Cinematography: Pierre Boffety

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


Direction Marcel Ophüls

Synopsis A documentary of the process against Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and about his life after the war.

7.1

151 votes

7.1

151 votes

Euskadi hors d'État

1983 · Documentary · 93 min. · France

Direction Arthur MacCaig

6.9

38 votes

6.9

38 votes

Insomnie (S)

1963 · Movie · 15 min. · France

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Pierre Étaix · Laurence Gallimard · Gabriel Blonde · Lidia Binaghi

Synopsis This is a short comedy/horror film of a guy who can't sleep and starts reading a vampire story in bed and having visions about it. There's a very well done gothic imagery and it's funny how it mixes the languages...

5.8

89 votes

5.8

89 votes

Genie in the house (TV Series)

2006 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rob MacGillivray · Steven Bawol · Emmanuelle Dubergey · Phil Ox

Cast Victoria Longley · Jordan Metcalfe · Katie Sheridan · Angus Kennedy

Synopsis Widower Dad with two teenage daughters move into a new house which contains a lamp with a trainee Genie called Adil. Father has banned any Magic in the house and yet the girls and Adil the Genie find ways to...

2.4

141 votes

2.4

141 votes

Falkenau, the Impossible

1988 · Documentary · 52 min. · France

Direction Emil Weiss

Cast Samuel Fuller

Synopsis Documentary stems from 1945, when infantryman Sam Fuller, member of the U.S. Army's "Big Red One," helped liberate the Nazis' Falkenau death camp. Fuller shot footage of his commanding officer's marching Czech locals, who denied knowing of the genocide, out...

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Burned Hearts

2007 · Movie · 84 min. · Morocco

Direction Ahmed El Maanouni

Cast Hicham Bahloul · Mohamed Derhem · Mohamed Merouazi · Amal Setta

Synopsis Amin, a young architect who lives in Paris, returns suddenly to his hometown, Fès, Morocco, where his uncle is dying. He has not spoken to the man who brought him up since he left his hometown ten years earlier to...

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November Days

1991 · Documentary · 129 min. · Germany

Direction Marcel Ophüls

Cast Anne Blaurock · Bärbel Bohley · Barbara Brecht-Schall · Familie Felgner

Synopsis Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.

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Direction Marcel Ophüls

Cast Marcel Ophüls · Philippe Noiret · John Simpson · Patrick Poivre d'Arvor

Synopsis We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion about truth and life. The form consists in many interviews of mostly French and American journalists...

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Pierre Etaix, un destin animé (TV)

2011 · Documentary · 60 min. · France

Direction Odile Étaix

Cast Michèle Brabo · Nicole Calfan · Jean-Claude Carrière · Annie Fratellini

Synopsis A portrait of the life and work of the director by his wife, Odile Étaix.

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Ain't Misbehavin!

2013 · Documentary · 106 min. · France

Direction Marcel Ophüls

Cast Marcel Ophüls · Jeanne Moreau · Costa-Gavras · Frederick Wiseman

Synopsis The director of The Sorrow and the Pity, shares his memories with us, stories incredibly rich and fascinating, making of AIN’T MISBEHAVIN a cheerful and bittersweet trip in Cinema history. Son of the great Max Ophuls, Marcel can be a...

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Inner City

1995 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Jean-François Richet

Cast Cyril Aubin · Emmanuelle Bercot · Anne-Cécile Crapie · Andrée Damant

Synopsis A look at the predicament of the working poor who live in the subsidized housing that makes up much of Paris' suburbs. The film follows the trials and struggles of one 27-year-old Frenchman in particular, Pierre Cephas, a soon-to-be-father who's...

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Bosna!

1994 · Documentary · 117 min. · France

Direction Bernard-Henri Lévy · Alain Ferrari

Cast Bernard-Henri Lévy

Synopsis The carnage in Sarajevo provides the focus of this French documentary which seeks to call attention to the terrible conflict in the hopes of finally ending it. The film is divided into five parts. Each part covers a time frame...

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