Leos Carax Filmography

Born:: November 22, 1960 in Suresnes, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: An unpredictable French filmmaker whose poetic style earned him a critically sound reputation on the heels of his debut feature, Boy Meets Girl (1984), Leos Carax has since gone on to explore the tortured ramifications of love in the modern world with such features as Lovers on the Bridge (1991)...Read More

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Tokyo!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: Directors Michele Gondry, Bong Joon-ho, and Leos Carax each direct a segment of this triptych feature about life in 21st Century Tokyo. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
The Process

Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Guillaume Depardieu, Julia Faure, Daniel Duval, Sebastien Viala

Synopsis: Filmmaker C.S. Leigh writes and directs his first feature film with the extreme drama The Process. French actress Béatrice Dalle plays an actress trying to kill herself. Through long, uncomfortable takes, the film explores her tortured existence. After a disastrous on-stage appearance with her Read More

2003
Pola X

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Chuillot, Petruta Catana

Synopsis: Eight years after Les Amants du Pont Neuf (1991), which failed at the box office, Léos Carax returned with Pola X, a French/German/Swiss co-production with Catherine Deneuve and the young Guillaume Dépardieu in a story of love, incest, and descent into hell. Pierre (Dépardieu) lives with his Read More

9/8/00
The House

Actors: Francisco Nascimento, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: Like its predecessor Few of Us, Lithuanian cult film director Sarunas Bartas's The House is highly abstract and nearly silent but for a pair of narrators. Whereas the first film was primarily centered on life in a remote mountain village in Lithuania and had loose plot, this one pays tribute to a Read More

10/1/97
Lovers on the Bridge

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant

Synopsis: Paris has its share of homeless people, and some of them live in little communities near the oldest bridge in the city, the Pont-Neuf. In the story, street-person Alex (Denis Lavant) has passed out along a much-traveled road, and a taxi has slightly injured his leg, which was in the way of Read More

10/16/91
King Lear

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Peter Sellars, Molly Ringwald, Jean-Luc Godard, Woody Allen

Synopsis: Two highly talented and innovative directors -- filmdom's Jean-Luc Godard and the theatre world's Peter Sellars -- join forces in this unusual (to say the least) slant on Shakespeare's King Lear. This offbeat adaptation gives the viewer a postmodern taste of Shakespeare through the eyes of a Read More

1/22/88
Mauvais Sang

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Denis Lavant, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Hans Meyer, Julie Delpy

Synopsis: This critically acclaimed French drama blends film noir and science fiction elements in a story about a strange and deadly plague. A sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the country; it's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who Read More

1986
Boy Meets Girl

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Elie Poicard, Carroll Brooks, Christian Cloarec

Synopsis: A depressed aspiring filmmaker falls in love with a suicidal young woman in this off-beat French drama, the second feature from director Leos Carax. Both have been recently dumped by their lovers and neither is coping very well. They meet via an apartment intercom system. Later the filmmaker sees Read More

1984
Strangulation Blues

Crew: Director

1980