Roland Topor

Les vendredis d'Apostrophes (2015)

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot. ...

Fantastic Laloux (2010)

A short documentary about the life of director and artist René Laloux, featuring an interview with Laloux from 2001. ...

Topor and Me (2004)

Animated short by actress Sylvia Kristel about the art scene in Paris during the start of her French career playing Emmanuelle. She reminisces about Roland Topor, who taught her to paint, Hugo Claus, W.F. Hermans and others, while their respective work com ...

Le Cinéma au travail comme la mort (1997)

A brief meeting with the writer and playwright Roland Topor in his studio. ...

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before. ...

Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête (1995)

The Satin Spider (1986)

The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile ...

Swann in Love (1984)

In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitute who seduces him but never loves him. ...

The Ones That Got Away (1981)

In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one. ...

The Making of 'Nosferatu' (1979)

Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set. ...

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. ...

Ratataplan (1979)

Misadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he becomes a barman, and he discovers a special formula that turns simple water into the "Immortality drink". ...

Destins parallèles (1979)

The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard (1975)

Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona, who has left her father, the railway gatekeeper, after being raped on the train track. She is kidnapped ...

The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan (1975)

A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill. ...

Italiques: Roland Topor (1974)

Roger Boussinot directed this episode of the French television show Italiques, which features an overview of the art and career of Fantastic Planet illustrator Roland Topor. It aired on August 8, 1974. ...

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. ...

Threshold of the Void (1974)

The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (whom the old woman, allegedly, held ready for the now dec ...

Cartoon circus (1972)

Feature film. ...

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)

A model tells a television crew about her dreams of a life with prince charming all while fending off the lecherous advances of a horde of men. ...

He! Viva Dada (1965)

Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings inspired by ""théâtre panique/ the panic theater", includes Fernando Arrabal, Roland Topor and Alejandro ...

Joko (2024)

Joko is a young man who works on the cistern, he is the only breadwinner in a family. On his second anniversary of employment, Joko and his colleagues meet with foreign delegates who force boy and the rest to… carry on their back. At first, Joko is again ...

Portrait of Suzanne (2019)

A man trying to forget his loneliness with food, sees his left foot turn into Suzanne, a woman he once loved. ...

The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm (2012)

Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. She lives in an orphanage in Burgandy. ...

Batailles (2008)

"Resumption of a play created in 1983. Two shipwrecked people on a makeshift raft in the middle of a social conflict, a mountaineering fight on Mount Paterhorn, improbable friction between two men and a woman in the Yvelines ... The places, the situations ...

L'Hiver sous la table (2005)

The Most Beautiful Breasts in the World (1990)

Film short comedy about a man who miraculously gets woman's breasts. ...

Marquis (1989)

On the eve of revolution, French activist and author Marquis and his talking penis, Colin, await judgment in the Bastille for allegedly plotting against the state. While Marquis dedicates himself to his art and Colin longs for action, the provocative pair ...

La Galette du roi (1986)

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King A ...

The Hamburg Syndrome (1979)

When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread. ...

The Tenant (1976)

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. ...

The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard (1975)

Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona, who has left her father, the railway gatekeeper, after being raped on the train track. She is kidnapped ...

The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan (1975)

A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill. ...

The Game (1975)

Fantastic Planet (1973)

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to ...

The Troubles of Alfred (1972)

Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Recovering, the young lady puts him up at her house, as he has run out of places to live. He joins a Parisian ...

The Snails (1966)

In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail. ...

He! Viva Dada (1965)

Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings inspired by ""théâtre panique/ the panic theater", includes Fernando Arrabal, Roland Topor and Alejandro ...

Dead Times (1964)

What is man? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what man is. ...