Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant

December 11, 1930 · 95 years old

Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (December 11, 1930 – June 17, 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent au…

Known For

41 titles
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Three Colors: Red

Three Colors: Red

1994 · 1h 39m · Movie

A model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.

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Amour

Amour

2012 · 2h 7m · Movie

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tes...

7.9
3
The City of Lost Children

The City of Lost Children

1995 · 1h 52m · Movie

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

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Happy End

Happy End

2017 · 1h 47m · Movie

A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.

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The Conformist

The Conformist

1971 · 1h 53m · Movie

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

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Z

Z

1969 · 2h 7m · Movie

The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

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The Great Silence

The Great Silence

1968 · 1h 45m · Movie

A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.

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My Night at Maud's

My Night at Maud's

1969 · 1h 45m · Movie

A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

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Il sorpasso

Il sorpasso

1962 · 1h 48m · Movie

An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.

8.2
10
A Man and a Woman

A Man and a Woman

1966 · 1h 42m · Movie

A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.

7.5
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...And God Created Woman

...And God Created Woman

1956 · 1h 30m · Movie

In sunny St. Tropez, a young woman loves one brother but marries the other.

6.3
12
Under Fire

Under Fire

1983 · 2h 8m · Movie

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

7.0
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Les Biches

Les Biches

1968 · 1h 40m · Movie

Architect Paul Thomas insinuates himself into the relationship of two bisexual women living in a St. Tropez villa with tragic consequences.

6.9
14
A Self-Made Hero

A Self-Made Hero

1996 · 1h 47m · Movie

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. T...

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Flic Story

Flic Story

1975 · 1h 52m · Movie

The hunt for a seasoned killer becomes a matter of life for a policeman. Action-packed drama based on real events.

6.9
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Rendez-vous

Rendez-vous

1985 · 1h 22m · Movie

Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.

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That Night in Varennes

That Night in Varennes

1982 · 2h 30m · Movie

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

7.2
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The Sleeping Car Murder

The Sleeping Car Murder

1965 · 1h 35m · Movie

The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.

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Death Laid an Egg

Death Laid an Egg

1968 · 1h 26m · Movie

The depraved manager of a high-tech poultry factory is pulled into a love triangle with his domineering wife and her sexually-liberated cousin, leading to double-crosses and murder.

5.9
20
Merveilleuse Angélique

Merveilleuse Angélique

1965 · 1h 45m · Movie

In the second of the Angélique series, the heroine joins a group of bandits, rescues her children, becomes a successful businesswoman, and once again becomes entangled in politics and matters of the heart.

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21
The Last Train

The Last Train

1973 · 1h 35m · Movie

Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

6.9
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The Best Years of a Life

The Best Years of a Life

2019 · 1h 30m · Movie

An old man is having memories of a former lover who is still alive. Images of their affair showing them young combine with dreams and poetry

6.7
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

1974 · 1h 45m · Movie

A cult erotic drama from the perverse imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet, SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE delves into the twisted mind of a young woman suspected in the stabbing death of her roommate Nora.

6.2
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The Sunday Woman

The Sunday Woman

1975 · 1h 49m · Movie

The investigation of the murder of ambiguous architect Garrone takes Police Commissioner Santamaria to the Turinese high society, but the results are unclear. In the meanwhile, another murder takes place.

6.5
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See How They Fall

See How They Fall

1994 · 1h 30m · Movie

Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart a...

6.5
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So Sweet... So Perverse

So Sweet... So Perverse

1969 · 1h 32m · Movie

An unhappily married Parisian industrialist is pulled into a web of lust and deception after he seemingly rescues his new neighbor from her abusive boyfriend.

6.0
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The Battle of Austerlitz

The Battle of Austerlitz

1960 · 2h 2m · Movie

Another of Napoleon's adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians.

6.2
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Malevil

Malevil

1981 · 2h 0m · Movie

A group of ordinary French survived a nuclear war and found themselves in the face of what was left of civilization.

6.5
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The Libertine

The Libertine

1968 · 1h 30m · Movie

After discovering her late husband's swinger's pad, a widow uses the apartment to explore her own sexuality, while searching for a man who can reciprocate her passions.

5.4
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...And Hope to Die

...And Hope to Die

1972 · 1h 39m · Movie

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

6.7
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The Big Pardon

The Big Pardon

1982 · 2h 10m · Movie

With the help of his binoculars, commissioner Duche monitors from his car the reception at the villa of Raymond Bettoun, the head of the clan of Jewish Pied-Noir.

5.7
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Tykho Moon

Tykho Moon

1996 · 1h 42m · Movie

The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ t...

5.9
33
Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire

1975 · 1h 52m · Movie

A man whose girl is threatened to be kidnapped sends her for protection with a private detective. He takes her to a mansion, where many kidnapped girls waiting to be ransomed are drugged and subjugated to all kinds of sexual depra...

5.7
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Spotlight on a Murderer

Spotlight on a Murderer

1961 · 1h 35m · Movie

When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there, just to annoy his heirs. As a result of his body not being found the latter will have to wait for five years un...

6.5
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Viva la vie

Viva la vie

1984 · 1h 46m · Movie

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speech...

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Partir, revenir

Partir, revenir

1985 · 1h 54m · Movie

Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiograpy. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely ...

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