Films starring Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau is simply one of the finest actors in screen history. Nicknamed La Sexe Bombe by the French press, Moreau took 19 films to establish herself and, even at the height of her powers, marriages to directors Jean-Louis Richard and William Friedkin and romances with Louis Malle and Pierre Cardin often made bigger headlines than her pictu... show more >

Jeanne Moreau is simply one of the finest actors in screen history. Nicknamed La Sexe Bombe by the French press, Moreau took 19 films to establish herself and, even at the height of her powers, marriages to directors Jean-Louis Richard and William Friedkin and romances with Louis Malle and Pierre Cardin often made bigger headlines than her pictures. Malle best showcased Moreau's sultry siren sullenness in Lift to the Scaffold (1957) and Les Amants (1958), although Joseph Losey also caught the illicit appeal that led some to dub her `the French Bette Davis' in Eva (1962). Yet while she worked with a laudably diverse range of international film-makers, including Welles, Antonioni and Buñuel, and even directed a handful of films that are long overdue reappraisal, Moreau will always be known as the nouvelle vague's favourite femme fatale, thanks largely to her ebullient performance in François Truffaut's Jules et Jim(1961). < show less