Le doulos / Le Doulos / The Finger Man (1963)
Crime | Thriller
A burglar betraying other criminals, prepares for a big heist with a trusted friend that might be as untrustworthy as he.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre, Philippe Nahon, Philippe March
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
À bout de souffle / Breathless (1960)
Crime | Drama | Romance
A petty criminal, wanted for the murder of a police officer, returns to Paris where he meets an American girl who hawks newspapers. They become lovers, but eventually the police pressure her into betraying him and revealing his whereabouts.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Jean-Pierre Melville
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Un singe en hiver / A Monkey in Winter (1962)
Comedy | Drama
Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war, Albert comes in contact with Gabriel, a young man prone to heavy bouts with the bottle. Gabriel is conflicted over visiting his young daughter in a nearby school and in a moment of nostalgia, Albert takes off with him on one major binge — and havoc results.
Starring: Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon
Director: Henri Verneuil
Le professionnel / The Professional (1981)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation changes and the French secret service turns him in to the African authorities, and he is sentenced to a long-term imprisonment. After the daring escape he returns to France and deliberately informs his former chiefs of his presence promising them to kill Njala who has just arrived to the country with the official visit.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly, Cyrielle Clair, Marie-Christine Descouard, Elisabeth Margoni
Director: Georges Lautner
Classe tous risques / Classe Tous Risques (1960)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, fugitive gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children despite a death sentence hanging over his head. Accompanied by appointed guardian Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo, fresh off his star turn in Breathless) and beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that's both throat grabbing and soul searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope, this rugged noir from Claude Sautet (Un coeur en hiver) is a thrilling highlight of sixties French cinema.
Starring: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio
Director: Claude Sautet
Le magnifique / The Magnificent One (1973)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book…
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli
Director: Philippe de Broca
Le cerveau / The Brain (1969)
Comedy | Crime
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach, Silvia Monti, Jacques Balutin
Director: Gérard Oury
Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine / Chinese Adventures in China / Up to His Ears (1965)
Adventure | Comedy
Arthur Lempereur (Jean-Paul Belmondo of Breathless) is a globe-hopping millionaire, engaged to Alice (Valérie Lagrange), a beautiful young woman. As the film opens, Arthur has cut the break line on his fine automobile and proceeds to drive it off a cliff. This, we learn, is his ninth suicide attempt in the past week. Arthur is bored with his easy life. Even learning from his accountant, Biscotton (Darry Cowl), that he's ruined doesn't perk him up. On a cruise to Hong Kong, his friend Mr. Goh (Valéry Inkijinoff) comes up with a solution to Arthur's woes: "Adversity carries the chance for happiness," he explains to the despondent young man. Goh convinces Arthur to take out a two-million-dollar life insurance policy, with Goh and Alice as the beneficiaries. The policy will expire in one month. Goh then tells Arthur that his life is in danger. He may be killed at any moment. Arthur soon realizes that he's being followed. He's not so eager to be murdered. Arthur and his valet, Leon (Jean Rochefort of The Hairdresser's Husband), frantically search for Goh to ask him to call off the hit. At one point, Arthur ducks into a nightclub to dodge his pursuers, and instantly falls for Alexandrine (Ursula Andress), the stripper on-stage. Alexandrine is fascinated by the ways men try to manipulate women and assumes that Arthur's story about hired killers is a bizarre ruse. All the more determined to survive the month, the bumbling Arthur engages in a fierce battle for his life. Up to His Ears is both a loose adaptation of a Jules Verne story (Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine) and a hyped-up return to the form of director Philippe de Broca's previous action comedy, That Man from Rio, which also starred Belmondo.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ursula Andress, Maria Pacôme, Valérie Lagrange, Valéry Inkijinoff
Director: Philippe de Broca
L'homme de Rio / That Man from Rio (1964)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a murdered man who possessed one of two other such figurines. Moments after her sweetheart, Adrien, an Army private with a week's leave, arrives in Paris to see her, Agnes too is kidnapped, drugged, and loaded on a plane to Rio. Adrien is in hot pursuit, and before he can rescue her (with the help of a shoeshine boy), foil the murderous thieves, and solve the riddle of the Maltecs, he must traverse Rio, Brasília, and the Amazon heartland… all before the end of his week's leave.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac
Director: Philippe de Broca
Une femme est une femme / A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Angela,a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she goes after Emile's friend Alfred.
Starring: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stavisky… / L'empire d'Alexandre (1974)
Crime | Drama
Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer, Anny Duperey, Michael Lonsdale, Roberto Bisacco, Claude Rich
Director: Alain Resnais
L'incorrigible / Incorrigible (1975)
Comedy
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Charles Gérard, Daniel Ceccaldi, Capucine, Andréa Ferréol
Director: Philippe de Broca
Cent mille dollars au soleil / Greed in the Sun (1964)
Action | Adventure | Comedy
Rocco, Hervé Marec, and Mitch-Mitch are long-distance lorry drivers who work for Morocco-based Castigliano and Co. When a mysterious lorry with an unknown consignment is assigned to a new driver, Hans Steiner, they become suspicious. Realising that the lorry is carrying a valuable cargo, Rocco secretly drives the lorry away, accompanied by his girlfriend. When he learns what has happened, Castigliano offers Hervé and Mitch-Match a reward of two million francs if they can recover the lorry. A long, desperate chase ensues…
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Reginald Kernan, Bernard Blier, Andréa Parisy, Gert Fröbe
Director: Henri Verneuil
Ace of Aces / L' as des as (1982)
Adventure | Comedy | Sport
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics…
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache
Director: Gérard Oury
Les mariés de l'an deux / The Married Couple of the Year Two (1971)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
After his escape to America in the year 1787 Nicolas Phillibert wants to marry a rich American heiress. In his homeland France he is still married however to the pretty Charlotte. In order to obtain the divorce, he must return therefore to France. In confusions of the french revolution he soon gets between Royalisten and republicans. After numerous bold adventures he finds his life-merry wife as bride of the best sword fighter of the Bourbonen.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté / Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Richard Anconina
Director: Claude Lelouch
L'animal / The Animal / Stuntwoman (1977)
Action | Comedy | Romance
A movie about a good-for-nothing stuntman called Mike Gaucher who can't do one single job without something going wrong. His fiancée wants to kill him, the film studios don't want to give him any more work and, as King Kong for a promotion in a supermarket, he winds up destroying some display shelves. The only role he plays well is pretending not to be able to hear, speak and walk in order to get money from the government. Then along comes the "beautiful" actor called Bruno Ferrari. Supposedly a fearless stuntman, Ferrari turns out to be afraid of heights once his feet leave the ground. So a stuntman is needed to prevent a scandal. And who is the man who looks most (or exactly) like Bruno? You guessed it, good-for-nothing Mike…
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Dany Saval, Raymond Gérôme, Jane Birkin, Johnny Hallyday
Director: Claude Zidi
Flic ou voyou / Cop or Hood (1979)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti", he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Georges Géret, Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset, Julie Jézéquel
Director: Georges Lautner
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
After abandoning his wife and infant daughter for the new babysitter, a woman he'd loved and lost several years earlier, an errant husband embarks on a haphazard road to tragedy.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Raymond Devos, Graziella Galvani
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
