Direction: Agnès Varda
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Agnès Varda. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Gleaners and I
2000 · Documentary · 82 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Plot Here and there in France. Agnès has come across gleaners, foragers, rummagers and scavengers. Through necessity, purely by chance or out of choice these people pick up left-over items discarded...
7.6
4K votes
7.6
4K votes
Cleo from 5 to 7
1962 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Corinne Marchand · Antoine Bourseiller · Dorothée Blanck · Loye Payen
Plot Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that...
7.5
4K votes
7.5
4K votes
The Beaches of Agnès
2008 · Documentary · 110 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Agnès Varda · Yolande Moreau
Plot Autobiopraphic documentary about the director Agnes Várda. The french woman explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her...
7.4
622 votes
7.4
622 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
Daguerréotypes
1976 · Documentary · 80 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Rosalie Varda
Plot Documentary on the small shopkeepers of the rue Daguerre in Paris, where the film-maker lived.
7.4
409 votes
7.4
409 votes
Varda by Agnès
2019 · Documentary · 115 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Agnès Varda
Plot An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda's next film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls "cine-writing," traveling from...
7.3
573 votes
7.3
573 votes
Jacquot de Nantes
1991 · Movie · 118 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Philippe Maron · Edouard Joubeaud · Laurent Monnier · Brigitte De Villepoix
Plot The true story of the childhood of Jacques Demy, and his pursuit of a dream - to become a filmmaker. This tale of teenage obsession is captured on film by...
7.3
352 votes
7.3
352 votes
Happiness
1965 · Movie · 76 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Jean-Claude Drouot · Marie-France Boyer · Claire Drouot · Olivier Drouot
Plot Francois is a young carpenter married with Therese. They have two little children. All goes well, life is beautiful, the sun shines and the birds sing. One day, Francois meets...
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
Hello Cubans
1971 · Documentary · 30 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Plot A half-hour photo montage made up of 1500 out of over 4000 pictures Agnes Varda took while vacationing in Cuba. It deals with the revolution of Fidel Castro and his...
7.3
283 votes
7.3
283 votes
Faces Places
2017 · Documentary · 90 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda · Jean René
Cast Jean-Luc Godard · Jean René · Laurent Levesque · Agnès Varda
Plot Agnès Varda and JR have similarities: a passion and questioning of images in general and more precisely on the places and the devices to show them, to share them, to...
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
Vagabond
1985 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · Macha Méril · Yolande Moreau · Stéphane Freiss
Plot It is the dark story of a female drifter named Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire). The film opens as Mona's frozen body is found in a drainage ditch and proceeds to tell...
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
Mur murs
1981 · Documentary · 85 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Plot The French director Agnes Varda spent a couple of different years in Los Angeles, and this particular year produced her documentary "Murs, murs" and her fiction film "Documenteur". The title...
7.1
75 votes
7.1
75 votes
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
1977 · Movie · 115 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Valérie Mairesse · Thérèse Liotard · Gisèle Halimi · Marion Hänsel
Plot The intertwined lives of two women in 1970's France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps...
7.0
483 votes
7.0
483 votes
Ulysse (S)
1983 · Documentary · 22 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Plot A photograph taken 30 years ago is the reason for Agnès Varda to do this short.
6.9
128 votes
6.9
128 votes
The Universe of Jacques Demy
1995 · Documentary · 90 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Anouk Aimée · Richard Berry · Nino Castelnuovo · Danielle Darrieux
Plot In tribute to her late husband, the wife of the respected French director honors his life and artistic works by highlighting his vision in clips and interviews.
6.9
90 votes
6.9
90 votes
Le Petit Amour
1988 · Movie · 80 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Jane Birkin · Mathieu Demy · Charlotte Gainsbourg · Lou Doillon
Plot Mary-Jane is a divorced woman with two daughters, Lucy and Loulou. Lucy has a party where Mary-Jane notices Julien, 14, small and brassy, but she sees a sensitive side. She...
6.8
310 votes
6.8
310 votes
The So-called Caryatids (S)
1984 · Documentary · 11 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
6.8
196 votes
6.8
196 votes
La pointe courte
1955 · Movie · 86 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Silvia Monfort · Philippe Noiret
Plot There are two parts to this film: sequences of life in the fishing village of La Pointe Courte (a government inspector's visit, the death of a child) alternate with others...
6.8
417 votes
6.8
417 votes
Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988 · Documentary · 97 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast Jane Birkin · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Philippe Léotard · Farid Chopel
Plot Jane B. is London-born actress and recording star Jane Birkin. Agnes V. is Belgian filmmaker and "grandmother of the New Wave" Agnes Varda. Jane B. Par Agnes V is a...
6.8
113 votes
6.8
113 votes
Huey
1968 · Documentary · 31 min. · France
Direction Agnès Varda
Cast H. Rap Brown · Stokely Carmichael · Eldridge Cleaver · Ron Dellums
Plot "Black Panthers" introduced the world to the Panthers, their philosophies, and activity.
6.8
222 votes
6.8
222 votes