Cinematography: Néstor Almendros
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Néstor Almendros. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Titles found: 54
My Night with Maud
1969 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Éric Rohmer
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Françoise Fabian · Marie-Christine Barrault · Antoine Vitez
Plot 3rd entry in the series "Six Moral Tales" by Eric Rohmer. The narrator (Jean-Louis), a devout Catholic, moves to a provincial town and vows to marry Francoise, a pretty blond...
7.6
5K votes
7.6
5K votes
Love in the Afternoon
1972 · Movie · 97 min. · France
Direction Éric Rohmer
Cast Bernard Verley · Zouzou · Françoise Verley · Daniel Ceccaldi
Plot The last of Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales". Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting...
7.6
3K votes
7.6
3K votes
The Mouth Agape
1974 · Movie · 82 min. · France
Direction Maurice Pialat
Cast Hubert Deschamps · Monique Mélinand · Philippe Léotard · Nathalie Baye
Plot When cancer strikes the mother of the family, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of...
7.5
230 votes
7.5
230 votes
Imagine: John Lennon
1988 · Documentary · 100 min. · United States
Direction Andrew Solt
Cast John Lennon · Yoko Ono · Paul McCartney · George Harrison
Plot This "biography" evolves around the nearly 240 hours of film and videotape fortuitously taken by Lennon of his life. The archive footage is transformed into a fascinating life story of...
7.4
914 votes
7.4
914 votes
The Wild Child
1970 · Movie · 85 min. · France
Direction François Truffaut
Cast Jean-Pierre Cargol · François Truffaut · Françoise Seigner · Jean Dasté
Plot A movingly austere recreation of the true story of a young boy returned to 19th-Century society after growing up in the wild.
7.4
6K votes
7.4
6K votes
My Little Loves
1974 · Movie · 123 min. · France
Direction Jean Eustache
Cast Martin Loeb · Ingrid Caven · Jacqueline Dufranne · Dionys Mascolo
Plot A study of minor events in the adolescence of a boy growing up in small towns. Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after one year of high school, has to...
7.4
584 votes
7.4
584 votes
Days of Heaven
1978 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Terrence Malick
Cast Richard Gere · Brooke Adams · Sam Shepard · Linda Manz
Plot Bill and Abby, a young couple who to the outside world pretend to be brother and sister are living and working in Chicago at the beginning of the century. They...
7.3
7K votes
7.3
7K votes
The Man Who Loved Women
1977 · Movie · 120 min. · France
Direction François Truffaut
Cast Charles Denner · Brigitte Fossey · Nelly Borgeaud · Geneviève Fontanel
Plot Scientist Bertrand Morane, "never in the company of men after 5," seduces women by evening and writes about the experiences in the early morning. Though 40ish and somewhat square, no...
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
Claire's Knee
1970 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Éric Rohmer
Cast Jean-Claude Brialy · Béatrice Romand · Aurora Cornu · Laurence de Monaghan
Plot The 5th of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales". Cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, a romanian writer and old...
7.3
3K votes
7.3
3K votes
Sophie's Choice
1982 · Movie · 157 min. · United States
Direction Alan J. Pakula
Cast Meryl Streep · Kevin Kline · Peter MacNicol · Rita Karin
Plot The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNicol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship...
7.2
7K votes
7.2
7K votes
Pauline at the Beach
1983 · Movie · 94 min. · France
Direction Éric Rohmer
Cast Amanda Langlet · Arielle Dombasle · Pascal Greggory · Feodor Atkine
Plot The 3rd of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. Pauline is the teen-aged cousin of the seemingly more worldly and sensible Marion. Both girls become entwined in amorous escapades...
7.2
4K votes
7.2
4K votes
Bed and Board
1970 · Movie · 97 min. · France
Direction François Truffaut
Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claude Jade · Hiroko Berghauer · Daniel Ceccaldi
Plot The fourth film in François Truffaut's quasi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel cycle finds the idealistic child-man (played by Truffaut's alter ego and French new wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud) married to his sweetheart...
7.2
3K votes
7.2
3K votes
The Collector
1967 · Movie · 82 min. · France
Direction Éric Rohmer
Cast Patrick Bauchau · Haydee Politoff · Daniel Pommereulle · Alain Juffroy
Plot 4th entry in the series "Six Moral Tales" by Eric Rohmer. Left to his own devices when his fiancée goes to London, Adrien decides to spend his vacation experimenting with...
7.2
3K votes
7.2
3K votes
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Robert Benton
Cast Dustin Hoffman · Meryl Streep · Jane Alexander · JoBeth Williams
Plot When dutiful wife and mother Joanna (Meryl Streep) decides to leave Ted (Dustin Hoffman), an advertising executive, she also leaves him with the responsibility of caring for their young son,...
7.2
41K votes
7.2
41K votes
The Last Metro
1980 · Movie · 128 min. · France
Direction François Truffaut
Cast Gérard Depardieu · Catherine Deneuve · Jean Poiret · Andrea Ferréol
Plot Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
Two English Girls
1971 · Movie · 132 min. · France
Direction François Truffaut
Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Stecey Tenderer · Kika Markham · Sylvia Marriott
Plot In Paris of the early 1900s, a young French dandy, Claude Roc, strikes up a friendship with a young English woman, Anne Brown. The latter invites Claude to stay with...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
The Story of Adele H.
1975 · Movie · 96 min. · France
Direction François Truffaut
Cast Isabelle Adjani · Bruce Robinson · Sylvia Marriott · Joseph Blatchley
Plot The Story of Adele H. is a haunting film based on a true story about desire, devotion... and madness. Oscar-nominated Isabelle Adjani stars in this lush portrait of a woman...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Confidentially Yours
1983 · Movie · 106 min. · France
Direction François Truffaut
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Fanny Ardant · Philippe Laudenbach · Caroline Silhol
Plot Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
Love on the Run
1979 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction François Truffaut
Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Claude Jade · Dorithée
Plot Truffaut's hero, Antoine Doinel (Leaud) is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
The Green Room
1978 · Movie · 94 min. · France
Direction François Truffaut
Cast François Truffaut · Nathalie Baye · Jean Dasté · Jean-Pierre Moulin
Plot Adapted from two Heny James short stories. A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne (Truffaut) is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago....
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes