Albert Camus

The Outsider (2023)

Machinima-adaptation of Albert Camus book "L'étranger", done in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. ...

La cura (2022)

During the Covid-19 lockdown, a film crew is shooting an adaptation of Camus' La Peste. Reality and fiction start to blur between each other. ...

Les Justes (2019)

Today, immense confusion reigns over the quest for the absolute, revolt and fury, violence and its appendages. And many people plunge back in Albert Camus' work to find answers. In the foreword to his play, the philosopher and writer summarizes the intrigu ...

Far from Men (2015)

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities. ...

Caligula (2014)

A staging of Albert Camus' play "Caligula" by Stéphane Olivié-Bisson. ...

Gracias a La Vida (2012)

A musical journey to the roots and meaning of happiness, time and money. ...

The First Man (2011)

Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding i ...

El malentendido (2002)

A young woman will seek to reunite with her family after being adopted. After finding out her whereabouts with a detective, she will travel inside to meet them waiting to be recognized. Her mother and brother have a roadside post on the Paraguayan border, ...

Fate (2001)

Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy. ...

Demons (2000)

In the last house just behind the western borders of Russia, between Paris/Texas and Korleput/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cindy Sherman, Dogma 95 and Duma 2000, Frank Castorf directs his virst video production "Dämonen" ("Demons") as a sort of post-Soviet-pan ...

Restless (2000)

Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina, something unexpected happens – he falls in love. ...

Friend of War (1993)

The film is set during World War II in a German-occupied European country. In a covered truck on a snow-covered road, the Germans are transporting a group of civilians. Thoughts of imminent death inevitably visit the passengers of the van. The Catholic pri ...

The Plague (1992)

In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city, an idealistic doctor decides to stay and help the sick. In the ever-changing circumstances, he puts up a brave fight, being helped by ...

The Wrath of a God (1988)

On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with his sister, the degrading treatment to their partners and so on. ...

The Unknown (1984)

In an Isolated Canadian motel, a mother and a depressed daughter survive by murdering their guests for money. ...

Jonah, or the Artist at Work (1984)

A painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story. ...

Under the Shrapnel (1983)

A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him. ...

A Town in Fog (1978)

A man who has been living overseas for many years returns home to find his sister and widowed mother are making a living by taking in lodgers and murdering them. ...

El malentendido (1976)

Jan , a young man whose life passes successfully, rich and in love, decides to renew ties with his family, which he had abandoned some many years ago. So, together with his wife Maria , he returns to his hometown and, more specifically, to the pension run ...

Sisyphus (1974)

The film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken shot, consisting of a dynamic line drawing of Sisyphus, the stone, and the mountainsi ...

Calígula (1971)

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (1970)

From a rat infestation in the slums, a fast-spreading virus grips Hong Kong, inducing panic when the government is slow to react. Inspired by Albert Camus's The Plague. ...

Le parole a venire (1970)

Free adaptation of Camus' "Les muets". ...

The Fall (1970)

Based on the novel by Albert Camus ...

The Stranger (1967)

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder. ...

Homesick (1965)

Young man from "the provinces" adrift in Mexico City. ...

Der Belagerungszustand (1963)

A comet drops from the sky and causes a stir in Cadiz, Spain. A nihilistic drunk called Nada announces that very bad things are imminent. A herald gives orders that it is punishable to mention the comet. ...

Die Besessenen (1962)

A conflicted society descends into anarchy and chaos with the spread of nihilism. If there is no God, life is meaningless. And without meaning, men and women will go stark, raving mad. ...

Maria Casarès and Albert Camus, you, my life (2022)

Maria Casarès, a theatre actress and Albert Camus, one of the most important modern french writer, keep a long correspondence (more than 900 letters) about their love and the emotions they feel for each other for 15 years. ...

Cretinália (2020)

Short film by Jorge Furtado, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine. ...

The Lives of Albert Camus (2020)

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of "L'Etranger", one of the most widely read novels in the world, philosopher of the absurd and of revolt, resistant, journalist, playwright, Albert ...

Camus, l'icône de la révolte (2020)

Albert Camus, who died 60 years ago, continues to inspire defenders of freedom and human rights activists around the world today. The Nobel Prize winner for literature is one of the most widely read French-language writers in the world. He continues to emb ...

Sartre/Camus: A Fractured Friendship (2014)

Sartre and Camus, the two most world-famous, 20th century, French writers, form a legendary and inseparable couple. The two extraordinary thinkers propelled the figure of the politically engaged writer into the limelight. ...

Amour de vivre (2010)

An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his childhood in Algiers, his literary career and his constant struggle against the pomposity of French bourgeois i ...

Albert Camus (1974)

A documentary on Albert Camus. ...