Direction: Michel Ocelot

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


Princes and Princesses

2000 · Movie · 70 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot A group of animators are in their study trying to make a shadow puppet show with fables from different historical periods and come up with six sweet and naughty fairy-tales:...

7.0

221 votes

7.0

221 votes

Azur and Asmar

2006 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot Azure is a blond boy with blue eyes, Asmar has dark hair and dark eyes. As kids, they fought and loved each other as brothers do. As grown ups, they...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Kirikou and the Sorceress

1998 · Movie · 74 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot In a little village somewhere in Africa, a boy named Kirikou is born. But he's not a normal boy, because he knows what he wants very well. Also he already...

6.9

4K votes

6.9

4K votes

The Three Inventors (S)

1980 · Movie · 13 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot In a white lace universe, three inventors create machine which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them...

6.8

582 votes

6.8

582 votes

Tales of the Night

2011 · Movie · 84 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot Every night, a boy, a girl and an elderly technician meet in a closed, rather dilapidated old cinema. But the old picture palace harbours a secret. If truth be known,...

6.7

164 votes

6.7

164 votes

Dilili in Paris

2018 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot The story follows a young girl named Dilili who arrives as a stowaway from New Caledonia and gets caught up in a mystery plot that will take her through the...

6.5

325 votes

6.5

325 votes

6.5

42 votes

Icare (TV)

1989 · Movie · 12 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot This is indeed the story of Icarus, son of Dedalus, trapped in a labyrinth, but with a variation.

6.4

104 votes

6.4

104 votes

The Black Pharaoh, The Savage And The Princess

2022 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot 3 contes, 3 époques, 3 univers : une épopée de l'Egypte antique, une légende médiévale de l'Auvergne, une fantaisie du XVIIIe siècle dans des costumes ottomans et des palais turcs,...

6.4

25 votes

6.4

25 votes

Kirikou and the Wild Beasts

2005 · Movie · 75 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot · Bénédicte Galup

Plot Kirikou's Grandfather says that the story of Kirikou and The Witch was too short, so he proceeds to explain more about Kirikou's accomplishments. We find out how little boy became...

6.2

941 votes

6.2

941 votes

Kirikou And The Men And Women

2012 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot The stories of Kirikou were too short to show everything that Kirikou managed to achieve. So here are some new adventures which will be revealed to us by the noble...

5.7

66 votes

5.7

66 votes

The Legend of the Poor Hunchback (S)

1982 · Movie · 7 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot Winner of best animated short at the César Awards 1983.

5.5

78 votes

5.5

78 votes

Daughters of Equality (S)

1981 · Movie · 1 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot A little old lady comes across a tall young man. To deal with their disparity in height, she telephones the titular charity.

2.2

94 votes

2.2

94 votes

The 4 Wishes (S)

1987 · Movie · 5 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot Saint Martin grants the peasant and his wife four wishes. All we can do now is hope they get everything to live happily ever after. Based on a XIVth century...

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Pablo Paris Satie (S)

2020 · Documentary · 5 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Cast Pablo Legasa

Plot For his first live-action movie, Michel Ocelot captured Pablo Legasa - Premier Dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet - dancing in the sky to Erik Satie's Gnossienne n°1.

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The Impassive Princess (TV Miniseries)

1983 · Movie · 58 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot Young suitors are lined up in front of the castle. The one, who is able to impress the "insensible" princess wins her hand in marriage. In each episode of about...

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The Maid and the Magician (S)

1992 · Movie · 4 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot "I am ugly, I am alone, I am bored". In three seconds, everything will change...

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Dragons et princesses (TV Series)

2010 · Series · 13 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot A set of original and folk stories in Michel Ocelot's on-off lifetime work of silhouette animation fairy tales take their inspiration from, among others, Caribbean, Meso-American, Russian and Tibetan culture.

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The Jewel Prince (S)

1992 · Movie · 13 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot Here we have an innocent boy, a pretty princess, a treacherous merchant and a giant eagle who is fond of jewels. The tale is set in the country of the...

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Gédéon (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 5 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Plot Gédéon was born on a farm, where everyone rejects him because of his long neck, so he decides to run away. He spends his first night in the countryside. But...

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Not rated