René Allio

Lest We Forget (1991)

A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist w ...

Transit (1991)

In 1941, those who had remained around too long to completely escape the Nazi blitzkrieg had one small, slim chance to escape persecution. They could travel to Marseilles and attempt to get the servile but still nominally independent government of Vichy Fr ...

Un médecin des lumières (1988)

1776. Simon Bertiny settles in Hérisson-sur-Allier to practice medicine. He quickly runs into the peasants of the region who refuse the help of a doctor and continue to take care of themselves. When Simon discovers that an epidemic is spreading in the vil ...

Le Matelot 512 (1984)

Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512. ...

L'heure exquise (1981)

In the streets of Marseille, René Allio encounters, once again, the spaces of his childhood, and remembers his family history. ...

Retour à Marseille (1980)

Michel left Marseilles to Italy when he was twenty years old. Courageous and active, he has succeeded in the construction industry. Thirty years later, his return to Marseilles, for his aunt's burial will abruptly change the life of all of his family, who ...

I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother… (1976)

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, murdered his mother, sister and brother b ...

Rude journée pour la reine (1973)

The French Calvinists (1972)

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons. ...

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 ...

The Other One (1967)

Anne, an unhappily married actress, temporarily assumes the identity of her sister Simone, the successful director of a London fashion house. ...

The Shameless Old Lady (1965)

Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She determines to venture into the modern world and have as much fun as possible, and in doing so finds that she loves it. She blows her life savings, much to the di ...

L'heure exquise (1981)

In the streets of Marseille, René Allio encounters, once again, the spaces of his childhood, and remembers his family history. ...

Cinématon XIV (1981)

Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

À propos de Pierre Rivière (1978)

About René Allio's 1973 film, " I, Pierre Rivière…", Pascal Kané interviews the filmmaker as well as Michel Foucault, the scientific editor of Pierre Rivière's text. ...