The Song of Styrene

1958

French

7.0

♡ 10

95%

Alain Resnais Director

Sacha Vierny as L'ouvrier

Pierre Dux as Récitant / Narrator

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics.

Mélo

1986

French

7.1

♡ 10

83%

Alain Resnais Director

Fanny Ardant as Christiane Levesque

Jacques Dacqmine as Dr. Remy

André Dussollier as Marcel Blanc

Sabine Azéma as Romaine Belcroix

Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not, both are happy with their lives. Pierre is happily married to Romaine, a stylish young flapper. However, Marcel meets and falls in love with her, which Marcel little suspects.

I Love You, I Love You

1968

French

7.1

♡ 16

90%

Alain Resnais Director

Annie Fargue as Agnès de Smet - la jeune femme qui sait dire non

Bernard Fresson as Bernard Hannecart

Olga Georges-Picot as Catrine

Georges Jamin as Le docteur Delavoix - le chirurgien de la clinique

Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.

Life of Riley

2014

French

6.0

♡ 1

73%

Alain Resnais Director

Hippolyte Girardot as Colin

Michel Vuillermoz as Jack

André Dussollier as Simeon

Alba Gaïa Bellugi as Tilly

In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.

All the Memory in the World

1956

French

7.7

♡ 5

Documentary

library

Alain Resnais Director

Jacques Dumesnil as Self - Narrator

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.

Life Is a Bed of Roses

1983

French

6.1

♡ 4

78%

Alain Resnais Director

Marie Rivière as

Fanny Ardant as Livia Cerasquier

Geraldine Chaplin as Nora Winkle

Hélène Patarot as Thi Lan

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.

My American Uncle

1980

French

7.6

♡ 11

Alain Resnais Director

Catherine Serre as La secrétaire de la direction générale

Luc Bernard as L'homme

Gérard Depardieu as René Ragueneau

Marie Dubois as Thérèse Ragueneau

Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.

Love Unto Death

1984

French

6.7

♡ 1

59%

Action

Drama

Romance

Alain Resnais Director

Fanny Ardant as Judith Martignac

Françoise Rigal as Juliette Dotax

Françoise Morhange as Mme Vigne

Yvette Etiévant as Voice

A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.

Private Fears in Public Places

2006

French

6.9

♡ 1

76%

53%

Drama

Romance

Alain Resnais Director

Claude Rich as Arthur

Lambert Wilson as Dan

Laura Morante as Nicole

Anne Kessler as Présentatrice émission TV

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

Hiroshima Mon Amour

1959

French

7.8

♡ 20

96%

Alain Resnais Director

Moira Lister as (Dubbed Emmanuelle Riva) (uncredited)

Emmanuelle Riva as Elle

Bernard Fresson as German Lover

Eiji Okada as Lui

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

Night and Fog

1956

French

8.6

♡ 13

Action

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

destruction of a civilization

Alain Resnais Director

Michel Bouquet as Narrator

Adolf Hitler as Self

Heinrich Himmler as Self

Julius Streicher as Self

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

The War Is Over

1966

French

7.2

♡ 6

1960s

communist infiltrator

Drama

franco regime (francoism)

Alain Resnais Director

Bernard Fresson as André Sarlat

Françoise Bertin as Carmen

Michel Piccoli as L'inspecteur des douanes / First Customs Inspector

Geneviève Bujold as Nadine Sallanches

Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.

Stavisky

1974

French

6.5

♡ 1

79%

Alain Resnais Director

Michael Lonsdale as Docteur Mézy

Gérard Depardieu as Le jeune inventeur

Jacques Spiesser as Michel Grandville

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Serge Alexandre Stavisky

Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.

Wild Grass

2009

French

6.2

♡ 4

68%

Alain Resnais Director

Mathieu Amalric as Bernard de Bordeaux

Sara Forestier as Elodie

Nicolas Duvauchelle as Jean-Mi

Michel Vuillermoz as Lucien d'Orange

Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about her becomes an obsession.

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

2012

French

6.5

85%

59%

Comedy

Drama

Alain Resnais Director

Lambert Wilson as Lambert Wilson / Orphée #2

Mathieu Amalric as Mathieu Amalric / M. Henri

Michel Piccoli as Michel Piccoli / Le père

Jean-Christophe Folly as Monsieur Henri

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...

Last Year at Marienbad

1961

French

7.6

♡ 24

93%

Alain Resnais Director

Delphine Seyrig as A - la femme brune

Françoise Bertin as Un personnage de l'hôtel

Gilles Quéant as Un personnage de l'hôtel

Giorgio Albertazzi as X - l'homme à l'accent italien

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

Muriel

1963

French

7.0

♡ 7

80%

mother son relationship

nouvelle vague

widow

Alain Resnais Director

Delphine Seyrig as Hélène Aughain

Wanda Kerien as La cliente

Martine Vatel as Marie-Dominique, aka Marie-Do

Françoise Bertin as Simone

In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.

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The Song of Styrene

Mélo

I Love You, I Love You

Life of Riley

All the Memory in the World

Life Is a Bed of Roses

My American Uncle

Love Unto Death

Private Fears in Public Places

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Night and Fog

The War Is Over

Stavisky

Wild Grass

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

Last Year at Marienbad

Muriel