MenuFLIXANO
Start Your Free Trial
Search
François Margolin

François Margolin

François Margolin, born on the 29th of March 1957, alumnus from FEMIS (French National Film School), combines the hats of writer, director and producer. He directed Falsehood in 1994, with Nathalie Baye, The Opium of the Taliban in 2001 and The Little Soldiers (about Child Soldiers in Liberia) in 2005. His first short movie, She and Him, won the famous Jean Vigo Prize. His work as a producer won him to work with prestigious directors like Raoul Ruiz (Nucingen House, Dias de Campo), Hou Hsiao-Hsien (The Flight of the Red Balloon), Raymond Depardon (Empty Quarter, a Woman in Africa), Olivier Assayas (Boarding Gate) or Costa Gavras and Abbas Kiarostami for the omnibus documentary about Nice, the suite. In 1986 he created the production company of Doctors Without Borders in Paris and worked as a journalist during the eighties for Liberation and L'express, in Africa and Afghanistan. He published a successful book about the Black Jews of Ethiopia, We were the only Jews in the World, in 2008.

Sign up to watch Free François Margolin Movies

Movies Made By François Margolin (25)

Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (2023)

"Don Juan woman", according to the expression of Balzac. A princess, a great seductress. Of a diabolical intelligence. This woman, who has had many lovers— almost all the male characters of the "Comédie Humaine"— will finally find love. The real one. ...

Watch Now

Sarah Halimi: An Anti-Semitic and Unpunished Crime (2023)

Sarah Halimi was murdered by her Malian-born neighbor during the French presidential campaign of 2017. The media initially ignored the case before a few journalists managed to mobilize public figures and the President. The investigating judge only wanted t ...

Watch Now

L'automne à Pyongyang, un portrait de Claude Lanzmann (2023)

The last journey in North Korea of Claude Lanzmann, famous director of « Shoah ». He talks about life and death, about communism, about Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, about « Shoah »... and about himself. A conversation with the director, the ...

Watch Now

Slava Ukraini (2023)

One year after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy takes us to the heart of the combat through this war diary made during the second half of 2022. From Kharkiv and Bakhmut to Kherson, in the aftermat ...

Watch Now

Sons of Cain (2021)

"Sons of Cain" is set in a small village in northern Albania. In this place time is suspended and the severe rules of an old code (Kanun) still dictate the life and death of the inhabitants. A group of seven children obliged to live under this code meet an ...

Watch Now

Dirty Lands (2021)

A deminer in the war against Daesh, a Kurdish fighter loses his hand in an accident. He became a taxi driver but, not having a driving license for the disabled, the police seized his vehicle. Under pressure from his wife who wants him to go to Europe, the ...

Watch Now

Napalm (2017)

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially invited to North Korea after the devastating Korean war and a nurse working for the Korean Red Cross hospital, ...

Watch Now

The Battle of Mosul (2017)

In October of 2016 the battle for Mosul, the Islamic State's self-proclaimed capital in northern Iraq, began. With unprecedented access, Bernard-Henri Lévy and his team follow the Kurdish units and the Iraqi special Golden Division. From street to street, ...

Watch Now

Peshmerga (2016)

From July to December 2015, with a camera team in tow, Bernard-Henri Lévy journeyed 1,000 km along the frontline separating Iraqi Kurdistan from Islamic State troops. The journey resulted in an illustrated logbook offering a special insight into an unfini ...

Watch Now

Death in Sarajevo (2016)

Sarajevo on 28 of June, 2014. At the Hotel Europa, the best hotel in town, the manager Omer prepares to welcome a delegation of diplomatic VIPs. On the centenary of the assassination that is considered to have led to World War I, an appeal for peace and un ...

Watch Now

Jihadists (2016)

A documentary that takes us to the heart of jihadism in Mali ...

Watch Now

The Art Dealer (2015)

A young woman is searching, today, in Paris, the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish family during WWII. ...

Watch Now

Opium (2013)

The frustrated loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet at the beginning of the 1920s. The death of Radiguet that sank Cocteau into opium. A story under the influence of drugs. A narrative in the spirit of Cocteau. And all this in a musical. ...

Watch Now

Nucingen House (2009)

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there. ...

Watch Now

Secrets (2008)

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current cou ...

Watch Now

Boarding Gate (2007)

A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of her boyfriend/crime partner, Lester. Controlling all this is Sue, Lester's wife. ...

Watch Now

La Recta Provincia (2007)

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice of the ...

Watch Now

Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. The film was shot in August and September 2006 on location in Paris. This is H ...

Watch Now

Days in the Country (2004)

In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality. ...

Watch Now

The Pilgrimage of Students and Jacob (2000)

Petr studies law in Prague, Jakub studies philosophy there. They are the best of friends until their holiday trip to Slovakia is crossed by a Romani young man named Imro. Imro is in love with Eržika, who is guilty of breaking an ancient tradition by break ...

Watch Now

Concerning Nice (1995)

Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930. ...

Watch Now

Mensonge (1993)

Emma has been happily married to Charles, a hardworking journalist, for over ten years. They have a son, and are considering having another child when she learns that she is both pregnant and HIV-positive at a time when Charles is away. As Emma has never u ...

Watch Now

Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa (1985)

A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her. ...

Watch Now

Movies Starring François Margolin (2)

Ballet aquatique (2012)

In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose work always blended science with surrealism. Ruiz and friends further perfect the art of mystification. Why it is ...

Watch Now

Nucingen House (2009)

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there. ...

Watch Now