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
Direction Philippe Garrel
Cast Catherine Deneuve · Daniel Duval · Xavier Beauvois · Jacques Lassalle
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
The Inner Scar
1972 · Movie · 60 min. · France
Direction Philippe Garrel
Cast Nico · Philippe Garrel · Christian Aaron Boulogne · Daniel Pommereulle
6.8
286 votes
6.8
286 votes
Le Lit de la Vierge
1969 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Philippe Garrel
Cast Pierre Clémenti · Zouzou · Tina Aumont · Margareth Clémenti
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
Direction Philippe Garrel
Cast Margareth Clémenti · Pierre Clémenti · Philippe Garrel · Nico
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