Jean-Pierre Melville, born Jean-Pierre Grumbach (October 20, 1917 – August 2, 1973), was a French filmmaker. While with the French Resistance during World War II, he adopted the pseudonym Melville as a tribute to his favorite American author, Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Le Deuxième Souffle
Breathless
Bluebeard
Orpheus
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Le Samouraï
The Good Thief
Le Cercle Rouge
Army of Shadows
The Strange Ones
Le Doulos
Bob le Flambeur
Two Men in Manhattan
The Silence of the Sea
A Cop
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Léon Morin, Priest
Sign of the Lion
Le Combat dans l’île
Magnet of Doom
