Néstor Almendros Filmography

A womanizing art dealer and a painter find the serenity of their Riviera vacation disturbed by a third guest, a vivacious bohemian woman known for her long list of male conquests.

A devil-may-care racing driver is paid by an auto tycoon to be a runner-up, not a winner, but he rebels against the crooked deal and becomes an internationally famous racer.

Stefan, a recent college graduate, hitchhikes from Germany to Paris where he meets American expatriate, Estelle. They chase the sun to Ibiza. An idyllic island life degenerates when she introduces him to heroin and they get addicted.

A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

Government agents hire a mercenary to infiltrate a crime ring that's selling guns to a right-wing militia in Texas.

In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.

Antoine Doinel works dying flowers in the courtyard outside his apartment. He is married to Christine, who is pregnant. He has an affair with a Japanese woman, jeopardising his marriage.

On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.

Young Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage.

Consul's wife, Viviane took part in an expedition to New Guinea. She falls in love with Gaetan, the leader of a group of explorers, whose objective is to reach a mysterious valley.

Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.

Monsieur Boudard, a prominent real estate developer, rubs shoulders with Parisian society.

In rural France, an undernourished and unloved young boy attempts suicide. Based on the classic by Jules Renard.

Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.

A documentary on the military dictator of Africa's Uganda.

In the Deep South, a trainer of fighting cocks takes a vow of silence and gambles his loves and possessions in a bid to win a championship.

A boy is left to his own devices when his mother refuses to pay for his schooling.

The story of Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.

A common thief (Depardieu) breaks into the house of a professional dominatrix (Ogier), and begins to help her "train" her clients. Though this world is alien to his experience, he finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually he discovers that she does this in order to support her son, and he attempts to help her out of this life, which she is not sure she really wants to leave.

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.

An old lady, settled in the colonies, comes to Paris to visit her son, a man of fifty, whom she has not seen for ten years.

Bertrand Morane, a 40-year-old engineer, dies. At his funeral, his past lovers gather, revealing his life and affairs as he narrates while writing his autobiography.

A seventeen year old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual.