Editing Jean-Paul Belmondo (section)

===1970s===
[[File:Belmondo 1971.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Belmondo in 1971]]
Belmondo starred alongside [[Alain Delon]] in ''[[Borsalino (film)|Borsalino]]'' (1970), a successful gangster film.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/14/archives/the-screen-gangland-french-stylean-elaborate-borsalino-opens-at.html|title=The Screen: Gangland French Style:An Elaborate 'Borsalino' Opens at Cinema I|work=The New York Times|date=14 August 1970|access-date=7 September 2021|last1=Greenspun|first1=Roger}}</ref> The latter produced the film and Belmondo ended up suing Delon over billing.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/16/archives/article-2-no-title-hes-good-when-hes-bad.html|title=The French Think He's Good When He's Bad|work=The New York Times|date=16 August 1970|access-date=7 September 2021|last1=Klemesrud|first1=Judy}}</ref>

''[[The Married Couple of the Year Two]]'' (1971) was also popular; even more so was ''[[The Burglars]]'' (1971).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trakt.tv/movies/the-married-couple-of-the-year-two-1971|title=The Married Couple of the Year Two 1971|publisher=Trakt|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clevelandmemory.org/mastroianni/tm016.html|title=The Sharif loses out to "The Burglars"|publisher=Cleveland Press|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref>

Inspired by the success Alain Delon had producing his own films, Belmondo formed his own production company, Cerito Films (named after his grandmother, Rosina Cerrito), to develop movies for Belmondo.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-jean-paul-belmondo-c22691425/36 |title=Dr Popaul box office information|website=Box Office story|access-date=28 August 2016}}</ref> The first Cerito film was the black comedy ''[[Dr. Popaul]]'' (1972), with [[Mia Farrow]], the biggest hit to date for director [[Claude Chabrol]].<ref name=guardianobit/>

''[[La Scoumoune|La scoumoune]]'' (1972) was a new version of ''[[A Man Named Rocca]]'' (1961).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lindependant.fr/2021/09/06/pyrenees-orientales-quand-belmondo-tournait-la-scoumoune-au-fort-de-bellegarde-au-perthus-9772737.php|title=Pyrénées-Orientales - When Belmondo was filming "La Scoumoune" at the Fort de Bellegarde in Perthus|publisher=L'Independent|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref> ''[[The Inheritor]]'' (1973) was an action film; ''[[Le Magnifique]]'' (1974), a satiric action romance reunited him with Philippe de Broca.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/18/archives/film-belmondo-a-bogart-of-his-own-in-inheritorthe-cast.html|title=Film: Belmondo, a Bogart of His Own, in 'Inheritor':The Cast|work=The New York Times|date=18 October 1973|access-date=7 September 2021|last1=Sayre|first1=Nora}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.austinfilm.org/films/le-magnifique/|title=MONDO BELMONDO LE MAGNIFIQUE|publisher=Austin Film.org|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref>

He produced as well as starred in ''[[Stavisky]]'' (1974).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-stavisky-review-20181011-story.html|title=Review: Alain Resnais' 'Stavisky' has a fizzy charm all its own|work=Los Angeles Times|date=11 October 2018|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref> Then he made a series of purely commercial films: ''[[Incorrigible (1975 film)|Incorrigible]]'' (1974),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79175/lincorrigible/#overview|title=L'INCORRIGIBLE|publisher=TMC|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref> ''[[Fear Over the City]]'' (1975; one of Belmondo's biggest hits of the decade and the first time he played a policeman on screen),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jean-paul-belmondo-french-actor-151902723.html|title=Jean-Paul Belmondo, French Actor and Star of 'Breathless,' Dies at 88|date=6 September 2021 |publisher=Yahoo|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref> ''[[Hunter Will Get You]]'' (1976),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://shop.tcm.com/hunter-will-get-you-1976-the-hunter-will-get-you-aka-lalpagueur/738329255763|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907102307/https://shop.tcm.com/hunter-will-get-you-1976-the-hunter-will-get-you-aka-lalpagueur/738329255763|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 September 2021|title=The Hunter Will Get You|publisher=TMC|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref> and ''[[Body of My Enemy]]'' (1977).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/487911/le-corps-de-mon-ennemi|title=LE CORPS DE MON ENNEMI|publisher=TMC|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref> ''[[Animal (1977 film)|Animal]]'' (1977) cast him as a stuntman opposite [[Raquel Welch]] and he starred as a policeman in ''[[Cop or Hood]]'' (1979).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://shop.tcm.com/lanimal/737088095887|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023031852/https://shop.tcm.com/lanimal/737088095887|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 October 2020|title=L'Animal|access-date=7 September 2021|publisher=TMC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://frenchculture.org/film-tv-and-new-media/dvd-and-vod/2536-cop-or-hood|title=Cop Or Hood|publisher=French Culture|access-date=7 September 2021|archive-date=7 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907102315/https://frenchculture.org/film-tv-and-new-media/dvd-and-vod/2536-cop-or-hood|url-status=dead}}</ref>