Top Directors and All of their Movies Part II

A man returns to the places where he lived a passionate love with a woman who has died today. The sensation he feels is so strong that he imagines that she is still alive.

This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.

A worker named David, is charged with the killing of a Jew in exchange for dogs owned by the Jew.

Elizabeth Alione is sinking into a deep melancholy when she drags down the corridors, the park and the dining room of a hotel.

Three siblings, a father and a grandmother run a business in the form of a travelling puppet show. When the father dies, the remaining family members try to keep his legacy alive.

A provincial youngster who travels up to Paris to sit an entrance exam for a "grande école". His path crosses that of a young woman and they strike up a short-lived relationship.

A young woman returns home after the breakdown of a relationship to discover her father is dating a woman her age.

Pierre and Manon are a pair of poor documentary makers, who scrape by with odd jobs. When Pierre meets young trainee Elisabeth, he falls for her, but wants to keep Manon at the same time. But the new girl in his life finds out that Manon has a lover. When she tells Pierre, the time comes for difficult decisions all round.

As a man leaves his wife and daughter, a series of brief conversations, observed gestures, chance encounters and impulsive acts, tell the story of the relationships that flounder and thrive in the wake of this decision.

The once-happy marriage between brooding painter Frederic and his movie-star wife Angele hits the rocks when another couple joins them on a Roman holiday.

A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane.

Amidst the chaos of student and union protests, 20-year-old Parisian poet François finds himself in legal hot water for dodging a stint in the French military. While at a party, he falls in love with Lilie, a would-be sculptor.

A movie director does a new film against heroine consumption, and the producers are heroine dealers.

Hélène is unhappy with her marriage but finds some comfort and relief with young art student Paul. They reflect on their differences in age and background, but also what truly connects them. The third character in the story is Serge, a famous artist admired by Paul; he has a great historical past, but he's also very conflicted and has been through many life obstacles, stories he shares with his new friend on a road trip during which Paul finds new perspectives to his current situation with Hélène, and learn more about what life and love truly mean.

Philippe is a middle-aged painter who lives with Annie and they have two kids together. But they break up, and just afterward, Philippe meets Justine and he begins to think about love and the relationship between former lovers. Who is he meant to be with? Annie, Justine, or somebody else entirely?

Middle-aged artists provide the focus of this drama. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul, an actor leading a drab directionless existence, has an affair with Ulrika, a woman half his age. His wife, with whom he constantly argues, is pregnant with their second child. He does not interact much with his teenage son. Much of the film centers around the emptiness of his life.

For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.

The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life, and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such a project in which she wanted to play herself.

A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa (reminds us of the real-life relationship between Garrel and Nico). In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film on-production, as the birth of a child.

In the midst of the Algerian events, a man finds happiness beside a local woman.

At the top of a neo-classical building, a man looks at the sky, a woman reads, hair in the wind.

Four chapters based on the birth of a 'secret child', or a film, with chapter titles: "La séction Césarienne" (Caesarian section: a descriptive detail introducing the mother); "Le dernier guerrier" (the last warrior: how the father sees himself); "Le cercle ophydique" (the serpent's closed circle: the couple reunites at the psychiatric ward); "Les forêts désenchantées" (unfairy forests: the film in the making).

Love between Georges and Hypolyte has faded. George confides in Catherine that he is still obsessed with Hypolyte. He wishes that she was a virgin but since she is not, he wishes that she was dead.

An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.

A woman sitting on a bench, silent, filmed long and closely.