Maurice GarrelFilmography

Actresses (Dreams of the Night Before)

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Noemie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel, Marysa Borini

Synopsis: Actress-cum-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's sophomore feature, the comedy-drama Les Actrices (Le reve de la nuit d'avant), follows the trials and travails of Marcelline (Tedeschi), a tense and jittery stage thesp whose personal and professional life threaten to fall into pieces simultaneously. Read More

Kings and Queen

Actors: Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Magalie Woch

Synopsis: The stories of two desperate characters turn out to share an important link in this drama from French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin. Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) is a woman in her mid-thirties who wants people to believe that her life is going just the way she wants. But a look below the surface shows Read More

Son Frère

Actors: Bruno Todeschini, Eric Caravaca, Nathalie Boutefeu, Maurice Garrel, Catherine Terran, Sylvain Jacques

Synopsis: Patrice Chéreau, who directed the controversial Intimacy, returns with another story of a human relationship under difficult circumstances. Thomas (Bruno Todeschini) has been estranged from his brother Luc (Eric Caravaca) for several years, due in part to Thomas' difficulties in dealing with Luc's Read More

They Came Back

Actors: Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccaï, Frederic Pierrot, Victor Garrivier, Catherine Samie

Synopsis: The recently dead return to life in They Came Back, but they are surprisingly uninterested in feasting on the living. Many of them are, naturally enough, elderly, and they seem content merely to go back to their former lives, but their return causes a myriad of complications. Robin Campillo Read More

Mes Enfants Ne Sont Pas Comme Les Autres

Actors: Richard Berry, Mathieu Amalric, Maurice Garrel, Elodie Peudepiece, Malik Zidi

Synopsis: French filmmaker and professor of music Denis Dercourt directs the family drama Mes Enfants Ne Sont Pas Comme Les Autres (My Children Are Different). Widowed cellist Jean Debart (Richard Berry) is strict with his two children in regards to their musical education. Teenager Adele (Elodie Read More

Total Kheops

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Marie Trintignant, Daniel Duval, Robin Renucci, Maurice Garrel

Synopsis: Alain Beverini's Total Kheops is a story about men on different sides of the law who are in love with the same woman. As young adults, Fabio (Richard Bohringer), Ugo (Robin Rnucci), and Manu (Daniel Duval) were friends and all had feelings for Lole (Marie Trintignant). Fabio ends up a policeman Read More

Sauvage Innocence

Actors: Julia Faure, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Michel Subor, Jerome Huguet, Zsuzanna Varkonyi

Synopsis: A man creating a cautionary tale about drug abuse finds himself and his lover drawn into the deadly web of heroin in this drama. Francois Mauge (Mehdi Behaj Kacem) is a filmmaker who is still dealing with the death of his wife, a well-known model and actress who succumbed to drugs. Determined to Read More

Alors Voilà

Actors: Maurice Garrel, Dominique Blanc, Arno, Roland Amstutz, Bernard Bloch

Synopsis: Distinguished French actor Michel Piccoli was 72-years-old when he made his directorial debut with this keen black comedy of a wildly dysfunctional family and the destructive games they play whenever they force themselves to get together. Piccoli also penned the screenplay. Constantin is the Read More

Artemisia

Actors: Michel Serrault, Valentina Cervi, Miki Manojlovic, Luca Zingaretti, Brigitte Catillon

Synopsis: This historical drama is based on the true story of Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman to achieve success as a painter. In 17th century Italy, noted artist Orazio Gentileschi (Michel Serrault) is a portrait artist enjoying a certain degree of success and acclaim. His 17-year-old daughter Read More

Le Coeur Fantome

Actors: Luis Rego, Aurelia Alcais, Maurice Garrel, Evelyne Didi

Synopsis: A hangdog, middle-aged painter falls in love with a tender young college student after he leaves his philandering wife and his children in this romantic French drama. To console himself, the fundamentally bohemian Phillippe finds comfort in the arms of various prostitutes, especially Valeria. It Read More

Un Coeur en Hiver

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Elizabeth Bourgine, Myriam Boyer

Synopsis: Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart from Manon of the Spring (1986) co-star once again in Un Coeur en Hiver, playing characters whose distance from each others' lives belies the enormous emotional impact they have on one another. Directed by Claude Sautet, whose 40-year career included the Read More

La Discrete

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Judith Henry, Maurice Garrel, Marie Bunel, Francois Toumarkine

Synopsis: When the arrogant, womanizing narrator, Antoine (Fabrice Luchini), goes to meet his girlfriend, Solange (Marie Bunel) at the train station, he's dismayed to find her with another man. Antoine tells us that this is a first. He is always the one to end his relationships with women. Antoine visits Read More

A Soldier's Tale

Actors: Marianne Basler, Paul Wyett, Judge Reinhold

Synopsis: Gabriel Byrne and Marianne Basler star in this drama about the relationship between a British sergeant and a French woman during WW II. Once a Resistance member, the woman had an affair with a German officer and is a target for the group's execution. Coming to her rescue, the sergeant protects Read More

Les Baisers de Secours

Actors: Brigitte Sy, Philippe Garrel, Maurice Garrel, Anémone

Synopsis: The kicker in this black and white film about the director of the film making a film about his life (got that?) is that almost everyone playing a family member of the director (who plays himself, naturally) really is a family member. In the story, director Phillippe Garrel is preparing to make a Read More

La Seconda Notte

Actors: Maurice Garrel, Margherita Buy, Kara Donati, Katja Rupé, Luigi Mezzanotte

Synopsis: The story line in this drama is secondary to the focus on gentlemanly old age. Fabris (Maurice Garrel) is the elderly man in question who takes a very long train ride to a spa for his annual holiday. Lea (Margherita Buy) and her mother are guests at the spa's hotel, and for some reason Fabris is Read More

Poisons

Actors: Maurice Garrel, Mimsy Farmer, Francois Berthet, Rufus

Synopsis: When the famous artist Bob Northrup is kidnapped by his agent and the agent's two brothers and ordered to produce paintings, the infuriatingly unresponsive fellow doesn't make a fuss or complain at all. However, neither does he produce any artwork, depriving his captors of any excuse for their Read More

Les Maitres Du Soleil

Actors: Marcel Amont, Georges Claisse, Maurice Garrel, Catherine Jarrett

Merry-Go-Round

Actors: Maria Schneider, Joe Dallesandro, Françoise Prevost, Maurice Garrel

Edith et Marcel

Actors: Evelyne Bouix, Marcel Cerdan, Jr., Jacques Villeret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Francis Huster

Synopsis: This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after Read More

Rebelote

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Christophe Bazzini, Olga Georges-Picot, Jacques Robiolles, Tina Aumont

Synopsis: Director Jacques Richard tried to emulate a silent movie in all its aspects when he filmed Rebelote. Originally screened with a live string orchestra, the silent black-and-white film has inter-titles and tongue-in-cheek, melodramatic acting and a "soap opera" type plot. Unfortunately, the tale of Read More

Liberté, la Nuit

Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Maurice Garrel, Christine Boisson, Laszlo Szabo, Brigitte Sy

Synopsis: Set during the Algerian war for independence in the 1950s and early '60s, this undistinguished drama centers on Jean (Maurice Garrel) who works covertly for the FLN, the Algerian independence fighters, and although he does not know it, the woman he loves (Mouche, played by Emmanuelle Riva), is Read More

Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven

Actors: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Nicole Garcia, Maurice Garrel, Jan Decleir

Synopsis: At the core of this docudrama are six French-speaking villages that were transferred to the jurisdiction of a Dutch-speaking province when political lines were drawn. The director of Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven (Jean-Jacques Andrien) was born and raised in this area and filmed scenes of the Read More

Un Matin Rouge

Actors: Maurice Risch, Jacques Fabbri, Maurice Garrel, Victor Garrivier

It's Raining on Santiago

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Maurice Garrel, John Abbey, Riccardo Cucciolla, André Dussollier, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Salvador Allende was a Marxist who became the President of Chile. Forces within that country and from outside, including the U.S.'s CIA, conspired to bring about an end to his rule, and his life, on September 11, 1973. This French/Bulgarian drama explores the events leading up to his election and Read More

Nada

Actors: Fabio Testi, Maurice Garrel, Mariangela Melato, Michel Duchaussoy, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Also known as Nada, The Nada Gang is a lesser effort from director Claude Chabrol. A group of European terrorists calling themselves the Nada kidnaps an American ambassador. Their hideout is besieged by a sadistic police official and his minions. Thanks to the official's eagerness to pull the Read More

Un Ange Passe

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Maurice Garrel, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

L'Héritier

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort, Charles Denner

Synopsis: Murder, industrial espionage, political intrigue and Jean-Paul Belmondo are the strengths of this French thriller. Cordell (Belmondo) is the heir of a French industrialist, who dies in an air crash. When someone almost succeeds in framing Cordell with a case of drugs, he begins to suspect that his Read More

Les Soleils de l'Île de Pâques

Actors: Norma Bengell, Françoise Brion, Jacques Charrier, Maurice Garrel

Synopsis: An international group of travelers trek around the world, from France to Brazil and Chile and, finally, to Easter Island, where some of their number are chosen to meet aliens who resemble small suns. One man who was not chosen tags along uninvited. For punishment, he is given the task of guarding Read More

Rak

Actors: Lila Kedrova, Sami Frey, Anne Deleuze, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: In this French drama, the limitations of the medical system are exposed. Lila Kedrova plays a mature woman of Russian origin who is stricken with cancer ("rak" in Russian). She wants to live, and in order to do so she must fight the inertia and indifference of the specialists and bureaucrats she Read More

Un Aller Simple

Actors: Jean-Claude Bouillon, Maurice Garrel, Jean Gaven, Nicoletta

Synopsis: In this French crime thriller, Marty (Jean-Claude Bouillon) is a small-time criminal who wants to give up his life of crime. He goes on a robbery with Tom, a friend of his with similar feelings, and things go sour. As the police kill Tom, wound Marty and prepare to finish him off, Marty kills the Read More

La Maison des Bories

Actors: Marie Dubois, Mathieu Carrière, Maurice Garrel, Helene Vallier

Synopsis: Carl (Matthieu Carriere) is the young scholar who comes to live with French geologist Julian (Maurice Garrel) and his wife Isaballe (Marie Dubois) and two children. Carl is eager to study with the famous geologist, but soon he is involved in a love affair with his mentor's wife. A jealous laborer Read More

Le Coeur Fou

Actors: Eva Swann, Ewa Swann, Michel Auclair, Madeleine Robinson, Brigitte Auber, Maurice Garrel

Synopsis: A struggling, middle aged entertainment journalist falls for a 20 year old psychotic pyromaniac. He meets the young woman when he goes to interview his ex-wife, a prominent actress in a mental institution. After the interview, the young woman sets fire to the institution after she overhears the Read More

The Bride Wore Black

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: This Francois Truffaut thriller is based ona novel by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich), whose books had been adapted by Alfred Hitchcock on many previous occasions. Jeanne Moreau stars as a woman whose fiancé is nastily murdered by five men. Utilizing a series of disguises, the cool-customer Read More

Marie Pour Memoire

Actors: Zouzou, Didier Leon, Nicole Laguigner, Thierry Garrel, Maurice Garrel

Synopsis: A young hippie feels disenfranchised with the modern world around him. He tries to enter into a relationship with a young girl, but the two are plagued by their own individual problems and things don't work out as they would like. The two feel alienated from society and each other in this symbolic Read More

Drole De Jeu

Actors: Maurice Garrel, Remy Longa, Jean-Claude Bonnardot, Barbara Laage, Michéle Girardon

Synopsis: A group of five member of the French underground resistance muse over their upcoming plan. Spouting political rhetoric, the characters reveal their motives and hopes for the movement against the Vichy government and the occupying Nazi army. A pleasure-seeking journalist has quit his job and left Read More

Anemone

Actors: Maurice Garrel, Anne Aymone Bourguignon

Synopsis: Anemone(Anne Aymone Bourguignon) is a young teenage girl who gets mixed up with a murderous hippie. Her father is a psychiatrist who allows his daughter the freedom to make her own choices. The hippie murders and robs a woman janitor then proceeds to seduce the impressionable Anemone. She is Read More

Peau d'Espion

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Senta Berger, Bernard Blier, Edmond O'Brien, Fabrizio Capucci

Synopsis: Charles (Louis Jourdan) is a writer who falls for Sandra (Senta Berger) in this routine spy story. Sandra talks the writer into helping her stop her husband from kidnapping a nuclear scientist and delivering him to the Chinese. (Edmond O'Brien) gives the standout performance in this otherwise Read More

Loin du Vietnam

Synopsis: Six directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Goddard all direct segments. They are quick to point out that the U.S. is radically divided Read More

Droit De Visite

Actors: Guillaume Laperrousaz, Maurice Garrel

L'Insoumis

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

Les Enfants Desaccordes

Actors: Maurice Garrel

The Soft Skin

Actors: Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean Lanier

Synopsis: Francois Truffaut directed this simple tale of revenge and adultery which features an exceptional musical score by Georges Delerue. The story concerns a love affair between successful literary magazine editor Pierre Lachenay (Jean Desailly) and alluring airline stewardess, Nicole Chomette (Francoise Dorleac Read More

The Day and the Hour

Actors: Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Dux, Reggie Nalder

Synopsis: This French/Italian effort travelled under the titles Le Jour Et L'Heure, Il Giorno e L'Ora and Viviamo Oggi in Europe. In Great Britain, it was known as Today We Live. No matter the title, the film stars Simone Signoret as a world-weary French aristocrat who finds a purpose in life by joining the Read More

Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Nicole Courcel, Patricia Gozzi, Daniel Ivernel, André Oumansky

Synopsis: Sundays and Cybele (original French title: Les Dimanches de Ville D'Avray) stars Hardy Kruger as a former bomber pilot. Emotionally shattered by a tragic wartime incident, Kruger goes into semi-seclusion in a small Parisian suburb. He is drawn out of his shell by 12-year-old orphan girl Patricia Gozzi Read More