Michel Subor

Acting

Michel Subor

Born — Died

1935-02-02 — 2022-01-17

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Michel Subor (born Mischa Subotzki; February 2 1935 - January 17 2022) was a French actor who gained fame playing the lover of Brigitte Bardot's character in La Bride sur le Cou (1961). In Hollywood Subor starred in Clive Donner's What's New, Pussycat? (as lover Philippe) and in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (as Claude Jade's husband, the journalist François Picard). His most important role was his Bruno Forestier in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Petit Soldat, beside Anna Karina. He had a comeback in 1999 in Claire Denis's Beau Travail. His most recent movie was Claire Denis' Bastards in 2013.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

2000s · 7 titles

Beau Travail poster
7.1

Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.

Beau Travail

2000

Fidelity poster
5.9

A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.

Fidelity

2000

The Intruder poster
6.5

An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.

The Intruder

2005

In the Darkness of Time poster
7.4

Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora’s box which hides all the horrors of the world: the last moments of youth, fame, thoughts, memory, love, silence, history, fear, eternity and, of course, cinema.

In the Darkness of Time

2002

Wild Innocence poster
5.9

A movie director does a new film against heroin consumption, and the producers are heroin dealers.

Wild Innocence

2001

Ainsi soit-il poster
6.0

An honorable man is murdered because he knew too much about the dreadful deeds of the ruling class who puts gain before any human consideration. A happy family is destroyed by this murder. The son plunges into the heart of the tragedy and finds himself facing a double mission: he must honor his dead father by making his killers pay with their own blood and re-establish family harmony.

Ainsi soit-il

2000

No artwork available
3.3

Western: an old bounty hunter.

Dear Hunter

2003

1980s · 8 titles

The French Revolution poster
7.5

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all authority and was imprisoned). Part two carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794.

The French Revolution

1989

The Rebel poster
7.8

After the death of his parents, Pierre is forced to care for his younger sister Nathalie by committing petty crimes. In a recurring motif of Gérard Blain’s cinema, Pierre is taken under the wing of an older gay man, Hubert , who offers him work and financial security; but when Hubert makes advances to him, Pierre robs him and takes up with a group of radical leftists who are planning terrorist attacks. Without employment, Pierre loses Nathalie to child services and spirals into desperation, finally erupting in an act of horrific violence. An x-ray showing the largely undiagnosed sickness of its time, and a stern warning to ours.

The Rebel

1980

The Fourth Power poster
6.4

Yves Dorget, major reporter in a daily newspaper, finds on an "affair" part of a simple news item Catherine Carré, his former friend, editor and chief and star presenter of a television newscast.

The Fourth Power

1985

Der Mann im Salz poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Der Mann im Salz

1988

Stress poster
5.3

A whimsically paced crime drama that takes you on a journey through deceit and intrigue.

Stress

1984

Secret Passage poster
7.0

In a somewhat deflated story of robbery and deception set against the rooftops and byways of Paris, a group of enterprising petty thieves take advantage of the dog days of August to burglarize vacated apartments. At this time of year, all Parisiens are on vacation elsewhere, and the city is invaded by tourists on vacation from their own cities. In this mass rearrangement of the European population, the thieves get away with their looting until they run into an architect who catches them in the act. But his morals are nothing to brag about, as he gets more involved in what they are doing and wants some of their take. He is also smitten with one of the down-and-out women the thieves have been supporting (Dominque Laffin). As in so many French dramas, these conflicting relationships are doomed to be resolved only by tragedy.

Secret Passage

1985

Le pilon poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le pilon

1981

Braxton poster
8.0

An animal-rights activist and his lawyer companion track leopard-hide poachers in Africa.

Braxton

1989

1970s · 3 titles

1960s · 13 titles

Jules and Jim poster
7.5

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

Jules and Jim

1962

Topaz poster
6.0

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

Topaz

1969

What's New Pussycat? poster
5.9

A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.

What's New Pussycat?

1965

Please, Not Now! poster
5.2

A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.

Please, Not Now!

1961

Le Petit Soldat poster
6.9

Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement.

Le Petit Soldat

1963

The Queen of Spades poster
8.0

A gambling countess comes by a secret three card combination that wins her a fortune, but she is allowed to use it only once and not gamble again. She passes on the info twice, and the recipients both die violently. She is warned that if she passes it on again, she too will die. Many years later, a young soldier discovers that the countess has the secret, and he resolves to get it out of her.

The Queen of Spades

1965

Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc poster
6.2

The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a man, Jean-Marc. The film shares the same plot with "Françoise ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.

Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc

1964

Vacation in Hell poster
NR

During the Second World War, the Martel family hides out in the Pyrenees, waiting for hostilities to end. André, a young boy, saves them from an attack by bogus resistance fighters. Hunted from all sides, he flees to Spain. Catherine Martel leads him to the border, and a romance develops between them.

Vacation in Hell

1961

Le Reflux poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Reflux

1965

Young Girls of Good Families poster
10.0

A young kleptomaniac girl befriends a rich heiress whom she admires and goes with her to Saint-Tropez.

Young Girls of Good Families

1963

Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise poster
5.9

The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with "Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.

Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise

1964

À nous deux, Paris! poster
8.0

Two ambitious young provincials, Patrick and Michel, go to Paris to seek their fortune. Patrick seems to be the epitome of the up-and-comer at any price: with no scruples whatsoever, he manages to break into the world of finance, i.e. into the home of banker Philippe Haguenauer. He soon becomes the lover of the woman, Hélène, director of a major fashion house, while Philippe, for his part, is having the perfect love affair with Nadine, his secretary. And this with the mutual consent of both spouses. Meanwhile, Michel, shy and sentimental, is looking for a situation, while remaining honest.

À nous deux, Paris!

1966

Sadistic Hallucinations poster
3.2

In a mysterious French castle dark meetings and apparitions happen, seasoned by nauseating erotic menages. The involvement frantically increases up to the amazing epilogue.

Sadistic Hallucinations

1969

1950s · 3 titles

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

Cinépanorama poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Cinépanorama

1956

Counterstrike poster
7.0

Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total. Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.

Counterstrike

1990

Un curé de choc poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un curé de choc

1974

A Tale of Two Cities poster
5.7

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

A Tale of Two Cities

1989

War on Beasts poster
6.4

When the closing of a local factory impacts a small French town, a desperate unionist and a bodybuilder resort to a dangerous scheme to make ends meet.

War on Beasts

2018

Mauregard poster
7.5

Upon his return from Louisiana in 1865, Maxence de Mettray decides to use the profits from his last commercial trip to buy the castle of Mauregard in Touraine, the castle of his ancestors. From there, his story and that of his descendants is told over six different periods. A French mini-series in six 60-minute episodes.

Mauregard

1970