Direction: Marguerite Duras
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Marguerite Duras. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Her Name's Venise in Deserted Calcutta
1976 · Movie · 120 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Delphine Seyrig · Nicole Hiss · Michael Lonsdale · Sylvie Nuytten
Plot Film consists almost entirely of images of the deserted, deteriorating Rothschild palace near Reims, and uses the soundtrack of India Song.
8.0
35 votes
8.0
35 votes
Atlantic Man
1981 · Movie · 45 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Yann Andréa · Marguerite Duras
Plot Duras based the short feature L'Homme atlantique not on one of her written works but on her own film, Agatha, using outtakes from that film to push her image/sound experiment...
7.5
35 votes
7.5
35 votes
Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)
1979 · Documentary · 48 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
7.3
30 votes
7.3
30 votes
Agatha et les lectures illimitées
1981 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Bulle Ogier · Yann Andréa
7.3
97 votes
7.3
97 votes
Woman of the Ganges
1974 · Movie · 85 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Catherine Sellers · Christian Baltauss · Gérard Depardieu · Dionys Mascolo
7.0
51 votes
7.0
51 votes
Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne)
1979 · Documentary · 27 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
7.0
32 votes
7.0
32 votes
Les Mains négatives (S)
1978 · Movie · 14 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Marguerite Duras
6.8
84 votes
6.8
84 votes
India Song
1975 · Movie · 120 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Delphine Seyrig · Michael Lonsdale · Mathieu Carrière · Claude Mann
6.8
477 votes
6.8
477 votes
Le Navire Night
1979 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Dominique Sanda · Bulle Ogier · Mathieu Carrière
Plot The plot of The Navire Night concerns a love affair between a man and a woman, who first make contact by telephone one night, quite by chance.
6.7
91 votes
6.7
91 votes
The Children
1984 · Movie · 94 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras · Jean Mascolo · Jean-Marc Turine
Cast Axel Bogousslavsky · Daniel Gélin · Tatiana Moukhine · Martine Chevallier
Plot Ernesto, a seven-year-old boy who has the body of a thirty-year-old man, decides, upon attending his first day of school, that he no longer wishes to attend, because he does...
6.5
28 votes
6.5
28 votes
Destroy, She Said
1969 · Movie · 100 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Catherine Sellers · Michael Lonsdale · Henri Garcin · Nicole Hiss
Plot A professor, his young wife, a middle-aged woman recovering from a miscarriage, and a pensive Jewish outsider meet on the grounds of a rural hotel. While the other guests are...
6.5
39 votes
6.5
39 votes
The Truck
1977 · Movie · 80 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Marguerite Duras · Gérard Depardieu
Plot We are confronted with two images, a lorry driving through the night until dawn, a depiction of the loneliness and determination of the long-distance driver, and, intercut with it, an...
6.4
84 votes
6.4
84 votes
Nathalie Granger
1971 · Movie · 83 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Lucía Bosé · Jeanne Moreau · Gérard Depardieu · Nathalie Bourgeois
Plot With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She and her friend are seen doing yard work, talking about their...
6.4
117 votes
6.4
117 votes
6.4
66 votes
Baxter, Vera Baxter
1977 · Movie · 91 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Delphine Seyrig · Noëlle Chatelet · Nathalie Nell · Claude Aufaure
5.9
114 votes
5.9
114 votes
Des journées entières dans les arbres
1976 · Movie · 91 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Madeleine Renaud · Bulle Ogier · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Yves Gasc
Plot A woman (Madeleine Renaud) whose son (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has been estranged from her for years travels to visit him in Paris. Despite offers of money and position, he would prefer...
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Jaune le soleil
1971 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras
Cast Catherine Sellers · Sami Frey · Dionys Mascolo · Diurka
Plot The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female character establishes the dialogue between...
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La musica
1967 · Movie · 80 min. · France
Direction Marguerite Duras · Paul Seban
Cast Delphine Seyrig · Robert Hossein · Julie Dassin · Gérard Blain
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