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Jacques Demy (June 5, 1931 – October 27, 1990) was a French director and screenwriter. He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave. His films are well known for their sumptuous look, drawing on Hollywood musicals, fairy tales, jazz, and opera.
Total trailers found: 55
17 December 2008
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary.
07 March 1962
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war.
02 July 2021
Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson.
29 May 1985
Rock star Orpheus writes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. Torn between her and his sound engineer, Calaïs, he discovers Eurydice has died of an overdose.
19 May 1993
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
03 March 1979
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons.
19 February 1964
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop.
02 February 2002
A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda’s cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou.
23 November 1988
Yves Montand, playing himself, returns to his hometown of Marseilles to appear in an autobiographical musical.
18 May 2008
Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".
24 November 2021
From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped for did not happen.
03 March 1961
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
13 December 1961
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
01 January 1970
Writer / director Jacques Demy and actors Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais are interviewed on the set of 'Le peau d'ane'.
03 June 1959
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life.
01 January 1967
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors.
02 April 2018
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.
25 December 2018
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.
08 March 1967
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano.
17 May 2023
A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers.
20 December 1970
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
05 August 2010
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets.
01 November 1958
An adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover.
17 May 1956
Exclusive footage captures the wedding of American screen star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.
01 March 1963
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.
01 January 1951
Les Horizons Morts is Jacques Demy's first surviving live-action project. A man alone in his crumbling apartment recalls being left by his girl for another man.
22 September 1995
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
27 December 1972
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany.
19 May 1964
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave.
31 December 2008
A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema.
27 October 1982
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
01 January 1958
This documentary short offers practical advice for mothers on how to take care of their babies, such as feeding and bathing.
11 February 1969
While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop", an establishment that rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers.
01 January 1958
A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and behave in mysterious ways.
11 April 2010
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination.
21 December 1988
On a winter night, the author of "The King and the Mockingbird" is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio.
01 January 1966
01 November 1980
A writer in her fifties spends the summer in her Saint-Tropez home, tending to her garden and animals while reflecting on her past.
31 December 1977
A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T.
15 May 1991
Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary.
01 January 2013
Behind-the scenes documentary on Jacques Demy's 'Trois places pour le 26'
01 December 1960
With ghostly eyes looking through the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars once lived, Jacques Demy tried to understand this fighter for communal spirituality and his daily torments of mysticism.
15 June 1948
The film existed only in Jacque’s memory because all that remained were the two cardboard thief characters.
22 June 1956
This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son.
07 March 1962
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (as the segment on "Lust"), it has also been distributed and exhibited separately.
01 January 1944
When Agnès Varda was preparing the film Jacquot de Nantes in 1990, she was able to shoot in the small apartment where Jacques was raised.
01 January 1966
Six-part documentary on the making of Jacques Demy's 'Le demoiselles de Rochefort'
31 December 1946
Short documentary film directed by Jacques Demy in 1946. Forty-two seconds of it appear in director Florence Platarets' 2024 film 'Jacques Demy: Le rose et le noir', along with footage of Mr.
07 June 2015
Geneviève lives with her mother who runs an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She falls in love with Guy, who is called up for military service in Algeria and leaves the city.
22 May 2024
Jacques Demy’s ability to enchant audiences was rooted in his personal struggles and doubts as a showman, establishing him as one of French cinema’s greatest artists.
03 October 2006
A documentary film directed by French Agnès Varda as an extension of the exhibition 'L'île et elle'.
27 October 2004
A comedy musical based on the 1967 movie! Delphine and Solange are twins living in Rochefort. They are both looking for love without realizing their ideal partners are very close.
20 September 1973
Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant.
