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Jean-Pierre Melville‌

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calendar1917-10-20

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Jean-Pierre Melville

Paris, France

Jean-Pierre Melville

Paris, France

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1917-10-20

Popularity

star3.3

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

Breathless

Breathless‌
star7.5
calendar 1960

Belmondo, le magnifique

Belmondo, le magnifique‌
star7.7
calendar 2017

Bluebeard

Bluebeard‌
star6.4
calendar 1963

Les rois de la comédie

Les rois de la comédie‌
star9.0
calendar 2023

24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

24 Hours in the Life of a Clown‌
star6.0
calendar 1946

Two Men in Manhattan

Two Men in Manhattan‌
star6.4
calendar 1959

Le Combat dans l’île

Le Combat dans l’île‌
star6.7
calendar 1962

Orpheus

Orpheus‌
star7.6
calendar 1950

Code Name: Melville

Code Name: Melville‌
star6.7
calendar 2008

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau‌
star8.0
calendar 2019

Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses

Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses‌
star7.2
calendar 1971

Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante

Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante‌
star5.5
calendar 1977

A Girl in a Pocket

A Girl in a Pocket‌
star4.3
calendar 1957

Melville-Delon: Honor and Night

Melville-Delon: Honor and Night‌
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calendar 2011

Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs

Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs‌
star7.0
calendar 2024

Lino Ventura, la part intime

Lino Ventura, la part intime‌
star7.8
calendar 2018

Bob le Flambeur

Bob le Flambeur‌
star7.3
calendar 1956

Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle

Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle‌
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calendar 1966

Melville, le dernier samouraï

Melville, le dernier samouraï‌
star7.7
calendar 2020

Sign of the Lion

Sign of the Lion‌
star6.9
calendar 1962

Tv Credits

Midi trente

Midi trente‌
star6.0
calendar 1972

Cinépanorama

Cinépanorama‌
star8.0
calendar 1956