Jean-Paul Sartre Movies

A political drama about the assassination of a leading politician. When Hugo comes out of jail, the Communist party has embarrassingly swung in a new...

Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.

Hôtel La Louisiane is, at its core, a film about freedom and dignity. Freedom for those who wish to live in a place where they are able to feel...

A journalist meets “Man of Today” who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead...

A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."

A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is...

Short film based on the novel by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Three murderers. A journalist, a postal employee, a rich young lady. They're dead, but they prefer to call themselves "absent". One forgets they're...

An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.

Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a...

"Hell is other people." Three recently-deceased persons are locked into a hotel suite together for all eternity. Adaptation of Huis clos, by Jean...

Prisoners await execution by firing squad when they are captured during the Spanish Civil War in this drama taken from the novella by Jean-Paul...

Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.

Innocent Mary-Eleanor becomes a hardened criminal through her time spent sentenced in a women's prison.

This historic documentary highlights the basis of Jean-Paul Sartre's thoughts in all its forms: novel, theater, philosophy, political commitments....