Alain Resnais Movies

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michel Bouquet

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Delphine Seyrig

Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Arditi

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emmanuelle Riva

Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yves Montand

Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude Rich

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabine Azéma

A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabine Azéma

Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacques Dumesnil

"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabine Azéma

Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: André Dussollier

Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: André Dussollier

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vittorio Gassman

Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the African in the anthropology museum while...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Négroni

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Dux

Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gérard Depardieu

Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laura Benson

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Amar

A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sabine Azéma

A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Philippe Noiret

In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Delphine Seyrig

On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lambert Wilson

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lambert Wilson

Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabine Azéma

Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with newspaper headlines in an anti-war cry against the Spanish...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: María Casares

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Short documentary on Paul Gauguin by Alain Resnais

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Servais

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Abebe Bikila

A short subject about a Dutch artist who worked in : sculpture, painting, photography, and typography.

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A visit by the director to the studio of the artist is the basis for this documentary short subject.

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An art short subject about a French surrealist painter, designer, and illustrator.

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An art short subject about a visit to a French painter.

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The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Josiane Balasko

In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sabine Azéma

This is the legendary meeting between a young filmmaker and one of the masters of surrealism: the spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, born...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Oscar Dominguez

This is the legendary meeting between a young filmmaker and one of the masters of surrealism: the spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, born...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Oscar Dominguez

Oscar Winning 1948 short film by Alain Resnais, not to be confused with either the Short 1966 TV doc or the 1991 feature film by Maurice Pialat, both...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claude Dauphin

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michel Piccoli

Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claude Dauphin

Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claude Dauphin

Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Fonda

A documentary film about occupational diseases shot in 1957 at the Francolor factory in Oissel. It takes the form of a scientific investigation to...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jean Burgot

Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: André Dussollier

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each...

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Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the African in the anthropology museum while...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Négroni

Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabine Azéma

An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's...

Genre: Documentary

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A very rare and unknown documentary directed by Alain Resnais when he was still a student, part of his series about painters of his time.

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Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michel Bouquet

Here is a very rare and unknown documentary directed by Alain Resnais when he was still a student, part of his series about painters of his time. The...

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Documentary about the movie theaters in Valencia that, since the seventies, had been closed or turned into department stores and bingo halls; dream...

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Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Dux

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacques Dumesnil

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maurice Garrel

Documentary about George Gershwin directed by Alain Resnais with various celebrities speaking on their admiration and affection for Gershwin's music.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Betty Comden

Directed by Alain Resnais

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hans Hartung

"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabine Azéma

"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabine Azéma