Cinematography: Hélène Louvart

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Hélène Louvart. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Pina

2011 · Documentary · 100 min. · Germany

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Pina Bausch

Plot A Wim Wenders documentary about legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch using the testimony of her collaborators.

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

The Beaches of Agnès

2008 · Documentary · 110 min. · France

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Agnès Varda · Yolande Moreau

Plot Autobiopraphic documentary about the director Agnes Várda. The french woman explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her...

7.4

622 votes

7.4

622 votes

La Chimera

2023 · Movie · 130 min. · Italy

Direction Alice Rohrwacher

Cast Josh O'Connor · Carol Duarte · Vincenzo Nemolato · Isabella Rossellini

Plot We all have a chimera, something we wish to do, to have, but we never find it. For the gang of 'tombaroli', the thieves of ancient tombs and archaeological sites,...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Happy as Lazzaro

2018 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

Direction Alice Rohrwacher

Cast Adriano Tardiolo · Alba Rohrwacher · Agnese Graziani · Luca Chikovani

Plot A man travels through time for about 50 years, but this is not science fiction.

7.2

6K votes

7.2

6K votes

The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão

2019 · Movie · 139 min. · Brazil

Direction Karim Aïnouz

Cast Carol Duarte · Júlia Stockler · Fernanda Montenegro · Gregório Duvivier

Plot The year is 1950. Classical piano prodigy Eurídice (Carol Duarte) dreams of studying at the Vienna Conservatory. Her sister, Guida (Julia Stockler), however, is the first of the siblings to...

7.2

981 votes

7.2

981 votes

The Wound

2004 · Movie · 162 min. · France

Direction Nicolas Klotz

Cast Noëlla Mossaba · Adama Doumbia · Matty Djambo · Ousman Diallo

Plot Blandine (Noëlla Mobassa) arrives at the Charles de Gaulle Airport, seeking a reunion with her husband Papi (Adama Doumbia) in Paris. Despite articulate claims for asylum, she is held in...

7.0

21 votes

7.0

21 votes

À ciel ouvert

2013 · Documentary · 110 min. · France

Direction Mariana Otero

6.9

64 votes

6.9

64 votes

Le pupille

2022 · Movie · 38 min. · Italy

Direction Alice Rohrwacher

Cast Alba Rohrwacher · Melissa Falasconi · Greta Zuccheri Montanari · Carmen Pommella

Plot Follow the rebellious girls of a Catholic boarding school before Christmas, a time of war and scarcity.

6.8

487 votes

6.8

487 votes

Petra

2018 · Movie · 107 min. · Spain

Direction Jaime Rosales

Cast Bárbara Lennie · Àlex Brendemühl · Joan Botey · Marisa Paredes

Plot Petra doesn’t know who her father is. Her entire life, it’s been hidden from her. After the death of her mother, she embarks on a search that leads her to...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

2020 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Eliza Hittman

Cast Sidney Flanigan · Talia Ryder · Théodore Pellerin · Ryan Eggold

Plot Autumn, a stoic, quiet teenager, is a cashier in a rural Pennsylvania supermarket. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and without viable alternatives for termination in her home state, she and...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

Skies of Lebanon

2020 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Chloé Mazlo

Cast Alba Rohrwacher · Wajdi Mouawad · Isabelle Zighondi · Mariah Tannoury

Plot In the 1950s, Alice leaves her Swiss homeland for Lebanon. There the best years of her life are marred by the threat of war.

6.6

334 votes

6.6

334 votes

When I Saw You

2012 · Movie · 93 min. · Palestine

6.6

59 votes

6.6

59 votes

Rocks

2019 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sarah Gavron

Cast Bukky Bakray · Kosar Ali · D'angelou Osei Kissiedu · Shaneigha-Monik Greyson

Plot Rocks is a teenager with big dreams for the future, brilliant loyal friends, and a little if rather cheeky adoring brother, Emmanuel. Rocks loves going to school (just like any...

6.5

154 votes

6.5

154 votes

One Thousand Suns

2013 · Documentary · 45 min. · Senegal

Direction Mati Diop

Cast Magaye Niang · Wasis Diop · Ben D. Beye · Joe Ouakam

Plot The story of Mati Diop's family is entangled with the history of cinema and the history of Senegal, as embodied by Magaye Niang, the protagonist of the Senegalese cult film...

6.5

55 votes

6.5

55 votes

The Lost Daughter

2021 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Maggie Gyllenhaal

Cast Olivia Colman · Jessie Buckley · Ed Harris · Dakota Johnson

Plot Alone on a seaside vacation, Leda becomes consumed with a young mother and daughter as she watches them on the beach. Unnerved by their compelling relationship, (and their raucous and...

6.5

3K votes

6.5

3K votes

Puan

2023 · Movie · 111 min. · Argentina

Direction María Alché · Benjamín Naishtat

Cast Leonardo Sbaraglia · Marcelo Subiotto · Julieta Zylberberg · Alejandra Flechner

Plot Marcelo has devoted his life to teaching philosophy at the Public University of Buenos Aires. When his mentor Professor Caselli dies unexpectedly, Marcelo expects to become the new head of...

6.5

870 votes

6.5

870 votes

Will It Snow for Christmas?

1996 · Movie · 90 min. · France

6.3

34 votes

6.3

34 votes

Corpo celeste

2011 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Alice Rohrwacher

Cast Salvatore Cantalupo · Anita Caprioli · Renato Carpentieri · Paola Lavini

Plot Thirteen year-old Marta has recently moved back to southern Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place, restlessly testing the boundaries of an unfamiliar city...

6.3

124 votes

6.3

124 votes

Copacabana

2010 · Movie · 107 min. · France

Direction Marc Fitoussi

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Aure Atika · Lolita Chammah · Jurgen Delnaet

Plot Boldly unconventional and cheerful, that's how one could describe Babou. Never having cared about social conventions, she is suddenly faced with the realization that her own daughter is ashamed of...

6.3

129 votes

6.3

129 votes

Wild Flowers

2022 · Movie · 107 min. · Spain

Direction Jaime Rosales

Cast Anna Castillo · Oriol Pla · Quim Àvila Conde · Lluís Marqués

Plot Julia, a 22-year-old mother of two, falls in love with Óscar, a troubled boy with whom she embarks on a love affair. The more time they spend together, the more...

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes