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List Of Films Set In Marseille
Marseille has been the setting for many films, produced mostly in France or Hollywood. Before 1950 * '' Barrabas'' (1920) * ''Cœur fidèle'' (1923) * '' Monte Cristo'' (1929) * '' Marius'' (1931) * '' Fanny'' (1932) * ' (1935) * '' César'' (1936) * '' Passage to Marseille'' (1944) * ''Inspecteur Sergil'' (1947) * ''Sergil et le dictateur'' (1948) 1950–1959 * ''Sergil chez les filles'' (1952) *''House on the Waterfront'' (1954) * ''Mémoire d’un flic'' (1955) * ''Le Couteau sous la gorge'' (1955) * ''Honoré de Marseille'' (1956) * '' Seven Thunders'' (1957) 1950–1979 * '' Fanny'' (1961) * ''Je vous salue, mafia!'' (1965) * ''Requiem pour une canaille'' (1967) * ''L'armée des ombres'' (1969) * '' Borsalino'' (1970) * '' The French Connection'' (1971) * '' Borsalino & Co.'' (1974) * ''The Marseille Contract'' (1974) * ''French Connection II'' (1975) 1980–1999 * '' Le Bar du téléphone'' (1980) * ''La Lune dans le caniveau'' (1983) * '' Le Marginal'' (1983) * '' The Judg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Its inhabitants are called ''Marseillais''. Marseille is the second most populous city in France, with 870,731 inhabitants in 2019 (Jan. census) over a municipal territory of . Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over , had a population of 1,873,270 at the Jan. 2019 census, the third most populated in France after those of Paris and Lyon. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The French Connection (film)
''The French Connection'' is a 1971 American crime action thriller film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay, written by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 book of the same name. It tells the story of NYPD detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo, whose real-life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, in pursuit of wealthy French heroin smuggler Alain Charnier. The film stars Gene Hackman as Popeye, Roy Scheider as Cloudy, and Fernando Rey as Charnier. Tony Lo Bianco and Marcel Bozzuffi also star. At the 44th Academy Awards, the film earned eight nominations and won five for Best Picture, Best Actor (Hackman), Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Scheider), Best Cinematography, and Best Sound Mixing. Tidyman also received a Golden Globe Award nomination, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award for his screenplay. A sequel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Petit Criminel
''The Little Gangster'' (french: Le Petit Criminel) is a 1990 French drama film directed by Jacques Doillon. It was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival The 41st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 15 to 26 February 1991. The festival opened with ''Uranus'' by Claude Berri. The Golden Bear was awarded to Italian film '' La casa del sorriso'' directed by Marco Ferreri. The ret ... where it won an Honourable Mention. Cast References External links * 1990 drama films 1990 films 1990s French-language films Films directed by Jacques Doillon Films scored by Philippe Sarde French drama films Louis Delluc Prize winners 1990s French films {{1990s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Mother's Castle
''My Mother's Castle'' (french: Le Château de ma mère) is a 1957 autobiographical novel by Marcel Pagnol, the second in the four-volume series ''Souvenirs d'enfance'' and the sequel to ''My Father's Glory''. It was the subject of a film made by Yves Robert in 1990 which is faithful to the original plot but which includes material from the third book in the four-novel series, ''Le Temps des Secrets''. Plot summary The book begins during Marcel's summer holiday. He describes his almost daily hunting trips with his father Joseph and his uncle Jules, and his growing friendship with a country boy named Lili. On the night before he is to return to the city to begin school, he plans to run away with the help of Lili. He leaves a note for his family saying goodbye and climbs through the window. As the night goes on, Marcel begins to grow scared, even seeing a ghost and changes his mind and returns before he is discovered (although it implied that his father had discovered the letter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Father's Glory (film)
''My Father's Glory'' (original title: ''french: La Gloire de mon père'') is a 1990 French film directed by Yves Robert, based on the autobiographical novel ''My Father's Glory'' by Marcel Pagnol. The sequel, which was also filmed by Robert in 1990, is ''My Mother's Castle'' (). Both films are based on the cycle , published in 1957. Plot This film is set between 1900 and the First World War. Young Marcel was born in the country but raised in Marseilles. His father, Joseph, is a hard-working, atheistic school teacher in Marseilles. Marcel's maternal aunt Rose marries the rotund, jovial, and pious Roman Catholic Uncle Jules. The two men argue over religion. Over the summer, both men take their respective families to share a house in Provence in southern France. Here, Jules offers to educate Joseph on hunting. Marcel wants to come with them, but they lie to him and leave the house early in the morning while they think he is asleep. Waking, he follows them stealthily and is angered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roselyne Et Les Lions
''Roselyne et les lions'' (''Roselyne and the Lions'') is a 1989 French film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. Plot Thierry does odd jobs in a zoo in Marseille in exchange for lessons from Frazier the lion trainer. He meets Roselyne and they leave together to find work. They are taken on by a circus in Munich and achieve success as lion trainers when the trainer Klint loses his nerve. Cast * Isabelle Pasco - Roselyne * Gérard Sandoz - Thierry * Gabriel Monnet - Frazier * Philippe Clévenot - Bracquard * Günter Meisner - Klint * Wolf Harnisch - Koenig * Jacques Le Carpentier - Markovitch * Carlos Pavlidis - Petit Prince * Jacques Mathou Jacques Mathou is a French actor, best known for his appearance in ''Delicatessen''. Filmography * 1985 : ''Tranches de vie'' * 1986 : ''Betty Blue'', Bob * 1987 : ''L'été en pente douce'' * 1987 : '' Si le soleil ne revenait pas'' * 1989 : '' ... - Armani * Dumitru Furdui - Stainer * Jaroslav Vízner - Gunter * Patrice Abbou - Ben Jem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trois Places Pour Le 26
''Three Seats for the 26th'' (french: Trois places pour le 26) is a 1988 French romantic musical film, scripted and directed by Jacques Demy to music by Michel Legrand. Set in Marseille, it shows the singer and actor Yves Montand returning to the city where he grew up and looking up old friends, including his first love Mylène, who had been a prostitute and is now the wife of a jailed baron. The purpose of his visit is to rehearse a stage musical based on his life, where the female lead he falls in love with is Marion, the daughter Mylène had after they parted. It was Demy's last picture. Plot The film opens with the famous singer and actor Yves Montand arriving in Marseille, where he grew up, to rehearse a new musical based on his life. From his years as an unknown, including the loss of his first great love, the show moves on to his artistic and amorous links with great stars like Édith Piaf and Marilyn Monroe. In his free time he looks up old friends, hoping in particul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Blue
''Betty Blue'' (french: 37°2 le matin, lit=37.2°C in the morning) is a 1986 French erotic psychological drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, based on the 1985 novel ''37°2 le matin'' by Philippe Djian. The film stars Béatrice Dalle and Jean-Hugues Anglade. It was the eighth highest-grossing film of 1986 in France. The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. Plot Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) is a thirty-something aspiring writer making a living as a handyman for a community of beach houses in the seaside resort at Gruissan on France's mediterranean coast. He meets 19-year-old Betty ( Béatrice Dalle), a volatile and impulsive young woman, and the two begin a passionate affair, living in his borrowed shack on the beach. Following a row with him where she tears apart and smashes up the house, she finds the manuscript of his first novel; she reads it in one long sitting and decides that he is a genius. However, after anot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Judge (1984 Film)
''The Judge'' (french: le juge) is a 1984 French crime drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ... directed by Philippe Lefebvre. The film was shown at the 1984 Mystfest where it was nominated in the category of Best Picture. Cast References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Judge, The 1984 films 1980s French-language films 1984 crime drama films Films scored by Luis Bacalov Films set in the 1970s French crime drama films 1980s French films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Marginal
''Le Marginal'' is a 1983 French crime film directed by Jacques Deray and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. The music for the film was composed by Ennio Morricone. Plot Policeman Philippe Jordan works in Marseille. He intercepts the delivery of a shipload of heroin by jumping out of a helicopter onto a speedboat and throws all drugs into the sea. Drug lord Mecacci is desperate to get rid of Jordan and arranges an incident which leads to Jordan's disciplinary transfer. Jordan continues to fight against the drug cartel after all. He finds a valuable witness named "Freddy, the chemist" but Mecacci has Freddy killed before he can testify. When Mecacci's henchmen also murder Jordan's old friend Francis Pierron, Jordan retaliates immediately. Now Mecacci tries to lure him into a deadly trap. After Jordan has outsmarted Mecacci's killers he confronts their boss. The time for the final showdown has come. Cast * Jean-Paul Belmondo as Philippe Jordan * Henry Silva as Sauveur Mecacci * Carl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moon In The Gutter
''The Moon in the Gutter'' (french: La Lune dans le caniveau) is a 1983 French drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. It was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. Although it immediately followed Beineix's big, commercial success ''Diva'' and featured two very big stars, Gérard Depardieu and Nastassja Kinski, ''The Moon in the Gutter'' was not well received by critics or audiences and failed at the box office with only 625,000 admissions in France. Its vivid visual style was noted by critics. It preceded a much better-appreciated cult success from the same director, known in the U.S. and UK as '' Betty Blue''. The film was based on a 1953 pulp-noir novel of the same name, written by David Goodis, but it was transferred in the film script from the docksides of Philadelphia to Marseille. ''La Lune dans le caniveau'', according to AllMovie, "received uneven reviews on its initial release". It won a French Cesar Award for its production design. Synopsis Two women: Lor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Bar Du Téléphone
''Le bar du téléphone'' is a 1980 French film directed by Claude Barrois. Cast and roles * Daniel Duval - Toni Véronèse * François Périer - Commissaire Claude Joinville * Raymond Pellegrin - Robert Pérez * Julien Guiomar - Antoine Bini * Georges Wilson - Léopold Kretzchman * Valentine Monnier - Maria * Christopher Lambert - Paul 'Bébé' Franchi (credited as Christophe Lambert) * Richard Anconina - Boum-Boum * Patrick Laurent - Matelot * Marc-Michel Bruyat - Barjol * Philippe Brigaud - Samuel Pérez * Henri Viscogliosi - Bernard Pérez * Guy Régent - Henri Perez * Jacques Ferrière Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ... - Max * Pierre Julien - Petit Jeannot External links IMDb entry 1980s crime thriller films French gangster films 1980 films French n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
