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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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6.8

222 votes

6.8

222 votes