As Writer
The Good Thief
2002
6.1
Jean-Pierre Melville
Acting
Born
October 20, 1917
Born In
Paris, France
Died
August 2, 1973
About
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.
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A Cop
1972
6.6
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Le Cercle Rouge
1970
7.6
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Army of Shadows
1969
7.9
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Le Samouraï
1967
7.8
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Le Deuxième Souffle
1966
7.6
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Magnet of Doom
1963
6.3
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Le Doulos
1962
7.4
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Léon Morin, Priest
1961
7.0
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Breathless
1960
7.5
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Two Men in Manhattan
1959
6.3
As Director
When You Read This Letter
1953
6.0
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The Strange Ones
1950
6.7
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The Silence of the Sea
1949
7.5