Claude Melki Movies

A lonely dishwasher hires a prostitute and brings her to his dingy apartment to enliven his dreary life for a night.

What do Patricia, Badou, François, Dingo and P'tit Jeannot have in common? They live in the Paris suburbs, they are young, they are on the...

Gala (1961), a more polished version of Pourvu, set in a black cha-cha nightclub. Relying more upon looks, faces, and unease, rather than gags or...

A short film by Jean Douchet

Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro...

In this French crime caper film, a young misfit who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deliberately gets fired. When some underworld...

As a rereading of his films, "Contretemps" (in the fight against time), Jean-Daniel Pollet brings together excerpts of his films and a report by Jean...

André is a loser. He dreams of becoming a great writer and being sought after by wonderful women. To make something interesting happen in his...

A study of loneliness set in a dance hall of suburban Paris.