Michel Delahaye

Holy Motors (2012)

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes ...

Renault-Seguin la fin (2009)

Between 1931 and 1993, the main Renault plant occupied the whole of an island in a loop in the river Seine to the west of Paris. This was one of the most modern factories in Europe. It was also a bastion of trade-unionism, one of the major hotspots of the ...

À vot' bon cœur (2005)

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is tryin ...

Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition (1998)

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. ...

Fugue en sol mineur (1992)

One of the last productions for Diagonale, before De sueur et de sang, the feature film with which Vecchiali would close the cycle of the French production company. ...

Out 1 (1990)

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

The Comedy of Work (1988)

Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an ...

À titre posthume (1986)

A young policeman searches for the murderers of his drug addict sister. While he carries out his investigations, the criminals manage to get him charged with murder. ...

Simone (1985)

The love affair involving the beautiful Simone and the younger Françoise, coming from a frustrated suicide attempt. ...

The Telephone Always Rings Twice (1985)

Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord. ...

Last Affair (1983)

A lonely Chinese woman in Paris starts an affair with an womanizer musician. ...

At the Top of the Stairs (1983)

A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear. ...

Une sale histoire de sardines (1983)

Marcel is his garage's handyman. With the smell of grease and petrol wafting through the air, alternating between night watchman, petrol pump attendant and confidant, he is visited every evening by the slightly lost night owls who pass by. They all confide ...

Exposed (1983)

Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are uncle ...

Archipelago of Love (1983)

Nine short films about love. ...

Une villa aux environs de New York (1982)

Karl, a young immigrant, lives with his uncle in New York who jealously watches over the education of his nephew. A friend, Mr. Pallunder invites Karl to spend a night at his house. Despite strong opposition from his uncle, Karl agrees. On the way, Karl re ...

Employment Offer (1982)

A man looks for a job, ignoring the selection process of employees. Part of "Contes modernes: A propos du travail. ...

Far from Manhattan (1982)

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery. ...

C'est la vie ! (1981)

Ginette is at phone with the famous Rachah Rangers, who hosts a daily radio program. She talks about her break with Richard, her various relationship problems, her desires, fears and reproaches. Her friend, Simone Barbes, advised her to live, urgently, a n ...

Lourdes l'hiver (1981)

The Lady Banker (1980)

Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her. ...

Simone Barbès or Virtue (1980)

Simone, a leather-clad porn theater worker, spends her shifts bantering with her coworker and observing eccentric customers in the cinema's lobby. Tonight, she clocks out and heads off to meet her girlfriend, a waitress at a lesbian club. Later, she'll enc ...

Pétain's Advent (1980)

Recall of the events which, from 1914, favored Philippe Pétain's access to power in France in 1940. ...

Drugstore Romance (1979)

Pierrot, mechanic in Paris, falls madly for a female chemist his senior—who at first refuses him, only accepting love after being diagnosed with a deadly illness. ...

Take It from the Top (1978)

Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life... ...

Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice (1977)

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitatio ...

The Theatre of the Matters (1977)

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs. ...

La Machine (1977)

Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media. ...

The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (1977)

A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women. ...

The Eagle and the Dove (1977)

Shadow of the Castles (1977)

In the north of France, the life of a nice family of marginalized. ...

Mr. Klein (1976)

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with w ...

The Probability Factor (1976)

Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about h ...

Let's Make a Dirty Movie (1976)

A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie. ...

La Chatte sur un doigt brûlant (1975)

A number of strange characters come to Corecheux, in France: the Lalyre famille, an homossexual notary, a severe-looking governess, a female witch, a veterinarian, a journalist, and possibly the most chaste of them all, a few young girls ready to lift thei ...

Zig Zig (1975)

Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home. ...

The Brigade (1975)

This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "La Brigade." Many of them also fought for the leftist cause during the Spanish Civil War, and for them the ...

Act of Aggression (1975)

After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge. ...

Serious as Pleasure (1975)

Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special ...

Femmes femmes (1974)

The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris. ...

The Secret (1974)

A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or insane - or is he telling the truth? Who ...

Cry of the Heart (1974)

Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated, leaving the other paralyzed. Desperate, the boy tries to come to terms with his new existence. He quickly adopts a cruel attitude towards those closest to h ...

Romanticism (1972)

This film, set at the end of the 18th century, in a provincial and noble environment raises the question of humans forced to lead a meaningless life. The rich Transylvanian noble youth, Kálmán, absorbed the spirit of freedom and enlightened culture in Pa ...

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972)

Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Bliss in prison for an interview. Accused of murdering her husband and her lover, Camille recounts her life and love affairs. ...

Chut ! (1972)

A small saver discovers the scam that threatens all subscribers to the "Caution foncière". He embarks on an incredible adventure to recover the funds paid in by his friends, and succeeds in exposing the scandal. ...

Blanche (1972)

Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master. ...

Les jonquilles (1972)

Old Léon lives an hour outside Paris, in the company of one of his daughters, his son-in-law and his granddaughter. The latter agrees to take him to see his paralyzed cousin Adolphe in a Paris hospice. He takes the opportunity to visit his first wife, try ...

The Albatross (1971)

A prisoner escapes and kidnaps a woman with her he falls in love. He's involved in a bad business where politicians and underworld are leading the dance. He'll die like the albatross in Baudelaire's poem. ...

The Savior (1971)

This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life is about to c ...

The Shiver of the Vampires (1971)

A newlywed couple travels to a small town to visit the bride's cousins—her last two surviving relatives—at the castle where they live, only to discover that the cousins have just died and the castle is now inhabited by vampires. ...

Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy (1971)

Camille invites some soldiers to spend a Sunday in the country with her. When they arrive, they find that something is amiss. ...

Donkey Skin (1970)

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father. ...

The Nude Vampire (1970)

A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being held captive by his father and colleagues who believe she's a vampire. ...

Winter Wind (1969)

Croatian anarchists collaborate with Hungarians to make a bid for the life of King Alexander of Yugoslavia. ...

Pierre and Paul (1969)

Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with plenty of unresolved anger. After his father's death, his mother feels compelled to move in with him. Having just moved there with his beautiful girlfriend, he begins to feel the pressure. When the May Day revolt ...

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. ...

Brigitte and Brigitte (1966)

Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions. ...

Alphaville (1965)

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist's daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and te ...

Band of Outsiders (1964)

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps ...

Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life. ...

The New World (1963)

This short film shows a young couple during a short period after the explosion of a nuclear bomb 120 km above Paris. The city appears unaffected, but the man begins to notice changes in the behavior of the people in general and in that of his girl friend i ...

At the Top of the Stairs (1983)

A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear. ...

Archipelago of Love (1983)

Nine short films about love. ...

Simone Barbès or Virtue (1980)

Simone, a leather-clad porn theater worker, spends her shifts bantering with her coworker and observing eccentric customers in the cinema's lobby. Tonight, she clocks out and heads off to meet her girlfriend, a waitress at a lesbian club. Later, she'll enc ...

Mountain Pass (1978)

Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian motorist in distress. Serge arranges for the car to be taken to a nearby garage. Georges' friends, who were with him in the car, have continued th ...

The Eighth Day (1960)

Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges, a neighbor widower, begins to court her. ...

The Yellow Loves (1958)

Short film from French director Jean Rollin with poetry by Tristan Corbière's (1845-1875). ...