Maurice Garrel Movies

Julien, a renowned geologist, lives with his wife Isabelle and their two children in a country house. But his sullen, uncompromising attitude leaves...

A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.

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

David learns that his mother has cancer and only two months to live. He decides not to let her know.

An orphaned young woman goes to Paris looking for work and love. Working as an au-pair, she is discovered by a fashion photographer and becomes a...

A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems...

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

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

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...

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

Marin Karmitz's avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer's block.

1971 TV movie based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.

A man is murdered soon after getting out of jail. His longtime friend, a cop, sets out to find out who did it and why.

The newspapers announce the left's defeat in the upcoming elections. A confused young mother gets up in the night to take care of her child. Leftist...

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

As the outbreak of the Third World War commences, government members of France start hiding in a bunker.

During the world war two in a French village a teacher and a female pupil have been killed by the Gestapo because of an informer.Now forty years...

A 17 year old boy goes on a trip with his father and his father's girlfriend.

interview with Nico and Maurice Garrel