Cinematography: Patrick Blossier

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


Jacquot de Nantes

1991 · Movie · 118 min. · France

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Philippe Maron · Edouard Joubeaud · Laurent Monnier · Brigitte De Villepoix

Synopsis The true story of the childhood of Jacques Demy, and his pursuit of a dream - to become a filmmaker. This tale of teenage obsession is captured on film by the woman who shared his later life, Agnes Varda.

7.3

352 votes

7.3

352 votes

Music Box

1989 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Jessica Lange · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Frederic Forrest · Lukas Haas

Synopsis In Music Box (1989), a devoted Chicago lawyer, Ann Talbot, defends her Hungarian immigrant father, Michael Laszlo, when he is accused of war crimes committed during World War II. As Ann delves deeper into the case, she uncovers disturbing truths...

7.3

7K votes

7.3

7K votes

Vagabond

1985 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · Macha Méril · Yolande Moreau · Stéphane Freiss

Synopsis It is the dark story of a female drifter named Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire). The film opens as Mona's frozen body is found in a drainage ditch and proceeds to tell her story in a series of flashbacks and semi-documentary style...

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

Amen

2002 · Movie · 132 min. · France

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Ulrich Tukur · Mathieu Kassovitz · Ulrich Mühe · Marcel Iures

Synopsis Kurt Gerstein, a brilliant German scientist, is recruited into the SS during the opening years of the Second World War. Assigned as a sanitation engineer, Gerstein is sent to the Eastern Front to supervise water purification for the German Army....

7.1

8K votes

7.1

8K votes

Le Hérisson

2009 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Mona Achache

Cast Josiane Balasko · Garance Le Guillermic · Togo Igawa · Anne Brochet

Synopsis Le Hérisson (2009) follows the story of Paloma, an intelligent and precocious 11-year-old girl who plans to end her life on her 12th birthday. Living in a luxurious Parisian apartment building, she observes the lives of the adults around her,...

7.1

10K votes

7.1

10K votes

The Returned (TV Series)

2012 · Series · 52 min. · France

Direction Fabrice Gobert · Frédéric Mermoud · Frédéric Goupil

Cast Frédéric Pierrot · Samir Guesmi · Guillaume Gouix · Jean-François Sivadier

Synopsis In The Returned (TV Series) (2012), a small mountain town is thrown into chaos when deceased residents inexplicably return, appearing exactly as they did before their deaths. Unaware they were gone, the revenants seek to resume their lives, but their...

7.1

7K votes

7.1

7K votes

The Ax

2005 · Movie · 122 min. · France

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast José García · Karin Viard · Geordy Monfils · Christa Theret

Synopsis A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.

7.0

6K votes

7.0

6K votes

The Colonel

2006 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Laurent Herbiet

Cast Cécile De France · Eric Caravaca · Charles Aznavour · Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi who served...

7.0

50 votes

7.0

50 votes

Those Who Remain

2007 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Anne Le Ny

Cast Vincent Lindon · Emmanuelle Devos · Yeelem Jappain · Anne Le Ny

Synopsis A man and a woman meet at a most unexpected and difficult time of their lives and struggle not to fall in love. Bertrand and Lorraine are those who stay… They are those who pace the corridors and ask themselves...

6.8

75 votes

6.8

75 votes

Days of Glory

2006 · Movie · 117 min. · Algeria

Direction Rachid Bouchareb

Cast Jamel Debbouze · Samy Naceri · Sami Bouajila · Roschdy Zem

Synopsis 1943. They had not yet set foot in France, but because it's war, Saïd, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir are going to join the French army to free the motherland from the Nazi enemy, like 130 000 other "natives". These heroes,...

6.8

5K votes

6.8

5K votes

L' Equipier (The Light)

2004 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Philippe Lioret

Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · Philippe Torreton · Grégori Derangère · Émilie Dequenne

Synopsis Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

6.6

23 votes

High & Low - John Galliano

2023 · Documentary · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kevin Macdonald

Cast John Galliano · Anna Wintour · Penélope Cruz · Charlize Theron

Synopsis It traces the career of the prestigious Gibraltar-born fashion designer John Galliano, creative director of Christian Dior between 1996 and 2011. Galliano fell from grace after being arrested in Paris for hurling anti-Semitic insults against a couple in a cafe,...

6.5

392 votes

6.5

392 votes

Between Two Worlds

2021 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Emmanuel Carrère

Cast Juliette Binoche · Didier Pupin · Emily Madeleine · Evelyne Porée

Synopsis Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other...

6.4

469 votes

6.4

469 votes

Father and Sons

2003 · Movie · 98 min. · France

6.3

247 votes

6.3

247 votes

Eden is West

2009 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Riccardo Scamarcio · Ulrich Tukur · Juliane Köhler · Eric Caravaca

Synopsis A drama centered around the illegal immigrants living in the EU. As in the Iliad, the adventures of our legendless hero begin in the Aegean Sea. After many brief adventures, including a stopover in Paradise, and a brief one in...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

Red Lights

2004 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Cédric Kahn

Cast Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Carole Bouquet · Vincent Deniard · Charline Paul

Synopsis Antoine and Helene drive to South France to return their kids from a holiday camp. The traffic is dense and the atmosphere growingly tense; he is an alcoholic and becomes increasingly drunk the more often they stop. After a fierce...

6.2

156 votes

6.2

156 votes

The Moustache

2005 · Movie · 86 min. · France

Direction Emmanuel Carrère

Cast Vincent Lindon · Emmanuelle Devos · Mathieu Amalric · Hippolyte Girardot

Synopsis One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the mustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally...

6.1

362 votes

6.1

362 votes

My Father's Guest

2010 · Movie · 100 min. · France

6.1

43 votes

6.1

43 votes

Betrayed

1988 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Tom Berenger · Debra Winger · John Heard · John Mahoney

Synopsis Set in a small town in Nebraska, Debra Winger and Tom Berenger star in a powerful and provocative tale of betrayal about an FBI agent who falls for a murder suspect with a shocking secret.

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes