Pretty Baby (1978)
Drama
A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
Starring: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Antonio Fargas, Diana Scarwid, Barbara Steele
Director: Louis Malle
Crackers (1984)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Also, Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. Amidst all these romantic hijinks, Weslake puts together a burglary plan, which is executed by the makeshift gang.
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn, Larry Riley, Trinidad Silva
Director: Louis Malle
Damage (1992)
Drama | Romance
A member of Parliament (Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do to his complacent life and his son.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves, Leslie Caron, Ian Bannen
Director: Louis Malle
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director André Gregory at an Upper West Side restaurant, and the two proceed into an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional on love, death, money, and all the superstition in between.
Starring: Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler
Director: Louis Malle
Le souffle au coeur / Herzflimmern / Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Comedy | Drama
This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather than America in the 1990s. Thus, Laurent is unharmed by events which would irreparably shatter the self-esteem of a modern American adolescent: he gets drunk, he smokes, he has sex, he is smothered by his mother, he is ignored by his father, a priest makes a pass at him, he gets rheumatoid fever, etc. There's enough scandalous behavior in this film to make 100 made-for-TV movies, and yet this is a very happy and oddly innocent tale.
Starring: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Gila von Weitershausen
Director: Louis Malle
Zazie dans le métro / Zazie dans le Metro (1960)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
A brash and precocious eleven-year-old (Catherine Demongeot) comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle (Philippe Noiret); he and the viewer get more than they bargained for in this anarchic comedy from Louis Malle, which treats the City of Light as though it were a pleasure island just waiting to be destroyed. Based on a popular novel by Raymond Queneau that had been considered unadaptable, Malle’s audacious hit Zazie dans le métro is a bit of stream-of-conscious slapstick, wall-to-wall with visual gags, editing tricks, and effects, and made with flair on the cusp of the French New Wave.
Starring: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps
Director: Louis Malle
Atlantic City (1980)
Crime | Drama | Romance
Atlantic City is revitalized as a resort when gambling is legalized. But the new industry also brings unsettling changes. For Lou (Burt Lancaster), 40 years a bodyguard-boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace (Kate Reid), his number-running sideline escalates to mob involvement.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli
Director: Louis Malle
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a rundown theater.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Lynn Cohen, Larry Pine, Brooke Smith, Wallace Shawn
Director: Louis Malle
Histoires extraordinaires / Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Horror | Mystery
A trio of supernatural stories based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Metzengerstein: A jealous medieval Countess has incestuous feelings for her cousin
William Wilson: a woman finds herself on the end of a whipping when she loses at cards to a sadistic Austrian officer
Toby Dammit: while driving home drunk, a self-obsessed movie star bets his head that he can survive a deadly accident.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp, James Robertson Justice, Salvo Randone, Françoise Prévost, Peter Fonda, Marlène Alexandre
Director: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim
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Au Revoir Les Enfants / Au revoir les enfants (1987)
Drama | War
An autobiographical account of the filmmaker's childhood friendship, at a Catholic boarding school in 1944, with a Jewish boy the headmaster is trying to save by hiding him under a false name.
Starring: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud
Director: Louis Malle
Black Moon (1975)
Fantasy | Sci-Fi
There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio. Since the content of this picture is not as important as the pictures and allegories, the simple plot can not be described further.
Starring: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart
Director: Louis Malle
