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

L'Ambassade (S)

1973 · Documentary · 20 min. · France

Direction Chris Marker

7.1

177 votes

7.1

177 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

¡Cuba Sí!

1961 · Documentary · 50 min. · France

Direction Chris Marker

6.8

63 votes

6.8

63 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

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

E-clip-se (S)

1999 · Documentary · 8 min. · France

Direction Chris Marker

4.7

89 votes

4.7

89 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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Olympia 52

1952 · Documentary · 82 min. · France

Direction Chris Marker

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