Nelly Kaplan Movies

In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so...

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary...

Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of...

In 1930, Honorin, the mayor of a small village, receives a visit from a young girl claiming to be his child.

Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their...

Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is...

Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline...

France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are...

Short film by Nelly Kaplan about the life and works of Rodolphe Bresdin

In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (aka Venus de Palma) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and...

A small village lies peacefully nestled in the hills beneath the Provence sun... until the arrival of an odd group of vacationers. Who are these...

Documentary on erotic drawings by the painter André Masson.

A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded...

Polly West, a very rich American star, has bought the castle of Sainte Apolline, a small village in Provence. As soon as she arrives, the dynamic...

The life and work of Abel Gance as told by himself. Includes extracts from many of his films and considers his contribution to the cinema.

A story of "La Pasta", a renowned prima donna, and her extraordinary rival.

A brilliant analysis of 19th century French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, known for his fantastical and mythological subjects, and who remains to...

This documentary focuses on the making of the 235-minute, silent epic Napoleon, the masterpiece of French director/writer/actor Abel Gance. Napoleon...

A short film by Nelly Kaplan on Victor Hugo's drawings.