Pierre Braunberger

The Song of Styrene (2022)

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics. ...

Private Collections (1979)

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awa ...

L'armoire (1979)

A man seeks for satisfaction from a prostitute working in a revue. He pays for the whole night and discovers a saddening truth about her. ...

Immoral Women (1979)

The first episode – featuring frequent Borowczyk muse Marina Pierro – is the longest and, in a way, most substantial: it's set in Renaissance Rome, with the lusty (and perpetually nude) leading lady sexually involved with famous painters and church ben ...

Let's Make a Dirty Movie (1976)

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

Act of Aggression (1975)

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

Like a Pot of Strawberries (1974)

Amandine is twenty years old, the most beautiful buttocks in Paris, and unfortunately a very ugly nose, which forces her in her profession of model, to pose only from behind. Trying in vain to save money that her sister Joëlle constantly borrows from her, ...

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby (1974)

A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with the les ...

I. You. They. (1973)

Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed from the outside world. What struck her the most was to find out that her boss had shrunk his wife and kep ...

On n'arrête pas le printemps (1972)

Four high school students in Paris question the education system and try to provoke a dialogue with their teachers. A portrait of the French youth after 1968. ...

On the Lam (1971)

A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape. ...

Catch Me a Spy (1971)

While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candida ...

Fantasia Among the Squares (1971)

Sagamore Noonan lives in seclusion on a farm in Alabama, where he distills moonshine during Prohibition. He receives a visit from his brother Doc Noonan and his son Billy. A young stripper and her gangster boyfriend come to disturb their peace. ...

Rabbit's Moon (1971)

A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-wop music plays as he rises, stares about, and reaches for the moon. Although music abounds and the children of the wood are there at play, Pierrot is melan ...

The Laboratory of Fear (1971)

All the researchers of the IMPS laboratory are males - with one exception : Mademoiselle Clara, Antoine, the cleaner, desperately yearns for. Night after night, when Clara is alone, going on with her experiments, the young man awkwardly manoeuvres with a v ...

Little by Little (1970)

An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life. ...

La Fin des Pyrénées (1970)

Thomas is a young man who rebels against society after witnessing his father's suicide. He embarks on a marginal and increasingly violent existence with Malvina, a woman he meets, as they attempt to escape societal pressures. Their journey ultimately leads ...

Directing Actors by Jean Renoir (1969)

A example of Jean Renoir's talents as a director as he works Gisèle Braunberger into the right frame of mind. ...

Erotissimo (1969)

Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and ...

Cinéma-Cinéma (1969)

A tragic spin on the futility of revolution, in cinema and elsewhere. ...

L'art de la turlute (1969)

Some moments in the life of a young couple. ...

Ankle Bone (1968)

While escaping from prison to be with her lesbian friend, a 19-year-old girl breaks her ankle and is picked up by an ex-con, with whom she begins a passionate affair. She finally turns to prostitution and robbery to support herself. ...

The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)

Chris Marker and François Reichenbach document the massive anti–Vietnam War protest held in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1967, where more than 100,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial before marching on the Pentagon. Filmed amid the cr ...

Jaguar (1967)

Jaguar, a kind of road movie on foot, tells of the journey of three friends, Damouré, Lam and Illo, on their way to the Gold Coast where they hope to make a fortune in order to return to their village in a few months. ...

The Lion Hunters (1966)

Etnographic documentary about lion hunting in Africa. ...

Soldier Martin (1966)

A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII. ...

Chanson de gestes (1966)

Choreography of familiar gestures that the author was able to spice up with a peculiar and original perspective. ...

The Goumbé of the Young Revelers (1966)

The film shows the members of a voluntary association of young people from Upper Volta who work in Abidjan, Ivory Coast - first at their work, then at a reunion that ends on a dance floor in Treichville. The young people who come to work in Abidjan often f ...

Bestiary of Love (1965)

If love is a universal phenomenon, it is never the same: the animal world experiences brutal and rapid unions, or, on the contrary, slow and difficult approaches, followed by sometimes interminable embraces. ...

To Be a Crook (1965)

Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the first "crime school", as well as their work. ...

The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora (1965)

A young woman lives sadly in a small garrison town with a soldier. Little by little, won over by boredom, sadness, total inaction, she develops a relationship with plants and starts talking to plants. ...

Paris, A Winter's Day (1965)

Fleeting images of Paris in winter, the reflections of some Parisians on their city. ...

All About Loving (1964)

Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her too. ...

The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows (1964)

Filmed in Paris in 1964, this documentary short follows two fifteen-year-old girls from the city's 16th arrondissement as they move through leisure, conversation, and social encounters. The film records their views on adulthood, relationships, and the futu ...

Village Sweetness (1964)

Documentary about a small village near Le Mans, commented by the village school-teacher. ...

In the Affirmative (1964)

The film is a road movie that follows a middle aged man who gives a young woman a lift. On the car radio, news bulletins warn the population against a recently escaped sadist who is known to prey on young women and children. Lelouch often cuts away from th ...

Le Paris des mannequins (1963)

A photoshoot on the roofs and in the streets of Paris, under the astonished eyes of the inhabitants. ...

Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)

In the seacoast town of Boulogne, antique furniture saleswoman Hélène lives with her stepson, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit, Alphonse, with his niece Françoise; he too is back from Algiers, ...

L'Amérique lunaire (1963)

This short film is a metaphore for the destruction of the indian culture by the 'white man'. ...

The Little Café (1963)

A day in a little café of Paris. ...

In Memory of Rock (1963)

The rock-wild youth of the 1960s during the apparitions of their idols. ...

Nadia (1963)

Jean-Michel Barjol, a friend of Jean Eustache, was a young rebel who threw himself into cinema with reckless abandon. In this short film about a 16-year-old runaway, with whom the filmmaker clearly and empathically identified, Bariol inventively uses voice ...

Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution. ...

The Immoral Moment (1962)

Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing journalist, but immediately he is knocked out. He wakes up in the police station ... ...

The Punishment (1962)

An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people. ...

Janine (1962)

During a desultory night on the town, two men talk about their experiences with women. One of them disparages his ex-wife, while the other is enamored of the prostitute he was with earlier in the evening. Without realizing it, both men are talking about Ja ...

¡Cuba Sí! (1961)

Chris Marker's documentary traces the course of the Cuban Revolution, from its early optimism to the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Through on-the-ground footage and interviews—including two with Fidel Castro—the film captures the spirit and co ...

The Witnesses (1961)

This film brings to life a vanished world: that of the Warsaw Ghetto, destroyed by the Nazis after the 1944 uprising. Two authentic "reconstruction" sources have been used to this end: photographic and cinematographic documents recorded at the time and dis ...

A Story of Water (1961)

A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. ...

La Machine à parler d'amour (1961)

Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. ...

America as Seen by a Frenchman (1960)

At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse regions, their inhabitants, and their pastimes. The result is a journey through a multitude of different Americas ...

Love Exists (1960)

An essay film critiquing post-war France's urban developments- Pialat states that modernity and suburban convenience have limited Parisian freedom and widened class gaps. ...

A Game for Six Lovers (1960)

Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine and her brother Jean-Paul, visit the château for the reading of t ...

All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1959)

A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates. ...

I, a Negro (1959)

Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depict ...

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)

This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't say much. She just mocks the man and pretends she isn't listening. She pulls faces at him and larks about; wh ...

O Seasons, O Castles (1958)

A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau. ...

All the World's Memory (1956)

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being. ...

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 ...

Impressions de New York (1956)

(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur Rimbaud, François Reichenbach offers a highly singular vision of the American megalopolis. (MIFF:) These are no ordinary travel n ...

Houston Texas (1956)

A report on this extraordinary boom town that owes its fortune to oil. ...

Soir de fête (1956)

Croissance de Paris (1955)

Julietta (1953)

Julietta Valendor is in love with lawyer André Landrecourt. He is unaware of her feelings. He puts her up one day when he has his fiancée, Rosie, staying with him... Based on a novel of Louise de Vilmorin. ...

Le Crime du Bouif (1952)

A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte. ...

Jocelyn (1952)

In 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger sister Julie. In 1793, on the point of being ordained a priest, the Revolution forced him to take refuge in the Alps. There he meets Laurence, first disguised as a ...

Bullfight (1951)

The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from the era. ...

Guernica (1951)

Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with newspaper headlines in an anti-war cry against the Spanish Civil War. Narration by Jacques Pruvost highlights the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, followed by a poem ...

Le Trésor des Pieds-Nickelés (1950)

Although suspected and hunted down by policeman Sherlock Coco and inspector Hector, the Pieds Nickelés (Croquignol, Filochard and Ribouldingue) manage to save the legacy of Monsieur Miradoux, who will be very grateful to them. ...

Van Gogh (1948)

The biography of Dutch artist Van Gogh, illustrated only with images of his paintings and drawings, or details of those, and according dramatic musical score. ...

Paris 1900 (1948)

Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enric ...

A Day in the Country (1946)

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day. ...

Forfaiture (1937)

Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money on the roulette and therefore is forced to borrow money from Prince Lee-Lang. The Prince immediately begins to flirt and make advance ...

Land Without Bread (1933)

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who rem ...

Fantômas (1932)

The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham who also came to bring her a significant sum of money. The mysterious Fantômas kills the Marquise during the night. Inspector Juve is sent on his trail. ...

La Chienne (1931)

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to the wretched Adele. By chance, he meets Lucienne, 'Lulu', and makes her his mistress. He thinks he has finally found love, but Lulu is a streetwalker, still in love with her pimp. ...

Baby's Laxative (1931)

A chamber pot manufacturer tries to impress a military official while his wife desperately tries to force their constipated young son to take a laxative, leading to chaos. ...

Black and White (1931)

A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child. ...

The Lovers of Midnight (1931)

A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess. ...

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, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif (1967)

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