Starring Alain Delon

Starring Alain Delon

9 Episodes

The beautiful boy of French cinema whose steely, ice-blue gaze betrayed more than a hint of danger, Alain Delon was a favorite of modernists like Luchino Visconti, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Michelangelo Antonioni, all of whom were seduced by his impossible good looks and air of cool detachment. This selection of many of Delon’s finest moments spotlights his star-making performance as the gorgeous, duplicitous Tom Ripley in René Clément’s Patricia Highsmith adaptation PURPLE NOON; his career-defining turn as a zen contract killer in Melville’s LE SAMOURAÏ; his subtle portrayal of an amoral art dealer mixed up in a case of mistaken identity in Joseph Losey’s unsung classic MR. KLEIN; and more.

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Starring Alain Delon

9 Episodes

  • Starring Alain Delon Teaser
    01:33
    Starring Alain Delon Teaser
    Episode 1

    Starring Alain Delon Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Purple Noon
    1:57:36
    Purple Noon
    Episode 2

    Purple Noon

    Episode 2

    Directed by René Clément • 1960 • France, Italy
    Starring Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt

    Alain Delon was at his most impossibly beautiful when PURPLE NOON was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s vicious novel “The Talented Mr. R...

  • Rocco and His Brothers
    2:58:50
    Rocco and His Brothers
    Episode 3

    Rocco and His Brothers

    Episode 3

    Directed by Luchino Visconti • 1960 • Italy
    Starring Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori

    Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan. There, Simone and Rocco find fame, in the boxing ring, and love, in the same woman. Jealousy mounts, blood is shed, and...

  • L’eclisse
    2:06:01
    L’eclisse
    Episode 4

    L’eclisse

    Episode 4

    Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1962 • France, Italy

    The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L'avventura and La notte), L'eclisse tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) and drifts ...

  • Any Number Can Win
    2:01:41
    Any Number Can Win
    Episode 5

    Any Number Can Win

    Episode 5

    Directed by Henri Verneuil • 1963 • France, Italy
    Starring Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Viviane Romance

    This ice-cool crime caper bridges two generations of French cinema by bringing together longtime national screen icon Jean Gabin with hotshot rising star Alain Delon. Gabin is the career ex-con de...

  • Le samouraï
    1:45:30
    Le samouraï
    Episode 6

    Le samouraï

    Episode 6

    Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • 1967 • France, Italy

    In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture--with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology--mav...

  • Spirits of the Dead
    2:01:41
    Spirits of the Dead
    Episode 7

    Spirits of the Dead

    Episode 7

    Directed by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, and Roger Vadim • 1968 • France, Italy

    Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, and Roger Vadim each direct a tale from Edgar Allan Poe in this haunting anthology film.

  • La piscine
    2:03:47
    La piscine
    Episode 8

    La piscine

    Episode 8

    Directed by Jacques Deray • 1969 • France
    Starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet

    The bright sun of the French Riviera is deceptive in this alluring work of slow-burn suspense from thriller specialist Jacques Deray and legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. Formerly one of Euro...

  • Mr. Klein
    2:03:59
    Mr. Klein
    Episode 9

    Mr. Klein

    Episode 9

    Directed by Joseph Losey • 1976 • France
    Starring Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé

    Neglected for decades, this chilling existentialist mystery has reemerged as one of director Joseph Losey’s most virtuosic works. In perhaps the finest performance of his career, Alain Delon stars as the...

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