Portrait Movies

This documentary looks back on a career of a woman who, very early on, refused to accept the roles assigned to her. In the 1980s, while others were...

Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his...

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

A documentary directed by Gregory Monro.

A surprisingly intimate portrait of how the dream of running one’s own business can take on monstrous contours. Managed by the father of one of...

A portrait of a figure standing towards a painterly seascape becomes a portrait of the photograph itself, its borders, surfaces and meanings.

The artist Sergente Palmerino and his wife lose their business, their home, and everything they had built in Montreal since the late 1930s in a fire.

The portrait of Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, through fragments of the present, archives, readings and close voices. A film where political thought is felt...

Jul, a true rap phenomenon, has become in just a few years the new face of Marseille. A kid from the working-class neighborhoods who, with a €20...

Coming 50 years after the release of Space Oddity, the 90-minute film explores the Bowie before Ziggy Stardust, following the period from 1966 when...

In this intimate portrait addressed directly to Hélène Hazera, filmmaker Judith Abitbol revisits a key figure of France’s...

This documentary explores the inner life of François Mitterrand from a unique perspective: that of the writer he never ceased to be. From...

Some celebrate him as a sex symbol and the most interesting actor of our time. Envious people talk about his smooth face, his washboard stomach, and...