Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Murmur of the Heart (1971) This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather than America in the 1990s. Thus, Laurent is unharmed by events which would irreparably s
Damage (1992)
Damage (1992) A member of Parliament (Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's fianc�e. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do to his complacent life and his son. Completely obsessed, he wants to give up his current lifestyl
Pretty Baby (1978)
Pretty Baby 1978 In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she works Photographer Ernest J Bellocq has an attraction to Hallie and Violet and he is an habitue of the whor
The Lovers (1958)
The Lovers (1958) Bored with her husband, bored with her polo-playing lover, will the middle-aged heroine go away with the young man who gave her a lift that day when her car broke down on the way back to her country estate from a weekend with her lover in Paris?
Zazie dans le Metro (1960)
Zazie dans le Metro 1960 This merry farce depicts a satirical view of the French society Ten year old Zazie has to stay two days with her relatives in Paris, so that her mother can spend some time with her lover However Zazie escapes her uncles custody and sets out to explore Paris on her own
Black Moon (1975)
Black Moon (1975) There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the worl
Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Spirits of the Dead (1968) Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate
Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
Au Revoir les Enfants 1987 In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Francois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship H
Atlantic City (1980)
Atlantic City (1980) Atlantic City is a place where people go to realize their dreams, the promise of the future manifested by the demolition of the old crumbling buildings to be replaced by new hotels and casinos. Someone who recently came to Atlantic City for that promise is native Moose Javian (S
Viva Maria! (1965)
Viva Maria! (1965) Somewhere in Central America in 1907: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a singer in a circus. She decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, she unintentionally invents the strip-tease and makes the cir
Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Lacombe, Lucien (1974) A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police. He then meets France Horn, the daughter of a
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
My Dinner with Andre (1981) Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant. Gregory, a theater director from New York, is the more talkative of the pair. He relates to Shawn his tales of dropping out, traveling aro
Black Moon (1975)
Black Moon (1975) There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the worl
Milou en mai (1990)
Milou en mai (1990) Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. The brother who is the London correspondent for Le Monde keeps turning up the volume of the radio for the latest news. A deceased sister's interest
The Fire Within (1963)
The Fire Within (1963) Alain Leroy is having a course of treatment in a private hospital because of his problem with alcohol. Although he is constantly distressed, he leaves the hospital and tries to meet good old days' friends. None of them will be helpful, increasing Alain's distress.
Crackers (1984)
Crackers (1984) Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the
Alamo Bay (1985)
Alamo Bay 1985 A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town
The Road to Bresson (1984)
The Road to Bresson (1984) A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
Phantom India (1969-)
Phantom India 1969 Phantom India it is regarded as the crowning achievement of Louis Malle career
Humain trop humain (1974)
A documentary with almost no words following the production of Citroen cars at a plant in Northern France and their later sales.
Gods Country (1985)
Gods Country 1985 Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary But for the next six years Malle was too busy with other projects to finish this work He returned in 1985 for a follow up and found the
Vive le tour (1962)
Chronicles the cyclists of the Tour de France and their daily trails along the race.
Calcutta (1969)
Calcutta 1969 With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960s rich and poor, exotic and mundane, secular and religious, children and adults, animate and inanimate Given only the images, the
and the Pursuit of Happiness (1986)
and the Pursuit of Happiness 1986 After acknowledging his own immigrant background, Malle, tries to present the range of immigrant experiences in the US during the 1980s In an attempt to be comprehensive, the film includes interviews with migrant workers and illegal entrants along the Mexican borde