Jean-Louis Trintignant

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.

Dir. Dino Risi · With Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches him listening to his neighbors’ phone calls.

Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski · With Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.

Dir. Éric Rohmer · With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault

A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.

Dir. Sergio Corbucci · With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin

After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent goes on the lam while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.

Dir. François Truffaut · With Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this "most precious of cargoes", will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter's wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross—including the man who threw her from the train. And some will try to protect her, whatever the cost. Their story will reveal the worst and the best in the hearts of men.

Dir. Michel Hazanavicius · With Dominique Blanc, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydès

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.

Dir. Claude Lelouch · With Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.

Dir. Ettore Scola · With Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.

Dir. Bernard Borderie · With Michèle Mercier, Claude Giraud, Jean Rochefort

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.

Dir. Jacques Audiard · With Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy

The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

Dir. Jacques Deray · With Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudine Auger

A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz

18-year-old orphan Juliette's unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his futile attempts to tame her wild ways.

Dir. Roger Vadim · With Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Curd Jürgens