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

L'Ambassade (S)

1973 · Documentary · 20 min. · France

Direction Chris Marker

7.1

177 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

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