Marc Caro

Directing

Marc Caro

Born 1956-04-02 · Paris, France

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Marc Caro, born April 2, 1956, is a French filmmaker and cartoonist, best known for his co-directing projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The two of them met at an animation festival in Annecy in 1974. Together, Jeunet and Caro directed award-winning animations. Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world. Jeunet and Caro's first feature film was Delicatessen (1991), a melancholy comedy set in a famine-plagued post-apocalyptic world, in which an apartment building above a delicatessen is ruled by a butcher who kills people in order to feed his tenants. They next made The City of Lost Children (1995), a dark, multi-layered fantasy film about a mad scientist who steals children's dreams so that he can live indefinitely. The success of The City of Lost Children led to an invitation to direct the fourth film in the Alien series, Alien: Resurrection (1997). This is where Jeunet and Caro ended up going their separate ways as Jeunet believed this to be an amazing opportunity and Caro was not interested in a film that lacked creative control working on a big-budget Hollywood movie. Caro ended up assisting for a few weeks, with costumes and set design but afterwards, decided to work on a solo career in illustration and computer graphics. His first feature film as a solo director was entitled Dante 01. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marc Caro  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The City of Lost Children poster
7.2

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

The City of Lost Children

1995

Delicatessen poster
7.3

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

Delicatessen

1991

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist poster
6.7

A subtle portrait of Japanese director Satoshi Kon by the specialist of Japanese cinema Pascal-Alex Vincent and a dive into a rich work. With interviews of the greatest Japanese, French and American directors inspired by his work.

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist

2021

Carlton Dekker poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Carlton Dekker

1986

Chauves, la revanche poster
6.0

They take over on the fields of sport and show business. For a few years, bald people took a sensational revenge. But they had to impose themselves as they usually are targets of jokes in popular culture. For now, they show their baldness in broad daylight, or simply are comfortable with their difference. An intimate revolution, related by those who lived it.

Chauves, la revanche

2023

Jan Kounen - Intégrale courts métrages poster
NR

All shorts films of director Jan Kounen on DVD.

Jan Kounen - Intégrale courts métrages

2005

The Bunker of the Last Gunshots poster
5.8

A military group of men is locked up in a bunker in an unknown future. All those soldiers are waiting for an eventual enemy. But the discovery of a certain project will cause several catastrophies and will make those men kill each other...

The Bunker of the Last Gunshots

1982

The Last Little Red Riding Hood poster
6.8

A old red riding hood, badly crippled after killing a monster many years ago, comes up with a sinister plan to dance again.

The Last Little Red Riding Hood

1998

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Temps mort autour de Caro & Jeunet

I Am Your Punishment poster
7.0

An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a difference between fantasy and reality.

I Am Your Punishment

1996

No Rest for Billy Brakko poster
6.5

On a winter evening Billy Brakko buys a paper and reads: "The famous Billy Brakko is dead!" An early short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.

No Rest for Billy Brakko

1983

Behind the camera

The City of Lost Children poster
7.2

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

The City of Lost Children

1995

The City of Lost Children poster
7.2

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

The City of Lost Children

1995

Delicatessen poster
7.3

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

Delicatessen

1991

Delicatessen poster
7.3

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

Delicatessen

1991

Dante 01 poster
5.0

Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force, Saint-Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It's a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, gaolors and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship's depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits... each must confront his own Dragon.

Dante 01

2008

Dante 01 poster
5.0

Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force, Saint-Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It's a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, gaolors and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship's depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits... each must confront his own Dragon.

Dante 01

2008

K.O. Kid poster
7.5

An unequal battle between a small and skinny boxer, and a big and great boxer. The film is a mixture of animation and live action.

K.O. Kid

1994

K.O. Kid poster
7.5

An unequal battle between a small and skinny boxer, and a big and great boxer. The film is a mixture of animation and live action.

K.O. Kid

1994

Le Défilé poster
3.0

"Le Défilé" is a short film of Regine Chopinot & Jean-Paul Gaultier's collaborations, from a retrospective exhibit by the same name.

Le Défilé

1986

No artwork available
NR

Filmmaker Marc Caro interviews Claude Pinoteau, assistant director of Jean Cocteau's 1950 film ORPHEUS, about the special effects used in the film.

Jean Cocteau and His Tricks

2008

No artwork available
NR

Filmmaker Marc Caro interviews Claude Pinoteau, assistant director of Jean Cocteau's 1950 film ORPHEUS, about the special effects used in the film.

Jean Cocteau and His Tricks

2008

No artwork available
9.0

A surrealist, futuristic short film.

Rude Raid

1985

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Coloured City

1998

No artwork available
NR

Music gives some old machines a makeover.

Touentiouane

1997

No artwork available
NR

Music gives some old machines a makeover.

Touentiouane

1997

The Bunker of the Last Gunshots poster
5.8

A military group of men is locked up in a bunker in an unknown future. All those soldiers are waiting for an eventual enemy. But the discovery of a certain project will cause several catastrophies and will make those men kill each other...

The Bunker of the Last Gunshots

1982

The Bunker of the Last Gunshots poster
5.8

A military group of men is locked up in a bunker in an unknown future. All those soldiers are waiting for an eventual enemy. But the discovery of a certain project will cause several catastrophies and will make those men kill each other...

The Bunker of the Last Gunshots

1982

L'évasion poster
8.0

Jeunet and Caro capture the story of an attempted prison escape from the Prison de la Santé in Paris. As the escape artists travels through tunnels and squeeze his way through freshly cut bars, he finds himself in an endless labyrinth underneath the confining walls of solitude.

L'évasion

1978

No artwork available
NR

Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet computer animated short

Etc

Looop poster
NR

An android, half-man half-machine, moves forward in a baroque cathedral decor. As hypnotized by a stroboscopic impulse, the ANDROID begins a journey in a maze of corridors, bridges and spiral staircases. His endless ascent to the Light will make him discover the eternal return ...

Looop

2019

Looop poster
NR

An android, half-man half-machine, moves forward in a baroque cathedral decor. As hypnotized by a stroboscopic impulse, the ANDROID begins a journey in a maze of corridors, bridges and spiral staircases. His endless ascent to the Light will make him discover the eternal return ...

Looop

2019

Animag credits poster
2.0

Three opening sequences for Arte’s animation magazine: Animag, featuring a series of distorted, quivering and mirrored human figures.

Animag credits

2003

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le topologue

1988

Samàdhi poster
NR

A music video for the titular song by Tempsion, featuring various images of quivering soapbubbles. It is one of ten animated films made for their album "Rectifier", all of which were featured on the complementary DVD included with the albums CD release.

Samàdhi

2004