
December 27, 1925 · 100 years old
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli was the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Pi…

A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.

A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.

French Intelligence Agent Andre Devereaux becomes embroiled in Cold War politics, first by uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then breaking up an international Russian spy ring.

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.

A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.

A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist.

Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.

The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.

A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.

A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.

During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.

A film director has an inspirational crisis while working on the production, Passion, and struggles with the nature of work and art.

Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners' camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also confiscate the diamond mine for the state, ...

A veteran Republican fighter's ardent dedication to overthrow of Franco's regime is challenged. He realizes that the center of political struggle has shifted away from him, and is forced to make choices about his life and politica...

The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.

A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.