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...
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