Querelle (1982)
Drama
A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
Starring: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Roger Fritz, Hanno Pöschl
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Mademoiselle (1966)
Drama
In a French village, Manou is an Italian logger, virile, with a broad laugh. He can't say no to women's sexual invitations, and jealous villagers blame him for recent fires and a flood. He is innocent; the culprit is "Mademoiselle," town schoolmarm, a recent arrival admired by all, but sexually repressed and obsessed with Manou. She sets the first fire accidentally and throbs watching a shirtless Manou perform heroics. Subsequent catastrophes are no accident and express her mad passion for him. Also, after befriending Manou's son, she turns on the lad, making him miserable and raising his suspicions. Her designs, Manou's frank innocence, and the town's xenophobia mix explosively.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni
Director: Tony Richardson
Eva / Eva, the Devil's Woman (1962)
Drama | Romance
A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi
Director: Joseph Losey
Le dos au mur / Back to the Wall (1958)
Crime | Drama
A wealthy industrialist discovers his wife is having an affair and decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, Philippe Nicaud, Claire Maurier, Gérard Buhr, George Cusin
Director: Édouard Molinaro
Touchez Pas au Grisbi / Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
Crime | Drama
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.
Starring: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Marilyn Buferd, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll
Director: Jacques Becker
The Night / La Notte / La notte (1961)
Drama
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Maria Pia Luzi
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
The Immortal Story / Une histoire immortelle / Histoire immortelle (1968)
Drama
A sailor bets he can seduce a wealthy man's wife, not knowing the man has hired a woman to play the role.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley
Director: Orson Welles
Map of the Human Heart (1992)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
A cartographer known only as The Mapmaker comes to the Canadian Arctic in 1965 to revise a set of maps that had been made 30 years before. He meets Avik, an aged half cast Inuit man, who says he was involved in the making of the old maps and that it had changed his life. The story he then tells is the basis for the rest of the film.
Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Robert Joamie, Anne Parillaud, John Cusack, Jeanne Moreau, Patrick Bergin
Director: Vincent Ward
Jules and Jim / Jules et Jim (1962)
Drama | Romance
In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim… This is the story of three people in love, a love which does not affect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Serge Rezvani, Anny Nelsen
Director: François Truffaut
La baie des anges / Bay of Angels (1963)
Drama | Romance
This precisely wrought, emotionally penetrating romantic drama from Jacques Demy, set largely in the casinos of Nice, is a visually lovely but darkly realistic investigation into love and obsession. A bottle-blonde Jeanne Moreau is at her blithe best as a gorgeous gambling addict, and ClaudeMann is the bank clerk drawn into her risky world. Featuring a mesmerizing score by Michel Legrand, BAY OF ANGELS is among Demy's most somber works.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers, Henri Nassiet, André Certes, Nicole Chollet
Director: Jacques Demy
The Train (1964)
Action | Thriller | War
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.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon, Wolfgang Preiss
Director: John Frankenheimer
Mr. Klein / Monsieur Klein (1976)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | War
Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing discrimination because of laws edicted by the French government are desperate to sell valuable works of art – and it is easy for him to get them at bargain prices. His cosy life is disrupted when he realizes that there is another Robert Klein in Paris – a Jew with a rather mysterious behaviour. Very soon, this homonymy attracts the close – and menacing – attention of the police on the established art trader.
Starring: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto, Jean Bouise, Suzanne Flon, Massimo Girotti
Director: Joseph Losey
The Trial / Le procès (1962)
Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Brilliantly capturing the opressive paranoia of Franz Kafka's classic novel, Orson Welles' THE TRIAL is the story of the young clerk, Josef K., who is arrested. All without ever knowing his crime. Welles filmed this baroque work of genius in a deserted belle epoque railway station in Paris. The strange setting perfectly captured the bizarre and nightmarish world of Kafka's mythical totalitarian state.
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Akim Tamiroff, Elsa Martinelli
Director: Orson Welles
Going Places / Les valseuses (1974)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Chailleux
Director: Bertrand Blier
