Cinematography: Denys Clerval

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


Le Joli Mai

1963 · Documentary · 165 min. · France

Direction Chris Marker · Pierre Lhomme

Cast Chris Marker · Yves Montand · Simone Signoret

Synopsis Documentary about Paris and the attitudes of Parisians at the height of the Algerian crisis.

7.9

115 votes

7.9

115 votes

Far from Vietnam

1967 · Documentary · 120 min. · France

Direction Claude Lelouch · Agnès Varda · Jean-Luc Godard · Chris Marker

Cast Anne Bellec · Karen Blanguernon · Bernard Fresson · Maurice Garrel

Synopsis Seven directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Goddard all direct segments. They are quick to point out...

7.4

312 votes

7.4

312 votes

Stolen Kisses

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claude Jade · Delphine Seyrig · Michael Lonsdale

Synopsis Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightful Stolen Kisses, the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually love-struck Doinel has been dishonorably discharged from the army and released onto the streets of...

7.3

6K votes

7.3

6K votes

Mississippi Mermaid

1969 · Movie · 123 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Catherine Deneuve · Michel Bouquet · Nelly Borgeaud

Synopsis Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. When she arrives...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Shameless Old Lady

1965 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction René Allio

Cast Sylvie · Victor Lanoux · Etienne Bierry · Pascale de Boysson

Synopsis The Shameless Old Lady should have been a wry French satire of society's misconceptions about the elderly; alas, the film is defeated by its own preciousness. That irreplaceable Gallic character actress Sylvie was honored with her first starring film role...

6.7

33 votes

6.7

33 votes

Erendira

1983 · Movie · 100 min. · Mexico

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Irene Papas · Claudia Ohana · Michael Lonsdale · Oliver Wehe

Synopsis While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution....

5.8

47 votes

5.8

47 votes

La brute

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Claude Guillemot

Cast Xavier Deluc · Assumpta Serna · Jean Carmet · Rosette

Synopsis A deaf and blind young boy is accused of commiting a brutal murder.

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Mon ami Washington

1984 · Movie · 100 min. · France

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Natalia

1988 · Movie · France

Direction Bernard Cohn

Cast Pierre Arditi · Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu · Gérard Blain · Michel Voïta

Synopsis WW2: in an occupied France ,a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.

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Rude journée pour la reine

1973 · Movie · 105 min. · France

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Les camisards

1972 · Movie · 100 min. · France

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Le voyage à Deauville

1983 · Movie · 31 min. · France

Direction Jacques Duron

Cast Patrick Aurignac · Emmanuel Becquart

Synopsis One afternoon in the Saint-Germain-des-Près neighbourhood in Paris, Philippe, 18, falls for Frédéric, a teenage hustler.

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