Movies123 - - Louis Malle Movie List

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) 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 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) 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) 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 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) A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.