Cinematography: Néstor Almendros

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


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...

Max

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...

Max

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...

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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...

Max

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