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La planète sauvage

La planète sauvage

René Laloux 1973 1h 12m 8.6

This film takes place on a faraway planet where giants rule, and tiny humanoids must fight for their lives and their equality. A surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Passe ton bac d'abord...

Passe ton bac d'abord...

Maurice Pialat 1979 1h 26m 6.0

A Lens, un groupe d'adolescents prepare le baccalaureat sans entrain.

L'hypothèse du tableau volé

L'hypothèse du tableau volé

Raúl Ruiz 1979 1h 6m 7.0

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.

Les trois couronnes du matelot

Les trois couronnes du matelot

Raúl Ruiz 1983 1h 57m 8.0

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.

Tabarly

Tabarly

Pierre Marcel 2008 1h 30m 8.0

A film about the life and career of the great French sailor Eric Tabarly.

En construcción

En construcción

José Luis Guerín 2001 2h 5m

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.

Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère...

Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère...

René Allio 1976 2h 10m 8.0

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside.

Daguerréotypes

Daguerréotypes

Agnès Varda 1976 1h 20m

Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

Gibier d'élevage

Rithy Panh 2011 1h 31m

When an American plane crashes in the Cambodian jungle, the pilot is taken captive by the Khmer Rouge. They instruct the kids of a village to keep an eye on the prisoner. While the younger kids gradually become friends with the stranger, the older boy called Pang has a different attitude.

La section Anderson

La section Anderson

Pierre Schoendoerffer 1967 1h 5m

A documentary feature by Pierre Schoendoerffer about the Vietnam War.

La passeuse des Aubrais

La passeuse des Aubrais

Michaël Prazan 2017 1h 21m 9.0

Documentary filmmaker Michaël Prazan's detective story uncovers the truth behind his father's childhood escape from Nazi-occupied France, which was made possible by a mysterious female smuggler.

Duelle (une quarantaine)

Duelle (une quarantaine)

Jacques Rivette 1976 2h 1m

Deux magiciennes immortelles, Leni et Viva, s'affrontent dans Paris. L'une craint la nuit, l'autre la lumière. Toutes deux convoitent une bague qui leur permettra de rester sur Terre, et qui est détenue par des mortels.

L'heure exquise

L'heure exquise

René Allio 1981 1h 10.0

In the streets of Marseille, René Allio encounters, once again, the spaces of his childhood, and remembers his family history.

La voix de son maître

La voix de son maître

Nicolas Philibert, Gérard Mordillat 1978 1h 40m

Jacques Lemonnier of IBM France, Francois Dalle of L'Oreal and other ultrapowerful French moguls are surprisingly candid -- and cold-blooded -- as they discuss their attitudes about business in this startling 1978 documentary.

Le couple témoin

Le couple témoin

William Klein 1977 1h 41m 8.0

A quoi vont ressembler les Francais de l'an 2000? Comment vivront-ils la vie design de demain ? Dans quelle mesure peut-on les manipuler, les programmer ? Pour le savoir, le ministre de l'Avenir choisit un couple-type exemplaire et l'installe dans un appartement expérimental, au sein de la ville nouvelle en construction.

Liberté, la nuit

Liberté, la nuit

Philippe Garrel 1983 1h 22m

A man caught in the midst of the events of Algeria is experiencing a new but fleeting happiness with a young Algerian.

S-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge

S-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge

Rithy Panh 2003 1h 41m

Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.

Agatha et les lectures illimitées

Agatha et les lectures illimitées

Marguerite Duras 1981 1h 23m

A man (Yann Andrea) and his sister (Bulle Ogier) meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.

L'univers de Jacques Demy

L'univers de Jacques Demy

Agnès Varda 1995 1h 30m 8.0

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.

Noroît

Noroît

Jacques Rivette 1976 2h 25m

Morag se rend au chateau de Giulia, fille du soleil, pour venger son frère, tué par des amis de celle-ci.

Récits d'Ellis Island

Récits d'Ellis Island

Robert Bober 1980 1h 58m 9.0

From 1892 to 1924, nearly 16 million emigrants from Europe passed through Ellis Island, a small block of land where a transit center was built, near the New York Statue of Liberty.

Calle Santa Fe

Calle Santa Fe

Carmen Castillo 2007 2h 43m 8.0

October 5, 1974: In the suburbs of Santiago, pregnant Carmen is badly injured and her partner Miguel, head of the resistance against Pinochet's dictatorship, is killed in combat. So begins a journey into the memories of the defeated...

De grands événements et des gens ordinaires

De grands événements et des gens ordinaires

Raúl Ruiz 1979 1h 5m

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost.

L'affiche rouge

L'affiche rouge

Frank Cassenti 1976 1h 30m

A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators.

Petition

Petition

Zhao Liang 2009 2h

It is a fantastic documentary about Chinese govt's systemic oppression and persecution toward ordinary folk who petition the government.

Routine Pleasures

Routine Pleasures

Jean-Pierre Gorin 1986 1h 21m

Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber.

Baxter, Vera Baxter

Baxter, Vera Baxter

Marguerite Duras 1977 1h 35m

In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera Baxter pronounced. Vera tells her about her no-good husband, who has been using her to keep his failing business afloat, up to her present love affair.

Duch, le maître des forges de l'enfer

Duch, le maître des forges de l'enfer

Rithy Panh 2011 1h 43m

Under the Khmer Rouge regime, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, directed the M13 prison for four years, before becoming the head of S21, the terrifying death machine that eliminated Khmer Rouge opponents. Some 12,280 Cambodians met their deaths here.

Flammes

Flammes

Adolfo Arrieta 1978 1h 30m

Barbara, a young girl, lives in an old country house with her father and her teacher. One night, she dreams that a fireman enters her room through the window.

Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland

Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg 1977 7h 22m

Hitler's rise and Nazism are depicted in a theatrical, experimental style, using actors, puppets, and projections to explore his historical role and enduring myth in German culture.

News from Home

News from Home

Chantal Akerman 1976 1h 29m

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.

Bei xi mo shou

Bei xi mo shou

Zhao Liang 2015 1h 35m

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night.

Dalla nube alla resistenza

Dalla nube alla resistenza

Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub 1979 1h 44m

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s «Dialoghi con Leucò», taken from classical mythology.

El hombre, cuando es hombre

El hombre, cuando es hombre

Valeria Sarmiento 2023 1h 6m

What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin America?

France/tour/détour/deux/enfants

France/tour/détour/deux/enfants

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville 1979 5h 12m

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contemporary France.

Ici et ailleurs

Ici et ailleurs

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville 1976 55m

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the material alongside Anne-Marie Miéville.

Koko, le gorille qui parle

Koko, le gorille qui parle

Barbet Schroeder 1978 1h 25m 8.0

A documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson's current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.

Le soulier de satin

Le soulier de satin

Manoel de Oliveira 1986 6h 50m

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador.

Manoel dans l'île des merveilles

Manoel dans l'île des merveilles

Raúl Ruiz 1984 2h 32m

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road.

Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch

Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch

Chris Marker 1999 55m

Chris Marker’s portrait of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky documents the director at work on his final film, The Sacrifice, during the last year of his life. Interweaving behind-the-scenes footage with excerpts from Tarkovsky’s earlier works, Marker crafts a moving reflection on the artist’s vision, methods, and enduring legacy.

Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

Pedro Costa 2003 1h 44m

Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Costa records with great sensitivity and insight the exacting process by which the two re-edit their film Sicilia!, discussing and arguing over each cut and its effect.