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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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,...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
6.3
82 votes
6.3
82 votes
Mon chien (S)
1955 · Documentary · 25 min. · France
Direction Georges Franju
Cast Jacqueline Lemaire · Roger Pigaut
Plot 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...
6.3
21 votes
6.3
21 votes
The Devil by the Tail
1969 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Philippe de Broca
Cast Yves Montand · Madeleine Renaud · Maria Schell · Jean Rochefort
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
6.1
52 votes
6.1
52 votes
Body of My Enemy
1976 · Movie · 120 min. · France
Direction Henri Verneuil
Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Bernard Blier · Marie-France Pisier · Charles Gérard
6.1
107 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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot Jean Letellier and inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer, whose victims are womens.
5.9
187 votes
5.9
187 votes