Alexandre Gavras

A Survivor's Tale (2026)

1542, the year of Jacques Cartier's second mission to Canada. Pregnant by a man other than her future husband, the expedition's commander, the young Marguerite de la Rocque is abandoned on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland with the man who ra ...

No Other Choice (2025)

After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity. ...

Riviera (2025)

A dying palm tree, a doomed summer romance, and a mother who wants to move on. This will be Alkistis' last summer on the Athenian Riviera. ...

Before What Comes After (2025)

In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death… A whirlwind of encounters in which the doctor is the guide and the writer, his passenger, led to confront his own fears and anxietie ...

Légua (2023)

At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there. As the seasons turn, Mónica, Ana's daughter, challen ...

The Successor (2023)

Happy and accomplished, Ellias becomes the new artistic director of a famous French Haute Couture house. When he learns that his father, whom he has not seen for many years, has just died of a heart attack, Ellias goes to Quebec to settle the estate. The y ...

Lions (2022)

Rosie, a Congolese teenager who's recently arrived in London, discovers the unwelcoming side of life in Britain, when a misunderstanding with two window cleaners escalates into conflict. ...

Tjenbé Red (2022)

The Restless (2021)

Leila and Damien are deeply in love. Despite his bipolar disorder, he tries to pursue his life with her, knowing he may never be able to offer her what she desires. ...

Adults in the Room (2019)

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with ...

Touiza (2018)

Algiers, 1994, in the middle of the civil war. Yasmine, a housekeeper, must take leave to visit her aunt. But on this particular day, Madame, her boss, loses her beloved dog, Touiza. Unable to be left alone, Madame is determined to prevent Yasmine from lea ...

Les bonnes conditions (2018)

Documentary in which 8 Parisian adolescents with a silver-spoon upbringing are followed over the course of 15 years. ...

Custody (2018)

Miriam and Antoine have recently separated. While she's willing to permit their 17-year-old daughter Josephine to decide living arrangements for herself, Miriam is desperate to keep her youngest, 11-year-old Julien, away from his father. But the magistrate ...

Just Before Losing Everything (2013)

Julien is 10 years old. He pretends to go to school but then hides out under a bridge, his backpack filled with clothes. A few kilometers away, 15-year-old Joséphine does the same and waits for the bus. ...

Little Fish Killer (1998)

Jacques, a morgue employee haunted by nightmares, develops a invisible serum made from transparent little fish. ...

A Survivor's Tale (2026)

1542, the year of Jacques Cartier's second mission to Canada. Pregnant by a man other than her future husband, the expedition's commander, the young Marguerite de la Rocque is abandoned on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland with the man who ra ...

The Restless (2021)

Leila and Damien are deeply in love. Despite his bipolar disorder, he tries to pursue his life with her, knowing he may never be able to offer her what she desires. ...

Little Fish Killer (1998)

Jacques, a morgue employee haunted by nightmares, develops a invisible serum made from transparent little fish. ...