Maurice Ronet
11 titles
Filmography
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The Fire Within
(1963)After garnering international acclaim for such seminal crowd-pleasers as THE LOVERS and ZAZIE DANS LE MÉTRO, Louis Malle gave his fans a shock with THE FIRE WITHIN (LE FEU FOLLET), a penetrating study of individual and social inertia. Maurice Ronet (ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS), in an implosive, haunted performance, plays Alain Leroy, a self-destructive writer who resolves to kill himself and spends the next twenty-four hours trying to reconnect with a host of wayward friends. Unsparing in its portrait of Alain’s inner turmoil and shot with remarkable clarity, THE FIRE WITHIN is one of Malle’s darkest and most personal films.

Elevator to the Gallows
(1958)In his mesmerizing debut feature, twenty-four-year-old director Louis Malle brought together the beauty of Jeanne Moreau, the camerawork of Henri Decaë, and a now legendary score by Miles Davis.

Purple Noon
(1960)Alain Delon (Le Cercle Rouge, Le Samouraï) stars as Tom Ripley, an American who travels to Europe on an all-expenses-paid mission to convince his friend, the charismatic playboy Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet - Le Feu Follet), to travel to San Francisco at the request of the wealthy Greenleaf family.

The Swimming Pool
(1969)A couple basking by their poolside retreat are visited by the girlfriend's old friend and his teenage daughter -- and the consequences are deadly.

Sphinx
(1981)Someone is hunting tourists out of season in this romantic adventure thriller directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, The Boys From Brazil) and starring Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, and John Gielgud. A beautiful, dedicated Egyptologist finds her life threatened many times while traveling from Cairo to Luxor's Valley of the Kings in search of a mysterious to...

La Balance
(1982)
Carve Her Name with Pride
(1958)During World War II, Violette Szabo embarks on espionage missions in occupied France.

Lost Command
(1966)A taut, brilliantly-directed story about French-Algerian guerilla warfare in North Africa, and a peasant who rises to a position of command.

Madame Claude
(1977)A ripped-from-the-headlines thriller about a 1960s Parisian police informant and madam running a brothel for the wealthy and well-connected.

He Who Must Die
(1957)Three townspeople cause an uproar when they try to help refugees on a Greek island occupied by Turks.