Cinematography: Chris Marker
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Chris Marker. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Sunless (Sans soleil)
1983 · Documentary · 100 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Florence Delay · Arielle Dombasle
Plot "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland,...
7.8
3K votes
7.8
3K votes
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (TV)
2000 · Documentary · 55 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Andrei Tarkovsky · Margarita Terekhova
Plot A documentary made prior to the death of filmmaker Andrei Arsenevitch (Tarkovsky) and showing him working on his final film, this record was made at Arsenevitch's request to stand as...
7.7
689 votes
7.7
689 votes
The Last Bolshevik
1992 · Documentary · 120 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Plot This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film...
7.7
479 votes
7.7
479 votes
If I Had Four Dromedaries
1966 · Documentary · 49 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Catherine Le Couey · Nicolas Youmatoff · Pierre Vaneck
Plot An amateur photographer and two of his friends comment some pictures taken all over the world. An essay-film that is an album with photographs, over 800 images that Marker had...
7.4
80 votes
7.4
80 votes
7.1
177 votes
On vous parle de Prague: Le deuxième procès d'Artur London (S)
1971 · Documentary · 21 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · Artur London
7.1
27 votes
7.1
27 votes
The Koumiko Mystery
1965 · Documentary · 54 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Plot The 1964 Olympic games in Japan are seen through the eyes of the beautiful Muroaka Koumiko in this documentary from Chris Marker. She gives her opinions of life, love, men,...
7.0
191 votes
7.0
191 votes
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
1968 · Documentary · 28 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker · François Reichenbach
Plot On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought...
7.0
155 votes
7.0
155 votes
Three Cheers for the Whale
1972 · Documentary · 30 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker · Mario Ruspoli
Cast Casamayor · Lalan · Valérie Mayoux
Plot Chris Marker's usual mix of "borrowed" pieces of different film textures (film, video, animation, photographs, paintings) serves as a poetic, passionate and very sound warning against the widespread, business-like, matter-of-fact...
6.8
39 votes
6.8
39 votes
The Case of the Grinning Cat (TV)
2004 · Documentary · 58 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Plot Monsieur Chat is a character (a yellow grinning cat) which appeared on Paris walls at the beginning of the years 2000. Following its steps, Chris Marker is depicting the very...
6.7
250 votes
6.7
250 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
Sunday in Peking (S)
1956 · Documentary · 22 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Plot Marker begins Sunday In Peking by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city he was once only able to admire in books. We are taken on a journey through...
6.4
74 votes
6.4
74 votes
On vous parle du Chili: Ce que disait Allende (S)
1973 · Documentary · 16 min. · France
Direction Miguel Littin · Chris Marker
Cast Salvador Allende · Régis Debray
6.0
33 votes
6.0
33 votes
Tokyo Days (S)
1988 · Documentary · 20 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Arielle Dombasle
Plot This is an all too short, somewhat indulgent and highly personal work on the city, on watching, and, as always, on film. This work will appeal mostly to Marker completists...
5.8
22 votes
5.8
22 votes
Leila Attacks (S)
2007 · Documentary · 1 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Plot A short film about a mouse attacking a cat.
3.9
53 votes
3.9
53 votes
Le Volcan interdit
1966 · Documentary · 80 min. · France
Direction Haroun Tazieff
Cast Pierre Vaneck
Plot The film is set in Zaire, following an expedition exploring the crater of the Niragongo volcano of the Virunga chain, whose eruptions are known for their violence and their massive...
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Matta '85 (S)
1985 · Documentary · 15 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Roberto Matta
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