Direction: Chris Marker
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Chris Marker. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
A Grin Without a Cat
1977 · Documentary · 180 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Plot French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin...
8.2
706 votes
8.2
706 votes
The Jetty (The Pier)
1962 · Movie · 29 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Hélène Chatelain · Davos Hanich · Jacques Ledoux · André Heinrich
Plot The world is in ruins in the aftermath of a nuclear war. A team of scientists realise that the only way to save humanity from extinction is to send someone...
7.9
11K votes
7.9
11K votes
Le Joli Mai
1963 · Documentary · 165 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker · Pierre Lhomme
Cast Chris Marker · Yves Montand · Simone Signoret
Plot Documentary about Paris and the attitudes of Parisians at the height of the Algerian crisis.
7.9
115 votes
7.9
115 votes
The Owl's Legacy (TV Miniseries)
1989 · Documentary · 390 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
7.8
27 votes
7.8
27 votes
Sunless (Sans soleil)
1983 · Documentary · 100 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Florence Delay · Arielle Dombasle
Plot "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland,...
7.8
3K votes
7.8
3K votes
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (TV)
2000 · Documentary · 55 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Andrei Tarkovsky · Margarita Terekhova
Plot A documentary made prior to the death of filmmaker Andrei Arsenevitch (Tarkovsky) and showing him working on his final film, this record was made at Arsenevitch's request to stand as...
7.7
689 votes
7.7
689 votes
The Last Bolshevik
1992 · Documentary · 120 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Plot This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film...
7.7
479 votes
7.7
479 votes
If I Had Four Dromedaries
1966 · Documentary · 49 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Catherine Le Couey · Nicolas Youmatoff · Pierre Vaneck
Plot An amateur photographer and two of his friends comment some pictures taken all over the world. An essay-film that is an album with photographs, over 800 images that Marker had...
7.4
80 votes
7.4
80 votes
Statues also Die
1953 · Documentary · 30 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker · Alain Resnais
Plot Statues Also Die traces the devastating impact of French colonialism on African art. As Resnais' co-director, Chris Marker, stated, "We want to see their suffering, serenity, humor, even though we...
7.4
818 votes
7.4
818 votes
Far from Vietnam
1967 · Documentary · 120 min. · France
Direction Claude Lelouch · Agnès Varda · Jean-Luc Godard · Chris Marker
Cast Anne Bellec · Karen Blanguernon · Bernard Fresson · Maurice Garrel
Plot Seven directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc...
7.4
312 votes
7.4
312 votes
Classe de lutte
1969 · Documentary · 40 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker · Groupe Medvedkine de Besançon
Plot Classe de Lutte arranges images, music and voices that speak for themselves and unfold their signification, without following an explanatory logic. The images do not “comment on” or “give reasons...
7.4
29 votes
7.4
29 votes
Letter from Siberia
1957 · Documentary · 62 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Plot Using a letter from Siberia as its launching pad, the film goes off quixotically in several different directions. Thus, it's hard to categorize the film: a first documentary, it becomes...
7.4
220 votes
7.4
220 votes
Be Seeing You
1968 · Documentary · 55 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker · Mario Marret
Plot 1967, one year before may '68. The strike at the Rhodiaceta textile plant in Besançon sounds like the rehearsal of the rising to come. Indeed for the first time ever,...
7.2
63 votes
7.2
63 votes
The Train Rolls On
1973 · Documentary · 32 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Aleksandr Medvedkin · François Périer
Plot This half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930's, a sort of mobile film workshop complete with post-production facilities, animation stations and a large laboratory. Traveling thousands...
7.2
42 votes
7.2
42 votes
Remembrance of Things to Come
2001 · Documentary · 42 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker · Yannick Bellon
Plot Through photos made by the French photographer Denise Bellon, a personnal history of France.
7.1
425 votes
7.1
425 votes
7.1
177 votes
Description of a Struggle
1960 · Documentary · 60 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Plot Pioneer of the essay film style, enigmatic French auteur Chris Marker (La Jetée, Sans Soleil) visited Israel in the late 1950s. Turning his camera on the fledgling state, the resulting...
7.1
130 votes
7.1
130 votes
On vous parle de Prague: Le deuxième procès d'Artur London (S)
1971 · Documentary · 21 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · Artur London
7.1
27 votes
7.1
27 votes
The Koumiko Mystery
1965 · Documentary · 54 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker
Plot The 1964 Olympic games in Japan are seen through the eyes of the beautiful Muroaka Koumiko in this documentary from Chris Marker. She gives her opinions of life, love, men,...
7.0
191 votes
7.0
191 votes
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
1968 · Documentary · 28 min. · France
Direction Chris Marker · François Reichenbach
Plot On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought...
7.0
155 votes
7.0
155 votes