Michel Legrand Movies

Pauline intends to end her days and meticulously prepares her suicide, but she meets Peppo, an Italian immigrant, who will change her mind.

Geneviève lives with her mother who runs an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She falls in love with Guy, who is called up for military service in...

At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse...

Daniel Gelin plays a soldier who is acquitted after committing a crime of passion. Relocating to Lisbon, and still feeling remorse over his impulsive...

An old lady is far from suspecting everything that is going on behind her back, in particular what her servants are up to.

Catherine Varlin's 27-minute Playtime in Paris (1962) is almost a practice run for Le joli mai, a sampling that starts in a classroom and then...

The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses...

Jean Ravel's A Distant Gaze (D'un lointain regard) is a 12-minute observance of people on the streets backed by Michel Legrand music.

Two underdogs, Gaspard and Robinson, welcome an old woman, Mamie, whose family has left on the roadside.

Valentin travels to the burial of his father who died of indigestion, but stopping to eat on the way causes him to be late for the meal which follows...

Seeing an opportunity to make a financial recovery for the family, a nobleman attempts to wed his son to his wealthy friend's daughter. His plan is...

The title sums up the mood of this elegant short film in which a woman recalls her life, locked up for 30 years in the courtyard of a building where...

Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world. (Segment...

A very ill little girl having expressed the wish to live until Christmas, the whole neighborhood agrees to anticipate the celebration.

Wishing to find an old love that resurfaced, Juan, a Chilean diplomat, Dominique asks his friend François to act as an intermediary.

Jean-Luc Godard's short segment made for “Les sept péchés capitaux”.

Michel Legrand, Agnès Varda, and Anouk Aimee share the story behind the song they created for Jacques Demy's first feature film, LOLA,...

Patricia Leacock, reporter for an american television, is in Morocco on the trail of a counterfeiter-philanthropist. Based on a real story which...