Atlantic City 1980  R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli, Hollis McLaren, Robert Joy, Al Waxman, Robert Goulet, Wallace Shawn, Angus MacInnes, Moses Znaimer, Sean Sullivan, Harvey Atkin, Norma Dell'Agnese, Louis Del Grande
Struggling, Atlantic City casino worker Sally (Susan Sarandon) becomes a partner with aging gangster Lou (Burt Lancaster) in a plot to make some easy money through the selling of drugs. Big problems arise when her estranged husband (Robert Joy) is killed, and the Mafia targets Sally. Lou steps in and saves Sally and, at the same time, proves to himself that he still has gangster skills. The film was nominated for several Oscars including Best Picture, Actor (Lancaster), Actress (Sarandon), and Director.
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 Belle de jour 1967  R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Genevieve Page, Pierre Clementi, Francisco Rabal, Francoise Fabian, Maria Latour, Georges Marchal, Macha Meril, Muni, Michel Charrel, Iska Khan, Bernard Musson, Francois Maistre
Young Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a Parisian housewife who is bored with her husband Pierre (Jean Sorel). After a gang rapes her, Severine takes a job as a prostitute in a house of ill repute working only in the afternoons and returning home to the unsuspecting Pierre at night. But, is Severine's double life a reality, or is it only a sexual daydream?
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Danger: Diabolik 1968  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Mario Bava
Cast: John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, Terry-Thomas, Claudio Gora, Mario Donen, Renzo Palmer, Caterina Boratto, Lucia Modugno, Andrea Bosic, Giulio Donnini
The authorities of a European country are frustrated in their efforts to catch master criminal Diabolik (John Phillip Law) who, with his girlfriend/assistant Eva (Marisa Mell), continues to pull of big heists while killing anyone in his way. The police minister finally makes a deal with the underworld to help in the chase as Diabolik becomes a hero to the population through his exploits.
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Dangerous Moves 1984 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Richard Dembo
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski, Michel Aumont, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Bernhard Wicki, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jacques Boudet
This story centers on a world chess championship as competitors, the old master (Michel Piccoli) and a young admirer (Alexandre Arbatt), become more and more obsessed with winning. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Fernando Rey, Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli, Bernard Musson, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau, Milena Vukotic, Maria Gabriella Maione, Claude Pieplu
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is a satirical look at the bourgeoisie following the activities of upper-middle-class friends. Don Raphael (Fernando Rey), Francois Thevenot (Paul Frankeur), Simone (Delphine Seyrig), Florence (Bulle Ogier), Henri Senechal (Jean-Pierre Cassel), and Alice (Stephane Audran) try, again and again, to spend an evening together. But, no matter how many times they try, and fail, to have dinner together, their plans are frustrated by events over which they have no control. The obstacles are bizarre–ranging from a mixed- up date for the dinner, to army maneuvers, to a dead body, to a stage play in which they are characters. Good entertainment.
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The Emigrant 1994  N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Youssef Chahine
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Mahmoud Hemida, Khaled El Nabaoui, Safia El Emari, Hanan Tork, Ahmed Bedir, Yousra, Yousef Ismail, Ahmad Salama
This Egyptian take on the Biblical story of Joseph–named Ram in this tale–follows Ram (Khaled El Nabaoui) through his trials and rewards. Unhappy at home, Ram heads to Egypt with his brothers. But the brothers sell him to an agent of a military leader, Amihar (Mahmoud Hemida). Ram's hard work is rewarded with land, but he soon finds he is drawn into areas he didn't expect.
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 French Cancan 1955 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Only the French Can
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Jean Gabin, Maria Felix, Francoise Arnoul, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Giani Esposito, Anna Amendola, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Clay, Jean Paredes, Lydia Johnson, Max Dalban, Jacques Jouanneau
An 1890's theater producer turns Nini (Francoise Arnoul) into a star when he revives the French dance, the Cancan, at the opening of the Moulin Rouge. Overnight, the dance, dancers, and the Moulin Rouge become sensations.
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The Game Is Over 1966 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Roger Vadim
Cast: Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli, Peter McEnery, Tina Aumont, Jacques Monod, Simone Valerie, Howard Vernon, Douglas Read, Ham-Chau Luong, Germaine Montero
Young Renee (Jane Fonda) lives a life of leisure in the mansion of her older, rich husband, Alexandre (Michel Piccoli). While she enjoys his money, she also enjoys the bed of her stepson, Maxime (Peter McEnery). When Alexandre finds out about the affair, he arranges a marriage between Maxime and another man while ensuring that Renee is cut out of his estate. Based on an Emile Zola novel. Fonda was Vadim's wife at the time.
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Genealogies of a Crime 1997  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn, Bernadette Lafont, Monique Melinand, Hubert Saint-Macary, Jean-Yves Gautier, Mathieu Amalric, Camila Mora
Less-than-successful attorney Solange (Catherine Deneuve) is appointed to defend Rene (Michel Piccoli) who is accused of killing his Aunt Jeanne (also played by Catherine Deneuve). Jeanne was a psychoanalyst, and the plot follows the psychiatric vein of contemporary France–deep and boring to those not into French philosophy.
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A Hundred and One Nights 1995 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
aka: A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema
Director: Agnes Varda
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet, Mathieu Demy, Emmanuel Salenger, Anouk Aimee, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Romane Bohringer, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Claude Brialy, Patrick Bruel, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve
A 100-year-old movie buff, Simon Cinema (Michel Piccoli), enjoys the stories of Camille Miralis (Julie Gayet) who spends 101 nights reminiscing with him about the history of filmmaking.
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I'm Going Home 2001 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Antoine Chappey, Leonor Baldaque, Leonor Silveira, Jean Koeltgen, Jean-Michel Arnold, Adrien de Van, Sylvie Testud, Ricardo Trepa
After an aging Parisian actor, Gilbert Valence (Michel Piccoli), learns that his daughter and son-in-law have died in a car accident, he takes over the support of his six-year-old grandson, Serge (Jean Koeltgen). Life goes on for Gilbert–until he is cast in an American film version of "Ulysses," and he realizes while making the difficult movie that it is time to go home.
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La Belle Noiseuse 1991 N/R, 240 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Beautiful Troublemaker
Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Beart, Marianne Denicourt, David Bursztein, Gilles Arbona, Marie-Claude Roger, Leila Remili, Daphne Goodfellow, Marie Belluc
A visit from Nicholas (David Bursztein) and girlfriend Marianne (Emmanuelle Beart) inspires artist Edouard Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) to restart work on an unfinished painting. This leads to a love/hate relationship.
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La Chamade 1968 R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Alain Cavalier
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Roger Van Hool, Amidou, Philippine Pascal, Jacques Sereys, Irene Tunc, Louise Rioton, Monique Lejeune, Christiane Lasquin
Based on a novel by Francoise Sagan, this is the story of a young woman, Lucille (Catherine Deneuve), who leaves her wealthy, older lover for a young, but poor, man. But living on love alone is not enough and she is confronted with the decision of whether or not to return to her materialistic, comfortable life.
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La Decade Prodigieuse 1972 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Mystery
aka: Ten Days Wonder
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Orson Welles, Marlene Jobert, Anthony Perkins, Michel Piccoli, Guido Alberti, Ermanno Casanova, Mathilde Ceccarelli, Eric Frisdal, Giovanni Sciuto, Vittorio Sanipoli
In this interesting mystery, Charles (Anthony Perkins) becomes enamored with his father's (Orson Welles) new bride (Marlene Jobert), and events lead to murder.
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La Grande Bouffe 1973 NC-17, 130 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
aka: The Grande Bouffe
Director: Marco Ferreri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Andrea Ferreol, Solange Blondeau, Florence Giorgetti, Michele Alexandre, Monique Chaumette, Henri Piccoli, Louis Navarre, Bernard Menez
Four successful men–a pilot (Marcello Mastroianni), a chef (Ugo Tognazzi), a TV host (Michel Piccoli), and a judge (Philippe Noiret)–enter into a suicide pact. Using the weapon of self-indulgence, the men gather in a walled Parisian villa where they eat themselves to death while enjoying side dishes of sex along with the food.
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La Petite Lili 2003 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Little Lili
Director: Claude Miller
Cast: Nicole Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ludivine Sagnier, Robinson Stevenin, Julie Depardieu, Yves Jacques, Anne Le Ny, Marc Betton, Michel Piccoli
In this updated adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," Mado Marceaux (Nicole Garcia) hostesses family and friends at her French country home where they critique both good and bad aspects of the film industry–and even find time for secret affairs during breaks in the discussions.
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Lady L 1965 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Ustinov
Cast: Paul Newman, Sophia Loren, David Niven, Claude Dauphin, Cecil Parker, Marcel Dalio, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli, Peter Ustinov, Daniel Emilfork
This film doesn't take advantage of the talent, but it does have some good moments. Lady L (Sophia Loren) tells her story to her biographer.
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 Le Mepris 1963 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Contempt
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang, Linda Veras, Raoul Coutard
Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is busy rewriting the screenplay "The Odyssey" for producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance). Meanwhile, Paul's wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), is not happy in their marriage. As she expresses her unhappiness, Paul is unable to confront the real world, just does not understand the problems, and their marriage falls apart. This film was restored and re-released in 1997.
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 Masquerade 1965 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Operation Masquerade
A Shabby Tiger
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Bill Fraser, Charles Gray, John Le Mesurier, Felix Aylmer, Christopher Witty, Tutte Lemkow, Ernest Clark
This spoof of spy stories, based on the Victor Canning novel "Castle Minerva," has Robertson and Hawkins hired to abduct the young heir to the throne of a Mid-Eastern nation. Clever and pretty well done.
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The Night is Young 1986 N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Romance
aka: Mauvais sang
Director: Leos Carax
Cast: Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, Michel Piccoli, Hans Meyer, Julie Delpy, Carroll Brooks, Hugo Pratt, Mireille Perrier, Serge Reggiani, Jerome Zucca, Paulo Handford, Thomas Peckre, Charles Schmitt, Philippe Fretun, Francois Negret
There's a new AIDS-like disease out there in the future, and it attacks only those who make love without feeling love. There is also a cure, but the serum is locked away, and a woman, known as "The American" (Carroll Brooks) hires thieves Hans (Hans Meyer) and Marc (Michel Piccoli) to steal it. They recruit teenage Alex (Denis Lavant) to steal the serum, and while preparing for the theft, Alex leaves his girlfriend Lise (Julie Delpy) and moves in with Marc. Alex falls for Marc's girlfriend Anna (Juliette Binoche), but she stays faithful to Marc. Now it is time for the theft, and the pace steps up with double crosses awaiting Alex–and also a daring rescue.
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Passion 1982 R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Laszlo Szabo, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Patrick Bonnel, Sophie Lucachevski, Barbara Tissier, Magali Campos, Myriem Roussel, Serge Desarnanos, Agnes Banfalvy
Polish director Jerzy (Jerzy Radziwilowicz) is working on a film that is a study in light and image and is using paintings by Goya, Velasquez, and other masters for the scenery. There are problems: the actors do not understand the story, and filming is behind schedule because Jerzy cannot get the lighting right. Now the backers are complaining that the film lacks a story. Meanwhile, Jerzy is ending his affair with Hanna (Hanna Schygulla) whose husband just happens to own the hotel where Jerzy's cast and crew are staying. And then there is his other affair with a factory worker Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) who is trying to unionize her fellow workers. And Jerzy still wonders why there must be a story.
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Passion in the Desert 1998 PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lavinia Currier
Cast: Ben Daniels, Michel Piccoli, Paul Meston, Kenneth Collard, Nadi Odeh, Auda Mohammed Badoul, Mohammed Ali, Habis Hussein, Tasheen Kwalda
This story begins in 1798 during Napoleon's North Africa campaign when the young French officer, Augustin Robert (Ben Daniels), escorts a scholar, Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis (Michel Piccoli), to Egypt to record ancient ruins. Following a surprise attack by warriors, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from the regiment. While wandering in the hot Sahara sun, Augustin finds a leopard, which leads to a very strange bond.
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 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Specter of Freedom
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Milena Vukotic, Michael Lonsdale, Anne-Marie Deschott, Michel Piccoli, Claude Pieplu, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau, Adolfo Celi
Talk about bizarre! At age 75, Luis Bunuel still had the knack for innovative filmmaking. This surrealistic comedy is a collection of barely related sketches that include a group of patriots in the Napoleonic era egging on a firing squad to shoot them, a missing girl helping police fill out a missing person report on her, and the well-known scene of an elegantly dressed group sitting on toilets around a dinner table until hunger strikes, when they retire to stalls in a separate room to eat. And that's just a sample.
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Success is the Best Revenge 1984 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Michael York, Joanna Szczerbic, Michael Lyndon, Jerry Skol, Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimee, John Hurt, Ric Young, Claude Le Sache, Malcolm Sinclair, Hilary Drake, Jane Asher, Michael Sarne
Living in exile in London, playwright Alex Rodak (Michael York) is producing a political play and is absorbed in his own world of making the play a success. In the process, he ignores the needs of his family. His oldest son Adam (Michael Lyndon), while attending high school in London, is desperately searching for his own identity and secretly plans to return to Poland. The conflicts between personal and political interests accelerate to the point of separation between father and son.
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 Topaz 1969 PG, 125 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, John Forsythe, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Roscoe Lee Browne, Claude Jade, John Van Dreelen
When a Soviet scientist is kidnapped, Andre Devereau (Frederick Stafford) is called on by the French government to get to the bottom of the story. A restored version, which includes about 17 minutes cut from the original release, is also available.
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Traveling Companions 1996 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Peter Del Monte
Cast: Asia Argento, Michel Piccoli, Lino Capolicchio, Silvia Cohen, Max Malatesta, Petrizia Pezza, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Chantal Ughi, Sebastiano Colla, Silvia Gasparini
Waitress Cora (Asia Argento) also performs odd jobs. She has become cynical of the world around her after her mother's suicide and having to deal with her mentally ill brother. Cosimo (Michel Piccoli) has become forgetful in his old age and wanders through the town and countryside enjoying himself. His daughter (Silvia Cohen), fearful that Cosimo will come to harm, hires Cora to follow him. As time passes, Cora is drawn to Cosimo and starts learning things about herself.
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others 1974 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Sautet
Cast: Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Stephane Audran, Serge Reggiani, Marie Dubois, Antonella Lualdi, Umberto Orsini, Ludmila Mikael, Catherine Allegret, Betty Beckers, Yves Gabrielli, Jean Capel, Mohamed Galoul, Jacques Richard
This film is about the enduring friendship between a group of male friends–including Vincent (Yves Montand), Francois (Michel Piccoli), Paul (Serge Reggiani), and Jean (Gerard Depardieu)–who spend their weekends in the country together. They smoke and drink too much and have many problems, but they are resilient and refuse to give up on life.
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Wedding in Blood 1973 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Mystery
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Stephane Audran, Clotilde Joano, Eliana De Santis, Claude Pieplu, Daniel Lecourtois, Ermanno Casanova, Pippo Merisi, Francois Robert, Henri Berger
Deputy Mayor Pierre's (Michel Piccoli) wife is sickly, and Paul starts an affair with the mayor's wife (Stephane Audran). The mayor finds out about the affair, Pierre's wife dies, and the mystery begins.
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The Young Girls of Rochefort 1968 G, 126 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Gene Kelly, Jacques Perrin, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, Francoise Dorleac, Jacques Riberolles, Grover Dale, Genevieve Thenier, Henri Cremieux, Pamela Hart, Leslie North, Patrick Jeantet, Rene Bazart
Every word is sung and every step is choreographed in this film about sisters Delphine (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange (Francoise Dorleac). They help their mother Madam Yvonne (Danielle Darrieux) with her cafe in the Town Square and run a music and ballet school in Rochefort, France, in their spare time. Although happy while entertaining on stage, Delphine and Solange lack romance in their real lives. Now, the town's annual fair attracts new romantic possibilities in the form of painter Maxence (Jacques Perrin) and tourist Andy Miller (Gene Kelly) as songs and dancing fill the screen.
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| 1. Atlantic City (1980)
2. Belle de jour (1967)
3. Danger: Diabolik (1968)
4. Dangerous Moves (1984)
5. Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
6. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
7. The Emigrant (1994)
8. French Cancan (1955)
aka: Only the French Can
9. The Game Is Over (1966)
10. Genealogies of a Crime (1997)
11. A Hundred and One Nights (1995)
aka: A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema
12. I'm Going Home (2001)
13. La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
aka: The Beautiful Troublemaker
14. La Chamade (1968)
15. La Decade Prodigieuse (1972)
aka: Ten Days Wonder
16. La Grande Bouffe (1973)
aka: The Grande Bouffe
17. La Passante (1982)
18. La Petite Lili (2003)
aka: Little Lili
19. Lady L (1965)
20. Le Mepris (1963)
aka: Contempt
21. Masquerade (1965)
aka: Operation Masquerade
aka: A Shabby Tiger
22. The Night is Young (1986)
aka: Mauvais sang
23. Passion (1982)
24. Passion in the Desert (1998)
25. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
aka: The Specter of Freedom
26. Success is the Best Revenge (1984)
27. Topaz (1969)
28. Traveling Companions (1996)
29. Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others (1974)
30. Wedding in Blood (1973)
31. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1968)
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