Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969).
Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over.
His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors."
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 3.146 |
Birthday | 1917-10-20 |
Place of Birth | Paris, France |
Also Known As | Jean-Pierre Grumbach, 让-皮埃尔·梅尔维尔, 장피에르 멜빌, 장-피에르 멜빌, 장 피에르 멜빌, |
1960
Breathless
7.5/1774
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away...
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Breathless
2017
Belmondo, le magnifique
7.7/9
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Belmondo, le magnifique
1963
Bluebeard
6.366/56
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furnit...
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Bluebeard
2023
Les rois de la comédie
9/1
At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel with “The Cow and the Prisoner”, Bourvil with “The H...
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Les rois de la comédie
1946
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
6/22
The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a meal, looks at photos and goes to bed to rise, spend...
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24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
1959
Two Men in Manhattan
6.403/62
Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.
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Two Men in Manhattan
1962
Le Combat dans l’île
6.727/32
The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément, leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When he’s ratt...
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Le Combat dans l’île
1950
Orpheus
7.6/246
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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Orpheus
2008
Code Name: Melville
6.667/6
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth duri...
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Code Name: Melville
2019
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
8/1
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Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
1971
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
7.2/5
Shot while he was preparing Un Flic, Melville carefully leads Labarthe through the trajectory of his career, from his daring debut The Silence of the...
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Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
1977
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
5.5/2
Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an a...
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1957
A Girl in a Pocket
4.3/3
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A Girl in a Pocket
2011
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
0/0
Documentary exploring the friendship between French director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Alain Delon, and their collaboration on the 1967 film Le s...
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Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
2024
Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
7/1
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Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
2018
Lino Ventura, la part intime
7.8/5
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Lino Ventura, la part intime
1956
Bob le Flambeur
7.3/247
In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, includ...
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Bob le Flambeur
1966
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
0/0
Director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Lino Ventura are interviewed about their 1966 film.
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Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
2020
Melville, le dernier samouraï
7.7/3
Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming t...
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Melville, le dernier samouraï
1962
Sign of the Lion
6.896/53
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing fi...
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