Cinematography: Edmond Séchan

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


The Red Balloon

1956 · Movie · 36 min. · France

Direction Albert Lamorisse

Cast Pascal Lamorisse · Georges Sellier · Vladimir Popov · Paul Perey

Plot A boy makes friends with a seemingly sentient balloon, and it begins to follow him. It follows the boy to school, to the bus, and to church. Boy and balloon...

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7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Crin-Blanc (White Mane)

1953 · Movie · 36 min. · France

Direction Albert Lamorisse

Cast Alain Emery · Pierre Bestieux · Pascal Lamorisse · Jean-Pierre Grenier

Plot In the Camargue, in southern France. Crin Blanc is a magnificent stallion who leads a free herd of horses and is too proud to be broken in by men. Preserving...

6.8

334 votes

6.8

334 votes

That Man from Rio

1964 · Movie · 107 min. · France

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Françoise Dorléac · Jean Servais · Roger Dumas

Plot Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves steal an Amazon figurine from the Trocadéro and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of...

6.1

407 votes

6.1

407 votes

The Party

1980 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Claude Pinoteau

Cast Sophie Marceau · Claude Brasseur · Brigitte Fossey · Denise Grey

Plot 13 years old Vic is new in her high school; soon she makes friends with Penelope. Together they check out the guys in quest for a great love. But Vic's...

5.9

247 votes

5.9

247 votes

The Seventh Target

1984 · Movie · 108 min. · France

5.6

36 votes

5.6

36 votes

The Triumph of Michael Strogoff

1961 · Movie · 118 min. · France

Direction Viktor Tourjansky

Cast Curd Jürgens · Jacques Bézard · Capucine · Daniel Emilfork

Plot Triumph of Michael Strogoff borrows its title and main characters from a famous Jules Verne adventure novel. This, however, is where the resemblance between the two properties comes to an...

5.6

138 votes

5.6

138 votes

Tender Scoundrel

1966 · Movie · 94 min. · France

5.4

41 votes

5.4

41 votes

The Gendarme in New York

1965 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Michel Galabru · Christian Marin · Guy Grosso

Plot The police squad of Saint-Tropez has been chosen to represent France at the International Police Convention in New York City. But the daughter of the squad's sergeant stows away on...

5.4

407 votes

5.4

407 votes

Up to His Ears

1965 · Movie · 104 min. · France

5.4

377 votes

5.4

377 votes

The Party 2

1982 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Claude Pinoteau

Cast Claude Brasseur · Brigitte Fossey · Sophie Marceau · Denise Grey

Plot Two years after the first "Boum", Vic - now 15 and a half years old - has a very calm love life, actually no boyfriend at all. Her parents are...

5.4

99 votes

5.4

99 votes

Backfire

1964 · Movie · 94 min. · France

5.4

115 votes

5.4

115 votes

Love Is a Ball

1963 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction David Swift

Cast Glenn Ford · Hope Lange · Charles Boyer · Ricardo Montalban

Plot Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and...

5.4

42 votes

5.4

42 votes

Out of It

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Pierre Richard · Victor Lanoux · Raymond Bussières · Claude Brosset

Plot May 1968. Sentenced to death for murder, Martial Gaulard is being held in a prison in Lyons. Convinced of his innocence, his lawyer – Jean-Philippe Duroc – is sure he...

5.2

22 votes

5.2

22 votes

Les morfalous

1984 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jacques Villeret · Michel Constantin · Michel Creton

Plot April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and...

5.2

132 votes

5.2

132 votes

Happy Easter

1984 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Georges Lautner

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Sophie Marceau · Marie Laforêt · Rosy Varte

Plot Stéphane Margelle is a successful industrialist who somehow manages to conceal his innumerable amorous adventures from his wife Sophie. Shortly after arriving on the Côte d’Azur, a young woman, Julie,...

5.2

102 votes

5.2

102 votes

Perched on a Tree

1971 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Serge Korber

Cast Louis de Funès · Geraldine Chaplin · Alice Sapritch · Olivier de Funès

Plot Politician get hitch hikers on road and in one car accident they all end up on a tree above the sea.

5.1

173 votes

5.1

173 votes

Tamango

1958 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction John Berry

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Curd Jürgens · Jean Servais · Alex Cressan

Plot John Reinke, the Dutch captain of a slave ship, is carrying a live cargo of slaves from Africa to Cuba in the 1800s. He has his mistress and servant-slave, Aiche,...

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Blue Country

1977 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Jean Charles Tacchella

Cast Brigitte Fossey · Jacques Serres · Ginette Garcin · Armand Meffre

Plot Gente de ciudad se instala en un pueblecito para cultivar unas tierras abandonadas. Con el fin de entablar lazos de amistad con los lugareños, Louise prepara una comida en el...

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Not rated

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