Jean-Daniel Pollet Movies

In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bernadette Lafont

A cinematographic poem in the form of variations around the theme of Robinson, a utopian fable freely inspired by Daniel Defoe's novel, which speaks...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tobias Engel

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Wilkin

Pollet and Schlöndorff imagine the Mediterranean as a supernal arena.

Genre: Documentary

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A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Laurent Terzieff

"I was interested by the fact that some old guy, after the Parthenon’s glamour, devoted himself in a much smaller temple, where there was no...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Négroni

Jean Daniel Pollet’ was 22 when he made his debut short movie, "Pourvu qu’on ait l’ivresse" in 1957. It is a study of loneliness...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Melki

Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Raimondakis

Gala (1961), a more polished version of Pourvu, set in a black cha-cha nightclub. Relying more upon looks, faces, and unease, rather than gags or...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Melki

A homage to journalist Francis Ponge in a film that its author regarded as “natural.”

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Cast: Michael Lonsdale

A homage to journalist Francis Ponge in a film that its author regarded as “natural.”

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Cast: Michael Lonsdale

Père Lachaise cemetery reflects the socio-economic hierarchy of French society during the second half of the 19th century. The film pays...

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Leon who works as a bathhouse attendant discovers a passion for the tango that will change his life. He falls in love with Fumée, a young and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Melki

Leon who works as a bathhouse attendant discovers a passion for the tango that will change his life. He falls in love with Fumée, a young and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Melki

Leon who works as a bathhouse attendant discovers a passion for the tango that will change his life. He falls in love with Fumée, a young and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Melki

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Lonsdale

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Lonsdale

A foundry in Perche was established in 1876. This is a final homage paid to the ancestral occupation of foundrymen, whose actions have been repeated...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucien Doyen

A foundry in Perche was established in 1876. This is a final homage paid to the ancestral occupation of foundrymen, whose actions have been repeated...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucien Doyen

An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Jean-Pierre Kalfon

An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Jean-Pierre Kalfon

From Provence to Greece, a journey on the mortal remains and ruins of ancient civilizations.

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Cast: Jean-Daniel Pollet

From Provence to Greece, a journey on the mortal remains and ruins of ancient civilizations.

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Cast: Jean-Daniel Pollet

Jean Daniel Pollet’ was 22 when he made his debut short movie, "Pourvu qu’on ait l’ivresse" in 1957. It is a study of loneliness...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Melki

Gala (1961), a more polished version of Pourvu, set in a black cha-cha nightclub. Relying more upon looks, faces, and unease, rather than gags or...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Melki

An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude Melki

Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Assier

Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Assier

A Bullet Through the Heart (French: Une balle au cœur, Greek: Μια σφαίρα στην...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Françoise Hardy

A Bullet Through the Heart (French: Une balle au cœur, Greek: Μια σφαίρα στην...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Françoise Hardy

Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Raimondakis

Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Raimondakis

Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Raimondakis

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Wilkin

Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Assier

He inhabits the world just like he inhabits his house: motionless. A serious accident nailed him there: in a house in the middle of a large garden....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Daniel Pollet

He inhabits the world just like he inhabits his house: motionless. A serious accident nailed him there: in a house in the middle of a large garden....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Daniel Pollet

He inhabits the world just like he inhabits his house: motionless. A serious accident nailed him there: in a house in the middle of a large garden....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Daniel Pollet

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Wilkin

Pollet and Schlöndorff imagine the Mediterranean as a supernal arena.

Genre: Documentary

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An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude Melki

An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude Melki

A lonely dishwasher hires a prostitute and brings her to his dingy apartment to enliven his dreary life for a night.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Micheline Dax

A lonely dishwasher hires a prostitute and brings her to his dingy apartment to enliven his dreary life for a night.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Micheline Dax

Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patrice Dally

In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bernadette Lafont

This documentary about the cod fishing industry was filmed on a fishing boat near the Arctic Circle.

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This film is dedicated to Mas-Félipe Delavouët, the poet discovered by Lawrence Durrell, who wrote 14,000 verses in Provençal over...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mas-Félipe Delavouët

About images and photographs of real estate and specific objects of the urban landscape, a voice speaks to us of the search for something that is...

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In 1971, Jean-Daniel Pollet & Guy Seligmann directed for French TV a documentary about French artist César Baldaccini. It was part of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: César Baldaccini

From antiquity to Modigliani, women's faces painted through the centuries and edited according to the theme of "Pierrot le fou", composed by Antoine...

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A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Laurent Terzieff

In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maurice Garrel

As a rereading of his films, "Contretemps" (in the fight against time), Jean-Daniel Pollet brings together excerpts of his films and a report by Jean...

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Cast: Philippe Sollers