Simone de Beauvoir

Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova (2022)

Despite her position at the epicentre of the Brazilian bossa nova scene, singer Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, known as Miúcha, has been largely underappreciated. This documentary, which dives into her career and personal life through a rich collecti ...

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three ...

Beauvoir, l'aventure d'être soi (2021)

Delphine and Carole (2020)

In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor represent ...

The Lévi-Strauss Century (2016)

Documentary about one of the greatest French thinkers of the twentieth century, Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009). ...

Hôtel La Louisiane (2015)

Hôtel La Louisiane is, at its core, a film about freedom and dignity. Freedom for those who wish to live in a place where they are able to feel inspired. Dignity for the hotel owner to stand by his promise to his father and keep their mission alive: to pr ...

Simone de Beauvoir: Two Interviews (2012)

Two interviews, recorded 16 years apart, illuminating the historic role, personality and thoughts of the novelist, philosopher and political activist who paved the way for Second-Wave Feminism. ...

Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico (1995)

Be Pretty and Shut Up! (1981)

The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have o ...

Simone de Beauvoir (1979)

Documentary on writer/philospher Simone de Beauvoir via interviews of herself and friends supplimented with archive footage resulting in an intimate portrait avaoiding the usual clichés. ...

Walking in the Land of the Old (1978)

A documentary directed by Marianne Ahrne, based on the French writer Simone de Beauvoir's Essay of the Age. ...

Sartre by Himself (1976)

Michel Contat is Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS, ITEM/CNRS/ENS and a specialist of Jean-Paul Sartre whose novels and theater he has edited in the Pléiade edition and about whom he has written several books. With Alexander Astruc, he made the fi ...

Maso and Miso Go Boating (1976)

The year 1975 is declared "year of the woman". On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud on television, then Secretary of State for Women. Faced with statements, a group of women filmmakers parody the issues in a provocative way. ...

Questionnaire - Simone de Beauvoir: pourquoi je suis féministe (1975)

Disorder (1950)

Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946. ...

Pour Djamila (2012)

All Men Are Mortal (1995)

Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress. ...

A Woman on the Verge (1987)

Ha Kook-jin, a physician, meets Noh Ae-ri and his group who came to broadcast at the ski resort where he went with his wife's life. With this opportunity, Kook-jin appears on Ari's radio program, is attracted to being an open divorcee living with her daugh ...

The Blood of Others (1984)

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection. ...

La Femme rompue (1978)

Hon kräver upprättelse (1978)

It's New Year's Eve and she sits alone on her floor accompanied by the glamour and bustle of her neighbors and her own bitterness . ...

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture. ...