Direction: Claire Denis

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Claire Denis. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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1994 · Movie · 60 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Alice Houri · Jessica Tharaud · Grégoire Colin · Martine Gautier

Plot It is Denis' contribution to "Tous les garçons et les filles de leur age", a remarkable French television commission that invited nine different directors to reflect upon their adolescence and...

7.8

340 votes

7.8

340 votes

7.6

28 votes

Good Work

1999 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Grégoire Colin · Denis Lavant · Michel Subor · Richard Courcet

Plot In the east African enclave of Djibouti, the men of a small French Foreign Legion outpost spend their days practicing military drills, exercising and baking in the desert sun. Barely...

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6.9

899 votes

6.9

899 votes

Friday Night

2002 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Valerie Lemercier · Vincent Lindon · Hélène de Saint-Père · Hélène Fillières

Plot Friday night: it’s done, Laure has packed up all her belongings in boxes. Tomorrow she’s shifting house, going to live with François. But tonight, right now, she leaves the empty...

6.8

386 votes

6.8

386 votes

No Fear, No Die

1990 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Isaach de Bankole · Alex Descas · Solveig Dommartin · Christopher Buchholz

Plot Natives of Benin and the West Indies, Dah and Jocelyn form a fine team. Dah is convinced that this time, luck smiles on them. They begin working for a restauranteur...

6.7

150 votes

6.7

150 votes

I Can't Sleep

1994 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Yekaterina Golubeva · Richard Courcet · Vincent Dupont · Laurent Grévill

Plot Beautiful Daiga (Katerina Golubeva) has emigrated from Lithuania to Paris and is looking for a place to stay and work. Theo (Alex Descas) is a struggling musician, and his brother...

6.7

160 votes

6.7

160 votes

35 Shots of Rum

2008 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Grégoire Colin · Alex Descas · Mati Diop · Nicole Dogue

Plot The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.

6.6

530 votes

6.6

530 votes

Nénette and Boni

1996 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Grégoire Colin · Alice Houri · Jacques Nolot · Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Plot Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting...

6.6

281 votes

6.6

281 votes

The Intruder

2004 · Movie · 130 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Michel Subor · Grégoire Colin · Béatrice Dalle · Yekaterina Golubeva

Plot Louis Trebor’s journey forms a loop, follows the shape of the earth’s roundness as I imagine it: From the French side of the Jura along the Swiss border, Geneva to...

6.5

342 votes

6.5

342 votes

Chocolat

1988 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Isaach de Bankole · Giulia Boschi · François Cluzet · Jean-Claude Adelin

Plot A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's...

6.5

265 votes

6.5

265 votes

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

2002 · Movie · 146 min. · Germany

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci · Claire Denis · Mike Figgis · Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Valeria Bruni Tedeschi · Dominic West · Daniel Craig · Chiara Mastalli

Plot A companion film to the highly acclaimed TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE TRUMPET. Eight influential directors interpret the theme of time. Official selection of the Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian Film...

6.3

313 votes

6.3

313 votes

Trouble Every Day

2001 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Vincent Gallo · Béatrice Dalle · Tricia Vessey · Alex Descas

Plot American couple Dr. Shane Brown and his wife June go to Paris supposedly for their honeymoon. In reality Shane has travelled to Paris in order to hunt down neuroscientist Dr....

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Towards Mathilde

2005 · Documentary · 84 min. · France

6.1

42 votes

6.1

42 votes

Bastards

2013 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Vincent Lindon · Chiara Mastroianni · Julie Bataille · Michel Subor

Plot Marco Silvestri, a captain on a container-ship, is called back urgently to Paris. His sister Sandra is desperate - her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under,...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

White Material

2009 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Christopher Lambert · Nicolas Duvauchelle · Isaach de Bankole

Plot Faced with an escalating civil war in a volatile African state, coffee planter Maria (Isabelle Huppert) must chose between safety and protecting her way of life, a course that proves...

5.7

2K votes

5.7

2K votes

Both Sides of the Blade

2022 · Movie · 116 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Juliette Binoche · Vincent Lindon · Grégoire Colin · Bulle Ogier

Plot Sara and Jean have been in a loving, stable relationship for ten years. They are happy. He is her rock, someone she can hold on to. When they first met,...

5.6

690 votes

5.6

690 votes

High Life

2018 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Robert Pattinson · Juliette Binoche · Mia Goth · André Benjamin

Plot Takes place beyond the solar system in a future that seems like the present. About a group of criminals who accept a mission in space to become the subjects of...

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5.5

4K votes

5.5

4K votes

Stars at Noon

2022 · Movie · 135 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Margaret Qualley · Joe Alwyn · Danny Ramirez · Ben Safdie

Plot A young American journalist stranded in present-day Nicaragua (Margaret Qualley) falls for an enigmatic Englishman (Joe Alwyn) who seems like her best chance of escape. She soon realizes, though, that...

5.5

194 votes

5.5

194 votes

Let the Sunshine In

2017 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Juliette Binoche · Gérard Depardieu · Nicolas Duvauchelle · Josiane Balasko

Plot Isabelle, single mom, divorced artist with one child, is looking for love. True love at last.

5.4

2K votes

5.4

2K votes

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013 · Documentary · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Hala Abdallah · Karim Aïnouz · John Akomfrah · Catherine Breillat

Cast Bernardo Bertolucci · Tygh Runyan · Shannyn Sossamon · Michele Placido

Plot 70 short movies about cinema and its future.

5.4

74 votes

5.4

74 votes