Cinematography: Jean Penzer

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


The Meetings of Anna

1978 · Movie · 127 min. · Belgium

Direction Chantal Akerman

Cast Aurore Clément · Helmut Griem · Magali Noël · Hanns Zischler

Synopsis Anna (Aurore Clement) is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their...

7.4

365 votes

7.4

365 votes

The Two of Us

1967 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Michel Simon · Luce Fabiole · Alain Cohen · Roger Carel

Synopsis Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Nazis), his parents send him away to an elderly couple in the country. Pepe, the husband, is a Petain supporter and a anti-Semite, but...

7.0

324 votes

7.0

324 votes

A Room in Town

1982 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Dominique Sanda · Richard Berry · Danielle Darrieux · Michel Piccoli

Synopsis A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background. François abandons his pregnant girlfriend Violette. She feels treated...

6.8

200 votes

6.8

200 votes

Cold Cuts

1979 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Bernard Blier · Jean Carmet · Denise Gence

Synopsis Black comedy about solitude and dishumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour is the police chief-inspector Morvandieu. Then a third man appears: he is...

6.6

213 votes

6.6

213 votes

Destroy, She Said

1969 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Catherine Sellers · Michael Lonsdale · Henri Garcin · Nicole Hiss

Synopsis A professor, his young wife, a middle-aged woman recovering from a miscarriage, and a pensive Jewish outsider meet on the grounds of a rural hotel. While the other guests are out seeking a supposedly magnificent view that the film has...

6.5

39 votes

6.5

39 votes

Our Story

1984 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Alain Delon · Nathalie Baye · Gérard Darmon · Geneviève Fontanel

Synopsis Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the...

6.3

82 votes

6.3

82 votes

Mon chien (S)

1955 · Documentary · 25 min. · France

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Jacqueline Lemaire · Roger Pigaut

Synopsis A Parisian family on their way to the French Riviera. The father decides to get rid of the family dog that he abandons in a forest. His young daughter cries bitterly but nothing doing. The poor dog manages to find...

6.3

21 votes

6.3

21 votes

The Devil by the Tail

1969 · Movie · 90 min. · France

6.2

25 votes

6.2

25 votes

Evening Dress (Tenue de soirée)

1986 · Movie · 84 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Michel Blanc · Miou-Miou · Michel Creton

Synopsis Gerard Depardieu plays a stylish and attractive burglar, Bob, who meets and fascinates two bickering paupers, Miou Miou and Michel Blanc (Antoine). They are quickly inveigled into his exciting world and first the wife and then the husband come to...

6.2

125 votes

6.2

125 votes

The Seven Deadly Sins

1962 · Movie · 113 min. · France

Direction Philippe de Broca · Claude Chabrol · Jacques Demy · Sylvain Dhomme

Cast Jacques Charrier · Marie-José Nat · Eddie Constantine · Nicole Mirel

Synopsis Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film.

6.2

102 votes

6.2

102 votes

Chimney No. 4 (The Thief)

1966 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction Jean Chapot

Cast Romy Schneider · Michel Piccoli · Hans Christian Blech · Sonia Schwarz

Synopsis Julia (Romy Schneider) gave away her infant son to a foster couple before she married Werner (Michel Piccoli). Now she selfishly wants her child from the foster parents who have never officially adopted the boy. Radek (Hans Christian Blech) is...

6.1

52 votes

6.1

52 votes

6.1

107 votes

My Best Friend's Girl

1983 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Coluche · Isabelle Huppert · Thierry Lhermitte · François Perrot

Synopsis Isabelle Huppert plays an attractive Parisienne out looking for some fun during her vacation on the ski slopes of Courchevel in the Alps when she starts up a relationship with a great-looking sportswear salesman (Thierry Lhermitte), but at the same...

6.0

23 votes

6.0

23 votes

Hunter Will Get You

1976 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Philippe Labro

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Bruno Cremer · Jean Négroni · Patrick Fierry

Synopsis L'Alpagueur is a spy from the French secret agency. He's put on the investigation about a serial-killer who employs young boys to help him robbing banks before killing them.

6.0

160 votes

6.0

160 votes

He Died with His Eyes Open

1985 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Jacques Deray

Cast Michel Serrault · Charlotte Rampling · Xavier Deluc · Elisabeth Depardieu

Synopsis The inspector Staniland as always try to put himself in the place of the victim, this time an unsuccessful pianist. That's when the victim's mistress Barbara entered the appartment, look like a real bitch that one think the inspector. Surprised...

6.0

106 votes

6.0

106 votes

Malevil

1981 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Christian de Chalonge

Cast Michel Serrault · Jacques Dutronc · Jacques Villeret · Robert Dhéry

Synopsis The story's events take place in rural France in the late twentieth century. The protagonist is Emanuel Comte, former school director, now turned farmer and landowner. He is also an owner of a tourist attraction - an old castle called...

6.0

23 votes

6.0

23 votes

The African

1983 · Movie · 101 min. · France

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Philippe Noiret · Jean-François Balmer · Jacques François

Synopsis A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers.

6.0

35 votes

6.0

35 votes

The Passerby

1982 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Jacques Rouffio

Cast Romy Schneider · Michel Piccoli · Helmut Griem · Dominique Labourier

Synopsis Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience - he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles...

6.0

50 votes

6.0

50 votes

The Inheritor

1973 · Movie · 112 min. · France

Direction Philippe Labro

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Carla Gravina · Jean Rochefort · Charles Denner

Synopsis Bart Cordell, is unanimously considered as a daddy's boy and an insignificant playboy. So, when he suddenly becomes head of his father's financial empire following his death,nobody understandably expects much from him. They could not be wronger....! Written by Guy...

6.0

69 votes

6.0

69 votes

Fear Over the City (The Night Caller)

1975 · Movie · 125 min. · France

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Charles Denner · Adalberto Maria Merli · Rosy Varte

Synopsis Jean Letellier and inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer, whose victims are womens.

5.9

187 votes

5.9

187 votes