Alain Cavalier Movies

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions, leading her further towards Paris and...

In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast,...

When a young auto salesman is forced to give up a vacation with his wife in order to drive a big American car to its new owner who lives in Cannes,...

The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément, leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When...

This is the story of a filmmaker. Alain Cavalier, always accompanied by his camera, continues to film life with passion, still learning about himself...

The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.

A man repaints his apartment. Through objects, photos, drawings he plunges back into his past. His future seems so dark that he ends up painting the...

The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her...

In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from...

Over the course of one night, a gang of twelve criminals carry out a commando-like raid on a small town.

During a year, they would meet and film each other. The filmmaker and the actor, the President and his prime minister, Alain Cavalier and Vincent...

René, a children's theater performer, has a problem : he is a hearty eater and he weighs no less than 155 kilos. After being abandoned by his...

Léon : This morning, Léon the shoe-repairer puts up a sign in his store that he's managed for forty-six years : "Closing down in two...

Novelist and screenwriter Emmanuèle Bernheim and filmmaker Alain Cavalier have been friends for 30 years. They are preparing a film based on...

Jacquotte : Once a year, in July, on the way to vacation, Jacquotte relives her childhood for a few hours in her beloved parents' home, which has...

From his diary, filmed over ten years, filmmaker Alain Cavalier invites us to a meditation on old age, weakness and death. Made of moments of life,...

"In this film you will see a woman's handkerchief tied around a man's wrist, a well-shaven pig's head, some adolescents who are more inventive than...

Variations of the three portraits of the movie L'amitié.

A man walks a length of railroad track, looking for his elderly mother whom he believes fell from the train at some point. He brings his daughter...