Pierre Clémenti

Les Jours et les Nuits (2021)

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolorées which will take ten years to edit) with Mariola San Martin. ...

La deuxième femme (2008)

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a p ...

Souvenirs souvenirs (2008)

Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life. ...

Hideous Kinky (1999)

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea. ...

The Hips of J.W. (1997)

Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Max Monteiro, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and Jean de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays L ...

Attendre le navire (1992)

The journey on the edge of an ocean of a poet, two terrorists, a film-maker, a reporter and two lovers, in search of a ship leaving for Nowhere. A ship like hope for all those who wait: the misguided, the misaligned, the displaced, the exiles that we are a ...

Massacres (1991)

A European man sets up a business in Korea to deal in snuff films. The police quickly catch on to his dealings and attempt to hunt him down. ...

The Austrian (1990)

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days. ...

Hard to Be a God (1990)

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the ...

Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God" (1990)

The Silent Woman (1989)

French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere. ...

The Sun (1988)

Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972. ...

In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986)

300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang and the government hides the dead. An experimental crime film considered to be a landmark of Parisian underground cinema. ...

Forty-four, or Bedtime Stories (1985)

The chronicle of two Moroccan families between 1912 and 1956, in the colonial era. A university professor from Fes hires one of his best students as a tutor: Moussa, from Chaouen, who is passionate about drama. ...

A Christmas Carol (1984)

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences ...

Clash (1984)

A woman revisits long-suppressed nightmares as she is being chased through an abandoned warehouse by a strange man. ...

Dog Day (1984)

A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession. ...

Rapt ou la Séparation des races (1984)

Doctor Lerne, Subgod (1983)

A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ... ...

Edith's Diary (1983)

When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son and his senile uncle, she begins recording details of an imaginary, much more successful life where she has friends and grandchildren. However, this diversi ...

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 ...

Brückenschläge (1983)

La vraie histoire de Gérard Lechômeur (1982)

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 ...

Chassé-croisé (1982)

Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller. ...

L'amour des femmes (1982)

Geneva, 1980s. Three friends in search of themselves. Bruno, an architect, is married to a woman he cannot simply love. Philippe, a more refined journalist, refuses to accept the reality of separating from his girlfriend Sonia. Bruno, the youngest of the t ...

Quartet (1981)

When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple. ...

The Brunette and Me (1981)

A rich business man falls for a young girl and vows to fulfill her dream of becoming a punk rock star. ...

The Fall of the House of Usher (1981)

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline's wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Alain arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his brid ...

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 ...

Nightmare (1980)

A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is on her trail ...

Stridura (1980)

In a desolated world, a martyr is steered by a man giving orders from a control room. His henchmen torture the resistance fighter. Are the parts played by victim and hangman defined as clearly as it seems? Ange Leccia offers a political reflection about th ...

New Old (1979)

"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, sets, and drugs, an accelerated world tour through various iterations of the counterculture. ...

Zoo zéro (1979)

Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart. ...

The Song of Roland (1978)

Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is stage ...

Little Lips (1978)

A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war ...

The Sorceror's Apprentice (1977)

A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. ...

Autoportrait d’un schizophrène (1977)

A document of the mental universe of a schizophrenic. Starring Pierre Clémenti. ...

The Red Poster (1976)

A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators. ...

Visa de censure n° X (1976)

Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the architect behind a transgressive, high-minded, and disorienting cinema. Like an acid-soaked freefall, Visa de censure n° X is a rush of nudity and color fr ...

The Son of Amir Is Dead (1975)

Pierre, a young man of Brussels, has lost his job. Unbeknowst to Barbara, the woman he lives with, he has become a pickpocket to survive. He works in partnership with a young Tunisian immigrant he meets every Sunday in an abandoned bus where they share the ...

Steppenwolf (1974)

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is so ...

Sweet Movie (1974)

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery. ...

The Irony of Chance (1974)

A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise concerns the assassination of a German officer by a young member of the Resistance. ...

De quoi s'agit-il? (1974)

plot unknown. ...

Crush Proof (1972)

A young man recalls his affair with a young French woman who traveled with him across the United States. They began to drift apart during the trip, and eventually each had affairs with other people before realizing that their relationship had run its cours ...

The Inner Scar (1972)

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images. ...

The Designated Victim (1971)

Stefano Augenti, an ambitious advertising executive, meets a curious hippie named Count Mateo Tiepolo and they form a strange bond. Seeking an escape from his unhappy marriage, Augenti is lured by the Count into a bizarre plot to kill each other's relativ ...

La famille (1971)

A film by Yvan Lagrange. ...

Jupiter (1971)

The Conformist (1971)

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. ...

The Pacifist (1970)

A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being killed by his companions when he is unable to commit a political assassination. ...

Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move (1970)

Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing. ...

Antenna (1970)

Antenna gives a snapshot of the 1970s. The film is a typical work by Ditvoorst: freedom of the individual, the desire for a utopia that does not come true, the lonely and misunderstood artist, the aversion to the state, bureaucracy and religious authoritie ...

Necropolis (1970)

Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona o ...

Cutting Heads (1970)

In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and peasants. He is well aware of the menace his old victims represent, while a miracle-making shepherd fascinate ...

Renaissance (1970)

A year and a half after "Le Lit e la vierge", Zouzou and Pierre Clémenti are in another bed, this time in front of a window, with Sacré-Coeur in the background. Filmed in two days, in July 1970, with a stolen film from the ORTF, this film, a tribute to t ...

Pigsty (1969)

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with ...

The Year of the Cannibals (1969)

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates th ...

The Virgin's Bed (1969)

30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must f ...

The Milky Way (1969)

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, ...

His Day of Glory (1969)

Alerted by an informer, the police suppress an ideological uprising, causing the death of one of the participants. The traitor, in order to redeem himself in the eyes of his comrades, pushes them towards a terrorist action. But, once again, at the last mom ...

Positano (1969)

Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground co ...

Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge' (1968)

An experimental and poetic portrait of a woman. ...

Book of Saints of Eternal Rome (1968)

A (temporary) leave of many friends who are my truest world, with the attempt of getting them together in an ideal summary conceived to support me during my being far away. –A. L. ...

Partner (1968)

The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams. ...

Listen, Let's Make Love (1968)

When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war. ...

Wheel of Ashes (1968)

A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's Vedanta-sourced intertitles. And indeed, while the Pierre Clementi protagonist's inner life remains obscure, the Saint-Ge ...

The Idols (1968)

This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia, manipulative managers and disc jockeys are portrayed as the pop culture is thoroughly and effectively lampoone ...

Pop' game (1968)

Poupée and her (so-called) brother Paulo share an apartment in Paris. They dream of becoming actors. In the meantime, life goes on, nothing happens, until Poupée meets François. ...

The Diary of an Innocent Boy (1968)

Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to ...

Chromo sud (1968)

One of the very few films made by Etienne O'Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated 'diary films.' Like the contemporaneous films by O'Leary's more famous friend Pierre Clementi, they trippily d ...

Un film porno (1968)

After having spent a year in Warhol's Factory, painter Olivier Mosset returned to Paris with an appetite for film and began hosting Super 8 nights in his apartment. UN FILM PORNO is a miniature sample. ...

Homeo (1967)

Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I've made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not ...

Heads and Tales (1967)

Directed by a friend of Étienne O'Leary, this film missive, whose words are images, was held in very high esteem by Pierre Clémenti. ...

Lamiel (1967)

Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sansfin, provincial doctor, lives vicariously through her, as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Defiant and rebellious, Lamiel goes to Paris to ...

Belle de Jour (1967)

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to ...

Shock Troops (1967)

A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional detainee among them suspected of being an enemy spy. ...

The Man Who Laughs (1966)

This loose adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic shifts the story to Italy and back in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. Also, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (Jean Sorel) with his disfigurement represented by ...

Brigade Anti Gangs (1966)

The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long. ...

Pop Age (1966)

Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the impact of fashion (long hair and accoutrements) and modernity, youth, change, freedom. ...

Les Bargasses (1965)

A film by Marc'o ...

How Not to Rob a Department Store (1965)

To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty is intercepted by a gang of thugs. ...

Enchanted Isles (1965)

A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother, who have died while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end. ...

The Leopard (1963)

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. ...

Adorable Liar (1962)

Juliette is a young woman who just can't help lying. She lies to her sister, Sophie, to Sophie's fiancé Martin, and to all the men she attracts with her womanly charms. ...

Jack of Spades (1960)

After an adventurous life, Patrick has settled in the Camargue and bought a manade where he raises bulls, while the "riziers" gradually invade and transform the land. On the very day the bulls are being branded, Patrick sees Robert, a long-lost comrade jus ...

Les Frangines (1960)

The owner of a suburban boarding school is found murdered. The culprit will be unmasked thanks to the ingenuity and courage of the good Janine and a student, named Nadine. ...

La deuxième femme (2008)

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a p ...

Souvenirs souvenirs (2008)

Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life. ...

The Sun (1988)

Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972. ...

In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986)

300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang and the government hides the dead. An experimental crime film considered to be a landmark of Parisian underground cinema. ...

La vraie histoire de Gérard Lechômeur (1982)

Check point Charlie (1981)

New Old (1979)

"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, sets, and drugs, an accelerated world tour through various iterations of the counterculture. ...

Bobine 10 (1978)

film by Pierre Clementi ...

Visa de censure n° X (1976)

Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the architect behind a transgressive, high-minded, and disorienting cinema. Like an acid-soaked freefall, Visa de censure n° X is a rush of nudity and color fr ...

His Day of Glory (1969)

Alerted by an informer, the police suppress an ideological uprising, causing the death of one of the participants. The traitor, in order to redeem himself in the eyes of his comrades, pushes them towards a terrorist action. But, once again, at the last mom ...

Positano (1969)

Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground co ...

The Revolution Is Only a Beginning. Let's Continue Fighting. (1968)

Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May '68 and in Rome where the actor was featuring in the film Partner by Bertolucci. Rediscovered in a basement in 1999, this silent film appears to be one of Cléme ...

Carte de voeux (1968)

Homeo (1967)

Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I've made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not ...

Visa de Censure [Version 1967] (1967)

A unique copy of the 16mm experimental masterpiece by Pierre Clémenti, restored in 2003 by the Neyrac Films Laboratories. ...

Bobine 35-02 (1967)

Bits + pieces. ...