Jean-Louis Trintignant
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Filmography
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The Conformist
(1971)Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist returns in a dazzling new restoration supervised by the director and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro! One of the enduring masterpieces of the 1970s, Bertolucci’s breakthrough film The Conformist is an elegant portrait of the death throes of Italian Fascism and a triumph of pure style. Adapted by Bertolucci (an Oscar-nominated screenplay) from Alberto Moravia’s 1951 novel, it chronicles the life of secret police functionary Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), who is sent on a mission to assassinate his former teacher, Professor Quadri (Enzo Tarascio), a leftist activist in exile in Paris. Clerici uses his honeymoon with new wife Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli) as a cover for the job. But he soon becomes entranced by Quadri’s sensuous, haunted wife Anna (Dominique Sanda), and the Fascist tenets he once accepted without question begin to waver in his mind. Legendary cinematographer Storaro (Apocalypse now) and production designer Fernando Scarfiotti (Scarface, American Gigolo) make spectacular use of the Fascist-era brutalist architecture, its blandly symmetrical structures acting as another form of control. with a gorgeous score by Georges Delerue and incandescent performances by a star-studded cast, The Conformist is a towering accomplishment that for the past four decades has enraptured audiences and influenced filmmakers around the world.

The Last Train
(1973)A star-crossed love affair consumes a French family man and a German Jewish woman who meet on a train fleeing the Nazi occupation of France in 1940.

My Night at Maud's
(1969)A devout Catholic engineer, who has his mind set on marrying a nice girl he sees at church, spends a chaste night with a liberated divorcee named Maud. Consequently, the encounter forces him to reassess his own moral standing.

The Outside Man
(1972)In this gritty 70s action classic from Jacques Deray ("La Piscine"), Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French hitman hired to kill a Los Angeles mafia boss by his son and daughter-in-law (Angie Dickinson). After completing the contract, another hitman (Roy Scheider) is brought in to tie up loose ends. Ann-Margret is Trintignant's only ally as he and Scheider play a murderous game of cat-and-mouse.

Agnès Varda: From Here to There
The much-anticipated follow up to Agnes Varda's The Beaches of Agnes, From Here to There is a five-part documentary series that chronicles the peerless and indefatigable director's travels around the world, meeting friends, artists and filmmakers, for an expansive view of the contemporary art scene. Features interviews with Chris Marker, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and many more.

Trans-Europ-Express
(1966)On a train from Paris to Antwerp, a director and his team hash out the plot to a crime movie as it's enacted by a drug smuggler and a seductress.

Playing with Fire
(1975)To shield his daughter from a shadowy cabal of sex-slave masters, a wealthy banker inadvertently sends her to a clinic that’s a front for a brothel.

Deadly Sweet
(1967)Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. In the same Night Club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So Bernard and Jane run away followed by a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss and of course, the Police.
Lust
(1962)
Three Colors: Red
(1994)An accident creates a relationship between a model and a retired judge who spies on his neighbors.

Confidentially Yours
(1983)Julien Vercel, an estate agent, is suspected of murdering his wife’s lover. All clues point to him especially when his wife is also found dead. As Vercel is hidden in his office, Barbara Becker, his secretary, investigates these suspicious murders.

Flic Story
(1975)A French detective must capture Emile Buisson, a thief and cold-blooded murderer, after he escapes from prison in 1947.

Violent Summer
(1959)With WWII raging elsewhere in 1943 Italy, a young man's carefree summer in seaside Rimini gives way to a passionate affair with an older war widow.

Il Sorpasso
(1962)The ultimate Italian road comedy, IL SORPASSO stars the unlikely pair of Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant as, respectively, a waggish, freewheeling bachelor and the straitlaced law student he takes on a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany. An unpredictable journey that careers from slapstick to tragedy, this film, directed by Dino Risi, is a wildly entertaining commentary on the pleasures and consequences of the good life. A holy grail of commedia all’italiana, IL SORPASSO is so fresh and exciting that one can easily see why it has long been adored in Italy.

Happy End
(2017)As middle-class family members living in Calais, France struggle with their own series of setbacks, they pay little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps near their home.

...And God Created Woman
(1956)A scantily clad beauty (Brigitte Bardot) teases her husband (Jean-Louis Trintignant), his brother and a Riviera millionaire (Curd Jürgens).

So Sweet... So Perverse
(1969)In a kinky retelling of “Diabolique,” lush Paris locations, trippy flashbacks, and a swinging score adorn a tale of abuse, lust, danger, and revenge.

Death Laid an Egg
(1968)In this deliriously bizarre thriller, a scientist conducting experiments at his high-tech farm to breed headless, boneless chickens, is caught in a disastrous love triangle!
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
(1986)
Z
(1969)A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.