Directing
Community Rating
6.8
TMDB estimate
Born
October 20, 1917
Died
August 2, 1973 (age 55)
Born in
Paris, France
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.

Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
as Self (archive footage)
2024

Les Rois de la comédie
as Self (archive footage)
2023

Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022

Short Cuts : Le Cercle rouge de Jean-Pierre Melville
as Original Film Writer
2021

Melville, le dernier samouraï
as (archives)
2020

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
as Self (archive footage)
2019

Thlípsi
as Thanks
2018

Lino Ventura, la part intime
as Self (archive footage)
2018

Belmondo, le magnifique
as Self (archive footage)
2017

Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
as Self (archive footage)
2011

Code Name: Melville
as Self (archive footage)
2010

Their First Films
as Director
2004

The Good Thief
as Original Film Writer
2003

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
as Thanks
1999

Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
as Self (archive footage)
1977

A Cop
as Writer, Director
1972
Midi trente
as Self (archive footage)
1972
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
as Himself
1971

Le Cercle Rouge
as Director, Editor, Writer
1970

Army of Shadows
as Screenplay, Director
1969