The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored
The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)
Middle aged Julien lives alone with his cat He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date He asks her to move in with him, and she does Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mys
Divertimento (1992)
More than just an abbreviated form of La Belle Noiseuse, Rivette re cut his footage with some important differences in point of view this one being more from Mariannes point of view
The Nun (1966)
Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways Suzannes virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious ab
Love on the Ground (1984)
A play within a play within a play within a play Actors perform a play in a house an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life The line between fiction and reality blurs
Duelle (1976)
The Queen of the Night battles the Queen of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris
Secret Defense (1998)
Sylvie, a 30 year old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background
Wuthering Heights (1985)
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation
Up, Down, Fragile (1995)
Adventures of three young women in a hot and lazy Paris in summer
Paris nous appartient (1961)
Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957 Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friends party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre direct
Joan the Maid 1: The Battles (1994)
A part of Joan of Arcs life At the beginning, Jeanne Joan has already left Domremy, she is trying to convince a captain to escort her to the Dauphin It ends during Jeannes first battle, at Orleans Meanwhile, Jeanne is depic
MerryGoRound (1980)
Elizabeth sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben in NYC and to her younger sister Leo in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead fathers estate When Ben and Leo arrive, a mysterious adventure begins
Le Pont du Nord (1981)
Young unhinged female ex con with a motorcycle helps a sickly young homeless woman in red discover what the map of Paris she took from her gangster boyfriend leads to
Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons (1994)
Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and execution
The Gang of Four (1989)
A drama following 4 women at stage school Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivettes work as a whole