Jean-Claude Carrière Movies

Vienna, in the 1930s. The attractive and famous writer Albert Rank receives the letter from a stranger. He discovers that she devoted her entire life...

A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pained lover decides to reply. Fountain pen,...

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did...

In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army...

At 36, despite all the lovers she has had, amiable Diane de Maufrigneuse, Princess of Cadignan, has never found true love. She confides this to the...

A former European actor Don Martin has retired with his disjointed "family" to his own private island, "The Paradise." After a few years, the entire...

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than...

Made a year after Luis Buñuel's death in 1983 this is an illuminating portrait of the surreal and visionary director, featuring clips,...

Milan Kundera's rambling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, though greatly admired, was thought by Hollywood studio executives to be...

A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.

Romeo and Juliet in the microcosm of the human body... Forbidden love between the young Bacterium Micromeo and Antibody-girl Globia threatens the...

Notes on the movie Passion

La Guerre Dans le Haut Pays is a period piece set in the winter of 1797-98, during the six days leading up to the fall of Bern and the victory of...

An adaptation of Jean Racine's tragedy which depicts the thwarted loves of Antiochus, Titus (the future emperor of Rome) and Berenice (the queen of...

Agnès Vincent-Deray, the widow of director Jacques Deray, made this short documentary on the production of LA PISCINE in 2019, on the occasion...

A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.

Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed...