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Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand

French film score composer (1932-2019)
February 24, 1932 (January 26, 2019)
Fr. 2018. Drama by Orson Welles with John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich. Back in Hollywood after years of exile, an old American filmmaker meets friends and enemies at a party to raise the money needed to finish his next film.
Runtime: 122 min.

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

V.O.: Oscar et la dame rose
Fr. 2009. Drama by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt with Michèle Laroque, Amir, Benoît Brière. A young leukemia patient in rebellion against the world befriends a former wrestler turned pizza delivery girl.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Fabien Onteniente with Franck Dubosc, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu. A forty-something divorced and broke man enters a disco dance contest in the hope of giving his son a vacation.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 2000. Chronicle by Thierry Binisti with Laetitia Casta, Virgile Bayle, Silvia de Santis. The love tribulations of a young woman during the Second World War.
Runtime: 283 min.
Runtime: 180 min.

The Children of Lumiere

V.O.: Les Enfants de Lumière
Runtime: 109 min.

The World of Jacques Demy

V.O.: L'Univers de Jacques Demy
Fr. 1995. Documentary by Agnès Varda with Jacques Demy, Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1992. Documentary by Agnès Varda. Filmmaker Agn
Runtime: 64 min.
Fr. 1990. Dramatic comedy by Tony Gatlif with Gérard Darmon, Vincent Lindon, Suzanne Flon. Two unemployed friends who want to open a bar welcome an old lady abandoned by her relatives and a beggar with her little girl.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1989. Sentimental drama by Michel Legrand with Sabine Azéma, Annie Girardot, Matthieu Rozé. When the Allies land in Normandy, a teenage musician, joined by his mother and a whimsical young woman, sets off to join his family on a bicycle.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1988. Musical by Jacques Demy with Yves Montand, Mathilda May, Françoise Fabian. Yves Montand falls in love with a young dancer after arriving in Marseille to stage a musical that retraces the most important stages of his career.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1987. Psychological drama by Christopher Frank with Richard Berry, Claire Nebout, Tcheky Karyo. The director of a photo-laboratory remembers his tormented relationship with a young woman who lived surrounded by intriguing characters.
Runtime: 90 min­.
U.S. 1987. Comedy by Ted Kotcheff with Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve. A brilliant journalist does a last report on a death row inmate before leaving the television station run by her ex-husband.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1986. Court drama by Jean-Claude Tramont with Scott Glenn, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Davis. In 1959, in Louisiana, a lawyer agrees to defend a Black woman whose property is coveted by a wealthy family.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 1985. Fantasy by Jacques Demy with Francis Huster, Keiko Ito, Marie-France Pisier. A popular singer has a disturbing experience after being drawn into the afterlife by death.
Runtime: 90 min.

Love Songs

V.O.: Paroles et musique
Fr. 1984. Dramatic comedy by Élie Chouraqui with Catherine Deneuve, Christophe Lambert, Richard Anconina. A neglected mother, director of an entertainment agency, becomes the mistress of a singer.
Runtime: 107 min.

Hell Train

V.O.: Train d'enfer
Fr. 1984. Social drama by Roger Hanin with Roger Hanin, Gérard Klein, Robin Renucci. The murder of an Arab man on a train by three young men causes incidents in a small town in the Paris suburbs.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1984. Dramatic comedy by Édouard Molinaro with Claude Brasseur, Daniel Auteuil, Gudrun Landgrebe. A French prisoner of war finds his brother in Germany, who has created a comfortable situation for himself in captivity.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1983. Musical drama by Barbra Streisand with Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a young Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to pursue her studies.
Runtime: 134 min.
G.-B. 1983. Spy drama by Irvin Kershner with Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barbara Carrera. Secret agent James Bond is in charge of finding two nuclear devices stolen by an international criminal organization.
Runtime: 134 min.

A Love in Germany

V.O.: Eine Liebe in Deutschland
All. 1983. Mores drama by Andrzej Wajda with Hanna Schygulla, Piotr Lysak, Marie-Christine Barrault. In 1941 in a German village, the dramatic consequences of a grocer's affair with a Polish prisoner of war.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1982. Dramatic comedy by Élie Chouraqui with Francis Huster, Nicole Garcia, Charles Aznavour. A young filmmaker is inspired by his family background and his romantic experiences to write a screenplay.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1982. Dramatic comedy by Jean Kerchbron with Silvia Monfort, Jean-Luc Boutté, Maria Mériko. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a widow fulfills her dream of becoming an airplane pilot.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1982. Comedy by Michel Lang with Pierre Mondy, Clio Goldsmith, Claudia Cardinale. The misadventures of a bank executive who, on the occasion of his retirement, receives an affair with a call girl as a gift.
Runtime: 108 min.
Can. 1981. Psychological drama by George Kaczender with Richard Harris, Jennifer Dale, Jeanne Moreau.
Runtime: 95 min.
Can. 1980. Mores drama by Louis Malle with Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1978. Sentimental drama by Serge Korber with Julien Guiomar, Marie Dubois, Jean-Claude Massoulier. A surgeon is called upon to treat the son of an accountant he loves.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1978. Adventures by Jacques Demy with Catriona MacColl, Barry Stokes, Christine Bohm.
Runtime: 124 min.
Fr. 1978. Psychological drama by Joseph Losey with Yves Montand, Miou-Miou, Laurent Malet. A Spanish-born screenwriter ponders his life after his wife's death during a clandestine mission.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1978. Sentimental drama by Élie Chouraqui with Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry, Gabriele Ferzetti. A student learns that his mother is suffering from leukemia and works to ease her final days.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1977. Comedy by Roger Coggio with Roger Coggio, Élisabeth Huppert, Luisa Colpeyn. A young woman who has planned her suicide sees her plans thwarted by a bystander.
Runtime: 91 min.

Lovers Like Us

V.O.: Le Sauvage
Fr. 1975. Sentimental comedy by Jean-Paul Rappeneau with Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve, Tony Roberts. A young woman imposes herself on a man who has retired to an isolated island.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1974. Dramatic comedy by Peter Hyams with Pamela Sue Martin, Betsy Slade, Parker Stevenson. The romantic adventures of two teenage girls, boarders in a private institution in 1955.
Runtime: 90 min.

A Slightly Pregnant Man

V.O.: L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune
Fr. 1973. Comedy by Jacques Demy with Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Melki. A driving instructor shows all the symptoms of pregnancy.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1973. Crime drama by Édouard Molinaro with Daniel Cauchy, Bulle Ogier, Gilles Ségal. Three crooks imprisoned for the murder of a mobster manage to escape by taking a magistrate as a hostage.
Runtime: 90 min.
Pan. 1973. Adventures by Richard Lester with Michael York, Charlton Heston, Oliver Reed. D'Artagnan gets the help of three musketeers to complete a mission received from the queen.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1972. Biography by Sidney J. Furie with Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor. The dramatic life of the famous Black singer Billie Holiday.
Runtime: 144 min.
Fr. 1972. Psychological drama by Serge Korber with Annie Girardot, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Le Coq. The divorced wife of a notary deludes herself into believing that her husband, who has rebuilt his life, wants to come back to her.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Outside Man

V.O.: Un Homme est mort
Fr. 1972. Thriller by Jacques Deray with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider. After murdering a mob boss, a contract killer realizes that he has a colleague on his tail.
Runtime: 105 min.
G.-B. 1972. Dramatic comedy by Alvin Rakoff with Rex Harrison, Frank Finlay, Rosemary Leach. A country gentleman, seized by a gentle madness, travels the roads of Spain in search of wrongs to right.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1971. Satire by Jean-Pierre Blanc with Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Marthe Keller. While on vacation, a middle-aged man forces himself on a lonely young woman.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 1971. Sentimental drama by Robert Mulligan with Gary Grimes, Jennifer O'Neill, Jerry Houser. A teenager on vacation falls in love with the young wife of an aviator who has gone to war.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1971. Adventures by Jean-Paul Rappeneau with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Michel Auclair. After making his fortune in America, a man returns to France in 1792 to obtain a divorce from his wife.
Runtime: 98 min.

A Few Hours of Sunlight

V.O.: Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide
Fr. 1971. Psychological drama by Jacques Deray with Claudine Auger, Marc Porel, Bernard Fresson. A married woman abandons her provincial life to go live with a Parisian journalist.
Runtime: 110 min.
G.-B. 1971. Psychological drama by Joseph Losey with Dominic Guard, Julie Christie, Alan Bates. By serving as a messenger between a rich girl and a farmer, a young boy discovers the passions of the adult world.
Runtime: 116 min.

Donkey Skin

V.O.: Peau d'âne
Fr. 1970. Tale by Jacques Demy with Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin. To escape her father who wants to marry her, a princess runs away from the castle wearing a donkey skin.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun

V.O.: La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil
Fr. 1970. Crime drama by Anatole Litvak with Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, John McEnery. The secretary of a business person becomes mysteriously involved in a murder case.
Runtime: 100 min.

La Ville-bidon

V.O.: La Décharge
Fr. 1970. Social drama by Jacques Baratier with Bernadette Lafont, Daniel Duval, Ivan Lagrange. A crime leads to the eviction of poor people who are living on vacant lots.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 1970. Sentimental drama by Robert Fuest with Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Harry Andrews. A foundling, who was raised in a wealthy family, falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1969. War drama by Sydney Pollack with Burt Lancaster, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Patrick O'Neal. During the Ardennes campaign, American soldiers settle in the castle of a count.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1969. Comedy by Pierre Mondy with Jacqueline Maillan, Robert Hirsch, Guy Bedos. The wife of an industrialist and a fighter pilot get into trouble with kidnappers.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1968. Crime drama by Norman Jewison with Steve McQueen (I), Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke. An investigator for a Boston insurance company gains the confidence of a young financier, who organizes bank robberies for fun.
Runtime: 102 min.

The Swimming Pool

V.O.: La Piscine
Fr. 1968. Psychological drama by Jacques Deray with Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet. A failed writer quarrels with a friend and drowns him in the pool of a villa.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1968. Spy drama by John Sturges with Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine. An atomic submarine is put in charge of recovering a space capsule that has fallen to the North Pole.
Runtime: 152 min.
Fr. 1967. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Luc Godard with Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Michel Semeniako. During one summer, a group of young people meet at the home of a philosophy student, where they try to apply the principles of Marxism as conceived by Mao to their lives.
Runtime: 96 min.

The Oldest Profession

V.O.: Le Plus vieux métier du monde
Fr. 1967. Sketches by Franco Indovina, Mauro Bolognini, Philippe de Broca, Michael Pfleghar, Claude Autant-Lara, Jean-Luc Godard with Michèle Mercier, Elsa Martinelli, Jeanne Moreau. Six stories of prostitutes taking place at different times.
Runtime: 118 min.

The Young Girls of Rochefort

V.O.: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
Fr. 1967. Musical by Jacques Demy with Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Danielle Darrieux. Two twin sisters make conquests of a young sailor and an American musician.
Runtime: 125 min.

Tender Scoundrel

V.O.: Tendre Voyou
Fr. 1966. Comedy by Jean Becker with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Nadja Tiller. A young man is living off the backs of ladies under false pretenses.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1965. Sentimental comedy by Jean-Paul Rappeneau with Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Pierre Brasseur. A crossroads of love in a Normandy castle during the war.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1964. Comedy by Pierre Grimblat, François Reichenbach with Olivier Despax, Catherine Rouvel, Henri Garcin. Wishing to marry their children, a squire and a millionaire take them on a cruise on the same liner.
Runtime: 95 min.

Band of Outsiders

V.O.: Bande à part
Fr. 1964. Police comedy by Jean-Luc Godard with Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey. With the help of a young student, two thieves plan to steal a fortune hidden in a suburban house.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

V.O.: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Fr. 1963. Musical drama by Jacques Demy with Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon. In 1957, a young girl falls in love with a garage owner who must soon leave her to go to war in Algeria.
Runtime: 91 min.

Ravishing Idiot

V.O.: Une Ravissante Idiote
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Édouard Molinaro with Brigitte Bardot, Anthony Perkins, Grégoire Aslan. A young spy uses the woman he loves to steal files.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1963. Crime drama by Gilles Grangier with Jean Gabin, Françoise Fabian, Guy Decomble. A police commissioner investigates a mysterious murder in the street.
Runtime: 87 min.

My Life to Live

V.O.: Vivre sa vie
Fr. 1962. Psychological drama by Jean-Luc Godard with Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe. A prostitute has a run-in with her pimp when she decides to leave it all for a man who loves her.
Runtime: 80 min.

Le Roi du tiercé

V.O.: Le Gentleman d'Epsom
Fr. 1962. Mores comedy by Gilles Grangier with Jean Gabin, Louis de Funès, Madeleine Robinson. A retired officer frequents the horse-racing scene where he cashes in on his supposed knowledge of racehorses.
Runtime: 83 min.
Fr. 1962. Police comedy by Pierre Grimblat with Eddie Constantine, Elga Andersen, Michel de Ré. A music hall performer defends a widow who is threatened with being robbed by her three brothers-in-law.
Runtime: 86 min.

Bay of Angels

V.O.: La Baie des anges
Fr. 1962. Psychological drama by Jacques Demy with Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers. On the French Riviera, a young man falls in love with a woman who is passionate about gambling.
Runtime: 89 min.

The Counterfeiters of Paris

V.O.: Le Cave se rebiffe
Fr. 1962. Police comedy by Gilles Grangier with Jean Gabin, Maurice Biraud, Bernard Blier. A retired counterfeiter returns to making fake money.
Runtime: 98 min.

Cleo From 5 to 7

V.O.: Cléo de 5 à 7
Fr. 1962. Psychological drama by Agnès Varda with Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray. A young singer waiting for the results of a medical examination is obsessed with the idea of death.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1961. Police comedy by Guy Lefranc with Eddie Constantine, François Chaumette, Renée Cosima. Accused of murder, a ventriloquist escapes and searches for the real killer.
Runtime: 89 min.

A Woman Is a Woman

V.O.: Une Femme est une femme
Fr. 1961. Comedy by Jean-Luc Godard with Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo. Faced with her lover's refusal to give her a child, a young woman threatens him to find a more understanding friend.
Runtime: 84 min.

Seven Capital Sins

V.O.: Les 7 Péchés capitaux
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1961. Mores comedy by Claude de Givray with Eddie Constantine, Georges Poujouly, Alexandra Stewart. Despite much opposition, two friends successfully operate a Karting track.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1961. Crime drama by Pierre Grimblat with Eddie Constantine, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Louis Richard. A journalist accepts a dangerous spy mission.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1960. Comedy by Jacques Poitrenaud, Michel Fermaud with Noël Roquevert, Dany Saval, Michael Lonsdale. Various adventures within a family of wacky people.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1960. Dramatic comedy by Jacques Demy with Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Alan Scott. In Nantes, a young woman is still hoping for the return of the man she had a child with.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1960. Adventures by Yves Allégret with Eddie Constantine, Marie Versini, Raymond Pellegrin. In the Camargue, a manadier takes in an old comrade who has just been released from prison.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1960. Comedy by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Brion, Raymond Gérome. In love with a fellow student, a young man devises a scheme to supplant a rival.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1957. Comedy by Jack Pinoteau with Darry Cowl, Béatrice Altariba, Jean-Claude Brialy. A delivery boy leaves for Nice on his tricycle to watch a soccer game.
Runtime: 90 min.

Sinners of Paris

V.O.: Rafles sur la ville
Fr. 1957. Crime drama by Pierre Chenal with Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli, Mouloudji. A police officer searches for the murderer of a colleague.
Runtime: 69 min.

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