# Jean-Paul Belmondo's best movies

From the New Wave to popular action cinema: Bébel's best films according to AlloCiné, SensCritique and Snobinart.

- 50 votes · 15 items
- Mar 19, 2026 · episode94
- https://even.best/en/l/3877/jean-paul-belmondo-s-best-movies

## Top 15

1. **A Monkey in Winter (1962)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — With Jean Gabin, dialogue by Michel Audiard; number one on AlloCiné.
2. **Pierrot le Fou (1965)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Ferdinand runs away with Anna Karina.
3. **That Man from Rio (1964)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — The film Spielberg says he saw nine times before Indiana Jones.
4. **The Man from Acapulco (1973)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A writer and his secret-agent alter ego.
5. **Le Doulos (1962)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A Jean-Pierre Melville crime film.
6. **Breathless (1960)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Michel Poiccard, from Jean-Luc Godard; the New Wave manifesto.
7. **Classe Tous Risques (1960)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — With Lino Ventura, from Claude Sautet.
8. **The Professional (1981)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A betrayed agent comes back for revenge, music by Ennio Morricone.
9. **Fear Over the City (1975)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — An inspector, a killer and stunts on Paris rooftops.
10. **Cop or Hood (1979)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — An undercover inspector in Nice.
11. **Ace of Aces (1982)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A boxer at the Berlin Games; over five million tickets sold.
12. **Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — From Claude Lelouch; César for best actor.
13. **Up to His Ears (1965)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Round-the-world adventures from Jules Verne.
14. **Léon Morin, Priest (1961)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A priest and a widow under the Occupation, from Melville.
15. **Borsalino (1970)** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — With Alain Delon in 1930s Marseille.

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