Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer (March 21, 1920 – January 11, 2010) was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma. Description above from the Wikipedia article Éric... Read full bio →
Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon
A romantic drama centered around a young shepherd and shepherdess and the ramifications of their forbidden affair.
Triple agent
Parigi, 1936. Un ex-ufficiale russo gioca una pericolosa partita con nazisti, bolscevichi e vecchi compagni dell'esercito.
L'anglaise et le duc
During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
Conte d'automne
Magali (Béatrice Romand), forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine (Alexia Portal) and Isabelle (Marie Rivière) both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
Conte d'été
A good looking young man on holiday finds 3 beautiful women. Who will he choose?
Les rendez-vous de Paris
Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque
The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.
Conte d'hiver
Felicie and Charles have a serious if whirlwind holiday romance.
Conte de printemps
Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions.
L'ami de mon amie
Suivant le proverbe "les amis de mes amis sont mes amis", ce dernier exemple de "Comédies et Proverbes" d'Eric Rohmer conte les aventures sentimentales croisées d'un groupe de jeunes gens dans le cadre de la ville nouvelle de Cergy-Pontoise.
4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
Le rayon vert
It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...
Les nuits de la pleine lune
"He who has two women loses his soul, he who has two houses loses his mind." So it goes with Louise played by Pascale Ogier who is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.
Pauline à la plage
Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece, Pauline, on a vacation to Granville. There, she meets an old love...
Le beau mariage
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.
La femme de l'aviateur
A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
Perceval le Gallois
Le jeune Perceval rêve de devenir chevalier. Il quitte le château de sa mère, et se rend à la cour du roi Arthur. Il apprend le maniement des armes, venge la reine d'une offense et décide de retourner chez lui. Sur son chemin surgit un bien étrange château ou il est invité à demeurer.
Die Marquise von O...
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
L'amour l'après-midi
Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office.
Le genou de Claire
On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.
Ma nuit chez Maud
A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
La collectionneuse
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
Paris vu par...
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and...
La carrière de Suzanne
In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.
La boulangère de Monceau
Early new wave effort from Rohmer which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.
Le signe du lion
n American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.
Véronique et son cancre
Véronique gives a mathematics lesson to a dunce who answers the prepared questions with disconcertingly sound answers.
Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak
On a snowy day in a Swiss village, Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to spark jealousy. Later, at Charlotte’s home, tensions rise as they discuss beauty, attraction, and honesty. Despite initial resistance, emotions take over, leading to an unexpected moment of intimacy before their farewell.