The 30+ Best Movies With Brigitte Bardot

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From timeless French classics to international films, the best movies of Brigitte Bardot have shaped the actress's enduring legacy in the world of cinema. With a captivating on-screen presence, Bardot left an indelible mark on both French and international cinema. Delving into the best Brigitte Bardot movies is an enriching experience for cinephiles, as it offers an in-depth look at her diverse talents and everlasting impact on the world of cinema.

Showcasing the talent, acting prowess, and scene-stealing ability of this iconic actor, the best movies of Brigitte Bardot epitomize her multifaceted performances. Upon exploring these films, one can't help but admire her unique ability to bring characters to life. Whether it's through her dramatic expressions, undeniable charisma, or innate ability to connect with her audience, Bardot's best movies have immortalized her as one of the most influential actors in film history.

Among the exceptional movies with Brigitte Bardot, Contempt stands out as a testament to her captivating on-screen persona, as she effortlessly delves into the complexities of her character in this iconic Godard film. The Truth, yet another classic in the Brigitte Bardot filmography, remains a powerful tour de force that earned her a reputation as an actor whose talent surpassed her beauty. In The Light Across the Street, Bardot displayed a remarkable range and versatility, tackling a more dramatic role while maintaining her signature magnetism. These films, along with many others, are prime examples of how Bardot consistently delivered unforgettable performances throughout her career.

By examining the best Brigitte Bardot movies, one gains insight into the extraordinary journey of an actor who transcended her status as a mere sex symbol and emerged as an indomitable force in the world of cinema. Bardot's unique contributions to the film industry have established her as a true legend, and her filmography continues to inspire generations of movie enthusiasts and aspiring actors alike. As audiences revisit these timeless masterpieces, Bardot's legacy prevails, ensuring her place in the pantheon of cinematic greats.

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  • Contempt
    1
    Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli
    54 votes
    A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife (Brigitte Bardot).
  • The Truth
    2
    Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Perrin, Paul Meurisse
    66 votes
    The Truth is a 1960 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Brigitte Bardot. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
  • The Light Across the Street
    3
    Brigitte Bardot, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean Debucourt
    19 votes
    The Light Across the Street is a 1956 French drama film starring Brigitte Bardot directed by Georges Lacombe.
  • Viva Maria!
    4
    Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton
    43 votes
    Gorgeous IRA operative Maria (Brigitte Bardot) flees the British authorities and finds herself in Mexico, where she meets a stunning woman also named Maria (Jeanne Moreau), a singer in a traveling circus. The new friends start a vaudeville act -- one that grows exponentially more popular after they incorporate striptease into their routine. When the singer Maria falls for a charismatic Mexican rebel, the girls leave the circus behind and recreate themselves as wild-eyed revolutionaries.
  • And God Created Woman
    5
    Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano, Frank Langella
    73 votes
    An aspiring rock singer, Robin Shea (Rebecca De Mornay) is eager to leave her prison sentence behind. After seducing upstanding young Billy Moran (Vincent Spano), who works at the facility, she sees a way out. Robin goes on to marry Billy, which gets her out of jail early, but he doesn't benefit much from the relationship, since the scheming Robin's concerns are elsewhere. She sets her sights on politician James Tiernan (Frank Langella), but her tempting ways may not get her what she wants.
  • Come Dance with Me!
    6
    Brigitte Bardot, Serge Gainsbourg, Darío Moreno
    21 votes
    Come Dance with Me! is a 1959 French-Italian drama film directed by Michel Boisrond and starring Brigitte Bardot. The film is based on the novel The Blonde Died Dancing by Kelley Roos.
  • The Bear and the Doll
    7
    Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Ceccaldi
    24 votes
    The Bear and the Doll is a French film starring Brigitte Bardot.
  • Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman
    8
    Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin, Robert Hossein
    37 votes
    Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman is a 1973 French-Italian drama film by Roger Vadim. It sees Vadim reunite with his leading lady and ex-wife Brigitte Bardot for their fifth film together. Bardot achieved international stardom and Vadim got his break when he directed her in the 1956 sensation, And God Created Woman. It was her second last film before retiring.
  • The Night Heaven Fell
    9
    Brigitte Bardot, Alida Valli, Stephen Boyd
    24 votes
    The Night Heaven Fell is a 1958 French-Italian film directed by Roger Vadim. Vadim had already acquired international fame with his daring debut And God Created Woman. Like its predecessor, The Night Heaven Fell explored the exuberant sensuality of Brigitte Bardot, who was Vadim's wife at the time.
  • Les Novices
    10
    Brigitte Bardot, Annie Girardot, Jacques Duby
    23 votes
    Les Novices is a 1970 French film starring Brigitte Bardot. It recorded admissions in France of 1,813,091.
  • The Legend of Frenchie King
    11
    Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Michael J. Pollard
    17 votes
    The Legend of Frenchie King is a 1971 French western comedy film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale.
  • The Female
    12

    The Female

    Brigitte Bardot, Lila Kedrova, Darío Moreno
    14 votes
    La Femme et le Pantin is a 1959 French-Italian drama film directed by Julien Duvivier. It is the third adaptation of the correspondent classic novel. At first glance Brigitte Bardot was predestined for this film because for many people she had become downright the incarnation of a femme fatale. Yet for that very reason everybody knows right from the start how the story will end. Eva Marchand walks the streets so proudly and so obviously aware of her attractivity that there is no doubt she knows it too. There is even a scene where a grown man spontaneously kisses her feet and she couldn't be less impressed. She shows just enough reaction to prove that her feet are not wooden. So when the ill-fated Don Matteo Diaz gets obsessed with her and doesn't even try to hide that, it must become his downfall, for it cannot be any other way.
  • School for Love
    13

    School for Love

    Brigitte Bardot, Jean Marais
    13 votes
    School for Love is a French drama film from 1955, directed by Marc Allégret, written by Marc Allégret, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jean Marais. The scenario was based on a novel of Vicki Baum. The film was known under the title "Joy of Living" or "School for Love", "Sweet Sixteen", "Reif auf jungen Blüten".
  • Les Femmes
    14
    Brigitte Bardot, Anny Duperey, Maurice Ronet
    13 votes
    Les Femmes is a 1969 French comedy-drama film starring Brigitte Bardot. It recorded admissions of 505,292 in France.
  • Love Is My Profession
    15

    Love Is My Profession

    Brigitte Bardot, Jean Gabin, Franco Interlenghi
    17 votes
    In Case of Adversity is a 1958 French film directed by Claude Autant-Lara, screenplay by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, after a novel by Georges Simenon.
  • Spirits of the Dead
    16
    Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Terence Stamp
    24 votes
    In one chapter of this three-in-one feature inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's tales, a countess (Jane Fonda), shunned by a horseman (Peter Fonda), kills the man and his animals yet pays dearly for her deadly act. Another focuses on a religious man (Alain Delon) who seeks absolution for a murder only to find that his violent impulses come rushing back. The third is about a boozing actor (Terence Stamp) who accepts a car as compensation for a role, but is ultimately defeated by addiction.
  • Shalako
    17
    Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd
    33 votes
    While guiding a hunting party of clueless European aristocrats, cowboy Bosky Fulton (Stephen Boyd) leads them into hostile Apache territory. Becoming separated from the group, Countess Irina Lazaar (Brigitte Bardot) experiences the first run-in with an Apache, which results in the tracker Shalako (Sean Connery) coming to her rescue. Despite Shalako's warning to leave the area immediately, the pampered foreigners fail to take him seriously, leaving them in grave danger.
  • Plucking the Daisy
    18
    Brigitte Bardot, Darry Cowl, Daniel Gélin
    17 votes
    Plucking the Daisy is a film directed by Marc Allégret released on October 5, 1956.
  • Dear Brigitte
    19
    James Stewart, Fabian, Glynis Johns
    19 votes
    Poet and professor Robert Leaf (James Stewart) has a disdain for the sciences. Unfortunately for him, his son Erasmus (Bill Mumy) is colorblind, completely tone-deaf and a natural math prodigy. While the professor tires to comes to terms with his son's predilection for numbers, the talented youth and his sister Pandora (Cindy Carol) use his math talents to win at the race track. Erasmus hopes to use the money he makes to fly to Paris and meet Brigitte Bardot, with whom he is infatuated.
  • Please, Not Now!
    20
    Brigitte Bardot, Claude Brasseur, Michel Subor
    9 votes
    Please, Not Now! original French title La Bride sur le cou, is a French comedy film released in 1961, directed by Roger Vadim and starring his former wife, Brigitte Bardot.
  • Une Ravissante Idiote
    21
    Brigitte Bardot, Anthony Perkins, Grégoire Aslan
    9 votes
    Une ravissante idiote is a 1964 Cold War comedy directed by Édouard Molinaro. François Billetdoux and André Tabet wrote a screenplay based on Charles Exbrayat 1962 novel of the same name. Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins star as the protagonists in the Franco-Italian production.
  • A Very Private Affair
    22
    Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni, Eleonore Hirt
    21 votes
    A gorgeous teen, Jill (Brigitte Bardot), resides in Switzerland with her mother and harbors feelings for the handsome Fabio (Marcello Mastroianni), an older man who is married to one of her friends. Growing restless, Jill moves to Paris to pursue ballet, but instead finds success and fame as a model and actress. When Jill, now a celebrity, seeks to retreat from the limelight and returns home to Switzerland, she begins a romance with the newly divorced Fabio, leading to an unwelcome media circus.
  • Boulevard du Rhum
    23

    Boulevard du Rhum

    Brigitte Bardot, Lino Ventura, Bill Travers
    11 votes
    Boulevard du Rhum also known as Rum Runners is a 1971 French-Italian-Spanish adventure film directed by Robert Enrico and produced by Alain Poiré. It is based on Jacques Pecheral's novel of the same name. It stars Brigitte Bardot and Lino Ventura and was released in France on 13 October 1971.
  • Brigitte Bardot: Divine B.B.
    24

    Brigitte Bardot: Divine B.B.

    Brigitte Bardot
    13 votes
  • Manina, the Girl in the Bikini
    25

    Manina, the Girl in the Bikini

    Brigitte Bardot, Howard Vernon, Raymond Cordy
    10 votes
    Manina, the Girl in the Bikini is a 1952 French film directed by Willy Rozier and starring Brigitte Bardot, Jean-François Calvé and Howard Vernon. The film is one of Bardot's first film roles, at the age of 17, and was controversial for the scanty bikinis worn by the young Bardot in the film, one of the first occasions when a bikini had appeared in film and when the bikini was still widely considered immodest. Though released in France in 1953 as Manina, la fille sans voiles, the film was not released in the United States until 1958 as Manina, the Girl in the Bikini and in the United Kingdom until 1959 as The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter. In other countries it was released under other names. The film was able to be screened in the United States notwithstanding the Hays Code prohibition of exposure of the midriff as a foreign film. The film was shot in Cannes, Nice and Paris in the summer of 1952. Brigitte Bardot's father had signed a contract, on behalf of his minor daughter, specifying that the film was not to show indecent images.
  • The Grand Maneuver
    26
    Brigitte Bardot, Gérard Philipe, Michèle Morgan
    5 votes
    The Grand Maneuver is a 1955 French drama film written and directed by René Clair, and starring Michèle Morgan and Gérard Philipe. It was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as Summer Manoeuvres, and in the United States under the title The Grand Maneuver. It is a romantic comedy-drama set in a French provincial town just before World War I, and it was René Clair's first film to be made in colour.
  • Two Weeks in September
    27
    Brigitte Bardot, Murray Head, Jean Rochefort
    7 votes
    Two Weeks in September is a 1967 French film starring Brigitte Bardot directed by Serge Bourguignon.
  • Helen of Troy
    28
    Brigitte Bardot, Stanley Baker, Harry Andrews
    13 votes
    Helen of Troy is a 1956 Warner Bros. epic film, based on Homer's Illiad and Odyssey. It was directed by Robert Wise, from a screenplay by Hugh Gray and John Twist, adapted by Hugh Gray and N. Richard Nash. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Harry Stradling Sr. The film stars Rossana Podestà, Stanley Baker, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Jacques Sernas, with Niall MacGinnis, Maxwell Reed, Nora Swinburne, Robert Douglas, Torin Thatcher, Harry Andrews, Janette Scott, Ronald Lewis, Eduardo Ciannelli, Esmond Knight and a young Brigitte Bardot as Andraste, Helen's handmaiden.
  • Royal Affairs in Versailles
    29
    Brigitte Bardot, Orson Welles, Claudette Colbert
    11 votes
    Royal Affairs in Versailles is a 1954 French historical drama directed by Sacha Guitry, which tells some episodes through portrayal of the personalities who lived in Versailles' castle. Its sister films are Napoléon and If Paris Were Told to Us. The film is notable for the presence of a great number of well-known French actors, often appearing in short parts. One unknown actor playing a major character is Gilbert Bokanowski portraying Louis XVI. Bokanowski was actually the film's production manager and was cast because of his strong resemblance to the monarch. Its English translation title is If Versailles Were Told to Me. Despite French production, the film is best known by its English title Royal Affairs in Versailles.
  • The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
    30

    The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

    Brigitte Bardot, Bernadette Lafont, Francis Huster
    7 votes
    The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot is a 1973 French comedy film directed and written by Nina Companéez. Francis Huster stars as the title character, Colinot. It is notable as the final film appearance of Brigitte Bardot who retired from the entertainment industry when the film went into post-production.