Claude Lelouch

Claude Lelouch

1937-10-30 Paris, France 119 Credits

Biography

Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claude Lelouch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Bardot

Bardot

2025

as Self

Acting

An intimate look at the life of international icon Brigitte Bardot. With exclusive access and the full support of Brigitte Bardot and her team, we wil...

Claude Lelouch,  la vie en mieux

Claude Lelouch, la vie en mieux

2024

9.0
Acting
At the End of the Day

At the End of the Day

2024

Producer, Writer, Director

6.0
Producing Writing Directing

In an increasingly crazy world, Lino, who has decided to leave everything behind, will come to realise that, at the end of the day, everything that ha...

Conversation avec Claude Lelouch

Conversation avec Claude Lelouch

2024

as Himself - subject

8.0
Acting
Claude Lelouch - Le symphonique

Claude Lelouch - Le symphonique

2023

as Lui-même

Acting
De la piste aux étoiles

De la piste aux étoiles

2023

as Self - Director

8.0
Acting
De la piste aux étoiles

De la piste aux étoiles

2023

Thanks

8.0
Re-belles

Re-belles

2023

as Self

9.0
Acting
Shoot to Live

Shoot to Live

2022

as Self

6.2
Acting

A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.

Shoot to Live

Shoot to Live

2022

Producer

6.2
Producing

A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.

Love Is Better Than Life

Love Is Better Than Life

2022

Writer, Director

5.3
Writing Directing

Upon their release from prison twen­ty years ear­li­er, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked them­selves if hon­esty was not the best rack­et of them all. T...

Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable

Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable

2022

as Self

6.0
Acting

"And God Created Woman", "Il Sorpasso", "A Man and a Woman", "The Conformist", "Amour"... the list of successes by Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930-2022) ...

Trintignant by Trintignant

Trintignant by Trintignant

2021

as Self (archive footage)

6.8
Acting

A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed Frenc...

Poumon Vert et Tapis Rouge

Poumon Vert et Tapis Rouge

2021

as Self

4.8
Acting

To help Francis Hallé in his fight to save the last tropical forests, a documentary filmmaker with a passion for nature decides to make his first film...

Resistencia Cultural

Resistencia Cultural

2021

as Himself (archive)

Acting
Bernard, Albert et l'Empereur

Bernard, Albert et l'Empereur

2021

as Claude Lelouch

Acting
Annie Girardot selon son cœur

Annie Girardot selon son cœur

2020

as Self - Réalisateur

6.0
Acting

A gifted student, Annie Girardot thought for a while of becoming a nurse, before passing the entrance exam to the Conservatory. She leaves with two fi...

Les Misérables et Victor Hugo : au nom du peuple

Les Misérables et Victor Hugo : au nom du peuple

2020

as Self

Acting

The prodigious genesis of a monument of world literature, too often reduced to its popular success, also recounts the tormented conversion of its auth...

Deauville et le rêve américain

Deauville et le rêve américain

2020

as Self

Acting

Reflec­tion of the soci­ety and vec­tor of the occi­den­tal cul­ture, Amer­i­can cin­e­ma influ­ences the entire world since its debuts.

Le Grand Rendez-Vous

Le Grand Rendez-Vous

2020

Writer, Director

6.3
Writing Directing

Remake of the famous short film C'etait un rendez-vous (1976), where Claude Lelouch shows us a Mercedes 450SEL, to the sound of a Ferrari 275 GTB, V-1...

Boléro, le refrain du monde

Boléro, le refrain du monde

2019

as Self (archive footage)

Acting
Dance of Chance

Dance of Chance

2019

Director, Producer, Writer

4.2
Directing Producing Writing

That day, there’s tension in the air: Marianne has her car and dog stolen from a highway parking lot. Stéphane is constantly arguing with his wife. No...

The Best Years of a Life

The Best Years of a Life

2019

Director, Producer, Screenplay

6.6
Directing Producing Writing

They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understandin...

Jean-Marie fête Bigard

Jean-Marie fête Bigard

2019

as Self

6.0
Acting
Bolero: A Global Hit

Bolero: A Global Hit

2019

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

Bolero is played every 15 minutes in the world. This film tries to answer how this famous melody inspired and influenced the world pop-culture? It exp...

Everyone's Life

Everyone's Life

2017

Director, Writer, Producer

4.6
Directing Writing Producing

Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secre...

Belmondo by Belmondo

Belmondo by Belmondo

2016

as Self (uncredited)

7.8
Acting

Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the settings of a fantastic career, accompanied by his son Paul. Over a career spanning 50 years, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s m...

Un + une

Un + une

2015

Director, Writer, Producer

5.9
Directing Writing Producing

A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

We Love You, You Bastard

We Love You, You Bastard

2014

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.7
Directing Writing Producing

A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his...

Anouk Aimée, la beauté du geste

Anouk Aimée, la beauté du geste

2012

8.0
Acting

Lino, il n'était que lui-même

2012

as Self

6.0
Acting

Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis

2012

as Self

Acting
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

2011

as Self (archive footage)

6.0
Acting
Belmondo, itinéraire...

Belmondo, itinéraire...

2011

as Self

7.7
Acting

Documentary on the career of Jean-Paul Belmondo.

D'un film à l'autre

D'un film à l'autre

2011

as Narrator (voice)

7.9
Acting

On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that...

D'un film à l'autre

D'un film à l'autre

2011

Writer, Producer, Director

7.9
Writing Producing Directing

On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that...

What War May Bring

What War May Bring

2010

Director, Writer, Producer

6.5
Directing Writing Producing

A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passi...

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

Director

6.5
Directing

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...

Crossed Tracks

Crossed Tracks

2007

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.6
Directing Writing Producing

The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes fro...

The Cinema Around the Corner

The Cinema Around the Corner

2007

Director

Directing

A memoir of how the movie Top Hat impacted the director's family throughout the years.

Our Earthmen Friends

Our Earthmen Friends

2007

Producer

5.5
Producing

What on earth would extraterrestrials think if they could observe us? This is the movie they made.

A Film About Mikhail Kalatozov

A Film About Mikhail Kalatozov

2006

as Self

5.0
Acting

The career of revered Russian filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov is explored in this documentary film comprised of rare behind-the-scenes footage, interviews...

The Courage to Love

The Courage to Love

2005

Screenplay, Director

5.4
Writing Directing

A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.

Le genre humain - 1ère partie: Les Parisiens

Le genre humain - 1ère partie: Les Parisiens

2004

Director

5.6
Directing

Paris, December 1999. A group of Parisians cross paths. A police commissioner madly in love with his colleague's wife, a director looking for a subjec...

11’09”01—September 11

11’09”01—September 11

2002

Director, Writer

6.4
Directing Writing

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer d...

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

2002

Screenplay, Director

5.8
Writing Directing

A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

2002

as Self

Acting

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...

Who Is Bernard Tapie?

Who Is Bernard Tapie?

2001

as Self

3.5
Acting

This documentary tells two stories simultaneously: it's a profile of Bernard Tapie, a wealthy man who rises and falls spectacularly in French society ...

One 4 All

One 4 All

1999

as Self

4.1
Acting

Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the ...

One 4 All

One 4 All

1999

Director, Writer

4.1
Directing Writing

Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the ...

Jean-Pierre Aumont, charm and laughter

Jean-Pierre Aumont, charm and laughter

1999

Acting

A doumentary of the life and career of French actor, Jean-Pierre Aumont.

Chance or Coincidence

Chance or Coincidence

1998

Director

5.4
Directing

Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.

Men, Women: A User's Manual

Men, Women: A User's Manual

1996

Screenplay, Director

6.1
Writing Directing

Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is ...

Lumière & Company

Lumière & Company

1995

Director

6.3
Directing

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...

Les Miserables

Les Miserables

1995

Writer, Director, Producer

6.7
Writing Directing Producing

In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see ...

All That... for This?!

All That... for This?!

1993

Director, Writer, Director of Photography

6.2
Directing Writing Producing

The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge w...

The Beautiful Story

The Beautiful Story

1992

Director, Dialogue, Writer

7.1
Directing Writing

A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief an...

Plan-Séquence

Plan-Séquence

1992

Cinematography, Director, Writer

10.0
Directing Writing

In a vertiginous sequence, Claude Lelouch's camera follows Patrick Edlinger climbing with his bare hands one of the routes of the spectacular Cimaï cl...

The King of Ads

The King of Ads

1991

Director

4.3
Directing

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-...

There Were Days... and Moons

There Were Days... and Moons

1990

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its ch...

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

1988

Director, Writer, Producer

7.3
Directing Writing Producing

A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his re...

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

1987

5.5
Acting

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old ...

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

1987

as Man on Train

5.5
Acting

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old ...

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

1987

Original Film Writer

5.5
Writing

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old ...

Bandits

Bandits

1987

Producer, Director, Writer

5.8
Producing Directing Writing

On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the je...

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

1986

Director, Screenplay

5.8
Directing Writing

Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director who...

Going and Coming Back

Going and Coming Back

1985

Director

6.3
Directing

Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot the...

Long Live Life

Long Live Life

1984

as himself

5.9
Acting

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection ...

Long Live Life

Long Live Life

1984

Story, Director, Writer

5.9
Writing Directing

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection ...

Edith and Marcel

Edith and Marcel

1983

Director, Writer

5.7
Directing Writing

This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerd...

Bolero

Bolero

1981

Director, Writer, Producer

7.0
Directing Writing Producing

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930...

Il a besoin

1981

Director

5.0
Directing
Alors... Heureux ?

Alors... Heureux ?

1980

Producer

6.0
Producing

Three friends navigate the ups and downs of love, relationships, and adulthood, each facing their own romantic challenges. One struggles with commitme...

Us Two

Us Two

1979

Screenplay, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has...

Heart to Heart

Heart to Heart

1979

as Himself

5.8
Acting

The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry the father of her child w...

Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness

1978

as Self

Acting

A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of the directors for whom she has made films are als...

Molière

Molière

1978

Producer

6.1
Producing

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studie...

Robert et Robert

Robert et Robert

1978

Producer, Director, Writer

6.2
Producing Directing Writing

Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their common name, the two Roberts are as different as ni...

Another Man, Another Chance

Another Man, Another Chance

1977

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild west...

Türkiye

1977

Supervising Producer

5.0
Producing

An overview of Turkey in the Seventies, with some stunning images

A Second Chance

A Second Chance

1976

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunit...

The Good and the Bad

The Good and the Bad

1976

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.6
Directing Writing Producing

The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well befo...

Rendezvous

Rendezvous

1976

as The driver

7.3
Acting

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

Rendezvous

Rendezvous

1976

Director, Writer

7.3
Directing Writing

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

Cat and Mouse

Cat and Mouse

1975

Producer, Director, Screenplay

5.7
Producing Directing Writing

A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy...

Marriage

Marriage

1974

Director, Screenplay

5.3
Directing Writing

Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.

And Now My Love

And Now My Love

1974

Director, Screenplay

5.9
Directing Writing

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

Visions of Eight

Visions of Eight

1973

as Narrator

7.0
Acting

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Lelouch...

Visions of Eight

Visions of Eight

1973

Director

7.0
Directing

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Lelouch...

Far West

Far West

1973

as Psychiatrist (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throug...

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

1973

Producer, Screenplay, Director

7.2
Producing Writing Directing

Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry ...

Money Money Money

Money Money Money

1972

Screenplay, Director

6.7
Writing Directing

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.

It Only Happens to Others

It Only Happens to Others

1971

Producer

5.3
Producing

Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-o...

Smic, Smac, Smoc

Smic, Smac, Smoc

1971

as Hooligan

5.2
Acting

Charles, Jean and Amidou are workmen at the La Ciotat shipyards and live in the same construction facility. One day, Amidou leaves them to marry Cathe...

Smic, Smac, Smoc

Smic, Smac, Smoc

1971

Director, Writer

5.2
Directing Writing

Charles, Jean and Amidou are workmen at the La Ciotat shipyards and live in the same construction facility. One day, Amidou leaves them to marry Cathe...

The Blood

The Blood

1971

Executive Producer

5.2
Producing

An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo, German...

Iran

1971

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

Claude Lelouch presents in his own vision of Iran. Between tradition and modernity, the movie reveals all the country's vision contrasts, under the ve...

The Crook

The Crook

1970

Director, Dialogue, Story

7.1
Directing Writing

A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.

Earth Light

Earth Light

1970

Producer

6.8
Producing

The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which...

Love Is a Funny Thing

Love Is a Funny Thing

1969

Director

6.4
Directing

A composer and a French film star, both of whom are married to others, meet and fall in love while shooting a film in the United States.

Les Gauloises bleues

1969

Producer

5.4
Producing

The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of t...

Life Love Death

Life Love Death

1969

Author, Director

5.3
Directing

François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out: after thr...

13 Days in France

13 Days in France

1968

Director

6.0
Directing

This colorful documentary chronicles the events of the 1968 Winter Olympics in France. The events made international celebrities of skater Peggy Flemi...

Far from Vietnam

Far from Vietnam

1967

Director

7.0
Directing

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietn...

Live for Life

Live for Life

1967

Director, Screenplay, Editor

6.2
Directing Writing

Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice.

Les grands moments

Les grands moments

1966

Director

Directing

Four prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.

A Man and a Woman

A Man and a Woman

1966

Director of Photography, Producer, Screenplay

7.3
Directing Producing Writing

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that...

To Be a Crook

To Be a Crook

1965

5.6
Acting

Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the f...

To Be a Crook

To Be a Crook

1965

Author, Editor, Director

5.6
Directing Producing

Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the f...

For a Yellow Jersey

For a Yellow Jersey

1965

Cinematography, Director, Camera Operator

6.3
Directing

Tour de France 1965 in colour

In the Affirmative

In the Affirmative

1964

Director of Photography, Editor, Director

5.0
Directing Writing

The film is a road movie that follows a middle aged man who gives a young woman a lift. On the car radio, news bulletins warn the population against a...

Night Women

Night Women

1964

Director

Directing

A mondo-movie on the theme of women, with interviews and mock reports: plastic surgery, transvestites, Victoria Nanquin stripper, divorce and jealousy...

The Right of Man

The Right of Man

1961

as Claude

Acting

At a friend's house, Claude meets Janine. The two young people spend the day wandering around Paris, from the café to the Foire du Trône, together or ...

The Right of Man

The Right of Man

1961

Director, Dialogue

Directing

At a friend's house, Claude meets Janine. The two young people spend the day wandering around Paris, from the café to the Foire du Trône, together or ...

When the Curtain Rises

When the Curtain Rises

1957

Director

Directing

French film by Claude Lelouch released in 1957. This film was shot illegally in the USSR by the author.

The War of Silence

The War of Silence

1957

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Short film about the importance of silence in military matters.

Le Psychodrame

Le Psychodrame

1956

Camera Operator

6.0

Roberto Rossellini shot the film Psycodrame in 1956 for the Center d'études de radiotélévision. The staging of three "psychodramas" - organized by Pro...

The Seacrets

The Seacrets

N/A

Executive Producer, Co-Producer

Producing
Il était une fois tout ça

Il était une fois tout ça

N/A

Director, Writer

Directing Writing