Claude Lelouch

A thief on the run from a life of crime. A nightclub singer hoping to escape from the blues of heartache. Two lost souls who have become fugitives from the past -- but now, fate is about to bring them together in the unfolding present. (Paramount Classics)

The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world. [IMDB]

Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women... (imdb)

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris. (imdb)

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 each is a widow/widower. Each is slow to reveal anything personal so that each revelation is hidden by a misperception... (imdb)

Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through the historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor at an anti-famine concert (imdb)

A popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller. (imdb)

A variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean Valjean. (imdb)

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... (imdb)

Two separate tales of the lives of two people destined to meet. Oscar nomination for screenplay.

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. (imdb)

In seven different parts, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamees army during the Vietnam-war. (imdb)

Story about an incurable thief, his success and his failures. (imdb)

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions. Among their hostages are singer Johnny Hallyday and an ambassador in Latin America. They get framed by a guerrilla leader, who had been kidnapped by them before, and while being tried the French Government decides to let them flee to Africa where they get on with the same old game. (imdb)

Sam Lion (Jean-Paul Belmondo) stars as a powerful international businessman who, in his youth, had been a carnival performer. Once more bitten by wanderlust, Sam Lion tries to escape his responsibilities by staging his own death. Hiding out in Tanzania, Lion meets Abert Duvivier (Richard Anconina), one of his own employees. (answers.com)

Released from prison apparently 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 jewellers in out-of-season Cannes but by someone special he met there. (imdb)

Robert Colomb, a famous TV newscaster, is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful. He is about to replace his current mistress, Mireille, with Jacqueline when he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice. When he tells Catherine about the affair, she is silent. He is assigned to Viet Nam, tells Candice their affair is over and, to his astonishment, discovers that is more than acceptable to her as she as tired of him. (imdb)

Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her. (imdb)

Stories revolve around a woman (Mathilde Seigner) and her twin sister, a street singer (Pierre Arditi), a homeless man, a real estate agent and others.

France 1870: Napoleon III has just lost the war against Prussia and left the country in poverty. 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. (imdb)

This is a 26 minute documentary on the 1965 Tour de France. (imdb)

A romantic epic, set in World War II, that celebrates Lelouch's career through multiple love stories.

Documentary about the 1972 Munich Olympics, as seen by eight different directors.

In Nazi-occupied France, a police inspector collaborates with the Gestapo while a thief works for the Resistance.

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. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

A criminal in hiding and a victim of violence travel to the New World for a fresh start.

Francis Barrucq is a brilliant judge. He has an affair with Marie, a lawyer who works in the same bar in Lyon. The couple goes on holiday in the French Alps together with their spouses.

A detective is on a case of homicide and he gets more involved than his police department may have intended in this French mystery. (allmovie.com)

Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiograpy. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. (imdb)

Filming in the USA, Henri and Françoise meet and fall in love with each other. (imdb)

A war photographer and absent father, who is more concerned with his camera as his four daughters, living happily in the Alps with his new girlfriend. He will see his life changed the day her best friend will attempt to reconcile with his family by telling a whopper.

French famous film score composer goes to India to compose the score for an Indian version of Juliet and Romeo film. He meets the wife of the French ambassador to India, and a complicated relationship ensues. (imdb)

The lives of people facing various romantic complications gather for a jazz festival in the Burgundy wine-country town of Beaune. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Friends since they're out of jail, Gerard, Ary and Philippe swore always to remain honest. 20 years later, Gerard learns he's about to die. His two friends want to offer him a last love, since he always repeated: love is better than life.

A documentary about the risk of spilling military secrets.

A quarantine inspired remake of Lelouch’s most famous short.

Two misfits meet at a dating agency and breakthrough in the social world in ways they never imagined. (imdb)

Catherine has just served a prison sentence for complicity in the murder of her boss who raped her. There she gives birth to a son, Simon. After her release she wants to make up for the lost years and tries to built up a close relationship to her already grown-up son. (imdb)

Lawyer suffering from a condition preventing him from lying takes a cross-country road trip in France. Musical fantasy blending trumpet and piano. Original Ibrahim Maalouf soundtrack. (imdb)

This story revolves around an orchestra in a provincial town putting on a performance on a national holiday. (imdb)