Go to main content
Alain Cuny

Alain Cuny

actor (1908-1994)
July 12, 1908 (May 16, 1994)

Casanova's Return

V.O.: Le Retour de Casanova
Fr. 1992. Dramatic comedy by Édouard Niermans with Alain Delon, Fabrice Luchini, Elsa Lunghini. An aging and bankrupt seducer strives in vain to win the heart of a beautiful scholarly girl.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1991. Poetic drama by Alain Cuny with Alain Cuny, Ulrika Jonsson, Jean des Ligneris. The eldest daughter of a farmer is banished by her family after contracting leprosy.
Runtime: 91 min.

Knights of the Round Table

V.O.: Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde
Fr. 1990. Drama by Denis Llorca with Denis Llorca, Alain Cuny, Valérie Durin. The story of the Knights of the Round Table and their quest for the Holy Grail.
Runtime: 116 min.
Fr. 1988. Biography by Bruno Nuytten with Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Grévill. The young sculptor Camille Claudel ends up being destroyed by the consuming passion she feels for her art and for Auguste Rodin.
Runtime: 175 min.
Fr. 1988. Essay film by Jean-Luc Godard with Julie Delpy, Alain Cuny. The Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard offers his very personal history of cinema and wonders about the future of this art.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

V.O.: Cronaca di una morte annunciata
It. 1987. Mores drama by Francesco Rosi with Gian Maria Volonté, Ornella Muti, Rupert Everett. In Colombia, a doctor remembers the circumstances of his best friend's death, who was killed for a matter of honour in front of the village population.
Runtime: 109 min.
Fr. 1985. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Luc Godard with Nathalie Baye, Claude Brasseur, Laurent Terzieff. In a Parisian hotel, a detective and his nephew investigate a murder while a boxing promoter is visited by creditors.
Runtime: 93 min.

Time Masters

V.O.: Les Maîtres du temps
Fr. 1982. Animation by René Laloux. The commander of a spaceship and his passengers go to the rescue of a little orphan lost on a distant planet.
Runtime: 79 min.
Runtime: 104 min.

The Christ Stopped at Eboli

V.O.: Cristo si è Fermato a Eboli
Runtime: 152 min.
Fr. 1977. History by Frank Cassenti with Klaus Kinski, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Dominique Sanda. In the twelfth century, pilgrims are encouraged in their journey by storytellers who recall the epic story of Roland.
Runtime: 100 min.

Cadavres exquis

V.O.: Cadaveri eccellenti
It. 1975. Crime drama by Francesco Rosi with Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Max von Sydow. A detective believes he sees a pattern in a series of assasination attempts on judges.
Runtime: 121 min.
Fr. 1974. Erotic drama by Just Jaeckin with Sylvia Kristel, Daniel Barky, Alain Cuny. In Bangkok, the young wife of a French diplomat seeks personal fulfillment in eroticism.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1973. Satire by Marco Ferreri with Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli. General Custer launches an expedition against the Sioux and is massacred with his men.
Runtime: 108 min.

Le Maitre et Marguerite

V.O.: Majstor i Margarita
Youg. 1972. Fantasy by Aleksandar Petrovic with Ugo Tognazzi, Mimsy Farmer, Alain Cuny. In the 1920s, a Soviet writer is confronted with the worst police and administrative harassment.
Runtime: 95 min.

Many Wars Ago

V.O.: Uomini contro
It. 1970. War drama by Francesco Rosi with Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volonté. During World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the Italian troops.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1970. Satire by Pascal Aubier with Alain Cuny, Bernadette Lafont, Alexandra Stewart. An intellectual with liberal ideas is drawn into a protest group by a woman.

The Milky Way

V.O.: La Voie lactée
Fr. 1968. Satire by Luis Bunuel with Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig. An account of the religious problems encountered by two men who go to St-Jacques de Compostelle.
Runtime: 103 min.
It. 1968. Poetic drama by Federico Fellini with Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born. In ancient Rome, two young men have various adventures.
Runtime: 128 min.
Can. 1965. Religious drama by Fernand Dansereau with Jean-Guy Sabourin, Alain Cuny, Jacques Godin. At the time of the colony, a young Jesuit father called to be martyred revisits his first contacts with natives.
Runtime: 77 min.

Banana Peel

V.O.: Peau de banane
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Marcel Ophuls with Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gert Fröbe. A young woman sets up two masterful scams, with the help of her ex-husband.
Runtime: 95 min.

La Corruption

V.O.: La Corruzione
It. 1963. Psychological drama by Mauro Bolognini with Jacques Perrin, Rossanna Schiaffino, Alain Cuny. A man tries to divert his son from his religious vocation.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 1962. Drama by Yvan Govar with Giani Esposito, Karlheinz Böhm, Pascale Petit. Villagers greet a young man acquitted of murder with hostility.
Runtime: 100 min.
It. 1960. Mores drama by Federico Fellini with Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée. A journalist is called to frequent the most sophisticated circles in Rome.
Runtime: 174 min.

The Lovers

V.O.: Les Amants
Fr. 1958. Psychological drama by Louis Malle with Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Marc Bory, Alain Cuny. A woman experiences a night of love with her husband's guest.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

V.O.: Notre-Dame de Paris
Fr. 1956. Drama by Jean Delannoy with Anthony Quinn, Gina Lollobrigida, Alain Cuny. In the Middle Ages, a young dancer accused of witchcraft is defended by a hunchback.
Runtime: 115 min.

Les Chemises rouges

V.O.: Camicie Rosse
It. 1953. History by Goffredo Alessandrini, Francesco Rosi with Anna Magnani, Raf Vallone, Serge Reggiani. An episode of the struggle led by Garibaldi, against the Austrian occupier.
Runtime: 99 min.

La Dame sans camélias

V.O.: La Signora senza camelie
It. 1953. Psychological drama by Michelangelo Antonioni with Lucia Bosè, Gino Cervi, Ivan Desny. A movie star aspires in vain to play great roles.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1953. Sentimental drama by Maurice Barry, Maurice Clavel with Odile Versois, Alain Cuny, Jean Servais. Disappointed by a first love, a young woman falls in love with a married man.
Runtime: 47 min.
Fr. 1952. Drama by Claude Vermorel with Alain Cuny, Claire Mafféi, André Simon. While recovering in a hospital, a young woman recalls the drama she has just experienced in Gabon where she went to settle her father's estate.

The Forbidden Christ

V.O.: Il Cristo proibito
It. 1950. Drama by Curzio Malaparte with Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Alain Cuny. A carpenter tries to dissuade a man from his desire for revenge.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1945. Dramatic comedy by Willy Rozier with Carmen Torres, Alain Cuny, Blanchette Brunoy. A provocative bohemian girl comes close to shattering the happiness of a young household.
Runtime: 76 min.
Fr. 1943. Poetic drama by Serge de Poligny with Odette Joyeux, Alain Cuny, Jany Holt. Ten years after the disappearance of an old baron, members of his family discover his corpse and his will.
Runtime: 99 min.

The Devil's Envoys

V.O.: Les Visiteurs du soir
Fr. 1942. Poetic drama by Marcel Carné with Arletty, Alain Cuny, Jules Berry. A minstrel, a servant of the devil, falls in love with the daughter of a baron.
Runtime: 120 min.

© 2021. All rights reserved.