Michel Deville

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Michel Deville

Directing April 13, 1931

Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international reco…

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Spécial cinéma

Spécial cinéma

9.5 1974 TV Show
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

6.0 1975 TV Show
Midi trente

Midi trente

6.0 1972 TV Show
Discorama

Discorama

8.0 1959 TV Show
Razzia

Razzia

6.7 1955 Movie
Death in a French Garden

Death in a French Garden

6.0 1985 Movie
Love at the Top

Love at the Top

6.1 1974 Movie
Dossier 51

Dossier 51

6.4 1978 Movie
Deep Water

Deep Water

6.1 1981 Movie
La Lectrice

La Lectrice

6.5 1988 Movie
The Diary of an Innocent Boy

The Diary of an Innocent Boy

6.0 1968 Movie
Sachs' Disease

Sachs' Disease

6.5 1999 Movie

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Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2009
    Lesson movie from Michel Deville: Nude in the town and village

    Movie Narrator

  2. 2005
    The Art of Breaking Up

    Movie Director

  3. 2002
    Almost Peaceful

    Movie Director

  4. 2002
    A Day in the Life of French Cinema

    Movie Self

  5. 1999
    Sachs' Disease

    Movie Director

  6. 1997
    The Gods Must Be Daring

    Movie Director

  7. 1995
    Son of Gascogne

    Movie Self

  8. 1994
    Life's Little Treasures

    Movie Director

  9. 1992
    Sweetheart

    Movie Director

  10. 1991
    Lest We Forget

    Movie Director

  11. 1990
    Summer Night in Town

    Movie Director

  12. 1988
    La Lectrice

    Movie Director

  13. 1986
    The Nonentity

    Movie Director

  14. 1985
    Death in a French Garden

    Movie Director

  15. 1984
    Les Capricieux

    Movie Director

  16. 1983
    The Little Bunch

    Movie Director

More credits
  1. 1981
    Deep Water

    Movie Director

  2. 1980
    A Sweet Journey

    Movie Director

  3. 1978
    Dossier 51

    Movie Director

  4. 1977
    The Apprentice Heel

    Movie Writer

  5. 1975
    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    TV show Self

  6. 1974
    Spécial cinéma

    TV show Self

  7. 1974
    Love at the Top

    Movie Director

  8. 1973
    The Woman in Blue

    Movie Director

  9. 1972
    Midi trente

    TV show Self

  10. 1971
    Raphael or the Debauched One

    Movie Director

  11. 1970
    The Bear and the Doll

    Movie Director

  12. 1969
    Bye Bye Barbara

    Movie Adaptation

  13. 1968
    The Diary of an Innocent Boy

    Movie Writer

  14. 1967
    Tender Sharks

    Movie Director

  15. 1966
    Soldier Martin

    Movie Adaptation

  16. 1966
    The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen

    Movie Director

  17. 1964
    Lucky Jo

    Movie Director

  18. 1964
    The Little Misses

    Movie Director

  19. 1963
    Girl's Apartment

    Movie Director

  20. 1963
    Because, Because of a Woman

    Movie Director

  21. 1962
    Adorable Liar

    Movie Director

  22. 1961
    Tonight or Never

    Movie Director

  23. 1959
    Discorama

    TV show Self

  24. 1958
    A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

    Movie Director