Il postino / The Postman (1994)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Romance
A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Renato Scarpa, Linda Moretti, Orazio Stracuzzi
Director: Michael Radford
Murphys War (1971)
Drama | War
A lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, John Hallam
Director: Peter Yates
La pointe courte / La Pointe-Courte (1955)
Drama
Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort
Director: Agnès Varda
The Assassination Bureau / The Assassination Bureau Limited (1969)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Oliver Reed and Diana Rigg head an impeccable cast in The Assassination Bureau, a spirited caper inspired by a book co-written by Jack London. Reed plays Ivan, the self-confident chief of an association of hitmen for hire, who will refuse no well-paid offer –especially the lucrative challenge of an aspiring reporter (Rigg). Reasoning that a running cat-and-mouse duel with his henchmen will rid the organization of incompetents, Ivan agrees to become the object of a nonstop hunt. The game is afoot…and Europe is the playground!
Starring: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret, Warren Mitchell
Director: Basil Dearden
La vie et rien d'autre / Life and Nothing But (1989)
Drama | War
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her husband, comes a haughty, politically connected Parisian, Madame Irène de Courtil. Brusquely, Dellaplane offers her 1/350,000th of his time, but as their paths cross and she sees his courage and resolve, feelings change. After he finds a surprising connection between her missing husband and a local teacher, Irène makes Dellaplane an offer. This man of action hesitates: has he missed his only chance?
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier, François Perrot, Jean-Pol Dubois
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Le vieux fusil / The Old Gun (1975)
Drama | Thriller | War
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decided to meet then for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen, Robert Hoffmann, Karl Michael Vogler
Director: Robert Enrico
Cinema Paradiso / Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Drama
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Salvatore Cascio
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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
The Night of the Generals (1967)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | War
The murder of a prostitute in Nazi occupied Warsaw draws Wehrmacht Major Grau into an investigation where the evidence points to one of three high ranking Generals. The trail leads Grau from Warsaw to Paris and straight into the 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, of which two of the Generals are deeply involved. Grau's case goes unfinished and it is not until 1965 when the true killer is brought to justice.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet, Philippe Noiret, Charles Gray
Director: Anatole Litvak
Woman Times Seven / Sette volte donna / Sept fois femme (1967)
Comedy | Drama
Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband.
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, Rossano Brazzi, Alan Arkin, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley, Lex Barker, Elsa Martinelli, Adrienne Corri, Philippe Noiret
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Topaz (1969)
Thriller
The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, brought a best-selling spy novel to the screen with riveting results in this spellbinding espionage thriller. John Forsythe star as an American CIA agent who hires a French operative named Devereaux (Frederick Stafford) to go to Cuba and check out rumours of Russian missiles and a NATO spy called Topaz.
Starring: Dany Robin, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, John Forsythe, Karin Dor, Frederick Stafford
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
