Direction: Raymond Depardon

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


Profiles Of Farmers: Daily Life

2005 · Documentary · 83 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

8.0

22 votes

8.0

22 votes

Urgences

1988 · Documentary · 104 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

7.6

132 votes

7.6

132 votes

Country Profiles: Modern Life

2008 · Documentary · 88 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

7.5

73 votes

7.5

73 votes

Caught in the Acts

1994 · Documentary · 109 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

Plot This documentary shows a few moments of the life of 14 real persons who have been caught red-handed by the police : mainly their meeting with the deputy public prosecutor...

7.4

110 votes

7.4

110 votes

The 10th Judicial Court: Judicial Hearings

2004 · Documentary · 105 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

Plot The proceedings of a Paris courtroom are the grist for this documentary. Drawn from over 200 appearances before the same female judge, the director chooses a dozen or so varied...

7.4

61 votes

7.4

61 votes

San Clemente

1982 · Documentary · 90 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon · Sophie Ristelhueber

Plot This documentary is about the life of a Venetian psychiatric hospital. The relationships between the doctors, the patients and their families are followed.

7.2

167 votes

7.2

167 votes

Journal de France

2012 · Documentary · 100 min. · France

6.6

28 votes

6.6

28 votes

Reporters

1981 · Documentary · 90 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

Cast Alain Delon · Catherine Deneuve · Serge Gainsbourg · Richard Gere

Plot The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photographers in Paris and their subjects by following the photographers around for one month, in October,...

6.6

31 votes

6.6

31 votes

12 Days

2017 · Documentary · 87 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

Plot It follows a judge who must decide whether psychiatric hospital patients can be allowed back into society.

6.5

62 votes

6.5

62 votes

To Each His Cinema

2007 · Movie · 111 min. · France

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion

Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani

Plot To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Lumière and Company

1995 · Documentary · 88 min. · France

Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Hugh Hudson · David Lynch · John Boorman

Cast Romane Bohringer · Pascal Duquenne · Bruno Ganz · Neil Jordan

Plot In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using...

6.2

813 votes

6.2

813 votes

Ten Minutes of Silence for John Lennon (S)

1980 · Documentary · 10 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

Plot The documentary is about the ceremony dedicated by American people to John Lennon after his murder. The 10 minutes of silence in New York's Central Park allows a deep observation...

5.2

148 votes

5.2

148 votes

Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

1985 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

Cast Françoise Prenant

Plot A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel in Djibouti because she seems to have some problems. Gradually he falls in love with her. They embark...

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Au bonheur des maths

2011 · Documentary · 32 min. · France

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The Declic Years

1984 · Documentary · 65 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

Cast Raymond Depardon

Plot An autobiographical film, in which Raymond Depardon uses his film and photo work to sketch his agrarian background and professional development. His tranquil, precise narrative voice takes us back in...

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France

2016 · Documentary · 84 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

Plot The Magnum photographer Raymond Depardon is also one of French cinema's great classical documentarists. In his latest film, he has travelled far and wide with a caravan furnished as a...

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News Items

1983 · Documentary · 108 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

Plot For three months director and photographer Raymond Depardon (co-founder of the Gamma News Agency) lived in the police precincts of the fifth arrondissement in Paris with his camera at the...

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Peasant Profile: The Approach

2001 · Documentary · 88 min. · France

Direction Raymond Depardon

Plot Filmmaker Raymond Depardon studies the changing face of rural France in this documentary. The dawning of the 21st Century has brought a growing number of changes to France's independent farmers,...

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