7.3/10
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

A Very Long Engagement

A Very Long Engagement
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 26/10/2004
  • Character: Le vieil homme sur le champ de bataille
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/10/1973
  • Character: Priest of the Invalides
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.

The Outsider

The Outsider
6.4/10
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.

Just a Breath Away

Just a Breath Away
5.9/10
When a deadly mist engulfs Paris, people find refuge in the upper floors of the buildings. With no information, no electricity and hardly any supplies, Mathieu, Anna and their daughter Sarah try to survive the disaster.

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
6.8/10
In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of an episode of a vapid TV news documentary series called "Qui êtes-vous?" and is pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country in the Soviet bloc.

The Blood of Others

The Blood of Others
5.3/10
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.

Farewell, My Queen

Farewell, My Queen
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 21/03/2012
  • Character: Jacob Nicolas Moreau
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/2012
  • Character: Le garçon de café
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...

Restons groupés

Restons groupés
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/09/1998
  • Character: Raymond

The Pianist

The Pianist
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/09/1998
  • Character: Floreal
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.

Jury of One

Jury of One
6.2/10
A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.

Nightcap

Nightcap
6.7/10
Mika is the wife of celebrated pianist Andre Polonski and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned that she was almost switched at birth with Guillaume whilst in hospital. Also a pianist, Jeanne harbors a suspicion that she may be Andre's daughter. Andre undertakes to continue her piano tuition, but, on entering the Polonski family, Jeanne begins to notice the icily controlled Mika behaving strangely. Her suspicions aroused, Jeanne begins the dangerous task of unraveling Mika's dark past of secrets and lies...

Eden Is West

Eden Is West
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/02/2009
  • Character: Le portier du Lido
Elias (Riccardo Scamarcio) is an immigrant in his twenties who tries to get to Europe by a boat along with other illegal immigrants. When the boat is near the Greek shores and they hope they will soon disembark, a marine patrol approaches and Elias jumps into the sea in order to avoid arrest. So do the other people in the boat. He wakes up next morning in a shore with nudists, which is not so bad after all, since he has lost some of his clothes while he was swimming for quite a few hours. He pretends to be a nudist himself, steals some clothes and he pretends he is an employee of the hotel “Eden Club-Paradise”.

The Children of the Century

The Children of the Century
6.5/10
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and Sand by a handsome doctor.

Don't Deliver Us from Evil

Don't Deliver Us from Evil
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 05/04/1971
  • Character: Léon
Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion.

The Dominici Affair

The Dominici Affair
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/03/1973
  • Character: Perrin
In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death. But then the case begins to collapse. The old man retracts his confession and the lack of evidence against him becomes apparent…

That Most Important Thing: Love

That Most Important Thing: Love
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/02/1975
  • Character: Raymond Lapade
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.

The Confession

The Confession
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/04/1970
  • Character: Attorney General
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.

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