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.

Rémi Chauveau, ten years old, lives in a broken home. He first experiences an austere boarding school and then an authoritarian and abusive...

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

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

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,...

Documentary on the beginnings of Algerian independence filmed during the summer of 1962 in Algiers. The film was banned in France and Algeria but won...

Parallel lives of two couples destined to suicide, one, and unhappiness, the other.

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...

1971 TV movie based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.

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

The portrait of a young girl from the Parisian bourgeoisie. As a brief shot indicates us, it could have been called "Portrait of the artist as a...

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

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

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

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

A poor nurse falls in love with the son of one of her wealthy patients. Abandoned by her husband while pregnant, she must fight her husband's wealthy...

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

A young couple skip school to spend time together in a mansion.

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