Direction: Sébastien Lifshitz

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


Little Girl

2020 · Documentary · 85 min. · France

Direction Sébastien Lifshitz

Plot When she grows up, she will be a girl. This is something Sasha has dreamed of since childhood. Her family soon realises how serious she is. In addition to interviews...

7.3

246 votes

7.3

246 votes

Les invisibles

2012 · Documentary · 115 min. · France

Direction Sébastien Lifshitz

Plot Several elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless decision to live openly in France at a time when society rejected them.

7.3

159 votes

7.3

159 votes

Casa Susanna

2022 · Documentary · 97 min. · France

Direction Sébastien Lifshitz

Plot In the '50s and '60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first...

7.0

30 votes

7.0

30 votes

Les vies de Thérèse

2016 · Documentary · 55 min. · France

7.0

23 votes

7.0

23 votes

Adolescents

2019 · Documentary · 135 min. · France

Direction Sébastien Lifshitz

Plot Emma and Anaïs are best friends and yet everything in their life seems to oppose them, their social background but also their personality. From the age of 13 to 18,...

6.9

137 votes

6.9

137 votes

Bambi

2013 · Documentary · 58 min. · France

6.7

114 votes

6.7

114 votes

Come Undone

2000 · Movie · 93 min. · France

Direction Sébastien Lifshitz

Cast Jérémie Elkaïm · Stéphane Rideau · Marie Matheron · Dominique Reymond

Plot Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother's summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. A love-story begins between the two boys.

6.1

809 votes

6.1

809 votes

Wild Side

2004 · Movie · 93 min. · France

Direction Sébastien Lifshitz

Cast Stephanie Michelini · Yasmine Belmadi · Edouard Nikitine · Joseane Stoleru

Plot French director Sébastien Lifshitz follows up his erotic feature Come Undone with a sumptuous film about three people living on the fringe or wild side of society. The film follows...

6.1

104 votes

6.1

104 votes

Going South

2009 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Sébastien Lifshitz

Cast Yannick Renier · Léa Seydoux · Nicole García · Pierre Perrier

Plot In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless...

5.4

124 votes

5.4

124 votes

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Madame Hofmann

2024 · Documentary · 104 min. · France

Direction Sébastien Lifshitz

Cast Sylvie Hofmann

Plot 'Welcome to my life', this sentence, Sylvie Hofmann repeats it all day or almost. Sylvie has been a nursing executive for 40 years at the hospital north of Marseille. Her...

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The Crossing

2001 · Documentary · 85 min. · France

Direction Sébastien Lifshitz

Cast Stéphane Bouquet

Plot Stéphane Bouquet, a friend and colleague of French director Sébastien Lifshitz, never knew his father: an American soldier in the French-based NATO forces who left without knowing he had sired...

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Les terres froides (TV)

1999 · Movie · 62 min. · France

Direction Sébastien Lifshitz

Cast Yasmine Belmadi · Bernard Verley · Valérie Donzelli · Sébastien Charles

Plot Djamel is a 20 something French youth man of arab heritage looking for his father. When he finds him and comes forward as his son the man rebuffs him and...

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Not rated