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.

Full Moon in Paris

1984

French

7.3

♡ 7

100%

relationship problems

Romance

Éric Rohmer Director

Virginie Thévenet as Camille

Mathieu Schiffman as Louise's decorator friend

Fabrice Luchini as Octave

Tchéky Karyo as Remi

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.

Nadja in Paris

1964

French

6.7

♡ 6

Éric Rohmer Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Self

Nadja Tesich as Self

Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust; she also likes to stroll about Paris.

A Modern Coed

1966

French

5.7

♡ 4

Action

Documentary

Éric Rohmer Director

Antoine Vitez as Récitant / Narrator

Eric Rohmer directs this short documentary that narrates the presence of women in French universities as of the time of its release -- 1966. During the film's short run, the narrator continues to point out that during the advent of World War II, only 21,000 women attended college and made only a 30 % of the student body, a number that by the 1964-1965 school year had passed the 120,000 mark. Instead of opting to live according to what was expected of them, now they were joining the work force, trading in aprons for lab jackets and becoming professionals even after getting married.

Entretien sur Pascal

1965

French

6.0

♡ 3

Action

Documentary

Éric Rohmer Director

Brice Parain as Self

Dominique Dubarle as Self

An episode of the educational TV series "En profil dans le texte" directed by Rohmer, on the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, the subject of debate in Rohmer's film "My Night at Maud’s."

Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak

1960

French

6.0

♡ 3

38%

Action

Comedy

Romance

Éric Rohmer Director

Stéphane Audran as Charlotte

Anna Karina as Clara

Andrée Bertrand as Clara

Jean-Luc Godard as Walter

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.

Boyfriends and Girlfriends

1987

French

7.5

♡ 14

100%

Éric Rohmer Director

Anne-Laure Meury as Adrienne

François-Eric Gendron as Alexandre

Emmanuelle Chaulet as Blanche

Eric Viellard as Fabien

Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to know Fabien.

Autumn Tale

1998

French

7.4

♡ 10

95%

Éric Rohmer Director

Didier Sandre as Étienne

Alain Libolt as Gérald

Marie Rivière as Isabelle

Béatrice Romand as Magali

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.

Suzanne's Career

1963

French

6.8

♡ 8

72%

Éric Rohmer Director

Patrick Bauchau as Frank

Jean-Claude Biette as Jean-Louis

Jean-Louis Comolli as Party Guest

Catherine Sée as 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.

A Summer's Tale

1996

French

7.6

♡ 26

98%

Éric Rohmer Director

Melvil Poupaud as Gaspard

Franck Cabot-David as Le cousin

Amanda Langlet as Margot

Gwenaëlle Simon as Solène

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.

Sign of the Lion

1962

French

7.2

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Éric Rohmer Director

Macha Méril as La blonde du 14 juillet

Marie Dubois as La jeune femme au café

Malka Ribowska as La mère des deux enfants

Jean-Luc Godard as Le mélomane

An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.

A Tale of Springtime

1990

French

7.1

♡ 11

Comedy

cousin cousin relationship

Éric Rohmer Director

Eloïse Bennett as Ève

Hugues Quester as Igor

Anne Teyssèdre as Jeanne

Florence Darel as Natacha

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.

The Bakery Girl of Monceau

1963

French

7.3

♡ 7

Éric Rohmer Director

Michèle Girardon as Sylvie

Michel Mardore as (uncredited)

Barbet Schroeder as Young Man / Narrator

Bertrand Tavernier as Young Man / Narrator

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.

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

1987

French

7.5

♡ 7

100%

Éric Rohmer Director

Marie Rivière as L'arnaqueuse - Swindler

Fabrice Luchini as Le marchand de tableau

Éric Rohmer as Man in Supermarket

Jessica Forde as 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.

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

2007

French

6.3

♡ 4

68%

Éric Rohmer Director

Priscilla Galland as Amynthe

Marie Rivière as La mère de Céladon

Mathilde Mosnier as Phillis

Olivier Blond as Un berger

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.

A Tale of Winter

1992

French

7.2

♡ 10

Éric Rohmer Director

Claudine Paringaux as Customer

Marie Rivière as Dora

Christiane Desbois as Mother

Edwige Navarro as Perdita

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.

Love in the Afternoon

1972

French

7.6

♡ 14

87%

man between two women

marriage crisis

Romance

womanizer

Éric Rohmer Director

Marie-Christine Barrault as Dream Sequence

Françoise Fabian as Dream Sequence

Claude-Jean Philippe as Mr. M.

Silvia Badescu as The Female Student

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.

My Night at Maud's

1969

French

7.8

♡ 17

96%

Éric Rohmer Director

Marie-Christine Barrault as Françoise

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean-Louis

Françoise Fabian as Maud

Marie-Claude Rauzier as Student

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.