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Claude Lelouch

Claude Lelouch

French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer
October 30, 1937 (86 years old)

The Best Years of a Life

V.O.: Les Plus belles années d'une vie
Fr. 2019. Sentimental drama by Claude Lelouch with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anouk Aimée, Marianne Denicourt. An antique dealer and a former race car driver meet again, 50 years after their brief love affair.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 2015. Sentimental comedy by Claude Lelouch with Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Christophe Lambert. While in India to supervise the music for a film, a fickle Parisian composer who is reluctant to marry his younger spouse falls in love with the wife of the French ambassador.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Johnny Hallyday, Eddy Mitchell, Sandrine Bonnaire.
Runtime: 124 min.
Fr. 2011. Documentary by Claude Lelouch.
Runtime: 103 min.

What Love May Bring

V.O.: Ces amours-là
Fr. 2010. Drama by Claude Lelouch with Audrey Dana, Laurent Couson, Dominique Pinon. A cinema usherette
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Dominique Pinon, Audrey Dana, Fanny Ardant. While looking for ideas for a new book, the ghostwriter of a successful novelist meets a hairdresser who has been dumped by her lover.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2004. Sentimental drama by Claude Lelouch with Mathilde Seigner, Maïwenn, Massimo Ranieri. On the eve of the year 2000, in Paris, events disrupt the sentimental and professional lives of various people from different backgrounds.
Runtime: 106 min.

And Now Ladies and Gentlemen

V.O.: And Now... Ladies & Gentlemen
Fr. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte. Fate brings together a gentleman burglar who sails around the world and a singer who performs in a palace in Morocco.
Fr. 2002. Sketches by Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Youssef Chahine, Danis Tanovic, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ken Loach, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Amos Gitaï, Mira Nair, Sean Penn, Shohei Imamura with Maryam Karimi, Emmanuelle Laborit, Nour El-Sherif. Eleven filmmakers from around the world give their vision of the September 11, 2001 attacks in 11 minutes, 9 seconds and one image.
Runtime: 133 min.
Fr. 1999. Comedy by Claude Lelouch with Anne Parillaud, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Marianne Denicourt. Three down-and-out actresses seduce wealthy passengers on the Paris-New York Concorde to get money out of them.
Fr. 1998. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Alessandra Martines, Pierre Arditi, Marc Hollogne. Her lover and son having perished at sea, a former dancer decides to make and film the trip they had planned to take together.
Runtime: 120 min.
Runtime: 122 min.
Runtime: 175 min.
Fr. 1992. Mores comedy by Claude Lelouch with Marie-Sophie L., Fabrice Luchini, Francis Huster. The misadventures of five couples experiencing various marital difficulties.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1991. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Gérard Lanvin, Béatrice Dalle, Vincent Lindon. Strangers who meet by chance feel for each other emotions they are sure they have already shared.
Runtime: 196 min.
Fr. 1990. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Gérard Lanvin, Patrick Chesnais, Vincent Lindon. On the full moon which is also the day of the switch to daylight savings, couples who have been in perfect love end up tearing each other apart.
Runtime: 117 min.
Fr. 1988. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Richard Anconina, Marie-Sophie L. A fifty-year-old man abandons his family and his job and fakes his own death in order to go on an adventure around the world.
Runtime: 126 min.
Fr. 1987. Crime drama by Claude Lelouch with Jean Yanne, Marie-Sophie L., Patrick Bruel. A criminal is determined to avenge the murder of his wife when he finds his daughter after ten years in prison.
Runtime: 108 min.

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

V.O.: Un Homme et une femme, vingt ans déjà
Fr. 1986. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Évelyne Bouix. After a hard professional failure, a film producer thinks of starting a musical based on a personal experience she had 20 years before.
Runtime: 120 min.

Partir, revenir

V.O.: Partir revenir
Fr. 1985. Drama by Claude Lelouch with Évelyne Bouix, Richard Anconina, Annie Girardot. A Jewish survivor of the Nazi concentration camps tries to uncover the informant who caused the extermination of her family.
Runtime: 117 min.
Fr. 1983. Drama by Claude Lelouch with Michel Piccoli, Évelyne Bouix, Charlotte Rampling. A missing industrialist and an actress seem to have been abducted by aliens.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1983. Sentimental drama by Claude Lelouch with Évelyne Bouix, Marcel Cerdan Jr., Jacques Villeret. At the end of the 1940s, the famous love story between singer Edith Piaf and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
Runtime: 162 min.
Runtime: 184 min.

Adventure for Two

V.O.: À nous deux
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1978. Comedy by Claude Lelouch with Charles Denner, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Claude Brialy. A shy man befriends a lonely cab driver who has signed up to a dating agency.
Runtime: 105 min.

Another Man, Another Chance

V.O.: Un Autre Homme, une autre chance
Fr. 1977. Western by Claude Lelouch with Geneviève Bujold, James Caan, Francis Huster. A French woman who emigrates to the American West becomes a widow and meets a veterinarian, also a widower.
Runtime: 135 min.

Second Chance

V.O.: Si c'était à refaire
Fr. 1976. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Catherine Deneuve, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Jacques Briot. Upon her release from prison, a young woman regains custody of her fifteen-year-old son and takes in a former cellmate.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1975. Chronicle by Claude Lelouch with Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Charles Denner. Various incidents leading to the meeting of the heiress of a rich industrialist with a young thief turned film director.
Runtime: 133 min.
Fr. 1975. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Jacques Dutronc, Marlène Jobert, Brigitte Fossey. The war brings three thieves into working for the French Resistance.
Runtime: 120 min.

Cat & Mouse

V.O.: Le Chat et la souris
Fr. 1975. Crime drama by Claude Lelouch with Serge Reggiani, Michèle Morgan, Philippe Léotard. The ups and downs of an unorthodox detective's investigation into the death of a construction contractor.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 1974. Psychological drama by Claude Lelouch with Bulle Ogier, Rufus, Marie Déa. The stages of a couple's life that ends up settling into a kind of resigned routine.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Good Year

V.O.: La Bonne Année
Fr. 1973. Police comedy by Claude Lelouch with Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard. While planning a major robbery, a mobster meets and falls in love with an antique dealer.
Runtime: 115 min.

Money, Money, Money

V.O.: L'Aventure, c'est l'aventure
Fr. 1972. Adventures by Claude Lelouch with Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Charles Denner. The trials and tribulations of five crooks who have decided to pool their respective talents.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1971. Comedy by Claude Lelouch with Charles Gérard, Amidou, Jean Collomb. Two workers in a shipyard organize a party for a friend who is getting married.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Crook

V.O.: Le Voyou
Fr. 1970. Thriller by Claude Lelouch with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christine Lelouch, Charles Denner. A man meticulously organizes the kidnapping of a bank employee's child and demands a ransom from the father's bosses.
Runtime: 120 min.

Love Is a Funny Thing

V.O.: Un Homme qui me plaît
Fr. 1969. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Annie Girardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Maria Pia Conte. A French musician, who has come to work on a film in the United States, falls in love with a colleague.
Runtime: 110 min.

Earth Light

V.O.: Le Clair de terre
Fr. 1969. Psychological drama by Guy Gilles with Patrick Jouané, Edwige Feuillère, Annie Girardot. A Tunisian who is feeling uprooted in Paris returns home in search of his roots.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1968. Social drama by Claude Lelouch with Amidou, Caroline Cellier, Marcel Bozzuffi. A worker sentenced to death awaits the day of his execution.
Runtime: 115 min.

Life For Life

V.O.: Vivre pour vivre
Fr. 1967. Psychological drama by Claude Lelouch with Yves Montand, Annie Girardot, Candice Bergen. A television reporter indulges in extra-marital affairs that his wife pretends to ignore.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1967. Essay film by Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard. Collection of documentary or experimental vignettes aimed at protesting the war in Vietnam.
Runtime: 115 min.

A Man and a Woman

V.O.: Un Homme et une femme
Fr. 1966. Sentimental drama by Claude Lelouch with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anouk Aimée, Valérie Lagrange. A widower loves a widow haunted by the memory of her husband.
Runtime: 103 min.

To Be a Crook

V.O.: Une Fille et des fusils
Fr. 1965. Police comedy by Claude Lelouch with Janine Magnan, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Pierre Barouh. Four improvised bandits decide to kidnap an actress.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1965. Police comedy by Claude Lelouch with Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Pierre Barouh, Amidou. Prisoners are assigned to build an armored truck.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1964. Documentary by Claude Lelouch.
Runtime: 84 min.
Fr. 1964. Crime drama by Claude Lelouch with Guy Mairesse, Janine Magnan, Richard Saint-Bris. A motorist strikes up a romance with a hitchhiker and is mistaken for a criminal.
Runtime: 78 min.

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