Remembering Francis Lai
In a career spanning 40 years, French composer Francis Lai composed music for more than 130 films and TV series and wrote more than 600 songs. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe and received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2014. Francis Lai died on 7 November 2018, aged 86, at his home in Paris.
For which movie will you remember Francis Lai most?
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- DirectorArthur HillerStarsAli MacGrawRyan O'NealJohn MarleyA boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAnouk AiméeJean-Louis TrintignantPierre BarouhA widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Paul BelmondoMichel BoujenahAlessandra MartinesA variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean Valjean.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsRobert HosseinNicole GarciaGeraldine ChaplinThrough fabulous music, this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the U.S., from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several of them, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor, at an anti-famine concert.
- DirectorDavid HamiltonStarsPatti D'ArbanvilleMona KristensenBernard GiraudeauA coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsYves MontandCandice BergenAnnie GirardotThe bitter relationships between a journalist and his women.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsCharles BronsonJill IrelandMarlène JobertA US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsOmar SharifCatherine DeneuveJames MasonBased on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Paul BelmondoAnnie GirardotMaria Pia ConteFilming in the USA, Henri and Françoise meet and fall in love with each other.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Louis TrintignantDanièle DelormeCharles GérardStory about an incurable thief, his success and his failures.
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsTatum O'NealChristopher PlummerAnthony HopkinsVelvet's orphaned niece Sarah follows her dream of Olympic glory with her horse Arizona Pie.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsEvelyne BouixJacques VilleretFrancis HusterThe world's most popular entertainer and Europe's greatest boxer: the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in New York, transatlantic plane flights, Cerdan's loss of the world middleweight title to Jake Lamotta, and Piaf's gift for tragic love songs.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsOliver ReedOrson WellesCarol WhiteThe professional and romantic misadventures of an advertising executive in 1960s swinging London.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsLino VenturaFrançoise FabianCharles GérardReleased from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsOliver ReedJohn AldertonMichael J. PollardA British prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together, they head for the Swiss border and freedom.
- DirectorFrancis GiacobettiStarsSylvia KristelUmberto OrsiniFrédéric LagacheAfter two months of separation, Emmanuelle must find her husband Jean in Hong Kong. She goes there by boat. Once in Thailand, she finds her husband and meets Christopher, a mysterious airplane pilot. At a dinner, she also meets Laura, Jean's mistress and her troubling stepdaughter Anna Maria. She proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with Jean's knowledge, of course.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Paul BelmondoRichard AnconinaLioA successful entrepreneur in his fifties decides to abandon his loved ones and the empire he has built to find the liberty he yearns for, unaware that the itinerary of one's life often changes in the funniest of ways.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAlessandra MartinesPierre ArditiMarc HollogneOnce a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsGeorge PeppardInger StevensOrson WellesIn 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order.
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsPeter SellersBritt EklandRossano BrazziTo get his big break, a singing matador must win over the most beautiful and most elusive woman in all of Barcelona, in only three days.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsJean-Paul BelmondoBernard BlierMarie-France PisierFrancois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to Gilberte's family. He needs friends. And friends are hard to come by in his town.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsRyan O'NealCandice BergenNicola PagettIn this sequel to Love Story (1970), grieving Oliver is being pressured by his in-laws to move on and take part in the family business. He meets a pretty heiress and they start dating, but memories of Jennie come rushing back.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueGuy CasarilStarsBrigitte BardotClaudia CardinaleMichael J. PollardOutlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsMarcello MastroianniSilvana ManganoMarthe KellerAn Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.
- DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsSissy SpacekJeff DanielsKeith SzarabajkaA political appointee risks her job and her life to expose corruption.