Direction: Éric Rohmer

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


A Good Marriage

1982 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Béatrice Romand · André Dussollier · Arielle Dombasle · Huguette Faget

Plot The 2nd in Rohmer's six-part series of 'Comedies & Proverbs' tells the cautionary tale of Sabine, a 25 year old arts student, who is having an affair with a married...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Marquise of O

1976 · Movie · 107 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Edith Clever · Bruno Ganz · Peter Lühr · Edda Seippel

Plot 1799, the General Souvarof invades Italy. The Marquise of O… is a young widow. Her father commands a zone in the thick of battle that is soon overcome by the...

6.8

880 votes

6.8

880 votes

6.7

85 votes

L'Ère industrielle : Métamorphoses du paysage (TV) (S)

1964 · Documentary · 23 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Plot A documentary account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s.

6.7

25 votes

6.7

25 votes

Six in Paris

1965 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer · Claude Chabrol · Jean-Luc Godard · Jean Douchet

Cast Jean-Pierre Andréani · Stéphane Audran · Nadine Ballot · Claude Chabrol

Plot This collection features six major French New Wave directors working at the top of their collective game to create a beautiful record of Paris in the ’60s. Each filmmaker took...

6.6

241 votes

6.6

241 votes

Nadja in Paris (S)

1964 · Movie · 13 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Nadja Tesich

Plot Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust. Besides her student life she likes to stroll about Paris,...

6.5

371 votes

6.5

371 votes

The Lady and the Duke

2001 · Movie · 125 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Lucy Russell · Jean-Claude Dreyfus · François Marthouret · Alain Libolt

Plot An episodic look at Grace Elliott (1760-1823) and Philippe, the Duke of Orleans, during the French Revolution. In 1790, they are friends, no longer lovers. He suggests she leave France,...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Perceval of Wales

1978 · Movie · 138 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Fabrice Luchini · André Dussollier · Arielle Dombasle · Pascale de Boysson

Plot Inspired by Chrétien de Troyes's 12th century Arthurian romance "Perceval, the Story of the Grail", the film chronicles Perceval's knighthood and maturation amongst the Knights of the Round Table. Unlike...

6.4

294 votes

6.4

294 votes

Triple agent

2004 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Serge Renko · Katerina Didaskalou · Amanda Langlet · Emmanuel Salinger

Plot Set in Paris and a country house during the late 1930s, the film focuses on a former military officer in the czar's army who directs White Russian Army activities in...

6.2

652 votes

6.2

652 votes

Place de l'Étoile (S)

1965 · Movie · 15 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Jean-Michel Rouzière · Marcel Gallon · Maya Josse · Philippe Sollers

Plot A fastidious shirt salesman accidentally kills a street thug during a brawl and wanders the city as he agonizes over what he should do about it.

6.1

46 votes

6.1

46 votes

Véronique and Her Dunce (S)

1958 · Movie · 18 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Nicole Berger · Stella Dassas · Alain Delrieu

Plot A careless mother hires a young tutor to bring up her son's marks, as bad in mathematics as in French language. The young woman tries to teach the boy the...

6.1

235 votes

6.1

235 votes

Fermière à Montfaucon (S)

1967 · Documentary · 13 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Monique Sendron

Plot In just a few simple lines, a picture of the French countryside in the 1960s: the last moments of a disappearing, changing world. The simplest documentary images are there to...

6.0

40 votes

6.0

40 votes

On Pascal (TV)

1965 · Documentary · 22 min. · France

6.0

41 votes

6.0

41 votes

The Kreutzer Sonata

1956 · Movie · 42 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Éric Rohmer · Françoise Martinelli · Jean-Claude Brialy · Jean-Luc Godard

Plot La sonate à Kreutzer is a 16mm film based on a Tolstoy story and was written and directed by Eric Rohmer and produced by Jean-Luc Godard. The film follows a...

5.9

62 votes

5.9

62 votes

Bérénice (S)

1954 · Movie · 22 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Éric Rohmer · Teresa Gratia

Plot Shot in 16mm, Bérénice is Rohmer’s first finished film. The film is based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man who becomes obsessed with his cousin’s teeth....

5.8

90 votes

5.8

90 votes

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

2007 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Stéphanie Crayencour · Andy Gillet · Cécile Cassel · Véronique Reymond

Plot In an enchanted forest, back in the time of the Druids, the shepherd Céladon and the shepherdess Astrée share a pure and chaste love. Fooled by a suitor, Astrée dismisses...

5.7

644 votes

5.7

644 votes

A Modern Coed (S)

1966 · Documentary · 13 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

5.7

81 votes

5.7

81 votes

Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (S)

1960 · Movie · 12 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Jean-Luc Godard · Stéphane Audran · Anna Karina · Andrée Bertrand

Plot Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous. After saying...

5.6

250 votes

5.6

250 votes

Drink Your Coffee (S)

1986 · Movie · 3 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Rosette · Pascal Greggory

Plot Eric Rohmer's musical short video, with a theme written by Jean-Louis Valéro and performed by Rosette.

4.8

147 votes

4.8

147 votes

Don Quixote of Cervantes (TV) (S)

1965 · Documentary · 24 min. · France

Direction Éric Rohmer

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