Direction: Philippe Grandrieux

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


Direction Philippe Grandrieux

Cast Masao Adachi · Naruhiko Onozawa

Plot Grandrieux pays an homage to Masao Adachi, a Japanese filmmaker with a turbulent past and now a recluse in his homeland, creating a portrait of this man always faithful in...

6.7

33 votes

6.7

33 votes

Un lac

2008 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Philippe Grandrieux

Cast Dmitry Kubasov · Natalie Rehorova · Alexei Solonchev · Simona Huelsemann

Plot The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house...

6.4

181 votes

6.4

181 votes

A New Life

2002 · Movie · 108 min. · France

6.4

218 votes

6.4

218 votes

6.3

31 votes

Sombre

1998 · Movie · 112 min. · France

Direction Philippe Grandrieux

Cast Marc Barbe · Elina Löwensohn · Géraldine Voillat · Martine Vandeville

Plot A car, following the Tour de France. Children screaming in front of the puppet show. Women, often prostitutes, trying to scream as they are being strangled. Then he will meet...

6.2

294 votes

6.2

294 votes

Despite the Night

2015 · Movie · 155 min. · France

Direction Philippe Grandrieux

Cast Roxane Mesquida · Kristian Marr · Ariane Labed · Paul Hamy

Plot Lens returns to Paris to find his only true love, Madeleine. As his search for her continues, he finds himself getting sucked into the dark and cruel underworld of the...

5.5

189 votes

5.5

189 votes

White Epilepsy

2012 · Movie · 68 min. · France

Direction Philippe Grandrieux

Cast Hélène Rocheteau · Jean-Nicolas Dafflon · Anja Röttgerkamp · Dominique Dupuy

Plot Deep in the woods, humanity, ancient and archaic, replays the unravelled scenes from a ceremony. hovering between dream and nightmare, the story is woven from fear, sexuality and the animality...

4.5

56 votes

4.5

56 votes

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Unrest

2017 · Documentary · 45 min. · France

Direction Philippe Grandrieux

Cast Lilas Nagoya · Nathalie Remadi

Plot Unrest is the third movement of a triptych by Philippe Grandrieux whose common thread is anxiety. The theme of Unrest is “la petite mort”.

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The Scream

2019 · Documentary · 63 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Philippe Grandrieux

Plot An installation presented on 11 screens featuring nude human figures engaged in cathartic performance.

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L'arrière-saison (S)

2007 · Documentary · 19 min. · France

Direction Philippe Grandrieux

Plot Inspired by the dominant motif of the novel by the great Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, “L’Arrière-saison” is a diptych about roses.

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La Lumière, la lumière (S)

2020 · Documentary · 19 min. · Mexico

Direction Philippe Grandrieux

Plot Philippe Grandrieux evokes the obsessive relationship between two women whose existence is kept by a lugubrious voice and by Alan Vega’s and Marc Hurtado’s famous Saturn Drive Duplex.

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The Small Screens of Cairo (S)

1983 · Documentary · 7 min. · France

Direction Philippe Grandrieux

Plot In this short film, we witness various shots of different settings in Cairo - a workshop, a barber shop, a café, etc. - in each of which can be found...

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Une génération (S)

1982 · Documentary · 10 min. · France

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