Maurice Garrel Movies

In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.

The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was...

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the...

Les Perses (The Persians) is a French TV movie adaptation of Aeschylus' oldest known tragedy, Πέρσαι (Persai). It was...

A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy...

A young policeman of Moroccan origin investigates the murder of an informer. His investigations soon lead him to question his own past.

Frédéric Lemoyne must be very happy in his life: he is a famous biologist and the son of a hero of French resistance: his father,...

Jean-Luc, mountain farmer, married Christine. She accepted this marriage because the man she loved, Augustin, left. Jean-Luc knows this but he hopes...

During the Second World War, the Martel family hides out in the Pyrenees, waiting for hostilities to end. André, a young boy, saves them from...

TV movie by Swiss director Yvan Butler, awarded at the Monte-Carlo festival

A farmer's son falls in love with a young peasant girl despised by the people of the village where she lives.

Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice,...

The film evokes the stay in Brazil of Claude Levi-Strauss, an ethnologist, who stayed there from 1934 to 1938. His stay gave rise to the book...

Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga...

Adaptation for TV of the Dino Buzzati play "Un caso clinico". A modern Kafkaesque horror story in which medical specialists and machinery destroy a...

In this imaginary investigation, the scientist, who was very secretive, is presented in a new light. Actors play people who knew Einstein and retrace...

Parallel lives of two couples destined to suicide, one, and unhappiness, the other.

interview with Nico and Maurice Garrel