Eugène Ionesco

As Cadeiras (2022)

Elderly couple, in their 90s, live in a lighthouse where the old man is a janitor. Isolated and with no visitors, they decide that on that day the old man will finally make an announcement that will change humanity or at least what is left of it. ...

Josette and her Daddy (2010)

Josette knocks on her parents' bedroom door. It seems daddy is in a bad mood. Mama has moved to the country for a couple of days and there's a strange tension in the air. Josette wants to play, but daddy has got to get up and dress for work. Based on a sho ...

Rhinocéros (2009)

A staging of Eugène Ionesco's play "Rhinoceros" by mmanuel Demarcy-Mota. ...

Regarding the Bald Singer... (2009)

Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco. ...

I’m Going Home (2001)

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on ...

Replacing Dogs with Mixing (1993)

The professor gives his student a lesson, during which the relationship between them gradually changes. ...

La Cantatrice chauve (1991)

Le roi se meurt (1978)

A staging of Eugène Ionesco's play "Exit the King" by Jorge Lavelli. ...

Rhinoceros (1974)

A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros. ...

Exit the King (1972)

An adaptation of the play `Exit the King` by Eugene Ionesco, the third play in the Berenger Cycle. King Berenger the First is a king now in decline, having once been able to command the forces of nature, his kingdom is now crumbling and he is slowly dying. ...

Amédée ou comment s'en débarrasser (1968)

Rhinoceros (1964)

Based on Eugene Ionesco's play, this is an animated film warning that by conforming to patterns and living en masse, people will become rhinoceroses. ...

The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it ...

La Colère (1962)

Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world. ...

Stolarna (1962)

An Old Man and Old Woman frantically prepare chairs for a series of invisible guests who are coming to hear an orator reveal the old man's discovery. ...

Monsieur Tête (1959)

Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him. Because of his marginal behavior, his head is broken, like everyone else. ...

When Night Meets Dawn (2021)

A teenage boy goes looking for his new friend on the hot streets of an eerie city. As the blue night falls, a sensual journey begins. Nature around him becomes exotic and the exotic becomes erotic. In the illuminating dawn, he discovers he's not like the r ...

Lucifer et moi (2009)

The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' (2003)

A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA Obscenity Codes. ...

Tales for children under three (1989)

These tales for children under three years of Eugène Ionesco are illustrated by drawings of children. The presence of the storyteller is preponderant on the screen. The images of his aged face filmed in close-up create a strange atmosphere. ...

Eugène Ionesco, voix and silences (1987)

An evocation of the work of the playwright and writer Eugène Ionesco through a series of interviews, footage shot in his studio and extracts from his plays. ...

Le Roi des cons (1981)

Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love with Sophie and records a message of love. The tape is mistakenly broadcast in the company. In the face of success, Sophie founded the company Tell me abou ...

Ariane (1974)

A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur. ...

Schlamm (1970)

In his country house, a man lets himself get stuck in a suicidal lethargy. Eugène Ionesco, alone on screen, interprets the character of his short story, during a cinematic experience as a transcription of an existential malaise. The distress of a devastat ...

Françoise et Udo... (1968)

This is the story of a meeting between a man and a woman. In a train, an Austrian singer and a French teacher exchange on their past, their character, and fall in love. Their journey is made in music. ...

Monsieur Tête (1959)

Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him. Because of his marginal behavior, his head is broken, like everyone else. ...