Search results for "Agnès Varda"
Uncle Yanco

Uncle Yanco

Uncle Yanco
IMDb: 7.4
18

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never…

Genre: Documentary
Black Panthers

Black Panthers

Black Panthers
IMDb: 7.4
28

A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to…

Genre: Documentary
Jacquot

Jacquot

Jacquot
IMDb: 7.7
118

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes…

Genre: Drama
Far from Vietnam

Far from Vietnam

Far from Vietnam
IMDb: 7.3
115

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

Genre: Documentary, War
Mur Murs

Mur Murs

Mur Murs
IMDb: 7.4
78

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti…

Genre: Documentary
One Hundred and One Nights

One Hundred and One Nights

One Hundred and One Nights
IMDb: 6.4
105

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies…

Lions Love

Lions Love

Lions Love
IMDb: 5.9
110

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Varda by Agnès

Varda by Agnès

Varda by Agnès
IMDb: 7.8
115

An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls “cine-writing,” traveling from…

Genre: Documentary
Faces Places

Faces Places

Faces Places
IMDb: 7.8
94

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Genre: Documentary
The Young Girls Turn 25

The Young Girls Turn 25

The Young Girls Turn 25
IMDb: 7
64

Agnes Varda’s documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy’s film The Young Girls of Rochefort.

Genre: Documentary
Vagabond

Vagabond

Vagabond
IMDb: 7.7
105

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through…

Genre: Drama
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t

One Sings, the Other Doesn’t

One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
IMDb: 7.3
120

In this story of friendship and reproductive rights, 14 years in the relationship between two very dissimilar women are chronicled. Pauline is a middle-class city girl, at odds with her…

Genre: Drama, Music
Cléo from 5 to 7

Cléo from 5 to 7

Cléo from 5 to 7
IMDb: 7.9
90

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle…

Genre: Drama
La Pointe-Courte

La Pointe-Courte

La Pointe-Courte
IMDb: 7.1
80

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 complicated relationship between a married…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Along the Coast

Along the Coast

Along the Coast
IMDb: 7.4
26

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and…

Genre: Documentary
Les 3 Boutons

Les 3 Boutons

Les 3 Boutons
IMDb: 6.1
11

“Miss Jasmine! I have a package for you!” The 14-year-old girl with braces takes a break from milking the goat. Her local postman has delivered a surprise. She opens it…

Genre: Fantasy
Ô saisons, ô châteaux

Ô saisons, ô châteaux

Ô saisons, ô châteaux
IMDb: 7
21

A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau.

Genre: Documentary
Diary of a Pregnant Woman

Diary of a Pregnant Woman

Diary of a Pregnant Woman
IMDb: 6.7
16

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

Genre: Documentary
The Creatures

The Creatures

The Creatures
IMDb: 6.5
94

After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recovers from his injuries…

Daguerréotypes

Daguerréotypes

Daguerréotypes
IMDb: 7.6
80

An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years.

Genre: Documentary
The So-Called Caryatids

The So-Called Caryatids

The So-Called Caryatids
IMDb: 7
12

Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc.

Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes

Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes

Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes
IMDb: 7.6
36

More than 40 years after making “Cléo de 5 à 7,” Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us…

Genre: Documentary
The Vanishing Lion

The Vanishing Lion

The Vanishing Lion
IMDb: 6.4
11

An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic’s apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a lion at the Denfert-Rochereau (in the 14th arrondissement)….

Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Elsa the Rose

Elsa the Rose

Elsa the Rose
IMDb: 6.8
20

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

Genre: Documentary
Rue Daguerre in 2005

Rue Daguerre in 2005

Rue Daguerre in 2005
IMDb: 7.2
21

Agnes Varda revisits the storefronts and some of the local people she interviewed 30 years earlier in Daguerréotypes (1976).

Genre: Documentary
The Beaches of Agnès

The Beaches of Agnès

The Beaches of Agnès
IMDb: 8
110

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of…

Genre: Documentary
More So-called Caryatids

More So-called Caryatids

More So-called Caryatids
IMDb: 6.2
2

A super short film to accompany the earlier documentary of the same name. A photoplay of various caryatids to be found in Paris.

Genre: Documentary
You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know…

You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know…

You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know…
IMDb: 6.4
3

Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinematheque.

Genre: Documentary
Happiness

Happiness

Happiness
IMDb: 7.6
79

Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.

Genre: Drama, Romance