Maurice Garrel Movies

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

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

interview with Nico and Maurice Garrel

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

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

Frédéric Lemoyne must be very happy in his life: he is a famous biologist and the son of a hero of French resistance: his father,...

Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice,...

A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.

TV movie by Swiss director Yvan Butler, awarded at the Monte-Carlo festival

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.

1971 TV movie based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.

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...

When his father dies a young man has the choice to continue the farmwork of his old man who suffered because of the hard labour and all the...

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...

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

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

Jean-Luc, mountain farmer, married Christine. She accepted this marriage because the man she loved, Augustin, left. Jean-Luc knows this but he hopes...

The Father's Murder tells the day in the life of a young man who wants to kill his father at all costs.