Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo

Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo

5 Episodes

One of the most unforgettable performers in all of French cinema, Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933–2021) lent his natural insouciance and tough-guy visage to art-film touchstones and genre movies alike. Turning to acting after a stint as an amateur boxer, Belmondo proved the ideal face for the Nouvelle Vague revolution in BREATHLESS, with a screen presence every bit as intuitive and restless as Jean-Luc Godard’s direction. He went on to do some of his most memorable work with Godard and with the icy existentialist Jean-Pierre Melville, but became equally famous in France for his work in action flicks like THE PROFESSIONAL, for which he insisted on doing his own stunts. This selection from Belmondo’s incredible career captures the wide range and electric charisma of a star who inhabited the screen like nobody else.

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Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo

5 Episodes

  • Breathless
    1:30:21
    Breathless
    Episode 1

    Breathless

    Episode 1

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • France • 1960
    Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger

    There was before BREATHLESS, and there was after BREATHLESS. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspi...

  • Léon Morin, Priest
    2:08:45
    Léon Morin, Priest
    Episode 2

    Léon Morin, Priest

    Episode 2

    Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • 1961 • France
    Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva

    Jean-Paul Belmondo delivers a subtly sensual performance in the hot-under-the-collar LÉON MORIN, PRIEST, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The French superstar plays a devoted man of the cloth who is de...

  • Le doulos
    1:49:11
    Le doulos
    Episode 3

    Le doulos

    Episode 3

    Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • 1962 • France
    Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Monique Hennessy

    The backstabbing criminals in the shadowy underworld of Jean-Pierre Melville’s LE DOULOS have only one guiding principle: “Lie or die.” A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmat...

  • Magnet of Doom
    1:45:27
    Magnet of Doom
    Episode 4

    Magnet of Doom

    Episode 4

    Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • 1963 • France
    Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier

    Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, Jean-Pierre Melville’s idiosyncratic road movie follows a down-on-his-luck boxer (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who, after he takes a job as secretary for a ...

  • One Hundred and One Nights
    1:45:15
    One Hundred and One Nights
    Episode 5

    One Hundred and One Nights

    Episode 5

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 1995 • France
    Starring Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin

    A celebration of cinema’s centennial, ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS finds Agnès Varda at her most playful. It is also perhaps her unlikeliest project: a star-studded comic fantasy with an extravagant...

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