Best movies of Pierre Granier-Deferre

Le chat(1971)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished...



La veuve Couderc(1971)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son, marrying the son who has now left her a happy widow. She is happy because World War I is over and she is ...



Le train(1973)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.



Adieu poulet(1975)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit...



La métamorphose des cloportes(1965)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful ...



La horse(1970)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Near the Baie de la Seine swamps, opposite the Port of Le Havre, Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules ...



La race des 'seigneurs'(1974)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs. However his reputation is somewhat ...



Le toubib(1979)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story is set in June 1983. Famous surgeon Jean-Marie Desprée was left by his wife 1 month ago and now he works in a modern movable hospital, where the 3rd world war is taking place.



Une étrange affaire(1981)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Louis Coline assists the head of advertising of a department store in decline. He has little to do, but seems content with his marriage to Nina, his visits to his mother and grandmother, ...



La cage(1975)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0



Une femme à sa fenêtre(1976)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Romy Schneider plays an aristocratic woman in 1936 Greece, who amuses herself pursuing a shallow loveless affair with a nobleman, but unexpectedly falls in love with a political activist.



L'étoile du Nord(1982)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a ...



Cours privé(1986)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0



Noyade interdite(1987)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Molinat is assigned to the case of a man found with a bullet in his ear on the shore of a little Atlantic coast resort he knows well. Indeed, he used to live there before his wife ...



Le fils(1973)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ange leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not present when his father died, wishes to be present at her death. In Corsica Ange finds his ...



L'ami de Vincent(1983)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0



L'homme aux yeux d'argent(1985)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But a ruthless Police inspector and his equally nasty young subordinate are after the criminal.



L'Autrichienne(1990)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Last days of queen Marie Antoinette stunningly portrayed by a director who's clearly done a massive historical research. An accurate plot and a very moving rendering.



Le petit garçon(1995)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During World War II, a French family hide a Jewish family in their home, although the area is occupied by the Germans. Matters are complicated when they are forced to accommodate a German general.