Arnaud Desplechin

Two Pianos (2025)

Returning to France after a long exile, pianist Mathias Vogler reunites with his mentor, Elena, to prepare a concert. In a park, an encounter with a child who looks just like him will lead him to Claude, the woman he once loved. ...

Filmlovers! (2025)

What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer's coming-of-age story. M ...

Brother and Sister (2022)

Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven't seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face. ...

Angels in America (2021)

New York, 1985. Against the backdrop of AIDS - divine punishment inflicted on gays according to puritan America -, angels, who epilogue on the emptiness of the American dream, cross paths with the ghost of the spy Ethel Rosenberg, separating lovers and des ...

Deception (2021)

An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women. His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as their refuge. A student he loved in another life. A former lover confined to a hospital in New York. ...

Oh Mercy (2019)

A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered on Christmas Eve. However, in a neighborhood rife with crime, everyone seems to be a suspect. ...

Diane (2019)

Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories. ...

Ismael's Ghosts (2017)

Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, presumed dead for 20 years, come crashing back into his life creating chaos in his work and his current rom ...

My Golden Days (2015)

Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life. ...

The Forest (2014)

The Forest is both a vibrantly spontaneous and brutally funny family drama, and a glorious tribute to acting and theater - in other words, an Arnaud Desplechin film. With Michel Vuillermoz and Denis Podalydès as the nephew and his friend, Adeline D'Hermy ...

Jimmy P. (2013)

At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a co ...

Soixante minutes de paroles pour le Japon (2011)

On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! (2010)

Call for the regularization by the French government of all undocumented workers living in the country, a short film co-directed by 320 filmmakers and directors, producers, distributors and cinema owners. ...

A Christmas Tale (2008)

When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, th ...

The Beloved (2007)

Arnaud Desplechin documents the selling of his family home. ...

Kings & Queen (2004)

Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to ...

Playing 'In the Company of Men' (2003)

A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and are pushed to eventual destruction by dangerous outside forces and traitorous aides. ...

Esther Kahn (2000)

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress. ...

We, France's Undocumented Immigrants (1997)

In support of undocumented immigrants in France, a collective film jointly signed by 200 French filmmakers, producers, distributors, and cinema owners. Produced by Le Collectif des Cinéastes Pour les Sans-papiers, with Madjiguène Cissé. ...

My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)

Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers? ...

The Sentinel (1992)

A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage. ...

The Life of the Dead (1991)

A young woman convenes with her extended family in a provincial village where her cousin, in a coma, is hospitalized after attempting suicide. ...

Love Without Pity (1989)

25 year-old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker winnings. ...

The Photograph (1987)

A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement. A misunderstanding regardi ...

Présence féminine (1987)

A strange young woman lives for a while with a man and brings troubles in his appartment and his life. ...

Comme les doigts de la main (1985)

Narrator falls in love with a beautiful girl. Unfortunately she isn't alone: five guys follow her every time no matter where she goes – to work, in park or in bed. ...

French Lovers (1985)

A woman is waiting for the bus. A man in a car offers her a lift but she rejects till he points that it is Sunday and the bus is not running on Sundays. In their short travel together through the streets of a deserted Paris the man tries to seduce the woma ...

Le Couronnement du monde (1984)

Le Polichinelle et la Machine à coder (1983)

In 1940, Jean Ray began writing the "Polichinelle d'acier"; he would never finish the short story. A narrator will disassemble the text, explore the writer's past, call witnesses to the stand, and thus penetrate the workings of a formidable spy network. ...

Filmlovers! (2025)

What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer's coming-of-age story. M ...

Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera (2023)

She worked with the world's greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with the filmmakers with whom she invented herself not to be a "cold blonde actress", thanks to great intervie ...

Room 999 (2023)

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca ...

Persona: The Film That Saved Ingmar Bergman (2018)

In 1965 Ingmar Bergman filmed "Persona", the cult film that brought together all of the Swedish filmmaker's obsessions and became a turning point in his career. ...

Jean Douchet, Restless Child (2017)

Three young cinephiles follow Jean Douchet, question his friends and former students. This documentary reveals the man and his critical philosophy, a part of the history of Cahiers du Cinema and this art of loving to which he has devoted his existence. ...

Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book "Hitchcock/Truffaut" ("Le cinéma selon Hitchcock"), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966. ...

Les Jours venus (2015)

The day comes when your children look at your past as if you had fought at Verdun. The day comes when an official letter questions your age and your status and pushes you toward retirement. The day comes when your latest screenplay idea does not turn into ...

Caroline Champetier and Arnaud Desplechin: A Conversation about 'Shoah' (2013)

An interview about 'Shoah' featuring Caroline Champetier, who did assistant camera work on the film, and Arnaud Desplechin. ...

… But Film Is My Mistress (2010)

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars v ...

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là (2010)

Catherine Deneuve couldn't care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination. The star is not one to let others get too close, but when she gives you her confidence, she keeps her word ...

Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim » (2008)

Choosing Love (2008)

In Paris, a university student attempts to lead a double life - in love with her French boyfriend Pascal, and staying true to her Algerian family, particular her strict, traditional father. In Algiers, her cousin Yacine leads a parallel life, preparing to ...

The Beloved (2007)

Arnaud Desplechin documents the selling of his family home. ...

François Truffaut, une autobiographie (2004)

A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborators and admirers. ...