The Best Simone Signoret Movies  

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List of the best Simone Signoret movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Simone Signoret's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Simone Signoret movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Simone Signoret movies will be at the top of the list. Simone Signoret has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Simone Signoret movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Simone Signoret films to end the squabble once and for all.

If you think the best Simone Signoret role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest Simone Signoret performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.

The list you're viewing is made up of a variety of different films, including La Chair de l'orchidée and L'étoile du nord.

"This list answers the questions, "What are the best Simone Signoret movies?" and "What are the greatest Simone Signoret roles of all time?"

Simone Signoret was in some really popular films, and is right up there with stars like Irene Dunne and Romy Schneider in terms of fame and success.

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Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, José Ferrer
Ship of Fools is a 1965 drama directed by Stanley Kramer, which recounts the overlapping stories of several passengers aboard an ocean liner bound to Germany from Mexico in 1933. It stars Vivien ...more
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Simone Signoret, Michel Serrault, Paul Meurisse
Les Diaboliques, released as Diabolique in the United States and variously translated as The Devils or The Fiends, is a 1955 French black-and-white psychological thriller feature film directed ...more
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Simone Signoret, Jean Gabin, Annie Cordy
Le Chat is a 1971 French-language drama film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and based on Georges Simenon's 1967 novel The Cat.
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Simone Signoret, Costa-Gavras, Michal Bat-Adam
Madame Rosa is a 1977 French film adaptation of the novel The Life Before Us, authored by Romain Gary under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar. Through his double identity, Gary, who had already ...more
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Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Hermione Baddeley
Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine. The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler. It was directed by ...more
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Simone Signoret, Mylène Demongeot, Yves Montand
The Crucible is a 1957 joint Franco-East German film production directed by Raymond Rouleau with a screenplay adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre from the 1953 play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. The ...more
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Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Gabriele Ferzetti
The Confession is a 1970 French-Italian film directed by Costa Gavras and stars Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. It is based on the true story of the Czechoslovak communist Artur London, a ...more
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Lynn Redgrave, Simone Signoret, David Warner
The Deadly Affair is a 1966 British espionage–thriller film, based on John le Carré's first novel Call for the Dead. The film stars James Mason, Harry Andrews, Simone Signoret and ...more
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Kirk Douglas, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins
Is Paris Burning? is a 1966 film directed by René Clément, starring an ensemble cast, about the liberation of Paris in August 1944 by the French Resistance and the Free French ...more
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Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant
The Sleeping Car Murders is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot. It stars Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Yves Montand, Jean-Louis ...more
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James Caan, Katharine Ross, Simone Signoret
Games is a 1967 psychological thriller, directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Katharine Ross, James Caan, and Simone Signoret.
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Simone Signoret, Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Army of Shadows is a 1969 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It is a film adaptation of Joseph Kessel's 1943 book of the same name, which blends Kessel's own experiences as a member ...more
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Simone Signoret, Dane Clark, Fernand Gravey
Gunman in the Streets is a French/US-produced 1950 black-and-white film noir directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Dane Clark and Simone Signoret. Unreleased for theatrical screening in the US, ...more
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Charlotte Rampling, Simone Signoret, Alida Valli
La Chair de l'orchidée is a 1975 film adaptation of the 1948 novel, The Flesh of the Orchid by mystery writer James Hadley Chase, "a pulp-novel sequel to No Orchids for Miss ...more
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Marcello Mastroianni, Simone Signoret, Emmanuelle Riva
Adua and Friends, also known as Hungry For Love, is a 1960 Italian film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli with a collaborative screenplay by the film's director together with Ruggero Maccari, ...more
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Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Charles Vanel
La mort en ce jardin is a 1956 film by director Luis Buñuel based on the novel by Jose-Andre Lacour. Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish ...more
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Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin
Casque d'or is a 1952 French film directed by Jacques Becker. It is a Belle Époque tragedy, the story of an ill-fated love affair between characters played by Simone Signoret and Serge ...more
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Fantômas Simone Signoret, Marcel Herrand, Alexandre Rignault
Fantômas is a 1946 French crime film directed by Jean Sacha and starring Marcel Herrand, Simone Signoret and Alexandre Rignault. The film features the fictional master criminal ...more
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Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby
Thérèse Raquin is a 1953 French Drama film directed by Marcel Carné and starring Simone Signoret and Raf Vallone. The story is loosely based on the novel by Émile ...more
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Simone Signoret, Bernard Blier, Jane Marken
Manèges is a 1950 film directed by Yves Allégret.
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Vanessa Redgrave, Simone Signoret, David Warner
The Sea Gull is a 1968 British-American-Greek drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Moura Budberg is adapted from Anton Chekhov's classic 1896 play The Seagull. The Warner ...more
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Simone Signoret, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Cottençon
L'Étoile du Nord is a 1982 French film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and based on a novel by Georges Simenon, starring Simone Signoret, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Cottençon and ...more
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Laurence Olivier, Terence Stamp, Simone Signoret
Term of Trial is a 1962 British drama film written and directed by Peter Glenville and produced by James Woolf for his Romulus Films company with James H. Ware as associate producer from a ...more
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Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, Simone Simon
La Ronde is a 1950 film directed by Max Ophüls and based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play of the same name. The title means "the round-dance". The film was nominated for two ...more
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Against the Wind Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson
Against the Wind is a black-and-white British film directed by Charles Crichton and produced by Michael Balcon, released through Ealing Studios in 1948. Against the Wind is a World War II ...more