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Raoul Lévy

Born April 14, 1922 · Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium

Died December 31, 1966 · aged 44

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…

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The DefectorThe Defector · 1966
The Defector
★ 5.81966
MovieDramaThriller
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.
...And God Created Woman...And God Created Woman · 1956
...And God Created Woman
★ 6.11956
MovieDramaRomance
18-year-old orphan Juliette's unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his futile attempts to tame her wild ways.
The Proud and the BeautifulThe Proud and the Beautiful · 1953
The Proud and the Beautiful
★ 6.71953
MovieDrama
Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
The TruthThe Truth · 1960
The Truth
★ 7.61960
MovieDramaRomance
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
Babette Goes to WarBabette Goes to War · 1959
Babette Goes to War
★ 5.61959
MovieComedyWar
Beautiful housekeeper Babette travels to England after the Nazis invade France. There, British intelligence devise a plan for Babette to sneak back home, where she could use her feminine charm on key Nazi officer Schulz, gleaning valuable information for England. However, Babette, although willing and spirited, is naïve and untrained, making her less than ideal for matters of national security.
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her2 or 3 Things I Know About Her · 1967
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
★ 6.21967
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Marco the MagnificentMarco the Magnificent · 1965
Marco the Magnificent
★ 4.81965
MovieAdventure
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
Love Is My ProfessionLove Is My Profession · 1958
Love Is My Profession
★ 6.31958
MovieRomanceDrama
Leading lawyer Andre Gobillot takes the case of Yvette, a young criminal. As he works on her defence, an unexpected romance blooms between them, only to be cut short by a tragedy.

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