Barbet Schroeder Movies

Essay on the history of Los Angeles

Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful,...

An incident with his neighbor sends director Barbet Schroeder on a quest for inner peace.

Three young cinephiles follow Jean Douchet, question his friends and former students. This documentary reveals the man and his critical philosophy, a...

Joël is jealous and violent. After one crisis too many, Nicole, his young wife, returns to live with her parents with their three-year-old son....

Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old...

In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world....

The story of the persecution of homosexuals and intellectuals in Cuba under Fidel Castro's dictatorship, from the beginning of the Cuban Revolution...

A conversation between Eric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder.

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...

Short film about the Mapuga tribe’s feast of pigs with sweet potatoes.

Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling...

Ricardo and Painting is Barbet Schroeder's portrait of his friend the painter Ricardo Cavallo, who devoted his life to painting. From Buenos Aires to...

Short film on the ceremony of ‘Sing Sing’ practised by Papua New Guinea’s tribes.

Some fascinating insight into the making of Barbet Schroeder's cult classic 'More' (1969)

On his way to his rendez-vous, a man starts attacking people.

Short film that examines the different types of ceremonial make-up worn by the Mapuga tribe.