Marc Caro

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

Eurotrash poster
6.5

The 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

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

Dante 01 poster
4.9

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

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

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

Series credits

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
4.9

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
4.9

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

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

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

No artwork available
9.0

A surrealist, futuristic short film.

Rude Raid

1985

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

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

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
NR

Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet computer animated short

Etc

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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

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

The Bunker of the Last Gunshots poster
5.9

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
5.9

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

No artwork available
NR

Short video animation by Marc Caro.

Maitre Cube

1985

No artwork available
NR

Animated short by Marc Caro

Les Cyclopodes

—

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le topologue

1988

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Coloured City

1998

No artwork available
2.0

One of the 2001 opening sequences for the titular Canal+ show.

Grolandsat

2001

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

No artwork available
NR

Paper cutout/animation high-level overview of French history.

Chronicle of the Revolution

1988

No artwork available
NR

Paper cutout/animation high-level overview of French history.

Chronicle of the Revolution

1988

No artwork available
NR

Trippy animation.

L.S.Dead

1996

No artwork available
NR

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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le cirque conférence

1989

Made in Caro poster
NR

Short films, clips and commercials made by Marc Caro when he was working at his movie 'Cité des Enfants Perdues' (1995).

Made in Caro

2006

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about robotics.

Astroboy in Roboland

2009

Exercise of Steel poster
5.0

A group of women in a techno-metallic world are using pleasure machines... and condoms.

Exercise of Steel

1998

Exercise of Steel poster
5.0

A group of women in a techno-metallic world are using pleasure machines... and condoms.

Exercise of Steel

1998