Michel Piccoli films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 13 films on Boxlist

Known for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Young Girls of Rochefort and Belle de Jour.

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Starring Michel Piccoli

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
1967 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris...
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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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La Belle Noiseuse
1991 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a...
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Holy Motors
2012 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a...
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Contempt
1963 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a...
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The Phantom of Liberty
1974 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without...
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Diary of a Chambermaid
1964 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the...
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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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It's Not Me
2024 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.
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We Have a Pope
2011 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be...
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Topaz
1969 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
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La Grande Bouffe
1973 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

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