List of the best Jacques Rivette movies: Celine and Julie Go Boating(1974), The Gang of Four(1988), Secret Defense(1998), Paris Belongs to Us(1961), The Duchess of Langeais(2007), The Story of Marie and Julien(2003), The Nun(1966), Around a Small Mountain(2009), Le pont du nord(1981), Divertimento(1992), La Belle Noiseuse(1991) ... ...
Fantasy
France
1974
190 Minutes
Director
Juliet Berto Dominique Labourier Bulle Ogier Marie-France Pisier Barbet Schroeder Philippe Clévenot Marie-Therese Saussure Nathalie Asnar Jean Douchet Anne Zamire Adele Taffetas
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A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
Comedy
France|Switzerland
1988
160 Minutes
Director
Laurence Côte Bernadette Giraud Bulle Ogier Benoît Régent Inês de Medeiros Fejria Deliba Nathalie Richard Pascale Salkin Dominique Rousseau
A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.
Mystery & Thriller
France
1998
173 Minutes
Director
Sandrine Bonnaire Laure Marsac Jerzy Radziwilowicz Grégoire Colin Françoise Fabian Christine Vouilloz Mark Saporta Sara Louis Hermine Karagheuz Bernadette Giraud Patrick Le Bouar
Sylvie, a 30-year-old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
1961
138 Minutes
Director
Betty Schneider Gianni Esposito Françoise Prévost Daniel Crohem François Maistre Brigitte Juslin
Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping ... See full summary »
Romance, Drama, History
France|Italy
2007
137 Minutes
Director
Jeanne Balibar Guillaume Depardieu Bulle Ogier Michel Piccoli Barbet Schroeder Anne Cantineau Mathias Jung Julie Judd Marc Barbé Nicolas Bouchaud Thomas Durand
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In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched... See full summary »
Drama
2003
150 Minutes
Director
Emmanuelle Béart Jerzy Radziwilowicz Anne Brochet Bettina Kee Olivier Cruveiller Mathias Jung Nicole Garcia
A clock repairman (Jerzy Radziwilowicz) reunites with his former lover (Emmanuelle Béart), while remaining entangled in a blackmail plot.
Drama
1966
155 Minutes
Director
Anna Karina Liselotte Pulver Micheline Presle Francine Bergé Christiane Lenier Yori Bertin Francisco Rabal
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Forced into a nunnery in 18th-century France, a woman (Anna Karina) becomes an object of lust and persecution there.
Drama
2009
85 Minutes
Director
Jane Birkin Sergio Castellitto André Marcon Jacques Bonnaffé Julie-Marie Parmentier Hélène de Vallombreuse Vimala Pons
A wanderer (Sergio Castellitto) joins a woman's (Jane Birkin) small traveling circus and helps her overcome her tortured past.
Drama
1981
129 Minutes
Director
Bulle Ogier Pascale Ogier Pierre Clémenti Jean-François Stévenin
Drama
1992
125 Minutes
Director
Michel Piccoli Jane Birkin Emmanuelle Béart Marianne Denicourt David Bursztein Gilles Arbona
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A celebrated painter's inactivity causes him to search for inspiration in the young woman who models for him.
Drama
1991
238 Minutes
Director
Michel Piccoli Emmanuelle Béart Jane Birkin Marianne Denicourt David Bursztein Gilles Arbona Bernard Dufour
A young model (Jane Birkin) replacing his wife (Emmanuelle Béart) inspires a tired painter (Michel Piccoli) to pick up a work he quit 10 years before.