Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau

January 23, 1928 · 98 years old

Jeanne Moreau (January 23, 1928 – July 31, 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, and director. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. She began playing small roles in films in 1949 and eventually achieved…

Known For

34 titles
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Ever After: A Cinderella Story

Ever After: A Cinderella Story

1998 · 2h 1m · Movie

The Brothers Grimm arrive at the home of a wealthy Grande Dame who speaks of the many legends surrounding the fable of the cinder girl before telling the "true" story of her ancestor.

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La Femme Nikita

La Femme Nikita

1990 · 1h 57m · Movie

Convicted felon Nikita isn't going to jail; she's given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.

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Jules and Jim

Jules and Jim

1962 · 1h 45m · Movie

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

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Elevator to the Gallows

Elevator to the Gallows

1958 · 1h 31m · Movie

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

7.9
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The Trial

The Trial

1962 · 1h 59m · Movie

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

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La Notte

La Notte

1961 · 2h 2m · Movie

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

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The Lover

The Lover

1992 · 1h 55m · Movie

In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.

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The Train

The Train

1964 · 2h 13m · Movie

In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

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A Woman Is a Woman

A Woman Is a Woman

1961 · 1h 24m · Movie

A stripper who's desperate to become a mother accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.

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Until the End of the World

Until the End of the World

1991 · 4h 47m · Movie

Claire and Eugene's relationship is falling apart, while a nuclear satellite threatens to fall out of orbit and destroy Earth. Claire travels the world when she meets Sam, a man with connections to technology that could change eve...

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Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight

1965 · 1h 55m · Movie

When King Henry IV ascends to the throne, his heir, the Prince of Wales, is befriended by Sir John Falstaff, an old, overweight, fun-loving habitual liar. Through Falstaff's eyes we see the reign of King Henry IV and the rise of H...

7.6
12
The Fire Within

The Fire Within

1963 · 1h 48m · Movie

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?

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The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black

1968 · 1h 47m · Movie

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

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Going Places

Going Places

1974 · 1h 57m · Movie

Two thugs travel around France terrorizing their compatriots.

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Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid

1964 · 1h 37m · Movie

A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.

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Mr. Klein

Mr. Klein

1976 · 2h 3m · Movie

In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear ...

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The Last Tycoon

The Last Tycoon

1976 · 2h 3m · Movie

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

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Don't Touch the Loot

Don't Touch the Loot

1954 · 1h 36m · Movie

An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.

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Querelle

Querelle

1982 · 1h 48m · Movie

A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.

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Beyond the Clouds

Beyond the Clouds

1995 · 1h 50m · Movie

Four stories about short or long relationships between men and women in Italy and France.

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The Yellow Rolls-Royce

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

1964 · 2h 2m · Movie

Anthology movie about three owners of a yellow Rolls-Royce: a British diplomat buys the car for his French wife; a mobster's girlfriend has an affair in Italy; an American woman drives a Yugoslavian partisan.

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Viva Maria!

Viva Maria!

1965 · 1h 59m · Movie

Somewhere in Central America in 1907: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a singer in a circus. She decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, she uninte...

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The Immortal Story

The Immortal Story

1968 · 58m · Movie

In Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife.

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Map of the Human Heart

Map of the Human Heart

1993 · 1h 49m · Movie

Arctic, 1965: Avik tells his story starting in 1931. A mapmaker flies Avik, then a preteen Eskimo boy with TB, to a hospital in Montreal where he meets Albertine. They meet again when Avik joins World War II in the UK.

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Eva

Eva

1962 · 1h 47m · Movie

A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.

6.4
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Mademoiselle

Mademoiselle

1966 · 1h 43m · Movie

Residents of a small French town are quick to accuse Manou of arson because he seduced most of the town's women. No one suspects the real culprit, a woman committing random crimes, all in an attempt to draw Manou's attention to he...

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Mille milliards de dollars

Mille milliards de dollars

1982 · 2h 12m · Movie

A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over sever...

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Gebo and the Shadow

Gebo and the Shadow

2012 · 1h 35m · Movie

Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.

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Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

1995 · 1h 28m · Movie

A renowned director's twilight years, delving into his unfulfilled ambitions and personal turmoil as his illustrious career winds down.

7.5
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The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea

The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea

1991 · 1h 35m · Movie

Lady M. wades every morning through the sea in order to heal her pain. But she is not what she pretends to be: Together with her partner Pompilius she finances her luxurious life by fraud and blackmailing. Falling in love with you...

5.9
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Le dialogue des Carmélites

Le dialogue des Carmélites

1960 · 1h 52m · Movie

This is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution.

7.0
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Heat of Desire

Heat of Desire

1981 · 1h 26m · Movie

In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is...

5.6
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Échec au porteur

Échec au porteur

1958 · 1h 26m · Movie

After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give up working as a courier for drugs traffickers. So that he and Jacqueline can make a fresh start he agrees to take on one more job f...

5.8
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The Scheming Women

The Scheming Women

1954 · 1h 36m · Movie

Paul Rémi, the well-known theater director, was accused by his secretary, Andrieux, of having pushed his associate Bazine from a footbridge situated twelve meters above the stage. Advised by his wife Mona, he hides in a psychiatri...

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