Direction: Philippe Garrel

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


Un ange passe

1975 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Maurice Garrel · Nico · Jean-Pierre Kalfon · Bulle Ogier

Plot Un ange passe, like many of Garrel’s other films from this period, works on a model of long uninterrupted takes on the faces of its characters, played this time by...

8.1

31 votes

8.1

31 votes

Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights...

1985 · Movie · 130 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Mireille Perrier · Jacques Bonnaffé · Anne Wiazemsky · Lou Castel

Plot A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa (reminds us of the real-life relationship between Garrel and Nico). In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one...

7.6

168 votes

7.6

168 votes

Emergency Kisses

1989 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Brigitte Sy · Philippe Garrel · Louis Garrel · Anémone

Plot A filmmaker is going to shoot an autobiographical film. At the last moment, he changes his mind, and denies his wife her own role, which is going to be finally...

7.5

173 votes

7.5

173 votes

The Secret Son (L'Enfant secret)

1979 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Anne Wiazemsky · Henri de Maublanc · Xuan Lindermayer · Elli Medeiros

Plot Filmmaker Jean-Baptiste falls in love with Elie, an actress with a daughter whose father she hasn’t seen since the child was born. Constantly travelling, Elie doesn’t have much time to...

7.3

266 votes

7.3

266 votes

Les Hautes Solitudes

1974 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Jean Seberg · Nico · Tina Aumont · Laurent Terzieff

Plot In silence and black white, the focus is on a sole visage, that of a fallen 40-year-old star, Jean Seberg fifteen years after Breathless, struggling with alcohol, fear, loneliness, chemical...

7.3

160 votes

7.3

160 votes

Wild Innocence

2001 · Movie · 117 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Mehdi Belhaj Kacem · Julia Faure · Michel Subor · Mathieu Genet

Plot A film director wants to make an anti-drug film (his wife died of a heroin overdose). He’s planned the lead role for a young actress with who he's in love...

7.2

534 votes

7.2

534 votes

The Birth of Love

1993 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Lou Castel · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Johanna ter Steege · Dominique Reymond

Plot Paul and Marcus are buddies. Paul has kids, Marcus doesn't. Marcus loves Hélène, his girlfriend. Paul loves Ulrika, but she doesn't love him, so he stays with Fanchon out of...

7.2

429 votes

7.2

429 votes

I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar

1991 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Benoît Régent · Johanna ter Steege · Yann Collette · Mireille Perrier

Plot For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it...

7.2

219 votes

7.2

219 votes

Liberté, la nuit

1984 · Movie · 82 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Maurice Garrel · Christine Boisson · Laszlo Szabo

Plot Set during the Algerian war for independence in the 1950s and early '60s, this drama centers on Jean (Maurice Garrel) who works covertly for the FLN, the Algerian independence fighters,...

7.2

118 votes

7.2

118 votes

Regular Lovers

2005 · Movie · 178 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Louis Garrel · Clotilde Hesme · Eric Rulliat · Julien Lucas

Plot Paris, 1969. After having taken part in the student uprisings of May ’68, a group of youngsters abandon themselves to the fumes of opium. At the centre of the group...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Actua I (S)

1968 · Documentary · 6 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Plot A film considered almost lost even by Garrel, who found his negatives. Shot during the events of the May 68, it was made collectively; the film is a merge of...

7.0

61 votes

7.0

61 votes

Frontier of Dawn

2008 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Louis Garrel · Clémentine Poidatz · Laura Smet

Plot Carole is a movie star, she lives alone. Her husband works in Hollywood and neglects her. A photograph comes to her place to do a reporting on her. They become...

6.9

417 votes

6.9

417 votes

The Wind of the Night

1999 · Movie · 92 min. · France

6.8

467 votes

6.8

467 votes

Le Révélateur

1968 · Movie · 67 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Stanislas Robiolles · Laurent Terzieff · Bernadette Lafont

Plot Le Révélateur is a 1968 experimental narrative film by Philippe Garrel. The film follows a 4-year old boy (Stanislas Robiolles) and his parents (Laurent Terzieff and Bernadette Lafont).

6.8

234 votes

6.8

234 votes

Le Lit de la Vierge

1969 · Movie · 105 min. · France

6.7

166 votes

6.7

166 votes

In the Shadow of Women

2015 · Movie · 73 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Clotilde Courau · Stanislas Merhar · Lena Paugam · Vimala Pons

Plot Pierre and Manon are a pair of poor documentary makers, who scrape by with odd jobs. When Pierre meets young trainee Elisabeth, he falls for her, but wants to keep...

6.7

634 votes

6.7

634 votes

Le Berceau de cristal

1976 · Movie · 80 min. · France

6.7

39 votes

6.7

39 votes

Cinétracts

1968 · Documentary · 90 min. · France

Direction Chris Marker · Philippe Garrel · Jean-Luc Godard · Jean-Denis Bonan

Plot A series of 41 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through...

6.7

22 votes

6.7

22 votes

Marie for Memory

1967 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Zouzou · Didier Léon · Nicole Laguigner · Maurice Garrel

Plot Parallel lives of two couples destined to suicide, one, and unhappiness, the other.

6.6

46 votes

6.6

46 votes