Cinematography: Robert Alazraki

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


Too Early, Too Late

1982 · Documentary · 100 min. · France

7.4

146 votes

7.4

146 votes

And Then There Was Light

1989 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Otar Iosseliani

Cast Sigalon Sagna · Saly Badji · Binta Cissé · Marie-Christine Dieme

Synopsis The film depicts the daily life in an African village. The people sleep, eat, make love, pray for rain etc while civilization, by way of timber trucks and tree fellers, is slowly encroaching.

7.3

38 votes

7.3

38 votes

Forever

2006 · Documentary · 95 min. · Netherlands

Direction Heddy Honigmann

Synopsis Père-Lachaise, one of the world's most famous and beautiful cemeteries, is the final resting place for a greatly gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Some, such as Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrison and Chopin, are...

7.2

64 votes

7.2

64 votes

Michou d'Auber

2007 · Movie · 124 min. · France

Direction Thomas Gilou

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Nathalie Baye · Mathieu Amalric · Samy Seghir

Synopsis Messaoud, a young Arab boy, is placed in a foster family in rural France at the age of nine . The year is 1961 and Algeria is in the midst of revolution. Gisèle, his adoptive mother, by fear of the...

7.2

47 votes

7.2

47 votes

My Father's Glory

1990 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Julien Ciamaca · Philippe Caubère · Nathalie Roussel · Didier Pain

Synopsis A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence, and Marcel befriends...

7.1

237 votes

7.1

237 votes

My Mother's Castle

1990 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Philippe Caubère · Nathalie Roussel · Philippe Uchan · Didier Pain

Synopsis Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence (France). He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With the co-operation of an ex-pupil...

7.0

158 votes

7.0

158 votes

La belle verte

1996 · Movie · 99 min. · France

6.9

4K votes

6.9

4K votes

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

1982 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction Jean-Marie Poiré

Cast Thierry Lhermitte · Anémone · Marie-Anne Chazel · Gérard Jugnot

Synopsis Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he...

6.8

367 votes

6.8

367 votes

Chocolat

1988 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Isaach de Bankole · Giulia Boschi · François Cluzet · Jean-Claude Adelin

Synopsis A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and...

6.5

265 votes

6.5

265 votes

Les Photos d'Alix (S)

1980 · Documentary · 15 min. · France

Direction Jean Eustache

Cast Alix Clio-Roubaud · Boris Eustache

Synopsis Alix Cléo-Roubaud, photographer, talks about her images with a young man who sometimes asks her questions. Little by little, what she says will cease to correspond with what we are seeing.

6.5

71 votes

6.5

71 votes

La crise

1992 · Movie · 95 min. · France

6.3

245 votes

6.3

245 votes

A Summer In La Goulette

1995 · Movie · 89 min. · Tunisia

Direction Férid Boughedir

Cast Gamil Ratib · Mustapha Adouani · Claudia Cardinale · Guy Nataf

Synopsis Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during...

6.2

363 votes

6.2

363 votes

Would I Lie to You? 2

2001 · Movie · 105 min. · France

6.1

51 votes

6.1

51 votes

The Best Years of a Life

2019 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Anouk Aimée · Souad Amidou · Antoine Sire

Synopsis A follow-up film to “A Man and A Woman,” the 1966 romantic classic.

5.9

431 votes

5.9

431 votes

St. Ives

1998 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Hook

Cast Miranda Richardson · Richard E. Grant · Jean-Marc Barr · Anna Friel

Synopsis In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both...

5.9

242 votes

5.9

242 votes

Love Songs

1985 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Elie Chouraqui

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Christopher Lambert · Richard Anconina · Jacques Perrin

Synopsis When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers....

5.8

28 votes

5.8

28 votes

Un plus une

2015 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Jean Dujardin · Elsa Zylberstein · Christopher Lambert · Alice Pol

Synopsis A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet, in this romantic drama from French director Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman).

5.7

378 votes

5.7

378 votes

Born Romantic

2000 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

5.7

90 votes

5.7

90 votes

Family Business

1986 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Johnny Hallyday · Fanny Ardant · Guy Marchand · Laurent Romor

Synopsis Renowned director Constantin Costa-Gavras (whose 1969's feature Z won multiple international awards and was a box office success) tries his hand at an unusual mix of comedy and crime in this story. When a father (Johnny Hallyday) gets out of...

5.6

124 votes

5.6

124 votes