Claude Lelouch

The Best Years of a Life

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…

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6.6

2019 Comedy 90 min Spielen

4.6

Everyone’s Life

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.

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4.6

2017 Comedy 113 min Spielen

5.8

Un + une

A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

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5.8

2015 Comedy 115 min Spielen

5.6

We Love You, You Bastard

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.

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5.6

2014 Comedy 124 min Spielen

6.7

Crossed Tracks

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 ...

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6.7

2007 Drama 103 min Spielen

6.8

To Each His Own Cinema

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

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6.8

2007 Comedy 100 min Spielen

6.2

And Now… Ladies and Gentlemen…

A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.

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6.2

2002 Drama 133 min Spielen

6.6

11’09”01 – September 11

11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.

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6.6

2002 Drama 135 min Spielen

5.4

Begegnung in Venedig

Die Ballerina Miriam lernt in Venedig den freigeistigen Kunsthändler und Fälscher Pierre kennen - und schon bald entwickelt sich zwischen den beiden eine intensive Liebesbeziehung. Dann aber kommt Pierre und Miriams achtjähriger Sohn Serge bei einem Bootsausflug ums Leben. Von Schmerz und Trauer getrieben reist Miriam um die halbe Welt, um mit einer Videokamera all jene Orte zu filmen, die sie mit Serge und Pierre noch besuchen wollte. Eines Tages jedoch wird ihre Videokamera samt Kassette ...

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5.4

1998 Drama 120 min Spielen

6.7

Lumière and Company

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes. The results run the gamut from Zhang Yimou's convention-thwarting joke to David Lynch's bizarre miniature epic.

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6.7

1995 Action 88 min Spielen

6.1

All That… for This?!

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.

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6.1

1993 Comedy 116 min Spielen

7.2

The Beautiful Story

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.

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7.2

1992 Adventure 210 min Spielen

4.6

The King of Ads

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.

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4.6

1991 Documentary 91 min Spielen

6.6

There Were Days… and Moons

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.

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6.6

1990 Comedy 117 min Spielen

7.3

Der Löwe

Das Findelkind Sam Lion macht Karriere vom gefeierten Zirkusartisten zum millionenschweren Konzerchef. Nachdem seine beiden Ehen gescheitert und die Kinder erwachsen sind, steigt Lion aus, inszeniert seinen Tod auf hoher See und nimmt eine neue Identität an. In Zimbabwe wird Sam von seinem früheren Angestellten Al erkannt. Mit einem Empfehlungsschreiben und guten Ratschlägen per Telefon ermöglicht ihm Sam den Einstieg in seine Firma, die inzwischen kurz vor dem Bankrott steht. Als Tochter ...

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7.3

1988 Abenteuer 111 min Spielen

5.8

Bandits

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 ...

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5.8

1987 Drama 111 min Spielen

5.3

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

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 who's 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.

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5.3

1986 Drama 112 min Spielen

6.2

Going and Coming Back

Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. 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. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have ...

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6.2

1985 Drama 114 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.

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6.6

1984 Comedy 106 min Spielen

6.9

Bolero: Dance of Life

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 ...

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6.9

1981 Drama 184 min Spielen

7.1

Us Two

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 ...

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7.1

1979 Drama 112 min Spielen

6.4

Another Man, Another Chance

Claude Lelouch's Another Man, Another Chance begins in France in 1870. Napoleon III has just lost the war against Prussia and left the country in poverty. Young Jeanne (Genevieve Bujold) falls in love with photographer Francis (Francis Huster), 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 (James Caan) lives on his lonesome farm together with his unlucky wife. It takes ...

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6.4

1977 Western 131 min Spielen

5.7

The Good and the Bad

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.

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5.7

1976 Comedy 120 min Spielen

7.3

Rendezvous

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

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7.3

1976 Action 8 min Spielen