The best Michel Simon’s documentary movies

Michel Simon

09/04/1895- 30/05/1975

If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Michel Simon’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 Simon.

Jean Renoir le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur

7.4/10

Genre: Documentary
Release: 01/01/1967
Character: Self - Interviewee

Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon

Hôtel des Invalides

6.6/10

Genre: Documentary
Release: 31/12/1952
Character: Récitant / Narrator (voice)

A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's airplane, to Napoleon's and Marshall Foch's tombs. But this is no ordinary tour,it is rather a chilling visit guided by Georges Franju and narrated by Michel Simon emphasizing - at times through biting humor -not the glory but the nonsense of wars, but their tragic aftermath.

Ecco

5.5/10

Genre: Documentary
Release: 15/11/1963
Character: Self

A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.