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Amazon Prime Video
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6.5
/1647/
58
/43/
55
/53/
3.5
/3109/
87
/38/
57
/5/
74
/14/

In the Shadow of Women (2015)
Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both.
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64
6.6
/2606/
60
/81/
62
/81/
3.6
/6313/
82
/50/
43
/3/
69
/14/

Lover for a Day (2017)
After a bad breakup, a college-aged Parisian moves into her father's flat only to discover that he is living with his new girlfriend - a young woman her age.
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72
62
6.8
/3121/
69
/49/
69
/48/
3.7
/7935/
82
/17/
70
/96/
76
/7/

Regular Lovers (2005)
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
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Kanopy
60
6.4
/2074/
60
/55/
60
/69/
3.3
/9973/
73
/26/
45
/10/
67
/17/

Jealousy (2013)
The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director’s son Louis and Anna Mouglalis.
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Kanopy
52
5.0
/2498/
63
/56/
50
/50/
3.0
/4015/
55
/11/
25
/8/
62
/6/

A Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
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Kanopy
60
44
6.1
/984/
54
/29/
54
/37/
3.3
/2813/
64
/22/
62
/11/

The Salt of Tears (2020)
Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets Djemila, a young worker with whom he enjoys a short romance, before returning to his home town and beginning a relationship with Geneviève, whom he has known since childhood. Caught between two passions, Luc runs, resolving to fulfil his father's dreams by devoting himself to his future... until finally, he experiences true love.
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72
40
6.5
/738/
72
/18/
65
/24/
3.8
/2085/
100
/5/
55
/2/

L'Enfant Secret (1982)
Jean-Baptiste, a filmmaker, and Elie, an actress, fall in love. To fight their unhappiness, they cling to their children: Jean-Baptiste to his film and Elie to her young son.
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71
38
6.9
/553/
57
/8/
70
/20/
3.8
/1617/
100
/9/
58
/7/

I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (1991)
For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.
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57
36
6.4
/1324/
62
/24/
53
/34/
3.5
/2086/
50
/6/
48
/16/

Frontier of Dawn (2009)
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover.
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65
31
6.6
/816/
70
/17/
65
/34/
3.7
/2213/
50
/4/

The Inner Scar (1972)
A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
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64
30
6.7
/791/
53
/19/
63
/30/
3.7
/2097/
67
/6/

Le Révélateur (1968)
A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light.
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60
29
6.0
/378/
61
/12/
63
/14/
3.3
/1985/
50
/10/

The Plough (2023)
Three siblings comprise the latest generation in a family of puppeteers led with passion by their father. They are magicians of a kind, but can barely make ends meet, working mainly for the love of their craft. Their grandmother contributes too, not only as a seamstress but also as a repository of memories and wisdom. A tragic event will challenge the desire of each sibling to carry on.
poster
70
25
6.8
/406/
68
/16/
70
/21/
3.8
/1098/

Les Hautes solitudes (1974)
Garrel convinced Jean Seberg, in the midst of a long struggle with mental illness, alcohol and drug, to “star” in this silent document of her daily life. Consisting mostly of meditative B&W close-ups of Seberg and her friends, as her torments and inner life flicker across her eerily beautiful face.
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66
20
6.9
/517/
63
/13/
62
/16/
3.6
/880/

The Birth of Love (1993)
The unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly young nor successful anymore.
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59
17
6.2
/458/
52
/17/
57
/15/
3.4
/814/

The Virgin's Bed (1969)
30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city...
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65
15
7.0
/553/
55
/8/
56
/13/
3.6
/641/
76
/5/

Wild Innocence (2001)
A movie director does a new film against heroin consumption, and the producers are heroin dealers.
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57
15
6.2
/746/
50
/10/
49
/17/
3.5
/865/
56
/1/

The Wind of the Night (1999)
A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation. After an affair with the married Hélène, the young man tries to escape her obsessions on a road trip with Serge, a taciturn relic of the 60s.
poster
69
15
6.8
/378/
61
/11/
72
/13/
3.7
/713/
70
/2/

Emergency Kisses (1989)
When film director Mathieu casts a famous actress to portray a character based on his aspiring-actress wife, he creates a rift in his marriage. French filmmaker Philippe Garrel's family members portray versions of themselves in this lyrical drama.
poster
70
15
6.8
/315/
62
/9/
74
/8/
3.8
/796/

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985)
A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film in-production, as the birth of a child.
poster
64
13
7.0
/309/
56
/6/
59
/12/
3.6
/530/

Liberty at Night (1984)
In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
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74
10
7.0
/149/
80
/3/
77
/10/
3.5
/337/

The Crystal Cradle (1976)
An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.
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61
?
6.9
/85/
52
/4/
55
/4/
3.5
/330/

Actua 1 (1968)
A film considered almost lost even by Garrel, who recently found his negatives. Shot during the events of the May 68, it was made collectively; the film is a merge of Garrel’s and his partners’ points of view, all of them students and filmmakers that participated in the revolt.
poster
?
10
/1/

Young People and Money (1967)
Philippe Garrel interviews young people who have become rich on their thoughts about money and capitalism.
poster
?
10
/1/

Ronnie Bird - Les Bon Mots (1967)
TV short for the series Bouton Rouge.
poster
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10
/1/

Polnareff, Zouzou & Les Bonbons Magiques (1967)
TV short for the ORTF.
poster
?
10
/1/
100
/1/

Handa or Sophistication (1967)
Short Philippe Garrel portrait of a young woman, Handa, who loves that which is decadent, complicated, precious, cannot stand simplicity, and detests people who watch television.
poster
?
6.9
/23/
10
/1/
63
/3/

The Ministries of Art (1989)
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.
poster
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7.2
/51/
16
/3/
80
/2/

Concentration (1968)
La Concentration features an androgynous young man (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and woman (Zouzou), dressed only in their underwear, locked in a room with a bed.
poster
61
?
5.4
/144/
57
/8/
68
/4/
3.4
/258/

Marie for Memory (1968)
Parallel lives of two couples destined to suicide, one, and unhappiness, the other.
poster
?
5.7
/9/
10
/1/

The Lost Paths (1967)
Series of three short 'Pop Films' directed between 1966 - 67 for French television by Philippe Garrel. Includes footage of The Living Theater in rehearsal, interviews with Julian Beck and Judith Malina, Donovan in concert and The Who in the studio recording 'Pictures of Lily'. Re-broadcast on INA in 1984.
poster
?
6.2
/6/
40
/3/
60
/1/

Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators (1967)
Influenced and inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, some young french directors (Jean Eustache, Francis Leroi, Jean-Michel Barjol, Romain Goupil, Luc Moullet) are talking about their problems in producing less expensive and more free films in the french industry of cinema of the 60's.
poster
?
5.8
/30/

Journey to the Garden of the Dead (1978)
Love between Georges and Hypolyte has faded. George confides in Catherine that he is still obsessed with Hypolyte. He wishes that she was a virgin but since she is not, he wishes that she was dead.
poster
66
?
6.1
/132/
53
/3/
80
/6/
3.5
/268/

Cinétracts (1968)
A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.
poster
?
6.9
/22/
10
/1/

Right of Access (1965)
A 17 year old boy goes on a trip with his father and his father's girlfriend.
poster
?
7.2
/31/
47
/4/
25
/1/

Athanor (1972)
Athanor (Nico) is searching for fire. A flame is always at the foreground. Nico naked in tombs, looking at herself in circular mirrors, Nico in castles, keeper of the fire. Nico and Musky as medieval princesses. Athanor is a film about fire.
poster
59
?
6.3
/114/
50
/5/
60
/7/
3.4
/258/

Children Out of Tune (1964)
A young couple skip school to spend time together in a mansion.
poster
?
10
/1/

Clara (1989)
"Clara, screenplay and dialogues of a Franco-Czechoslovak film, the co-director should have been the Czech filmmaker Kadar. Screenplay adaptated in 1989 by Philippe Garrel and students of the University of Paris X (Nanterre). The subject of the film - which is also a love story - is part of the political atmosphere, release the XXth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party has changed both individual for a certain way of seeing and understanding History: political trials, purges in Czechoslovakia, Hungary events of 1956, Algeria war, cold war." - KG
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?
6.4
/68/
53
/6/

An Angel Passes (1975)
Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice, discussing the filmmaker’s staple topics: love, psychoanalysis, and the failures of May ’68.
poster
?
6.2
/58/
10
/1/
54
/5/

Anemone (1968)
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 young girl." though probably "young girl" is just a previous title, but the style and the presence of the Father leaves no doubt about who paints and who's hiding behind the young girl.
poster
?
6.1
/86/
40
/5/
42
/9/

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After (1984)
Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.
poster
74
?
7.0
/109/
75
/6/
79
/7/

The Blue of the Origins (1979)
A survival, silent black & white film shot with a hand camera, a journey into Philippe Garrel's intimate family album featuring the two women who counted in his cinematographic life: Nico and Zouzou.
poster
64
?
7.0
/211/
60
/4/
59
/6/
3.5
/204/

The Phantom Heart (1996)
Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking about love, the relationship between former lovers..


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