Éric Rohmer — Director (23)
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My Night at Maud's (1969) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Ma nuit chez Maud
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant / Françoise Fabian …
other title: La mia notte con Maud / Ma nuit chez Maud …
The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.
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The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB
La boulangère de Monceau
7.8 (6 ratings) director: Éric Rohmer actor: Barbet Schroeder / Claudine Soubrier …
other title: La boulangère de Monceau / The Baker of Monceau …
Early new wave effort from Rohmer, which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually, he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.
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Suzanne’s Career (1963) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
La Carrière de Suzanne
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Catherine Sée / Philippe Beuzen …
other title: La carriera di Susanna / Die Karriere von Suzanne …
In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.
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A Tale of Springtime (1990) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Conte de printemps
8.6 (5 ratings) director: Éric Rohmer actor: Anne Teyssèdre / Hugues Quester …
other title: Racconto di primavera / Frühlingserzählung …
The story of an introverted young girl just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a party and determines to match her off with her father, despite the latter's already having a lover of his own.
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La coleccionista (1967) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
La Collectionneuse
7.2 (5 ratings) director: Éric Rohmer actor: Patrick Bauchau / Haydée Politoff …
other title: La collezionista / Die Sammlerin …
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle
8.5 (11 ratings) director: Éric Rohmer actor: Joëlle Miquel / Jessica Forde …
other title: Reinette e mirabelle / Vier Abenteuer von Reinette und Mirabelle …
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
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A Summer's Tale (1996) [Movie] IMDb Douban NeoDB WikiData TMDB
Conte d'été
7.8 (6 ratings) director: Éric Rohmer actor: Melvil Poupaud / Amanda Langlet …
other title: Un ragazzo, tre ragazze - Racconto d'estate / Sommer …
Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends—and flirts heavily with—two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.
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The Aviator's Wife (1981) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
La Femme de l'aviateur
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Philippe Marlaud / Marie Rivière …
other title: La moglie dell'aviatore / A Mulher do Aviador …
A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
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A Tale of Autumn (1998) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Conte d'automne
9.7 (6 ratings) director: Éric Rohmer actor: Marie Rivière / Béatrice Romand …
other title: Racconto d'autunno / Herbstgeschichte …
Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
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A Tale of Winter (1992) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Conte d'hiver
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Charlotte Véry / Frédéric van den Driessche …
other title: Racconto d'inverno / Wintermärchen …
Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.
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The Green Ray (1986) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
Le Rayon vert
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Marie Rivière / Amira Chemakhi …
other title: Il raggio verde / O Raio Verde …
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
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Love in the Afternoon (1972) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
L'Amour l'après-midi
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Bernard Verley / Zouzou …
other title: L'amore il pomeriggio / O Amor às Três da Tarde …
Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
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Rendezvous in Paris (1995) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB
Les Rendez-vous de Paris
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Clara Bellar / Antoine Basler …
other title: Incontri a Parigi / Les Rendez-vous de Paris …
Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
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Six in Paris (1965) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Paris vu par…
director: Jean-Luc Godard / Claude Chabrol … actor: Barbara Wilkin / Jean-François Chappey …
other title: Parigi di notte / Paris vu par… …
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
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Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (1951) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Jean-Luc Godard / Anna Karina …
other title: Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak / Presentación, o Charlotte y su bistec …
On a snowy day in a Swiss village, Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to spark jealousy. Later, at Charlotte’s home, tensions rise as they discuss beauty, attraction, and honesty. Despite initial resistance, emotions take over, leading to an unexpected moment of intimacy before their farewell.
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Changing Landscapes (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Les Métamorphoses du paysage : L'Ère industrielle
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Antoine Vitez
other title: Les Métamorphoses du paysage : L'Ère industrielle / L'Ère industrielle : Métamorphoses du paysage
A sophisticated and beautifully constructed account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s. The film raises complex issues about the meaning and experience of modern landscapes and the enigmatic characteristics of features such as canals, pylons and deserted factories. Rohmer also explores the role of landscape within different traditions of modern art and design and refers to specific architects, artists and engineers.
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Full Moon in Paris (1984) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
Les Nuits de la pleine lune
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Pascale Ogier / Tchéky Karyo …
other title: Le notti della luna piena / Les Nuits de la pleine lune …
Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.
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The Marquise of O (1976) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
Die Marquise von O...
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Edith Clever / Bruno Ganz …
other title: La marchesa von... / A Marquesa d'O …
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
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The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon
director: Éric Rohmer actor: Andy Gillet / Stéphanie Crayencour …
other title: Gli amori di Astrea e Celadon / Os Amores de Astrea e de Celadon …
In an enchanted forest, back in the time of the Druids, the shepherd Céladon and the shepherdess Astrée share a pure and chaste love. Fooled by a suitor, Astrée dismisses Céladon, who throws himself into a river out of despair. She thinks he's dead, but he's been secretly rescued by some nymphs. Faithful to the promise he made to Astrée to never appear before her again, Céladon must overcome many obstacles to break the curse. Mad with love and despair, coveted by the nymphs, surrounded by rivals, and obliged to disguise himself as a woman to be near the one he loves, will he manage to make himself known without breaking his oath? A romance filled with doubt, hazards, and delicious temptations.