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Louis Malle

Louis Malle

French film director, screenwriter, and producer (1932-1995)
October 30, 1932 (November 23, 1995)
Runtime: 119 min.
G.-B. 1992. Mores drama by Louis Malle with Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson. A prominent and respected politician engages in an adulterous affair with his own son's fianc
Runtime: 112 min.

May Fools

V.O.: Milou en mai
Fr. 1989. Mores comedy by Louis Malle with Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy. Following the death of their grandfather in May 1968, the members of a family reunite in the family estate and organize the succession as best they can.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 1987. Drama by Louis Malle with Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fejto, Philippe Morier-Genoud. In 1943, a student attending a religious boarding school befriends a Jewish classmate who is registered under a false name to hide him from German authorites.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1986. Documentary by Louis Malle. Report on the last generation of immigrants who came to the United States after fleeing their native country.
Runtime: 80 min.
U.S. 1985. Social drama by Louis Malle with Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen. A Vietnamese refugee's troubles with shrimp fishers in Texas.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1983. Police comedy by Louis Malle with Donald Sutherland, Sean Penn, Jack Warden. An unemployed man from Los Angeles recruits a few outcasts to rob a pawn shop's safe.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1981. Mores comedy by Louis Malle with Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Jean Leneuer.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 1980. Mores drama by Louis Malle with Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1977. Mores drama by Louis Malle with Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon. Growing up in a New Orleans brothel, a prostitute's daughter is introduced to the trade at the age of twelve.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1975. Fantastic tale by Louis Malle with Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart. During a civil war, a young runaway ends up in a villa inhabited by a sick old woman and a mysterious couple.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1974. Psychological drama by Louis Malle with Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Lowenadler. In 1944, a young peasant joins a French militia serving the occupying forces.
Runtime: 138 min.
Fr. 1972. Documentary by Louis Malle. The stages of automobile manufacturing and the reactions of the public at the Auto Show.
Runtime: 72 min.

Murmur of the Heart

V.O.: Le Souffle au coeur
Fr. 1971. Psychological drama by Louis Malle with Benoît Ferreux, Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin. A teenager with a heart murmur must go on a trip to a spa resort with his mother.
Runtime: 118 min.

Spirits of the Dead

V.O.: Histoires extraordinaires
Fr. 1968. Sketches by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim with Jane Fonda, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp. A young woman causes the death of the cousin who rejected her, a degenerate officer is obsessed with apparitions of his double and an English actor meets his death in Rome.
Runtime: 118 min.
Fr. 1968. Documentary by Louis Malle. Images taken on the spot of life in the city of Calcutta in India.
Runtime: 93 min.

The Thief of Paris

V.O.: Le Voleur
Fr. 1967. Dramatic comedy by Louis Malle with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois. In 1890, a young middle-class man becomes a thief to take revenge on an uncle who robbed him of his inheritance.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Louis Malle with Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton. In Mexico, the adventures of two music-hall singers involved in a peasant revolution against their will.
Runtime: 115 min.

The Fire Within

V.O.: Le Feu follet
Fr. 1963. Psychological drama by Louis Malle with Maurice Ronet, Bernard Noël, Jeanne Moreau. Before committing suicide, a discouraged man tries to find in his friends a reason to live.
Runtime: 103 min.

A Very Private Affair

V.O.: Vie privée
Fr. 1962. Psychological drama by Louis Malle with Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Kubler. A ""cover girl"" makes it big in the movie industry.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1960. Comedy by Louis Malle with Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Vittorio Caprioli. A little girl who dreams of riding subway escapes from her uncle's house to wander around as she pleases.
Runtime: 88 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.

Elevator to the Gallows

V.O.: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
Fr. 1957. Thriller by Louis Malle with Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Georges Poujouly. A man plans the perfect crime and anticipates everything, except for an elevator breakdown.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Silent World

V.O.: Le Monde du silence
Fr. 1955. Documentary by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle. Documentary about the riches and the beauties of the underwater world, by Captain Cousteau and his team.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1954. Drama by Edmond T. Gréville with Jean Gabin, Henri Vidal, Andrée Debar. When a captain is charged with recovering the wreckage of a ship, he discovers a murdered woman.
Runtime: 85 min.

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