Production

Alain Dahan

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles poster
7.4

A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1976

Mauvais Sang poster
7.1

Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.

Mauvais Sang

1986

And Then There Were None poster
5.7

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

And Then There Were None

1974

The Meetings of Anna poster
7.0

Detached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old faces, some of whom make personal revelations to her to little affect.

The Meetings of Anna

1978

News from Home poster
7.0

Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.

News from Home

1977

Au long de rivière Fango poster
6.5

Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was Mathilde who founded her, a woman who left husband and baby to flee urban society. All live in happiness away from the world, without thinking either of work or money. Bild believes he is the child abandoned by Mathilde, while Jeremiah is attracted to his daughter, Maurine. When Bild dies, Jeremiah learns that he is the son of Matilda and that consequently Maurine is his sister. He takes to flight ...

Au long de rivière Fango

1975

Aloïse poster
6.2

Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.

Aloïse

1975

Short Memory poster
5.3

In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.

Short Memory

1982