Jean-Pierre Melville

Activities : Actor, Director, Adaptation/Dialogue Writer, Producer, Screenwriter, Production Manager, Editor, Production Designer
Date of Birth : 20/10/1917
Date of decease : 02/08/1973

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A Cop / Dirty Money (1972)

Director : Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors : Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, André Pousse, Richard Crenna, Ricardo Cucciolla...
Associate production company : Euro International Film (EIA)
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just a asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang leader and Paris night club owner, must also deal with police...

The Red Circle / Le Cercle rouge (1970)

Director : Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors : Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonte, François Périer...
Associate production company : Les Films Corona
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Corey is a cool, aristocratic thief, released from prison on the same day that Vogel, a murderer, escapes from the custody of the patient Mattei, a cat-loving police superintendent. Corey robs Rico, his mob boss, then enlists...

Army of Shadow (1969)

Director : Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors : Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Alain Libolt, Claude Mann...
Associate production company : Les Films Corona
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. He manages to escape, and joins his network at Marseilles,...

Le Samouraï (1967)

Director : Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors : Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, François Périer, Jacques Leroy...
Associate production company : Filmel, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC)
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi...

Second Breath (1966)

Director : Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors : Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, Marcel Bozzuffi, Christine Fabrega...
Associate production company : Les Productions Montaigne
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Gustave Minda, better known as Gu, a dangerous gangster, escapes from jail. He goes to Paris to join Manouche and other friends, and get involved in a gangland killing. Before leaving the country with Manouche, Gu needs a final...

Magnet of Doom (1962)

Director : Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors : Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier, Malvina , Stefania Sandrelli...
Associate production company : Lumbroso spectacles
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : A down on his luck French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer takes a job as a private secretary and bodyguard for a corrupt French banker who is on the run from French authorities.

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