L'Élégant Criminel 1990

Description:

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

Keywords:

Related movies:

⭐  7.5
💛  5,700

Hawking (2004)
Philip Martin

⭐  7.5
💛  27,261

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Steven Zaillian

⭐  7.8
💛  16,685

My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Louis Malle

⭐  6.9
💛  77,525

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Peter Webber

⭐  7.2
💛  5,077

The Report (2019)
Scott Z. Burns

⭐  7.3
💛  20,702

Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
George Miller

⭐  7.2
💛  10,583

First They Killed My Father (2017)
Angelina Jolie

⭐  7.1
💛  967

The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
Ken Hughes

⭐  6.2
💛  8,729

The Invisible Woman (2013)
Ralph Fiennes

⭐  6.9
💛  22,233

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Francis Ford Coppola

⭐  6.5
💛  5,540

Chuck (2016)
Philippe Falardeau

⭐  6.8
💛  69,121

Hitchcock (2012)
Sacha Gervasi

⭐  7.0
💛  80,184

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
George Clooney

⭐  6.8
💛  960

Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
Waris Hussein

⭐  7.6
💛  7,318

10 Rillington Place (1971)
Richard Fleischer

⭐  6.3
💛  1,188

Amundsen (2019)
Espen Sandberg

⭐  5.7
💛  6,132

Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)
John Ridley

⭐  7.3
💛  15,333

Stand and Deliver (1988)
Ramón Menéndez