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Claude Lelouch Filmography
Complete filmography of Claude Lelouch: 42 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| At the End of the Day | 2,024 | Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.1 | 37 | French | In an increasingly crazy world, Lino, who has decided to leave everything behind, will come to realise that, at the end of the day, everything that happens to us is for our own good! |
| Love Is Better Than Life | 2,022 | Comedy, Romance, Music | 5.3 | 23 | French | Upon their release from prison twenty years earlier, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked themselves if honesty was not the best racket of them all. Today, they are inseparable and scrupulously above board. But Gérard learns he is terminally ill. Their friend’s days being numbered, Ary and Philippe want to offer him one last love story… because, as Gérard likes to say : love is better than life. |
| The Best Years of a Life | 2,019 | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 6.6 | 98 | French | They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up where they left it… |
| Dance of Chance | 2,019 | Comedy, Drama | 4.2 | 19 | French | That day, there’s tension in the air: Marianne has her car and dog stolen from a highway parking lot. Stéphane is constantly arguing with his wife. Noémie can no longer stand her husband Aldo’s infidelities. A little-known orchestra performs for the last time… |
| Everyone's Life | 2,017 | Comedy | 4.6 | 94 | French | Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies. |
| Un + une | 2,015 | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 5.8 | 197 | French | A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet. |
| We Love You, You Bastard | 2,014 | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 5.6 | 56 | French | A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile him with his family by telling them a big lie. |
| What War May Bring | 2,010 | Drama | 6.5 | 23 | French | A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship. |
| Crossed Tracks | 2,007 | Drama, Thriller | 6.6 | 54 | French | The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction? |
| And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... | 2,002 | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 5.6 | 31 | English | A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past. |
| Chance or Coincidence | 1,998 | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 5.3 | 19 | French | Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her. |
| Men, Women: A User's Manual | 1,996 | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 30 | French | Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream. |
| Les Miserables | 1,995 | Drama, History | 6.7 | 83 | French | In WWII France, poor and illiterate Henri Fortin is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life. |
| All That... for This?! | 1,993 | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 6.1 | 50 | French | The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge who get on with the trial and who are being unfaithful to their couples. |
| The Beautiful Story | 1,992 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 7.1 | 26 | French | A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed. |
| There Were Days... and Moons | 1,990 | Drama, Comedy | 6.3 | 27 | French | How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation. |
| Itinerary of a Spoiled Child | 1,988 | Drama, Adventure | 7.2 | 216 | French | 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. |
| Bandits | 1,987 | Drama | 5.8 | 14 | French | On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance? |
| A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later | 1,986 | Drama, Romance | 5.8 | 32 | French | Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film. |
| Going and Coming Back | 1,985 | Drama, War | 6.4 | 21 | French | Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot ... |
| Long Live Life | 1,984 | Thriller, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction | 5.9 | 20 | French | The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview. |
| Edith and Marcel | 1,983 | Drama, Romance | 5.7 | 16 | French | This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after writing to each other for four years and having never met. Their romances are framed by the sad, torchy songs of Piaf. |
| Bolero | 1,981 | Drama, Music | 6.9 | 84 | French | The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together. |
| Us Two | 1,979 | Drama | 6 | 26 | French | Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side with politicians who can't afford a scandal. She got started on this business after she was raped, and hasn't looked back since. Now the police are on her trail, and she avails herself of the services of a couple who make a profession of hiding wanted criminals. At the hideout, she meets Simon, a second-generation mobster. As the police close in, Françoise and Simon go on the run together, pulling off occasional heists for operating money. Before long, they have also fallen in love. |
| Robert et Robert | 1,978 | Comedy | 6.1 | 18 | French | Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their common name, the two Roberts are as different as night and day. Oh, there is one more resemblance: both Roberts are lonely, and both hope to meet suitable mates through a computer dating service. As they await the arrival of their new dates, Robert et Robert become fast friends. Of the three favorite film subjects of writer/director Claude Lelouch--romance, crime, and politics--Robert et Robert falls firmly into the first category. |
| Another Man, Another Chance | 1,977 | Drama, Romance, Western | 6 | 18 | English | Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild west, they build up a small photo shop. Meanwhile, animal doctor David lives on his lonesome farm together with his unlucky wife. It takes years and two tragic accidents until Jeanne and David meet. She has already decided to return to France as soon as possible, but love, and fate, have other plans. |
| Rendezvous | 1,976 | Action, Romance | 7.4 | 86 | French | A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris. |
| The Good and the Bad | 1,976 | Drama, Crime, Comedy, Romance | 5.5 | 36 | French | The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation. |
| A Second Chance | 1,976 | Drama | 6.1 | 24 | French | Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living. |
| Cat and Mouse | 1,975 | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 5.6 | 30 | French | A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his enchanting wife who was aware that her husband had a mistress. It is also possible that the dead man may be the victim of a radical terrorist group. |
| And Now My Love | 1,974 | Drama, Romance | 5.9 | 19 | French | The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents. |
| Happy New Year | 1,973 | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.2 | 86 | French | Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there. |
| Money Money Money | 1,972 | Adventure, Comedy | 6.7 | 180 | French | When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions. |
| Smic, Smac, Smoc | 1,971 | Comedy | 5.2 | 13 | FJ | Charles, Jean and Amidou are workmen at the La Ciotat shipyards and live in the same construction facility. One day, Amidou leaves them to marry Catherine, a salesgirl. The trouble for Charles and Jean is that going to their friend's wedding means buying new clothes, which is problematic given their low income Moreover, they are determined to make this day an unforgettable one, despite their lack of money. Will they be able achieve their aim? |
| The Crook | 1,970 | Action, Thriller, Crime | 7.1 | 38 | French | A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession. |
| Love Is a Funny Thing | 1,969 | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 50 | French | A composer and a French film star, both of whom are married to others, meet and fall in love while shooting a film in the United States. |
| Life Love Death | 1,969 | Drama | 5 | 11 | French | François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out: after three dates, he strangles some prostitutes, when, the victim of blackmail, he becomes dishonored. He is taken to court, and sentenced to be killed by a guillotine. |
| Far from Vietnam | 1,967 | Documentary, War, Drama | 7 | 22 | French | In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War. |
| Live for Life | 1,967 | Drama | 6.2 | 19 | French | Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice. |
| A Man and a Woman | 1,966 | Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 302 | French | A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common. |
| To Be a Crook | 1,965 | Crime, Drama | 5.6 | 12 | French | Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the first "crime school", as well as their work. |
| In the Affirmative | 1,964 | Drama | 5 | 12 | French | The film is a road movie that follows a middle aged man who gives a young woman a lift. On the car radio, news bulletins warn the population against a recently escaped sadist who is known to prey on young women and children. Lelouch often cuts away from the main story, if only briefly, to parallel events that are not necessarily crucial to the story but illustrate what is suggested by the radio. |
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