Michel Piccoli

Die schöne Querulantin

Basierend auf Balzacs Erzählung handelt das französische Drama von dem jungen Maler Nicolas, der gemeinsam mit seiner Freundin Marianne zu Besuch auf dem Landsitz des Malers Edouard Frenhofer ist. Dort steht dessen unvollenendetes Kunstwerk der schönen Querulantin im Mittelpunkt ihres Aufenthaltes und wird den Besuch auf unvorstellbare Weise prägen.

NR

7.3

1991 Drama 236 min Spielen

7.436

Belle de jour – Schöne des Tages

Séverine Sérizy ist eine glücklich verheiratete Hausfrau. Nur im Bett ist sie mit ihrem Mann Pierre nicht zufrieden. Befriedigung findet sie lediglich in ihren Tagträumen, in denen sie Fesselspielen und anderen Sadomaso-Praktiken nachgeht. Als das aber auch nicht mehr ausreicht, beginnt Séverine nachmittags als Prostituierte zu arbeiten. Im Etablissement von Madame Anaïs kann sie ihren erotischen Vorlieben freien Lauf lassen, ohne dass ihr Mann etwas davon weiß. Alles geht gut, bis Henri ...

NR

7.436

1967 Drama 101 min Spielen

6.7

You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...

NR

6.7

2012 Drama 115 min Spielen

6.8

We Have a Pope

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.

NR

6.8

2011 Comedy 102 min Spielen

6

París-Tombuctú

The frustration and vital weariness of Michel des Assantes, a prestigious plastic surgeon in Paris, is unbearable: he has a wife whom he does not love, a son who is foreign to him and friends whom he despises but, at the same time, he is incapable of taking his own life. One day, he buys a bike from a bizarre cyclist who was to make the Paris-Timbuktu route and sets out to make the journey: then, Timbuktu becomes for him the Promised Land.

NR

6

1999 Comedy 113 min Spielen

6.9

Genealogien eines Verbrechens

Eine Anwältin übernimmt den Fall eines jungen Mannes, der seine Tante, eine Psychoanalytikerin, umgebracht hat. Für die Anwältin wird allerdings allmählich klar, dass nicht der Täter, sondern die Tote für den Mord verantwortlich ist: Sie hatte vorausgesagt, dass der Junge ein potentieller Verbrecher ist und ihn gewissermaßen zu der Tat angestiftet. (Arte)

NR

6.9

1997 Drama 114 min Spielen

5.6

Tykho Moon

The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants. The perfect donor, Tykho Moon, probably has been killed in a fire, but according to rumours he's still alive. Although assassins stalk the family members, the McBees start a hunt for Tykho. Trying to escape the dragnet, Alex, a sculptor, meets Lena, a ...

NR

5.6

1996 Science Fiction 102 min Spielen

6.5

Party

This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of international jet-setters while simultaneously examining an obsessive romantic relationship between an aging Lothario and a beautiful married woman. The tale begins at a garden party in a lovely villa in the Azores held by Rogerio and Leonor for handsome, middle-aged Michel and his mistress Irene, a noted Greek movie star. The guests aren't there long before an obvious ...

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Godard's hypothesis.

NR

6.7

1995 Documentary 51 min Spielen

5.9

One Hundred and One Nights

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also a line of movie stars comes to visit him giving him back the pleasure of life - but amongst them there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories - Monsieur Cinema's and the young people's life - are told in parallel until they come together ...

NR

5.9

1995 Comedy 101 min Spielen

5.6

The Black Angel

Stephane, the wife of an older, prominent magistrate, coldbloodedly shoots a male visitor in her upscale home, then claims she was defending herself against a rapist. Victim turns out to be Wadek Aslanian, a gangster who's viewed as a modern-day Robin Hood. Paul, the lawyer hired by Stephane's husband, learns more than he really cares to know about his client, thanks to a series of anonymous letters. The notes provide a road map through the sordid areas of Stephane's past, allowing Paul to ...

NR

5.6

1994 Crime 95 min Spielen

6.4

The Supper

France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing ...

NR

6.4

1992 Drama 90 min Spielen

5.7

Walking a Tightrope

Marcel Spadice is a famous writer with a criminal background and a penchant for handsome men. From time to time, he induces an attractive female admirer to arrange for him to be introduced to nice, talented young men who happen to be sufficiently handsome to interest him. At other times, the endless effort to woo these men (who are most often heterosexual) grows wearying, and he goes to the train station to pick up soldiers looking for some easy money and a night's lodging. In this film, ...

NR

5.7

1992 Drama 120 min Spielen

3.7

The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg

The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted singer Klare Hell. Klare shows no gratitude however.

NR

3.7

1991 TV Movie 180 min Spielen

7.3

La Belle Noiseuse

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.

NR

7.3

1991 Drama 238 min Spielen

7

May Fools

An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.

NR

7

1990 Comedy 107 min Spielen

7.3

Mauvais Sang

Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.

NR

7.3

1986 Crime 119 min Spielen

6.3

Gefahr im Verzug

"Wissen Sie, warum Sie gerade besonders verführerisch wirken?" fragt Julie Tombsthay (Nicole Garcia) und antwortet dem Gitarrenlehrer ihrer Tochter Viviene gleich selbst: "Weil Sie nicht das Geringste dazu tun." Ohnehin tut David Aurphet (Christophe Malavoy) nichts, was seine Verwicklung in diesen Irrsinn erklären könnte: Erst machen Julie, Viviene und eine voyeuristische Nachbarin (Anémone) ihm Avancen, dann beschützt ihn ein Killer (Richard Bohringer) vor Julies unheimlichem Gatten ...

R

6.3

1985 Drama 101 min Spielen

6.6

Long Live Life

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.

NR

6.6

1984 Comedy 106 min Spielen

6

Dangerous Moves

World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.

NR

6

1984 Drama 110 min Spielen

6.5

The Prize of Peril

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.

NR

6.5

1983 Action 100 min Spielen

5.8

The Passerby

During an interview, Max Baumstein (Piccoli), respected chairman of a humanitarian organisation, shoots the Paraguayan ambassador dead, in cold blood. Tried for first-degree murder, he explains himself: the ambassador was a former Nazi official, responsible for the extermination of his family.

NR

5.8

1982 Drama 110 min Spielen

7.6

Espion, lève-toi

Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.

NR

7.6

1982 Drama 98 min Spielen

6.8

A Room in Town

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

NR

6.8

1982 Drama 94 min Spielen