Direction: Éric Rohmer

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


My Night with Maud

1969 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Françoise Fabian · Marie-Christine Barrault · Antoine Vitez

Plot 3rd entry in the series "Six Moral Tales" by Eric Rohmer. The narrator (Jean-Louis), a devout Catholic, moves to a provincial town and vows to marry Francoise, a pretty blond...

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7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

Love in the Afternoon

1972 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Bernard Verley · Zouzou · Françoise Verley · Daniel Ceccaldi

Plot The last of Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales". Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting...

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7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

Louis Lumière (TV)

1968 · Documentary · 66 min. · France

7.5

243 votes

7.5

243 votes

A Summer's Tale

1996 · Movie · 113 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Melvil Poupaud · Amanda Langlet · Aurélia Nolin · Gwenaëlle Simon

Plot The third film in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons. A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend...

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7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

An Autumn Tale

1998 · Movie · 111 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Béatrice Romand · Marie Rivière · Didier Sandre · Alain Libolt

Plot The final instalment in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons. Magali is a middle-aged widow and wine-grower living in the Rhone valley. She pines for a new man in...

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7.4

5K votes

7.4

5K votes

The Green Ray (Summer)

1986 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Marie Rivière · Rosette · Béatrice Romand · Vincent Gauthier

Plot The 5th of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. Abandoned by the friend she was supposed to be holidaying with, Delphine has to make other plans for her summer...

7.4

4K votes

7.4

4K votes

Claire's Knee

1970 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Jean-Claude Brialy · Béatrice Romand · Aurora Cornu · Laurence de Monaghan

Plot The 5th of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales". Cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, a romanian writer and old...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Pauline at the Beach

1983 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Amanda Langlet · Arielle Dombasle · Pascal Greggory · Feodor Atkine

Plot The 3rd of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. Pauline is the teen-aged cousin of the seemingly more worldly and sensible Marion. Both girls become entwined in amorous escapades...

7.2

4K votes

7.2

4K votes

Full Moon in Paris

1984 · Movie · 101 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Pascale Ogier · Tchéky Karyo · Fabrice Luchini · Virginie Thévenet

Plot The 4th of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. Trainee designer Louise lives with her boyfriend, Rémi, in the outskirts of Paris. Whilst Rémi wants to get married, Louise...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

A Tale of Winter

1992 · Movie · 114 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Charlotte Vêry · Frédéric van den Driessche · Michel Voletti · Rosette

Plot Felicie and Charles have an intense summer holiday romance, but lose contact due to a simple mistake. Five years later, Felicie is living in wintertime Paris with Elise, her daughter...

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7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

The Aviator's Wife

1981 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Philippe Marlaud · Marie Rivière · Anne-Laure Meury · Mathieu Carrière

Plot The first of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. François, a young student working nights as a postman, is in love with a slightly older woman, Anne. One day,...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Collector

1967 · Movie · 82 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Patrick Bauchau · Haydee Politoff · Daniel Pommereulle · Alain Juffroy

Plot 4th entry in the series "Six Moral Tales" by Eric Rohmer. Left to his own devices when his fiancée goes to London, Adrien decides to spend his vacation experimenting with...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

Rendez-vous in Paris

1995 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Clara Bellar · Antoine Basler · Mathias Mégard · Judith Chancel

Plot Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.

7.2

747 votes

7.2

747 votes

The Bakery Girl of Monceau (S)

1963 · Movie · 23 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Barbet Schroeder · Michèle Girardon · Claudine Soubrier · Michel Mardore

Plot Early new wave effort from Rohmer which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

My Girlfriend's Boyfriend

1987 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Emmanuelle Chaulet · Sophie Renoir · Anne-Laure Meury · Eric Viellard

Plot In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

1987 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Joëlle Miquel · Jessica Forde · Philippe Laudenbach · Yasmine Haury

Plot Reinette and Mirabelle are two young girls. Reinette lives in the countryside, Mirabelle in Paris. They meet during a holiday of Mirabelle in the country, when Reinette helps her to...

7.0

742 votes

7.0

742 votes

A Tale of Springtime

1990 · Movie · 112 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Anne Teyssedre · Florence Darel · Hugues Quester · Eloise Bennet

Plot First installment of the "Tales of Four Seasons" series. Parisian philosophy teacher Jeanne is temporarily without a place to stay as her cousin occupies her own home and she refuses...

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6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Sign of Leo

1962 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Jess Hahn · Van Doude · Michèle Girardon · Jean Le Poulain

Plot Pierre Wesserlin (Jess Hahn) is a 39 old American composer, who lives a reckless, bohemian life in Paris. One morning he receives a telegram notifying him that his wealthy aunt...

6.9

589 votes

6.9

589 votes

The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque

1993 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Pascal Greggory · Arielle Dombasle · Fabrice Luchini · Clémentine Amouroux

Plot In 1992, the socialist mayor of a little French town with the help of his contacts in Paris get the money to build a multimedia house. But the socialist party...

6.8

714 votes

6.8

714 votes

Suzanne's Career

1963 · Movie · 55 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Catherine Sée · Christian Charrière · Philippe Beuzen · Diane Wilkinson

Plot In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings...

6.8

699 votes

6.8

699 votes