Direction: René Laloux

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


The Fantastic Planet (The Savage Planet)

1973 · Movie · 73 min. · France

Direction René Laloux

Plot La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surreleast story based on the Soviet occupation of the Chezc Republic. Set in a far distant world human beings or "Oms"have been...

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7.4

5K votes

7.4

5K votes

Time Masters

1982 · Movie · 78 min. · France

Direction René Laloux

Plot Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar...

6.7

463 votes

6.7

463 votes

Light Years (Gandahar)

1988 · Movie · 83 min. · France

Direction René Laloux

Plot An evil force from a 1000 years in the future begins to destroy an idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.

6.6

501 votes

6.6

501 votes

Dead Times (S)

1964 · Movie · 10 min. · France

Direction René Laloux

Plot What is man? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what...

6.5

293 votes

6.5

293 votes

How Wang-Fo Was Saved (S)

1987 · Movie · 15 min. · France

Direction René Laloux

Plot Wang Fo, the greatest master of medieval China, aided by his assistant who has given up everything to follow him, desperately seeks aesthetic perfection. A day comes when he thinks...

6.4

107 votes

6.4

107 votes

The Snails (S)

1965 · Movie · 11 min. · France

Direction René Laloux

Plot A gardener tries his best to make his salad plants grow. It is only when he cries that his tears finally water the field and the salads grow huge. The...

6.0

291 votes

6.0

291 votes

The Captive (S)

1988 · Movie · 7 min. · France

Direction René Laloux · Philippe Caza

Plot This short was meant to be a sketch in preparation for a feature that was ultimately never produced.

5.4

152 votes

5.4

152 votes

Monkey's Teeth (S)

1960 · Movie · 14 min. · France

Direction René Laloux

Plot Monkey's Teeth, a slow and ugly fairy tale based on the drawings of inmates at a psychiatric clinic where LaLoux worked

5.2

110 votes

5.2

110 votes