Cinematography: William Lubtchansky

Direction Claude Lanzmann

Cast Simon Srebnik · Michael Podchlebnik · Motke Zaïdl · Hanna Zaïdl

Plot Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard · Anne-Marie Miéville

Cast Betty Berr · Albert Dray · Evane Hanska · Arnaud Martin

Plot This complex, intimately scaled study of the effect of television on the French family is constructed around Godard's interviews with a school girl and school boy, Camille and Arnaud. Godard's...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard · Jean-Pierre Gorin · Anne-Marie Miéville · Groupe Dziga Vertov

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Jean Bricard

Plot The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema’s greatest artists.

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Howard Vernon

Plot Adaptation from the play by Friedrich Hölderlin.

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Michel Piccoli · Emmanuelle Béart · Jane Birkin · Marianne Denicourt

Plot A renowned painter's ten-year hiatus comes to an end after becoming inspired by a young artist, and in particular the young artist's lover (Beart), who becomes the model for his...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Astrid Ofner · Ursula Ofner · Albert Hetterle · Stephan Wolf-Schönburg

Plot Based on a translate to german by Friedrich Hölderlin of texts by Sofokles and Bertold Brecht. Antigone, daughter to Oedipus, opposes tyrant of Thebes, Creon's edict that her brother Polynice's...

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Rosalie Varda

Plot Documentary on the small shopkeepers of the rue Daguerre in Paris, where the film-maker lived.

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Richard Salter · Christine Whittlesey · Annabelle Hahn · Claudia Barainsky

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Julie Koltaï

Plot Une Visite au Louvre is a companion film to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s Cézanne from a decade earlier. The opening title of that later work indicates that it was...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Fanny Ardant · Henri Garcin · Michèle Baumgartner

Plot Bernard Coudray (Gérard Depardieu) lives with his wife and young son in a remote country house near to Grenoble. One day, a married couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard (Fanny Ardant),...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Gianni Buscarino · Angela Nugara · Vittorio Vigneri · Carmelo Maddio

Plot A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · André Marcon · Jean-Louis Richard · Marcel Bozonnet

Plot Sequel of Joan the Maid I - The Battles. Joan The Maid: The Prisons continues with Joan and the Dauphin of France embarking on a series of victories. But Joan...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Christian Neinisch · Nazzareno Bianconi · Mario Adorf · Harun Farocki

Plot Based on Franz Kafka’s unfinished first novel, AMERIKA, the story follows the bizarre wanderings of 17-year-old Karl Rossmann, a serious-minded German bourgeois, sent to America by his parents to avoid...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Laure Marsac · Grégoire Colin

Plot When a brilliant scientist discovers that her father, an expert on nuclear missiles, did not die accidentally, but was murdered by a family friend, she swears vengeance. She soon finds...

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Louis Garrel · Clotilde Hesme · Eric Rulliat · Julien Lucas

Plot Paris, 1969. After having taken part in the student uprisings of May ’68, a group of youngsters abandon themselves to the fumes of opium. At the centre of the group...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Bernadette Lafont · Geraldine Chaplin · Kika Markham · Élisabeth Lafont

Plot After her brother was killed by a notorious all-female pirate gang, Morag dedicates her life to bringing the murderers to justice. Soon, she has become an important member of the...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Maria Schneider · Joe Dallesandro · Danièle Gegauff · Sylvie Matton

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Bulle Ogier · Pascale Ogier · Pierre Clémenti · Jean-François Stévenin

Plot In this unreal walk through the streets of Paris, Marie (Bulle Ogier), a woman convicted of robbing a bank is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste (Pascale...