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    Jean-Pierre Melville

    1917-10-20 (106 years old) in Paris, France

    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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

    Movies

    poster
    Melville/Delon Au nom du père et du fils
    70 %|Feb 14, 2024
    Documentary
    poster
    Melville, le dernier samouraï
    77 %|Mar 29, 2020
    Documentary
    poster
    Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
    80 %|May 7, 2019
    Documentary
    poster
    Lino Ventura, la part intime
    78 %|Feb 4, 2018
    Documentary
    poster
    Belmondo, le magnifique
    77 %|Sep 3, 2017
    Documentary
    poster
    Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
    0 %|Jan 31, 2011
    Documentary
    poster
    Code Name: Melville
    68 %|Nov 15, 2008
    Documentary
    actor
    Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
    72 %|Jul 16, 1971
    Documentary
    poster
    Bluebeard
    63.61 %|Jan 25, 1963
    Drama, Crime, History
    poster
    Le Combat dans l’île
    67 %|Aug 16, 1962
    Drama, Romance, Thriller
    poster
    Sign of the Lion
    69.33 %|May 3, 1962
    Drama
    poster
    Breathless
    76 %|Mar 16, 1960
    Drama, Crime
    poster
    Two Men in Manhattan
    64.1 %|Oct 16, 1959
    Crime, Drama, Thriller
    poster
    A Girl in a Pocket
    43 %|Nov 6, 1957
    Comedy, Fantasy
    poster
    Bob le Flambeur
    73.1 %|Aug 24, 1956
    Drama, Action, Crime
    poster
    Orpheus
    76.16 %|Sep 29, 1950
    Romance, Fantasy, Drama
    poster
    24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
    60 %|Jan 1, 1946
    Drama, Documentary

    Series

    actor
    Midi trente
    60 %|Mar 6, 1972
    Reality
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    Cinépanorama
    80 %|Feb 4, 1956
    Documentary, Family, Talk