Alain Cavalier Filmography

Born:: September 14, 1931 in Vendôme, France
Occupation:: Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Alain Fraisse
Biography:: French filmmaker Alain Cavalier started out assisting Edouard Molinaro and Louis Malle. In 1958 he directed his first solo film Un American, a featurette. He made his first full-length feature in 1962, Le Combat dans I'lle. The critical and commercial reception to the film was lukewarm. His most...Read More

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Les Braves

Crew: Director

2008
Filmman

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Sound/Sound Designer

2005
Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

2004
Rene

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Joel LeFrancois, Thomas Duboc, Guy-Francois Malbranche, Nathalie Grandcamp, Nathalie Malbranche

Synopsis: French director Alain Cavalier ventures into pseudo-documentary territory with his 2002 film René. Purportedly concocted as a means for Cavalier to help actor Joël Lefrançois lose weight while not making a straight documentary about Lefrançois' ordeal, René instead focuses on fictional children's Read More

2002
Vies

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Yves Pouliquen, Francoise Widhoff

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Alain Cavalier captures on videotape the lives of four remarkable men -- three living, one deceased -- in this feature. Noted sculptor Jean-Louis Faure tells the story of his life in the arts as he offers a tour of his apartment and studio, surgeon Yves Pouliquen performs Read More

2001
La Rencontre

Crew: Camera Operator, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Florence Malraux

Synopsis: Arty and steeped with metaphysical insights, this French film contains a running stream of director Alain Cavalier's thoughts as he and an unseen lover reflect upon the world's innate beauty while passing their first year together. Episodes from this filmic diary are illustrated with shots of Read More

1996
Libera Me

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Exploring a dystopian future which has parallels to those found in Brazil, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984, this film, tells of a place where a military junta has taken control and requires people to think, speak, and act in precise ways: anyone who fails to do so is killed. The story is told entirely Read More

1993
Thérèse

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Mouchet, Helene Alexandridis, Aurore Prieto, Sylvie Habault

Synopsis: The legend of Therese Martin, canonized as a saint and popularly known as "the Little Flower of Jesus," is affectionately related in this 1986 French film. At 15, Therese (Catherine Mouchet) enters the convent, hoping to become a Carmelite nun. While preparing for her life as a "Bride of Jesus," Read More

1986
Un Etrange Voyage

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Camille de Casabianca, Arlette Bonnard, Dominique Besnehard

Synopsis: A father-daughter relationship is melded, strained, and deepened by a shared angst: the grandmother in the family left her home by train and never arrived at her destination. The father Pierre (Jean Rochefort) is distraught that the police could basically dismiss the issue as inexplicable, and he Read More

1981
Ce Repondeur Ne Prend Pas De Message

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Following the death of his wife in a car accident, a grieving, injured man whose head is wrapped in bandages returns to their apartment, smashes the furniture, and begins painting everything in sight black, including the windows, all the while raving about his past life and his dead wife. The Read More

1979
Martin Et Léa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Ho, Xavier Saint-Macary, Richard Bohringer, Louis Navarre

Synopsis: A French-raised Vietnamese girl and a classical singer-in-training become lovers and have an affair. Up to now she has been a procuress for a rich man with a taste for girl prostitutes. In return, the rich man has paid for her apartment and given her an allowance. One of the rich man's favorite Read More

1978
Le Plein de Super

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Bouchitey, Etienne Chicot, Bernard Crombey, Xavier Saint-Macary

Synopsis: When a young auto salesman is forced to give up a vacation with his wife in order to drive an American car to its new owner who lives on the Riviera, he makes the best of things. First, he gets and old friend to ride along with him. Then, the two of them are joined by another pair of men who want Read More

1976
La Chamade

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Roger Van Hool, Jacques Sereys, Irène Tunc

Synopsis: In this romantic melodrama, Lucille (Catherine Deneuve) is a young woman who takes comfort in the arms of her older wealthy lover Charles (Michel Piccoli). She meets a young man, Antoine (Roger van Hool) who is involved with an icy socialite (Irène Tunc). Lucille and Antoine become lovers and the Read More

10/30/68
Mise a Sac

Crew: Director

Actors: Michel Constantin, Daniel Ivernel, Franco Interlenghi, Irène Tunc, Paul Le Person

Synopsis: A gang of crooks invades a small town in this unusual crime drama. After taking over the police station and the post office, they systematically rob all the banks and factory payrolls. The caper seems to have been motivated by a jilted husband whose wife ran off with a factory manager who Read More

1967
La Vie de Château

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Brasseur, Mary Marquet, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: A Matter of Resistance is the English-language title of the frothy wartime comedy La Vie De Chateau. Set in occupied France, the film stars Catherine Deneuve as the young and beautiful bride of middle-aged and homely Philipe Noiret. Disappointed at Noiret's indifference concerning the Nazi Read More

1965
L'Insoumis

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lea Massari, Alain Delon, Maurice Garrel, Georges Géret, Guy Laroche

Synopsis: In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas (Alain Delon) is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique (Lea Massari), who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Thomas is wounded Read More

9/25/64
Cross of the Living

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this melodrama a prodigal son returns to his home village after he is acquitted of his stepfather's death to find that most of his former neighbors now shun him. At least his best friend sticks by him. Soon the young man finds himself drawn to his loyal buddy's lover. He and the woman have an Read More

1963
Le Combat dans l'île

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Henri Serre

Synopsis: The political overtones in this action-oriented drama may be a little murky outside of its time and place, yet the story is well told. Clement (Jean-Louis Tritignant) is a right-wing rabblerouser married to aspiring young actress Anne (Romy Schneider). He belongs to an underground terrorist group Read More

1961
L'Homme à Femmes

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Mel Ferrer, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Rich

Synopsis: This is an uninspired murder mystery directed by Jacques-Gérard Cornu about the unfortunate and unnatural demise of a blackmailer. Gabrielle (Danielle Darrieux) is married to Georges (Mel Ferrer) but both she and her niece had been involved with the blackmailer who is now dead. Assigned to the Read More

1960
Les Amants

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre, José-Luis de Villalonga

Synopsis: The Lovers (Les Amants) furthered the reputations of both director Louis Malle and star Jeanne Moreau -- and also pushed the boundaries of American censorship (1959 vintage) to the breaking point. Moreau plays a humdrum housewife whose life brightens considerably when she meets a handsome young Read More

1958
Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Lino Ventura, Jean Wall, Felix Marten, Yori Bertin

Synopsis: The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the husband and make it look like suicide (reminiscent of The Postman Always Rings Twice). Jeanne Moreau, as Florence Carala, gives an astonishing Read More

1957