
Directing
Marc Caro
Born
1956-04-02 (70)
Place of birth
Paris, France
Known for
Directing
Credits
48 titles
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 mad…
Known for
6.5The likes of Antoine de Caunes, Jean Paul Gaultier, Davina McCall, and Lolo Ferrari are your guides to the weird and wonderful in Europe and beyond. How else would you learn about pubic hairdressers, the Penis Olympics, or the latest Japanese sex toys?
Eurotrash
1993
7.2A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
The City of Lost Children
1995
7.3In 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
6.7A 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
4.9Deep 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
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
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
6.7A 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
6.0They 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
2000s · 1 titles
1990s · 4 titles
7.2A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
The City of Lost Children
1995
7.3In 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
7.0An 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
6.8A 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
1980s · 3 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Carlton Dekker
1986
5.9A 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
6.5On 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
Series credits
Behind the camera
7.2A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
The City of Lost Children
1995
7.2A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
The City of Lost Children
1995
7.3In 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
7.3In 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
4.9Deep 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
4.9Deep 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
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
7.5An 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
7.5An 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
A surrealist, futuristic short film.
Rude Raid
1985
Music gives some old machines a makeover.
Touentiouane
1997
Music gives some old machines a makeover.
Touentiouane
1997
NRA 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
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
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
Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet computer animated short
Etc
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8.0Jeunet 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
2.0Three opening sequences for Arte’s animation magazine: Animag, featuring a series of distorted, quivering and mirrored human figures.
Animag credits
2003
5.9A 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
5.9A 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
Short video animation by Marc Caro.
Maitre Cube
1985
Animated short by Marc Caro
Les Cyclopodes
—
No synopsis available yet.
Le topologue
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Coloured City
1998
One of the 2001 opening sequences for the titular Canal+ show.
Grolandsat
2001
NRAn 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
NRAn 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
Paper cutout/animation high-level overview of French history.
Chronicle of the Revolution
1988
Paper cutout/animation high-level overview of French history.
Chronicle of the Revolution
1988
Trippy animation.
L.S.Dead
1996
An educational video by AKA science, set to promote their science year campaign. It shows how vibrations in the air allow us to hear sound.
AKA Science Music
1999
No synopsis available yet.
Le cirque conférence
1989
NRShort films, clips and commercials made by Marc Caro when he was working at his movie 'Cité des Enfants Perdues' (1995).
Made in Caro
2006
Documentary about robotics.
Astroboy in Roboland
2009
5.0A group of women in a techno-metallic world are using pleasure machines... and condoms.
Exercise of Steel
1998
5.0A group of women in a techno-metallic world are using pleasure machines... and condoms.
Exercise of Steel
1998

