Mathieu Amalric

A Private Life (2025)

The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered. ...

Nino (2025)

Nino is a young man on a journey to reconnect with the world and himself in the streets of Paris, following the suggestion of his doctors. In three days, he will face a major challenge. ...

The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins. ...

Why War (2025)

In 1932, Albert Einstein was invited by the League of Nations to address a letter on any subject to any person. He chose to correspond with Sigmund Freud about avoiding war. To this day, the correspondence about war of two great thinkers of all time proves ...

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 ...

Before It's Too Late (2024)

The Emerson String Quartet records their last album, Infinite voyage, in three days, after 47 years of music together. For this farewell, the string quartet invited soprano Barbara Hannigan to join them, and a film was born. Their precise, inhabited work, ...

Serpent's Path (2024)

A mysterious woman teams up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Together they kidnap members of an organization and torture them to find out what really happened. ...

Une Française à Kaboul : L'Aventure d'une vie (2023)

Mars Express (2023)

In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet's capital city where they uncover a darker story o ...

Spirit of Ecstasy (2023)

A gender-questioning stock market trader is determined to make it in the world of finance — not for the glory or wealth, but because it's leading them on the path to freedom. ...

A Difficult Year (2023)

Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of e ...

A Prince (2023)

The journey of a young man as he begins an apprenticeship in the French countryside to train as a gardener. There he encounters a trio of men who will prove decisive in both his nascent career as a horticulturist and in unleashing his sexuality. ...

Goodbye Vinyle (2023)

Late 1950s in France. One woman, two men. She, Ève Faugère, a glamorous diva at the peak of her career. The man, her husband, Maurice Faugère, an immense author who made her and propelled her for years to the firmament of the song. And finally the lover ...

A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems. ...

Ne soyez pas vous-même (2023)

A portrait of the Larrieu brothers at work shot during the post-production of their film Tralala. ...

Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God (2022)

An account of the life and work of the influential Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), an iconic figure and a godless demigod who dared to enter the darkest depths of the human mind; through his correspondence and his own voice, and that of hi ...

Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande (2021)

From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped for did not happen. But, before his death in 1991, three years after learning of his HIV-positive status, he engraved in his literary and photographic work "th ...

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef. ...

Mother Schmuckers (2021)

Issachar and Zabulon, two brothers in their twenties, are supremely stupid and never bored, as madness is part of their daily lives. When they lose their mother's beloved dog, they have 24 hours to find it - or she will kick them out. ...

Pierre & Jeanne (2021)

Family Roland lives in Etretat. Jeanne, the youngest, inherits Mr Marechal's fortune, a friend of the parents. Pierre the elder brother, bogged down in questions, questions the sacredness of the family. Is this money hiding a heavy secret? ...

Tralala (2021)

A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary. ...

Oxygen (2021)

A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air. ...

Les Damnés de la Commune (2021)

Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution in 1871. ...

The Black Book (2020)

The Black Book, drafted during World War II, gathers numerous unique historical testimonies, in an effort to document Nazi abuses against Jews in the USSR . Initially supported by the regime and aimed at providing evidence during the executioners' trials i ...

Sound of Metal (2020)

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him ad ...

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty (2020)

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) used his talent to serve an ideal of justice and freedom. But his best scenario was his own destiny, a story ...

Monsieur Deligny, vagabond efficace (2020)

Famous educator Fernand Deligny tries to find ways to communicate beyond language with troubled and autistic children in his care. ...

Wonders in the Suburbs (2020)

Political rivals try to sabotage a new mayor and her eccentric plans for an underprivileged French municipality. ...

Ça a recommencé, l’émerveillement (2020)

A Beautiful Summer (2019)

African immigrants start working on a farm in Normandy and hope to open their own restaurant someday. ...

An Officer and a Spy (2019)

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil's Island penal colony. ...

The Collection (2019)

The Exiled (2018)

Marcelo Novais Teles, a young Brazilian, arrives in Paris to become an actor. But he is caught up in a very intense love as well as professional life; that's when he choses to film everything as time progresses. Dinner, parties, rehearsals, friendly and fa ...

At Eternity's Gate (2018)

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him. ...

Sink or Swim (2018)

40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his l ...

A Tramway in Jerusalem (2018)

On a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together. ...

Amalric, l’art et la matière (2018)

On the shooting or when talking about it, Mathieu Amalric is preparing Barbara, his film about the iconic singer, starring the incredible Jeanne Balibar. ...

John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (2018)

An immersive film essay on tennis legend John McEnroe at the height of his career as the world champion, documenting his strive for perfection, frustrations, and the hardest loss of his career at the 1984 Roland-Garros French Open. ...

Jusqu’au 23 Juillet (2018)

Documentary about the making of Louis Malle's 1963 film "The Fire Within". ...

Tomorrow and Thereafter (2017)

Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person who hovers at the edge of madness. It is a story of a unique love between a daughter and her mother. ...

Barbara (2017)

An actress will play Barbara, the French singer. The shoot will soon start. The actress works on her character, her voice, the songs, scores, the gestures, knitting, scenes she has to learn, things are going okay, there's progress, development, she is even ...

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 ...

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait (2017)

A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel. ...

Sleeping Beauty (2017)

In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only has one thing on his mind: finding Sleeping Beauty in the kingdom of Kentz and breaking the spell over her. But his father, the king, doesn't bel ...

Never Ever (2016)

Based on Don DeLillo's novella "The Body Artist," the film swirls around a self-centered filmmaker who, during a screening of one of his films, wanders into an adjoining gallery and becomes mesmerized by a young performance artist. Dumping his leading lady ...

Daguerrotype (2016)

An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery. ...

The Dunce (2016)

Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life hanging aro ...

Struggle for Life (2016)

Marc Châtaigne, an intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at Guyaneige: the first Amazonian ski slope, intended to boost tourism in French Guiana. ...

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture (2016)

An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud. ...

Seances (2016)

Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a series of film sequences in unique configurations, potentially hundreds of thousands of new stories are conjur ...

The Son of Joseph (2016)

A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works as a publisher in Paris. After he attempts to kill him, he finds filial love thanks to his uncle. ...

Un, parfois deux (2016)

Laurent Achard set up his camera on the set of Paul Vecchiali's film Le Cancre to capture the director's creative power. Although Vecchiali's precision is impressive, Achard also shows moments where his collaborators' input is essential. Under the director ...

The Very Private Life of Mister Sim (2015)

Mister Sim is of no concern whatsoever. At least, this is what he thinks about himself. His wife has left him, his job has left him, and when goes to see his father in a remote part of Italy, not even Dad has the time to have lunch with him. He then receiv ...

Winter Song (2015)

Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat. ...

Spectrographies (2015)

Families (2015)

Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short stay in Paris, while paying a call to his mother, he is very displeased to learn from her and his hated brother, that the ...

The Forbidden Room (2015)

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love. ...

Of Shadows and Wings (2015)

In a society where the greatest concern is the size and power of one's wings, nihilist Ciobeck tries to protect Moann. But how can one survive in a barren land populated by imprisoned-mind people? ...

Edgar Morin, chronique d'un regard (2015)

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. ...

L'homme tango (2015)

Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran (2015)

Illustrious & Unknown: The Man Who Saved the Louvre (2014)

Paris, France, 1939, at the dawn of World War II. The French resistance orchestrates an incredible operation to put hundreds of masterpieces of art, part of the artistic heritage of humanity and preserved in the Louvre Museum, away from the greedy and dirt ...

The Dune (2014)

Through the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will meet and each of them will have to face a page of his personal history, a page that they both need to turn for good. ...

Bird People (2014)

An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris. ...

The Blue Room (2014)

In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime? ...

If You Don't, I Will (2014)

A couple goes on a hike in the woods, and the woman refuses to return. ...

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, t ...

You I Tourneur (2014)

It is the revelation, by a letter to Jacques Tourneur, of the face which crosses all his work and gives herself as a feminine, timeless icon. ...

Break of Day (2013)

Beautiful, sad story told from multiple perspectives. A man picks a dahlia before entering his home. His dog senses something is wrong. The housekeeper makes tea before seeing the tragedy. Slowly the elements slot into place. ...

Love Is the Perfect Crime (2013)

Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge, isolated chalet that they inherited when they were very young — he carries on one love affair after an ...

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 ...

Biette (2013)

Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette. ...

Venus in Fur (2013)

An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play. ...

The Anonymous (2013)

A counterterrorism task force investigates the 1998 Ajaccio assassination of Claude Érignac, the prefect of Corsica. Based on true events. ...

The Rest of the World (2012)

A family drama. A deceased mother and a father with a new wife. Three sisters; the middle one has lost her lover by whom she is pregnant. During a family dinner an old secret emerges. A search for identity and primarily a story about human relationships. ...

Lines of Wellington (2012)

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon's 1810 invasion of Portugal. ...

Bond on Location (2012)

Behind the scenes of shooting in various notoriously difficult locations, including interviews with producers and lead actors. ...

Citizens of Cosmopolis (2012)

An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel of the same name. ...

Camille Rewinds (2012)

Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and despera ...

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play 'Eurydice'. These actors watch a recording performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, de ...

Cosmopolis (2012)

Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a self-made 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble. ...

The Sinkholes (2012)

Five gigantic sinkholes have recently been discovered on a remote plateau on the other side of the world. A team of experts has made the trip to descend into the depths. Among them is professor Georges Lebrun, who has come with his wife. ...

Chicken with Plums (2011)

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death. ...

The Rabbi's Cat (2011)

The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter. ...

The Silence of Joan (2011)

In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to be the embodiment of the infinite. ...

On Tour (2010)

After leaving France in search of a better life in America, a television producer returns with a group of burlesque dancers to take the Paris club scene by storm. ...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)

An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions. ...

Joann Sfar (drawings) (2010)

Documentary about Joann Sfar (born August 28, 1971) is a French comics artist, comic book creator and film director. He is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. His main influences are Fred and André Franqu ...

Wild Grass (2009)

A quirky woman who spends her free time as a pilot has her purse stolen; a mysterious man finds her wallet, and they embark on a peculiar romance. ...

Visage (2009)

Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth. ...

Happy End (2009)

Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm, a story that becomes increasingly bizarre and eventually apocalyptic, leading us down a narrative path o ...

Park Benches (2009)

As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. The ...

Director Marc Forster (2009)

The short piece gives us info from Forster, Craig, Arterton, Almaric, Kurylenko, and Wilson. All involved tell us of Forster's greatness. ...

Calder: Sculptor of Air (2009)

Alexander Calder revolutionized the art of sculpture with his distinctive modernism, freeing sculpture from its stand and adding movement to the art itself. He rose to fame in the 1930s with his renowned Miniature Circus but his modernist creativity skyroc ...

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)

After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media attention and public adoration, Mesrine becomes increasingly paranoid and isolated, leading to a dramatic co ...

Quantum of Solace (2008)

Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more comple ...

On War (2008)

After a freak accident changes his perspective on life, a Parisian filmmaker meets a stranger who brings him to a commune that's populated by free-spirited women. ...

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 ...

57,000 Kilometers Between Us (2008)

A teenager searches for meaningful connections with others while trying to build a steady relationship with her transsexual father and a stepdad who posts everything about their family online. ...

Les amants cinéma (2008)

Actresses (2007)

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev's A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he'll make her happy on stage — she will shine. But things don't go to plan. ...

A Secret (2007)

In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "A ...

The Story of Richard O (2007)

Prey to his desire for women, Richard O. explores the sinuous mysteries of eroticism in a Paris full of summer inhabitants in the torrid month of August. ...

Heartbeat Detector (2007)

A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business. ...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinki ...

Michou d'Auber (2007)

Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the ...

The Big Apartment (2006)

Francesca and her husband, Martin, are dreamers. They live a carefree existence oblivious to the increasingly hostile world closing in on them. Their huge Parisian apartment is a refuge for an array of colorful characters in need of a roof over their heads ...

Fragments sur la grâce (2006)

A filmmaker and his crew try to enter the passionate world of Port-Royal and of Jansenism. Another Age of Louis XIV comes to life, the age of Pascal, Racine and of the "Friends of Truth". The film itself comes up against the unanswerable question of grace. ...

Les mâtines (2006)

Serge fight against sleep. He keeps sinking. He finds it increasingly difficult to distinguish between what he dreams and what he really saw . ...

The Singer (2006)

Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is completely ...

A Curtain Raiser (2006)

Bruno, a young Frenchman, is frustrated by his girlfriend's constant lack of punctuality. He decides to end their relationship the next time she is late again. ...

Marie Antoinette (2006)

A retelling of the story of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles. ...

The Signs (2006)

A mother and her two sons have waited for ten years for her husband and their father to return. One day a stranger arrives and approaches them. ...

Munich (2005)

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute th ...

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2005)

January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power. ...

The Moustache (2005)

One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never ha ...

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 ...

The Bridge of Arts (2004)

The film is a love story which tells the impossible tale of two youths who have never before met. The action unrolls in Paris between 1979 and 1980. ...

Au large de Bad Ragaz (2004)

Alex, a professional tourist guide, is asked to welcome Sacha,a young woman of Russian extraction. She has participated in a contest and, consequently, won a one-week stay in Geneva. From the outset, the young woman shakes up Alex's plans and drags him alo ...

Les parallèles (2004)

Paris, today. A corrupt businessman, Duchey, returns to France to confront the justice of his country. But his return to his homeland will cause the turmoil of three individuals. ...

A Sight for Sore Eyes (2003)

When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother's brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she's 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother's anxiety are suffocating her. ...

My Children Are Different (2003)

A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps despite their personal wishes. ...

A Man, a Real One (2003)

A shy computer expert falls in love with a beautiful colleague while trying to become a film director. Five years later, they have two children, she has become a successful executive, his career has gone nowhere, and their relationship is coming to an end. ...

Special Delivery (2002)

An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances. ...

L'héroïque cinématographe (2002)

The Heroic Cinematographer discusses the relationship between war and cinema beginning in the Civil War. ...

Shipwrecked on Route D17 (2002)

During the Gulf War, the paths of several groups of characters cross in France's most desert-like region. The cast is as follows: An astrophysician who works alone with Geraldine in an observatory high in the mountains. He'd like to seduce Geraldine, but s ...

Monday Morning (2002)

Vincent lives in a village, along the Rhône. Every morning he goes to the factory to work, and in the evening he takes care of his family. One day, he decides to go on a trip with the money given by his father. ...

Boyhood Loves (2001)

Paul returns home to the family farm and rediscovers the people and places of his childhood. ...

Léaud l'unique (2001)

Documentary about the work of Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, with interview clips, film clips and contributions from directors and actors he has worked with. ...

Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance (2001)

Haunted by the mysterious death of her son, found drowned, Anna returns to the town where he lived. ...

Roland's Pass (2000)

Roland, a young father, decided to climb a famous mountain gap whose name he bears, in the company of his wife and two teenage children. ...

The Marcorelle Affair (2000)

François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant ...

The False Servant (2000)

A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess. ...

Farewell, Home Sweet Home (1999)

Nicholas is the eldest son of a wealthy suburban family, whose businesswoman mother makes deals from a helicopter and has an affair with her business partner. His cheerful, alcoholic father, on the other hand, is reduced to a prisoner in his room with his ...

Three Bridges on the River (1999)

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and questions. He has to go to Lisbon to meet an eminent historian whose work is the subject of his thesis. Having ju ...

Late August, Early September (1999)

A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness. ...

Alice and Martin (1998)

Martin, the illegitimate son of an industrialist and a hairdresser, was sent to live with his wealthy father in the countryside as a young boy. Alice is a musician living with Martin's half-brother in Paris. When Martin shows up at Alice's door after fleei ...

Only God Sees Me (1998)

Albert, a sound engineer who is chronically hesitant successively meets three charming young women who will, each in their own way, provoke and help him to get a better hold of himself. ...

L'interview (1998)

In the late 1980s, a young journalist obtains an exclusive interview in London with one of the last mythical figures of Hollywood. He makes the trip but nothing goes as planned. The trouble is, he has an article to hand in. ...

On a très peu d'amis (1998)

Two friends are taken hostage while on their way to see a childhood buddy. ...

Genealogies of a Crime (1997)

An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies. ...

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? ...

Diary of a Seducer (1996)

Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At school, Claire meets Gregoire, who loans her a book by philosopher Soren Kierkegaard that makes the reader a ...

Tom est tout seul (1995)

After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets a quaint tribe and opens up to a new world and incredible horizons. ...

Les Yeux au Plafond (1993)

A young man who has just experienced a breakup makes a variety of encounters throughout a day. ...

Chasing Butterflies (1992)

Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inherits the property, which soon ends up in the hands of Japanese businessmen. ...

The Sentinel (1992)

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

Favourites of the Moon (1985)

A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in Paris. ...

Before It's Too Late (2024)

The Emerson String Quartet records their last album, Infinite voyage, in three days, after 47 years of music together. For this farewell, the string quartet invited soprano Barbara Hannigan to join them, and a film was born. Their precise, inhabited work, ...

Zorn III (2018 – 2022) (2024)

For 12 years now, Mathieu Amalric has been filming the stupendous New York saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Whirligig films that Zorn likes to programme during his concerts, like a musical set. They are screened here for the first time out of a concert ...

Zorn I (2010 – 2016) (2023)

Mathieu Amalric's film with John Zorn began as a European TV commission that was quickly abandoned in favor of something more intimate: an ongoing dialogue between two friends that will always be a work-in-progress. ...

Maîtres Anciens (Comédie) (2021)

Like Reger – the character Thomas Bernhard placed on a museum bench in front of a painting by Tintoretto, an 'old master' if ever there was one – an actor finds himself alone and stranded after a notorious virus closes theatres indefinitely. Here he is ...

Hold Me Tight (2021)

At dawn, Clarisse takes a last look at her husband and two sleeping children, hesitates to leave a note, and hits the road. A desperate escape that gradually reveals its layers as Clarisse — who seems to have an extra-sensory connection to the family she ...

Étroitement surveillé (2020)

Wonders in the Suburbs (2020)

Political rivals try to sabotage a new mayor and her eccentric plans for an underprivileged French municipality. ...

Zorn II (2016 – 2018) (2018)

For 12 years now, Mathieu Amalric has been filming the stupendous New York saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Whirligig films that Zorn likes to programme during his concerts, like a musical set. They are screened here for the first time out of a concert ...

Music is Music/Crazy Girl Crazy (2017)

In a poetic composition of song, narration, and images, this film follows Canadian soprano and orchestra conductor Barbara Hannigan, accompanied by the Ludwig Orchestra, as she records her album Crazy Girl Crazy. Why did she choose these three pieces, in e ...

Barbara (2017)

An actress will play Barbara, the French singer. The shoot will soon start. The actress works on her character, her voice, the songs, scores, the gestures, knitting, scenes she has to learn, things are going okay, there's progress, development, she is even ...

Premières répétitions : Barbara Hannigan vue par Mathieu Amalric (2017)

Hopper Stories (2015)

A series of 8 short films. Each film was inspired by an Edward Hopper painting. The series has been commissioned by Arte France and produced by Didier Jacob, En Haut des Marches. The 8 shorts are 'Next to Last' by Mathieu Amalric with Frederick Wiseman as ...

C'est presque au bout du monde (2015)

In "C'est presque au bout du monde", I explore a mystery which fascinates me : where do these inhuman voices come from ? Where in the body is the source of this unsettling anomaly of singing ? ...

The Blue Room (2014)

In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime? ...

La Magie de Noël (2014)

Next to Last (Autumn 63) (2013)

In a private collection in Arlington, French actor and director Mathieu Amalric, who won the Best director award in Cannes) takes his camera to one of Hopper's latest masterpiece, one of the most mysterious as well. As we hear the four last Lieder of Strau ...

Rich Is the Wolf (2012)

Perplexed at the sudden disappearance of her husband, a wife watches hours of videotape that he's recorded over the previous seven years to piece together some clues. ...

The Screen Illusion (2010)

In this contemporary adaptation of Pierre Corneille's brilliant, eponymous 17th century play, the enigmatic Alcandre is now a hotel concierge who uses the myriad in-house high-tech security cameras to show worried father Pridamant the whereabouts and trava ...

On Tour (2010)

After leaving France in search of a better life in America, a television producer returns with a group of burlesque dancers to take the Paris club scene by storm. ...

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. ...

Joann Sfar (drawings) (2010)

Documentary about Joann Sfar (born August 28, 1971) is a French comics artist, comic book creator and film director. He is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. His main influences are Fred and André Franqu ...

Deux cages sans oiseaux (2007)

À l'instar du Père Noël et de la pizza (2007)

A journalist must portray a sociologist. ...

14,58 euros (2004)

Public Affairs (2003)

A television director decides to use his own life and marriage as an inspiration for his latest project. ...

Malus (2003)

A post-script to his "Le Stade De Wimbledon" ...

Wimbledon Stage (2002)

The story is about a woman who is going to Trieste (a city in Italy) to search for informations about a writer who has never written. ...

Mange ta soupe (1997)

A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him. ...

Tom est tout seul (1995)

After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets a quaint tribe and opens up to a new world and incredible horizons. ...

A Letter to L... (1994)

She was 18. They were in love and lived together for ten years. 20 years later, he receives a letter from her. L is very ill. ...

Bête de scène (1994)

Bernard Nissille's little gem imagines a love triangle between the director, the Queen, and the Bear during a staging of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. An actor who appeared with Bulle Ogier in Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep, Nissille enlisted the brilliant ...

Sauve-toi (1993)

A young man who has just committed a hold-up finds refuge in an old house. ...

8 bis (1993)

The Diary of Lady M (1993)

She's a beautiful gifted performer, but her work is not the sort that invites popular acclaim. Despite the fact that she is unlikely to become famous, she enjoys her life as a performer who lives just outside the mainstream. Awaiting her backstage one even ...

The Absence (1993)

Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city. ...

Les Yeux au Plafond (1993)

A young man who has just experienced a breakup makes a variety of encounters throughout a day. ...

Border Line (1992)

On a whim, the long-married Hélène decides to look up a former lover of hers. At his apartment, she is met by the man's grown son, Julien, who tells her that his father died just a few days before. Before long, she has become Julien's lover, but she is a ...

The Van Gogh Wake (1990)

To say that the renowned Impressionist artist, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) had a dysfunctional family is likely to do a disservice to ordinary dysfunctional families everywhere. In this unusual drama, the family (and one friend) of the troubled artist gathe ...

Sans rires (1990)

An old man, former clown, comes back in the neighborhood where he used to lived for the funeral of his ex-wife, and finds old friends with whom he had lost contact. ...

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Ba ...

La Seule différence c'est que les cafés sont plus chers (1986)

Marre de café (1985)