Jean Delannoy Movies

This is a love story, a story of rivalry and revenge but, above all, a story about sport. The great passion is about union rugby.

Various sketches centered on alcove stories.

When the spoiled daughter of an oil magnate is murdered, Pierre must determine whether the killer is his own ex, the dead woman's lover or somebody...

A secret agent is murdered by his jealous wife who mistakenly interprets his absences from home as acts of infidelity.

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 -...

Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war...

The story of man who kills his friends during night party by toxin gas. He films the moment that the guests are breathing gas until they die. He...

On Christmas Eve, Swiss minister Jean Martens takes in a blind, half-crippled orphan and brings her up among his own four children. But Gertrude...

Dr Pierre Richard learns that his wife Madeleine has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after a decade of supposedly wedded bliss. Back...

Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by...

A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at...

Having pulled off a robbery with his friend Maurice, Olivier leaves his mistress Lola and hides out in a small village in the country. He finds work,...

Chronicles Bernadette's years with the Sisters of Charity of Nevers convent, from age 22 until her untimely death from tuberculosis at age 35.

Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To...

A violinist passes on to his daughter three rings which represent three passions of his romantic past, and urges her to save each for men who truly...

A lothario is dismayed to learn that his teenage daughter has embarked on an adulterous relationship with a married man very much like himself.

The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the 19th-century Brittany, follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers...

Leopold, valet De Chambre of the Advocate General of Royssac, studies the penal code and becomes, during his leave, judge in a court of the 'middle'.

A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, the captain’s best friend, falls in love...