Bernard Fresson films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 7 films on Boxlist

Known for Z, Hiroshima Mon Amour and Belle de Jour.

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Starring Bernard Fresson

Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the...
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Z
1969 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent...
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The Tenant
1976 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.
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The Longest Day
1962 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers...
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Belle de Jour
1967 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais...
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Is Paris Burning?
1966 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to...
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French Connection II
1975 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
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