Raoul Lévy

Raoul Levy (14 April 1922 – 31 December 1966) was a French film producer, writer and director best known for a series of movies he made starring Brigitte Bardot. He was born in Antwerp. He committed suicide after losing most of his fortune making a film about the life of Marco Polo. He shot himself in the chest outside the front door of the St Tropez house of Isabelle Pons, who had recently ended a two-year affair with Levy. Levy was survived by a wife and fifteen-year-old son. Source: Article "Raoul Lévy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

Heartbreaking

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Luc Godard
CAST:  Joseph Gehrard  •  Marina Vlady  •  Anny Duperey  •  Roger Montsoret

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Luc Godard
CAST:  Joseph Gehrard  •  Marina Vlady  •  Anny Duperey  •  Roger Montsoret

...And God Created Woman (1956)

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roger Vadim
CAST:  Brigitte Bardot  •  Jean-Louis Trintignant  •  Curd Jürgens  •  Jane Marken

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roger Vadim
CAST:  Brigitte Bardot  •  Jean-Louis Trintignant  •  Curd Jürgens  •  Jane Marken

The Defector (1966)

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Lévy
CAST:  Montgomery Clift  •  Macha Méril  •  Christine Delaroche  •  Hardy Krüger

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Lévy
CAST:  Montgomery Clift  •  Macha Méril  •  Christine Delaroche  •  Hardy Krüger

Hail! Mafia (1965)

A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Lévy
CAST:  Eddie Constantine  •  Henry Silva  •  Jack Klugman  •  Elsa Martinelli

A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Lévy
CAST:  Eddie Constantine  •  Henry Silva  •  Jack Klugman  •  Elsa Martinelli

Marco the Magnificent (1965)

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Denys de La Patellière  •  Raoul Lévy
CAST:  Horst Buchholz  •  Anthony Quinn  •  Orson Welles  •  Bruno Cremer

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Denys de La Patellière  •  Raoul Lévy
CAST:  Horst Buchholz  •  Anthony Quinn  •  Orson Welles  •  Bruno Cremer