Jean-Daniel Pollet Movies

A Bullet Through the Heart (French: Une balle au cœur, Greek: Μια σφαίρα στην...

Leon who works as a bathhouse attendant discovers a passion for the tango that will change his life. He falls in love with Fumée, a young and...

Pollet and Schlöndorff imagine the Mediterranean as a supernal arena.

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and...

Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.

Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of...

An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo,...

"I was interested by the fact that some old guy, after the Parthenon’s glamour, devoted himself in a much smaller temple, where there was no...

In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the...

A cinematographic poem in the form of variations around the theme of Robinson, a utopian fable freely inspired by Daniel Defoe's novel, which speaks...

Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro...

Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring...

In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.

Père Lachaise cemetery reflects the socio-economic hierarchy of French society during the second half of the 19th century. The film pays...

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien,...

A homage to journalist Francis Ponge in a film that its author regarded as “natural.”

A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.

A foundry in Perche was established in 1876. This is a final homage paid to the ancestral occupation of foundrymen, whose actions have been repeated...

An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.

He inhabits the world just like he inhabits his house: motionless. A serious accident nailed him there: in a house in the middle of a large garden....