Alain Cavalier Movies

"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...

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

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...

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

“I have on occasion experienced filmmaking as an intensely shared activity. Lively friendships result and remain. Filming that affection today...

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...

A loving couple Martin and Lea have some problems with each other too.

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

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

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,...

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

"Since childhood, I've had the good fortune of going through two mini depressions of happiness, and I'm serenely awaiting the third. This alone is...

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 on the...

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...

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

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...

An enchanting mini-portrait of Antoinette, an 86½-year-old magician. Clad in a dress coat and white satin top hat, the elegant Parisienne...

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

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

An American sculptor, passioned by literature, comes to Paris to perfect his art, but ends up with barely no money, and to survive has to sell The...