Jacques Rivette

Around a Small Mountain (2009)

Vittorio stops to help Kate when her car breaks down on a mountain road. When they meet again, Vittorio discovers that Kate has rejoined a circus after a long time away. He begins to learn about the troupe's buried past and Kate's connection to it, while ...

The Duchess of Langeais (2007)

At a Spanish cloister, a celebrated French general of the Napoleonic Wars recognizes the voice of one of the nuns and recalls how, five years ago, she was the Duchess of Langeais, and he her most persistent suitor. ...

Their First Films (2004)

The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)

Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he doesn't know is that she has an even more dangerous secret that leads him to Marie, with whom he had falle ...

Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)

After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting her ex-boyfriend Pierre. Her new lover Ugo also has a secret, as he's meeting with the intriguing Dominique ...

Secret Defense (1998)

After biologist Sylvie discovers her brother Paul trying to steal a gun from her lab, he explains that he wishes to avenge the death of their father whom he suspects died at the hands of his business partner. ...

Lumière & Company (1995)

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) ...

Up, Down, Fragile (1995)

A librarian, a gangster's ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening summer in Paris. ...

Joan the Maid II: The Prisons (1994)

Jeanne has succeeded in lifting the siege of Orléans and Charles has been crowned King of France. However, she is injured in an attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. Captured by the enemy and put on trial, she finds both her life and the ...

Joan the Maid I: The Battles (1994)

Convinced only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne leaves her childhood home to plead with Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield. ...

Joan the Maid (1994)

Part 1: Convinced that only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Joan of Arc leaves her childhood home to plead Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield. Part 2: Joan has succeeded in l ...

La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento (1992)

More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one being more from Marianne's point of view ...

La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago st ...

Out 1 (1990)

While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash. ...

Gang of Four (1989)

Anna, Joyce, Claude, and Cécile are four young actresses sharing a Paris apartment while attending intense acting workshops led by their demanding teacher Constance. As they rehearse scenes and navigate the tensions of living together, their personal live ...

Wuthering Heights (1985)

In 1930s south of France, young orphan Roch is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbrea ...

Love on the Ground (1984)

A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which consists of only one female part. ...

Le Pont du Nord (1982)

Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie's former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a maze spotte ...

Merry-Go-Round (1981)

New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery. ...

Paris s'en va (1981)

Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical team on both films. Henry Chapier who produced the short: "At the beginning of the '80s nobody was interested ...

Noroît (Une Vengeance) (1976)

After her brother was killed by a notorious all-female pirate gang, Morag dedicates her life to bringing the murderers to justice. Soon, she has become an important member of the pirate gang and has begun acquiring the loyalty of key members. Eventually, s ...

Duelle (Une Quarantaine) (1976)

Two enigmatic women separately arrive in Paris, both with a hidden but shared motive. As they navigate the city and their search progresses, various characters become entangled in a conflict, which increasingly comes to take a fantastical turn. These chara ...

Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)

Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama. ...

Out 1: Spectre (1973)

Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life ...

L'Amour fou (1969)

A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine's Andromaque. ...

The Nun (1967)

In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire. ...

Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception (1967)

In the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema analyzing scenes from La Marseillaise and The Rules of the Game, and discussing his editing and storytelling techniques. ...

Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur (1967)

Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their reunion by discussing, among other things, La Chienne (1931) and Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932). ...

Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif (1967)

The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir. ...

Paris Belongs to Us (1961)

A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger. ...

Fool’s Mate (1956)

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean. Claire meets her lover, Claude, at his apartment, where he gifts her a fur coat. Now Claire needs to figure out how to return home with this expensive gift without the affair ...

The Kreutzer Sonata (1956)

Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the "Sonata to Kreutzer" appears, the young woman blooms in a new passion. From then on, ...

Bérénice (1954)

Shot in 16mm, Berenice is Rohmer's first finished film. The film is based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man who becomes obsessed with his fiancé's teeth. The film was shot at Andre Bazin's house by Jacques Rivette. Rivette also edited the film. ...

The Diversion (1952)

Paris rendered as a labyrinth of intrigues. Filmed in Parisian parks and on a terrace, LE DIVERTISSEMENT foreshadows the labyrinthine walks that would be a part of Rivette's cinema, in which the characters look for, follow and find each other like in a ro ...

Le quadrille (1950)

The film features five actors, two women and three men. According to Rivette, "It ran 40 minutes and nothing happens. It's just four people sitting around a table, looking at each other. After ten minutes, people started to leave, and at the end, the only ...

Aux quatre coins (1949)

Considered by Jacques Rivette as "practice films", these early images offer us a view of the beginning of his artistic journey. AUX QUATRE COINS includes an original device that immediately sets itself apart from any other classic narrative form. These fir ...

Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited (2024)

New interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitzer; Rivette biographer Antoine de Baecque; critic/historian Sylvie Pierre; and archival footage of Jacques Rivette. ...

Conversation entre Jean-Luc Godard et Jacques Rivette (2017)

Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas (2000)

Lumière & Company (1995)

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) ...

Up, Down, Fragile (1995)

A librarian, a gangster's ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening summer in Paris. ...

Joan the Maid I: The Battles (1994)

Convinced only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne leaves her childhood home to plead with Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield. ...

Jacques Rivette, the Watchman (1990)

This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from "Cahiers du cinéma", then of "Liberation". In the course of their conversations, the two speakers discuss Rivette's career, his ...

Short Memory (1982)

In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is r ...

Merry-Go-Round (1981)

New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery. ...

Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke (1970)

Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series "Cinéastes de notre temps". ...

Festivals 66 Cinéma 67 (1967)

Wanderings during the Cannes and Hyères 1966 festivals. Interviews with Louise de Vilmorin, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Louis Comolli, François Truffaut. Lunch on the grass of the Cahiers du cinéma, young onlookers on mopeds, ...

Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception (1967)

In the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema analyzing scenes from La Marseillaise and The Rules of the Game, and discussing his editing and storytelling techniques. ...

Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur (1967)

Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their reunion by discussing, among other things, La Chienne (1931) and Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932). ...

Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif (1967)

The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir. ...

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même (1964)

Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean ...

The Lovely Month of May (1963)

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom. ...

Paris Belongs to Us (1961)

A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger. ...

Jean Renoir parle de son art (1961)

Three-part interview with French film director Jean Renoir, conducted by French New Wave director Jacques Rivette. ...

Fool’s Mate (1956)

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean. Claire meets her lover, Claude, at his apartment, where he gifts her a fur coat. Now Claire needs to figure out how to return home with this expensive gift without the affair ...

The Glass Castle (1950)

Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy. ...