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Jean-Pierre Melville portrait

Jean-Pierre Melville

Directing

October 20, 1917

Paris, France

21 movies

6.3 avg

1

Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969). Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in...

Best Performances

Highest rated appearances

Orpheus

Orpheus

as Hotel Manager (uncredited)

Breathless

Breathless

as Parvulesco the Writer

Bob le Flambeur

Bob le Flambeur

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Filmography

2020s

4 films

Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs

Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs

as Self (archive footage)

Les Rois de la comédie

Les Rois de la comédie

as Self (archive footage)

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

Melville, le dernier samouraï

Melville, le dernier samouraï

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Sign of the Lion

Sign of the Lion

as Un Consommateur (uncredited)

Bluebeard

Bluebeard

as Clemenceau's Aide

as (archives)

2020

7.4

2010s

5 films

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

as Self (archive footage)

Lino Ventura, la part intime

Lino Ventura, la part intime

as Self (archive footage)

Belmondo, le magnifique

Belmondo, le magnifique

as Self (archive footage)

Melville-Delon: Honor and Night

Melville-Delon: Honor and Night

as Self (archive footage)

Code Name: Melville

Code Name: Melville

as Self (archive footage)

1970s

2 films

Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante

Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante

as Self (archive footage)

Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses

as Himself

1960s

5 films

Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle

as Self - Interviewee

Bluebeard

Bluebeard

as Clemenceau's Aide

Le Combat dans l'île

Le Combat dans l'île

as Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)

Sign of the Lion

Sign of the Lion

as Un Consommateur (uncredited)

Breathless

Breathless

as Parvulesco the Writer

1950s

4 films

Two Men in Manhattan

Two Men in Manhattan

as Moreau

A Girl in a Pocket

A Girl in a Pocket

as Commissioner

Bob le Flambeur

Bob le Flambeur

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Orpheus

Orpheus

as Hotel Manager (uncredited)

1940s

1 film

24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

as Narrator (uncredited)