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1. The Dreamers (2003)
NC-17 | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 131,616 | Gross: $2.53M
2. Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge, Jean-Claude Guilbert
Votes: 22,831 | Gross: $0.04M
3. A Man Escaped (1956)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod
Votes: 25,011
4. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre, Adrien Borel
Votes: 12,724
5. Pickpocket (1959)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama
Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal
Votes: 25,365
6. L'Argent (1983)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A counterfeit bill that starts off as a schoolboy prank leads to incarceration and violence.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Vincent Risterucci
Votes: 11,848
7. Mouchette (1967)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Marie Cardinal, Paul Hébert
Votes: 12,989
8. The Devil, Probably (1977)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano
Votes: 4,734 | Gross: $0.03M
9. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, Giorgio Maulini
Votes: 3,111
10. Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
King Arthur learns that his wife, Queen Guinevere, has been having an affair with Lancelot, who at the same time remains loyal to the king, particularly after Arthur's traitorous nephew Mordred commits an attempt on his life.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan, Vladimir Antolek-Oresek
Votes: 4,247
11. A Gentle Woman (1969)
88 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to... See full summary »
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Claude Ollier
Votes: 3,058
12. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
64 min | Biography, Drama, History
A Joan of Arc's trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English. Filmed in a spare, low-key fashion.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat, Marc Jacquier
Votes: 5,968
13. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette, Lucienne Bogaert
Votes: 4,840
14. Angels of Sin (1943)
80 min | Drama
Anne-Marie joins a Dominican convent as a novice where she knows Therese. After shooting a man for which she was imprisoned, Therese protests her innocence, reluctant to tell her secret.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Renée Faure, Jany Holt, Sylvie, Mila Parély
Votes: 1,774
15. Cannes Film Festival (1952– )
News
A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.
Stars: Bjorn Jiskoot Jr., Isabelle Huppert, Pedro Almodóvar, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 118
16. Public Affairs (1934)
25 min | Short, Comedy
Bresson's first film is, totally uncharacteristically, a slapstick comedy, centred around two neighbouring republics, Crogandia and Miremia, and the various disasters that befall the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Beby, Andrée Servilanges, Marcel Dalio, Gilles Margaritis
Votes: 349
17. Cinéastes de notre temps (1964–1972)
Documentary
In-depth documentaries about the greatest filmmakers from around the world, all in the form of candid face-to-face interviews, conducted, created and produced by former critics for Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe.
Stars: André S. Labarthe, Georges Franju, Jean Renoir, Jacques Rivette
Votes: 94
18. Au hasard Bresson (1967)
31 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary featuring director Robert Bresson on the set of Mouchette and interviews with him (off and in).
Director: Theodor Kotulla | Stars: Robert Bresson, Nadine Nortier
Votes: 115
19. Cinépanorama (1956–1966)
Documentary
Stars: François Chalais, France Roche, Yves Montand, Martine Carol
Votes: 63
20. Les jumeaux de Brighton (1936)
89 min | Comedy
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.
Director: Claude Heymann | Stars: Raimu, Michel Simon, Suzy Prim, Charlotte Lysès
Votes: 50
21. Courrier Sud (1937)
91 min | Drama
A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
Director: Pierre Billon | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Jany Holt, Raymond Aimos, Alexandre Rignault
Votes: 59
22. Notes on the Cinematographer (parlato in italiano) (2020)
117 min | Drama
"Beautiful and Different" - Mohsen Makhmalbaf - Notes on the Cinematographer is a subtle portrait of a budding jealousy between two 10 years old twin sisters while one of them is learning ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher-Calvin Pollard | Stars: Viola Rothwell, Nina Rothwell
Votes: 7
23. The Road to Bresson (1984)
54 min | Documentary
A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
Directors: Leo De Boer, Jurriën Rood | Stars: Robert Bresson, Louis Malle, Dominique Sanda, Paul Schrader
Votes: 261
24. Pour le cinéma (1968–1978)
Stars: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Claude Lelouch
Votes: 8
25. Pour le plaisir (1964–1968)
Documentary
Stars: Georges Franju, Louis Malle, René Bernard, François Reichenbach
Votes: 9
26. C'était un musicien (1933)
Comedy
When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves.Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he falls in love with the baron's daughter.
Directors: Maurice Gleize, Frederic Zelnik | Stars: Fernand Gravey, Roland Toutain, Lucien Baroux, Felix Bressart
27. Wear (2015)
128 min | Drama, Fantasy
The lives of four generations of Southern women are explored through the eyes of a peculiar young boy with a wild imagination.
Director: Felix Else | Stars: Rachel Lynn Jackson, Julian Murdoch, Mary Ellen Ashley, Chris Kerson
28. The Foolish Virgin (1938)
Drama
Tragedy results when the brother of a girl who he feels has been seduced by an older married man, a lawyer, chases after them when they depart.
Director: Henri Diamant-Berger | Stars: Victor Francen, Annie Ducaux, Gabrielle Dorziat, Raymond Galle
Votes: 10
29. Les échos du cinéma (1961–1962)
27 min | Short, Talk-Show
Stars: Normand Champoux, Claude Le Gac, René-Louis Lafforgue, Alain Delon
30. Au cinéma ce soir (1969–1975)
Talk-Show
Stars: Armand Panigel, Michel Simon, Christian-Jaque, Marcel Carné
32. Lyon, autopsie d'une grande ville (Inventaire des rues du 9ème arrondissement) (2014)
103 min | Documentary
Director: Gérard Courant
33. Lyon, autopsie d'une grande ville (Inventaire des rues du 7ème arrondissement) (2014)
95 min | Documentary
Director: Gérard Courant
34. If It Moves Shoot It (1970 TV Special)
50 min | Documentary
From Hammer horror to the new underground film-makers, the documentary investigates the whole range of cinematic experimentation and development that changes the look of European cinema in ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Hartog | Stars: John Schlesinger, François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Robert Bresson
35. Cinéma (1965–1968)
Documentary
Stars: François Chalais, Bourvil, Laurent Terzieff, Delphine Seyrig
36.
Cinéastes de notre temps (1964–1972)
Episode:
Bresson ni vu ni connu
(1965)
65 min | Documentary
As befits the austerity of this director, for his first ever on camera interview, it is just Bresson and the filmmaker, with pronouncements on the difference between "le cinematographe" and... See full summary »
Director: François Weyergans | Stars: Robert Bresson, Maurice Béjart, François Weyergans
Votes: 45
37.
Au cinéma ce soir (1969–1975)
Episode:
Les dames du bois de Boulogne
(1972)
Talk-Show
Director: Solange Peter | Stars: Armand Panigel, Robert Bresson
38.
Cinéma (1965–1968)
Episode:
Episode dated 23 April 1966
(1966)
Documentary
Stars: Michèle Arnaud, Robert Bresson, Jean-Claude Brialy, Milos Forman
39.
Cinéma (1965–1968)
Episode:
Episode dated 26 January 1967
(1967)
Documentary
Stars: Robert Aldrich, Robert Bresson, Marie Cardinal, Eddie Constantine
40.
Pour le plaisir (1964–1968)
Episode:
Un Metteur En Ordre: Robert Bresson
(1966)
60 min | Documentary
Several fellow directors as well as several participants in the film Au Hasard Balthazar engage in an in depth discussion of that work and of its creator Bresson.
Director: Roland Darbois | Stars: Robert Bresson, Ghislain Cloquet, Marguerite Duras, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 5
41.
Cinépanorama (1956–1966)
Episode:
Episode dated 23 January 1960
(1960)
Documentary
Director: Jean Bescont | Stars: François Chalais, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Robert Bresson, Robert Hossein
42.
Cannes Film Festival (1952– )
Episode:
25ème festival de Cannes
(1971)
News
Director: Henri Carrier | Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Lindsay Anderson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson
43.
Les échos du cinéma (1961–1962)
Episode:
Episode #1.48
(1962)
28 min | Short, Talk-Show
Director: Jean Guillon | Stars: Normand Champoux, Claude Le Gac, Robert Bresson, Jean Luc Descaves
44.
Pour le cinéma (1968–1978)
Episode:
Episode dated 6 January 1969
(1969)
Stars: Robert Bresson, Nina Companeez, Marie-Christine Deshayes, Anny Duperey
45.
Pour le plaisir (1964–1968)
Episode:
Festivals 66 Cinéma 67
(1967)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Guy Gilles | Stars: Aicha Abadir, Robert Bresson, Leslie Caron, Henry Chapier