Michel Legrand is a Actor, Director, Writer, Sound and Compositor French born on 24 february 1932 at Paris (France)
Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand participated to
146 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
30 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Sound
, 2h14
Directed by Irvin KershnerOrigin United-kingdomGenres Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
SpyThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about children,
Spy films,
Seafaring films,
Films about terrorism,
Transport films,
Underwater action films,
Arme nucléaireActors Sean Connery,
Kim Basinger,
Klaus Maria Brandauer,
Barbara Carrera,
Max von Sydow,
Bernie CaseyRoles Original Music Composer
Rating60%
After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, M, orders Bond to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a machine which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Blush and an attempt is subsequently made to kill him in the clinic gym, but Bond manages to defeat the assassin., 1h56
Directed by Norman JewisonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about writersActors Burt Reynolds,
Goldie Hawn,
Jessica Tandy,
Barnard Hughes,
Ron Silver,
Audra LindleyRoles Music
Rating54%
Richard Babson and Paula McCullen are a couple of Hollywood screenwriters who have lived and worked together for a number of years. Richard would like to get married, but Paula does not feel the need., 1h43
Directed by Robert MulliganOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Political films,
Road movies,
Films about virginityActors Jennifer O'Neill,
Gary Grimes,
Jerry Houser,
Christopher Norris,
Robert Mulligan,
Maureen StapletonRoles Original Music Composer
Rating71%
The film opens with a series of still photographs appearing over melancholic music, representing the abstract memories of the unseen Herman Raucher, now a middle-aged man. We then hear Raucher recalling the summer he spent on the island in 1942. The film flashes back to a day that then 15-year-old "Hermie" and his friends – jock Oscy and introverted nerd Benjie – spent playing on the beach. They spot a young soldier carrying his new bride into a house on the beach and are struck by her beauty, especially Hermie, who is unable to get her out of his mind., 2h12
Directed by Barbra StreisandOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Feminist films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
Musical films,
Political films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Films based on plays,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Cross-dressing in filmActors Mandy Patinkin,
Barbra Streisand,
Amy Irving,
Nehemiah Persoff,
Steven Hill,
Doreen MantleRoles Songs
Rating65%
Barbra Streisand portrays Yentl Mendel, a girl living in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Pechev in Poland in the early 20th century. Yentl's father, Rebbe Mendel (Nehemiah Persoff), secretly instructs her in the Talmud despite the proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her community., 1h46
Directed by Fabien OntenienteOrigin FranceGenres ComedyThemes Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Franck Dubosc,
Emmanuelle Béart,
Samuel Le Bihan,
Gérard Depardieu,
Annie Cordy,
Isabelle NantyRoles Original Music Composer
Rating44%
Didier Graindorge, 40 ans, sans emploi et trop endetté à la suite d'une mauvaise affaire de water-beds, habite dans un quartier populaire du Havre, le Grand-Large, chez sa mère. Il a un fils de huit ans d'une précédente liaison avec une Anglaise. Ce dernier ne viendra en France que si son père lui offre des vacances à l'étranger. , 1h43
Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau,
Marc MonnetOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Yves Montand,
Catherine Deneuve,
Luigi Vannucchi,
Bobo Lewis,
Tony Roberts,
Dana WynterRoles Music
Rating65%
Scant days before her wedding to Vittorio, Nelly (Deneuve) has a change of heart and runs away. As Vittorio pursues her through Caracas, she turns for help first to Alex (Roberts), a previous employer, and then to Martin (Montand), a middle-aged French man she meets by chance. Martin drives her to the airport, where she gets a plane ticket to Paris. Returning by boat to his peaceful lonely life on an island off the coast, Martin is surprised and dismayed to find that Nelly has made her way there ahead of him. When he tries to return her to the mainland she sabotages the boat, causing it to sink. Marooned upon the island, Martin is forced to adapt to his new neighbor, who is determined to stay., 1h42
Directed by Norman Jewison,
Walter HillOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Steve McQueen,
Faye Dunaway,
Paul Burke,
Jack Weston,
Gordon Pinsent,
Addison PowellRoles Conductor
Rating68%
Millionaire businessman-sportsman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) pulls off a perfect crime by orchestrating four men to rob $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank, along with a fifth man who drives the getaway Ford station wagon with the money and dumps it in a cemetery trash can. None of the men ever meets Crown face-to-face, nor do they know or meet each other before the robbery. Crown retrieves the money from the trash can personally after secretly following the driver of the station wagon, then personally deposits the money into an anonymous Swiss bank account in Geneva, making several trips, never depositing the money all at once so as to not draw undue attention to his actions., 1h44
Directed by Louis MalleOrigin CanadaGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors Burt Lancaster,
Susan Sarandon,
Michel Piccoli,
Robert Joy,
Robert Goulet,
Al WaxmanRoles Conductor
Rating72%
Sally (Susan Sarandon) is a young waitress in an Atlantic City casino who has dreams of becoming a blackjack dealer in Monte Carlo. Sally's estranged husband Dave (Robert Joy) returns to her one day with the intention of selling a large amount of cocaine that he had stolen in Philadelphia and meets Lou (Burt Lancaster), an aging former gangster who lives in Sally's apartment building and runs numbers in poor areas of the city; he also acts as a caretaker for Grace (Kate Reid), an elderly invalid. Dave convinces Lou to sell the cocaine for him, but as Lou sells the first batch, Dave is attacked and killed by the mobsters from whom he had stolen the drugs., 1h31
Directed by Jacques DemyOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes French war films,
La colonisation française,
Pregnancy films,
Films about music and musicians,
Algerian War films,
Musical films,
Histoire de FranceActors Catherine Deneuve,
Nino Castelnuovo,
Anne Vernon,
Marc Michel,
Mireille Perrey,
Ellen FarnerRoles Songs
Rating77%
Madame Emery and her beautiful 17-year-old daughter Geneviève (Deneuve) sell umbrellas at their tiny (and financially struggling) boutique in the coastal town of Cherbourg in Normandy, France, in the late 1950s. Guy (Castelnuovo), is a handsome young auto mechanic who lives with, and cares for, his sickly aunt, godmother Elise. Guy and Geneviève are deeply in love; they want to get married, and they want to name their first child "Francoise". Madeleine (Ellen Farner) is the quiet, shy, dedicated young caregiver who looks after Guy's aunt; Madeleine also has feelings for Guy, but has not expressed this. Suddenly Guy is drafted and must leave to become a soldier in the Algerian War. The night before Guy leaves, he and Geneviève pledge their undying love. Then they make love (apparently for the first time) and the very next day, Guy leaves.Scriptwriter
, 1h50
Directed by Philippe de BrocaOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Le désert,
Guerre du désertActors Marlène Jobert,
Michel Piccoli,
Michael York,
Amidou,
Didi Perego,
Jean BouiseRoles Musical
Rating57%
En 1942, en Afrique du Nord, une jeune femme (Marlène Jobert) aide un officier anglais (Michael York) à échapper aux Allemands, avec l'aide d'un escroc (Michel Piccoli) et d'un Tunisien (Amidou). Ils vivront mille aventures dans le désert.Sound
, 1h22
Directed by Gilles Grangier,
Jacques RouffioOrigin FranceGenres Comedy,
CrimeThemes Films about animals,
Jeu,
Sports films,
Films about horses,
Mise en scène d'un mammifère,
Sport hippique,
EscroquerieActors Jean Gabin,
Louis de Funès,
Jean Lefebvre,
Paul Frankeur,
Madeleine Robinson,
Josée SteinerRoles Music
Rating60%
Richard Briand-Charmery est connu sur tous les champs de courses comme « le Commandant ». À l'hippodrome de Longchamp avec Charly, un garçon d'écurie, il escroque ceux auxquels il vend des tuyaux. Un boucher, un patron de boîte de nuit, Arthur son ami... puis le restaurateur Gaspard Ripeux. Les jours de vaches maigres, il va déjeuner chez sa sœur Thérèse, subissant stoïquement les sarcasmes de son beau-frère Hubert, riche industriel., 2h
Directed by Jacques DerayOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Psychologie,
Le thème des vacancesActors Alain Delon,
Romy Schneider,
Maurice Ronet,
Jane Birkin,
Paul Crauchet,
Steve EckhardtRoles Original Music Composer
Rating70%
Jean-Paul, a writer and Marianne, his girlfriend of just over two years, are holidaying at a friend's villa. There is a tension in their relationship which excites Marianne: the film begins with a scene in which they are together beside the villa's swimming pool and she urges him to claw her back. He does as she asks, but then throws her into the pool and jumps in after her. In a later scene he takes a branch and uses it to lash her bare buttocks, playfully but with a force that increases as the scene cuts away., 1h38
Directed by Jean-Paul RappeneauOrigin FranceGenres Comedy,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Histoire de France,
French Revolution filmsActors Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Marlène Jobert,
Laura Antonelli,
Sami Frey,
Michel Auclair,
Julien GuiomarRoles Original Music Composer
Rating64%
Having killed a noble too friendly with his wife Charlotte, Nicolas Phillibert flees from France to South Carolina, where he does well and wants to marry a rich man’s daughter. To do so, he will first have to return to France and get a divorce. On landing at Nantes in 1793, the Reign of Terror is raging and he is arrested by the revolutionaries. Taken to a republican ceremony in the cathedral, he saves the life of a royalist girl, Pauline, and escapes with her to an isolated castle. There he finds Charlotte, claiming to be a widow, with Pauline’s brother Henri. A prince arrives from London to organise resistance in the Vendée and is struck by Charlotte, who was told by a gypsy that she would become a princess. She admits that she is married to Nicolas, so the prince has him drugged and carried into Nantes city hall to get a divorce. Put back on his ship for America, Nicolas’ divorce certificate blows overboard. Diving into the Loire, he swims ashore to find Charlotte again, but she has left with the prince for neutral Germany. Pursuing her across France in the throes of the Austrian invasion, he catches her at the frontier. Fifteen years later, Nicolas is made a prince by Napoleon and the gypsy’s prediction comes true., 1h35
Directed by Serge Korber,
Alain NauroyOrigin FranceGenres DramaActors Annie Girardot,
Claude Jade,
Jean Rochefort,
Bernard Le Coq,
Bernard Fresson,
Ilaria OcchiniRoles Original Music Composer
Rating59%
Marie-Louise (Anne Giradot) is a woman whose love for her ex-husband will not die. The Lawyer Alexandre (Jean Rochefort) left her, because she attended a few leftist marches and demonstrations. While her daughter Laura (Claude Jade) falls in love with Marc (Bernard Fresson), Marie-Louise keeps hoping that Alexandre will come back to her. Laura helps her to fight for love and Marie-Louise is so attached to this idea that when her son (Bernard Le Coq) finally convinces her that he will never return, the realization has dire consequences., 1h49
Directed by Élie Chouraqui,
Serge FrydmanOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musiciansActors Catherine Deneuve,
Christophe Lambert,
Richard Anconina,
Jacques Perrin,
Nick Mancuso,
Charlotte GainsbourgRoles Original Music Composer
Rating52%
Jeremy et Michel forment un duo de musiciens. Ils sont amis, partagent un grand loft en région parisienne et leur passion pour la musique. Ils composent eux-mêmes les paroles et la musique de leurs chansons et les interprètent.