Cinematography: Gérard de Battista

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


A Matter of Taste

2000 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Bernard Rapp

Cast Bernard Giraudeau · Jean-Pierre Lorit · Florence Thomassin · Charles Berling

Plot Nicolas is a young man living in bohemian poverty in Lyon, sharing a flat with his girlfriend Beatrice and three of their friends. Nicolas works part-time as a server, and...

6.9

25 votes

6.9

25 votes

Crossed Tracks

2007 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Dominique Pinon · Fanny Ardant · Audrey Dana · Zinedine Soualem

Plot Judith Ralitzer, femme fatale and popular writer, is seeking characters for her next best-seller. A serial killer has just escaped from a high-security prison! Huguette, a hairdresser in a top...

6.7

188 votes

6.7

188 votes

The Year 01

1973 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Jacques Doillon · Alain Resnais · Jean Rouch

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Miou-Miou · Gérard Jugnot · Coluche

Plot "Stop everything and reflect!". Built starting from this slogan, three accounts of political fiction imagined and filmed in the United States, in France and Africa. A merry utopia on the...

6.5

73 votes

6.5

73 votes

Level Five

1997 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Chris Marker

Cast Catherine Belkhodja · Kenji Tokitsu · Nagisa Ôshima · Ju'nishi Ushiyama

Plot The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa in Japan during World War 2. She searches the Internet for information...

6.5

410 votes

6.5

410 votes

A Secret

2007 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Cécile De France · Patrick Bruel · Ludivine Sagnier · Julie Depardieu

Plot France, just after the war. Based on the autobiographical novel of psychoanalyst and author Philippe Grimbert, ‚Un secret' tells the story of how a dark family secret is revealed. It...

6.5

314 votes

6.5

314 votes

1, 2, 3, Sun

1993 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Anouk Grinberg · Olivier Martínez · Marcello Mastroianni · Myriam Boyer

Plot From acclaimed director Bertrand Blier (Get Out Your Handerchiefs, Too Beautiful for You) comes Un Deux Trois Soleil, the dreamlike tale of Victorine, a young girl growing up in the...

6.4

51 votes

6.4

51 votes

Ces amours-là

2010 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Audrey Dana · Laurent Couson · Raphael Haroche · Samuel Labarthe

Plot The film recounts the life of Ilva, from the 1930s to the present day...She is a woman who has, throughout her life, put love before everything...

6.4

25 votes

6.4

25 votes

La petite Lili

2003 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Ludivine Sagnier · Nicole García · Robinson Stévenin · Bernard Giraudeau

Plot Inspired by The Seagull, Claude Miller's La Petite Lili takes place in present day Brittany. While Chekhov’s play was set in a theatrical milieu, longtime Truffaut associate Miller (Alias Betty)...

5.7

107 votes

5.7

107 votes

Venus Beauty Institute

1999 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Tonie Marshall

Cast Nathalie Baye · Bulle Ogier · Samuel Le Bihan · Jacques Bonnaffé

Plot Christmas and New Year's Eve are approaching. Angèle, who's over 40, picks up men for anonymous sex; yet when Antoine, an unkempt younger man (who's overheard one of her sex...

5.6

806 votes

5.6

806 votes

Les pays loin (S)

1965 · Movie · 16 min. · France

Direction Jean Rollin

Cast Pascal Fardoulis · Julie · Nadine Ninio · Bernard Papineau

Plot A couple get lost in a maze of streets and when they find themselves back out in the open, they have no idea where they are or how they got...

5.5

23 votes

5.5

23 votes

Thérèse

2012 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Audrey Tautou · Gilles Lellouche · Anaïs Demoustier · Catherine Arditi

Plot In the Landes region of France, near Bordeaux, marriages are arranged to merge land parcels and unite neighboring families. Thus, young Thérèse Larroque becomes Mrs. Desqueyroux. But her avant-garde ideas...

5.3

1K votes

5.3

1K votes

French Twist

1995 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Josiane Balasko

Cast Victoria Abril · Josiane Balasko · Alain Chabat · Ticky Holgado

Plot Laurent is the local estate agent, a job that offers easy opportunties for his womanising. His wife beautiful wife Loli looks after his home and two children unaware of his...

4.9

2K votes

4.9

2K votes

Against the Wind

1990 · Movie · 95 min. · Spain

Direction Paco Periñán

Cast Antonio Banderas · Emma Suárez · Bruce McGuire · Rosario Flores

Plot Juan flees Madrid and an incestuous relationship with his sister, Ana, working at a mine on the Andalucian coast. When his friendship with Rosario, a local shop girl, becomes romance,...

4.7

105 votes

4.7

105 votes

Part-Time Cops

2003 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Claude Zidi

Cast Thierry Lhermitte · Philippe Noiret · Lorànt Deutsch · Chloé Flipo

Plot Twelve years after “My New Partner at the Races,” and almost twenty years after the first episode of the Montmartre adventures of two, very special cops that earned “My New...

4.3

35 votes

4.3

35 votes

The Milky Life (La vida láctea)

1992 · Movie · 79 min. · Spain

Direction Juan Estelrich Jr.

Cast Mickey Rooney · Marianne Sägebrecht · William Hootkins · Emma Suárez

Plot Barry Reilly, a billionaire who decides on his 80th birthday to retire but his announcement comes with an unexpected zinger that is a shock to his greedy family and in-laws....

3.6

54 votes

3.6

54 votes

La femme du cosmonaute

1997 · Movie · 100 min. · France

3.3

364 votes

3.3

364 votes

La tête dans le sac

1984 · Movie · 87 min. · France

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Le soleil en face

1980 · Movie · 95 min. · France

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Ennemis intimes

1987 · Movie · 95 min. · France

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La Femme bourreau

1968 · Movie · 70 min. · France

Direction Jean-Denis Bonan

Cast Claude Merline · Solange Pradel · Myriam Mézières · Jackie Raynal

Plot Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is...

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Not rated