Movies: Robert Bresson
- 1966
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
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The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering th...
- 1959
Pickpocket (1959)
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Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in...
- 1983
L'Argent (1983)
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A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life....
- 1963
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1963)
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Rouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, is unjustly tried by an ecclesiastical court overseen by her English enemies....
- 1956
A Man Escaped (1956)
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A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison....
- 1967
Mouchette (1967)
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A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man....
- 1977
The Devil, Probably (1977)
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A group of disillusioned young Parisians look for satisfaction in political activism, religion, romance, music, and drugs....
- 1951
Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
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An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bibl...
- 1974
Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
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Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a rift developing between Lancelot and Mordred, Arthur urges his knights to bury their differences and b...
- 1971
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
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Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide....
- 1945
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (1945)
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A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute....
- 1969
A Gentle Woman (1969)
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When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together....
- 2013
What Is Cinema? (2013)
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Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and ot...
- 1943
Angels of Sin (1943)
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A well-off young woman decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female prisoners. Through their program, she meets a woman named Thérèse who refuses any help because she says she was innocent of the crime she was convicted for. A...
- 1984
The Road to Bresson (1984)
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A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson....
- 1934
C'était un musicien (1934)
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When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves.Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he falls in love with the baron's daughter....
- 1966
Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson (1966)
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A documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about Robert Bresson's film "Au Hasard Balthazar," featuring interviews and discussions with Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, Marguerite Duras and others....
- 1967
Au Hasard Bresson (1967)
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In 1966, German film critic Theodor Kotulla — who would go on to become one of the New German Cinema's most uncompromising filmmakers — visited the set of Robert Bresson's "Mouchette" (1967) and created this half-hour documentary about the director. ...
- 1965
Bresson: Without a Trace (1965)
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An episode of the television program Cinéastes de notre temps in which the director gives his first on-camera interview....
- 1934
Les Affaires publiques (1934)
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A slapstick comedy centered on two neighboring republics, Crogandia and Miremia, and the various disasters that befall the ceremonial unveiling of a statue, the launching of a ship, and the crash-landing of a Miremian pilot in Crogandian territory....