Alain Resnais
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Nuit et Broulliard (Night and Fog) (1955)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
- Haunting, influential doco on the Nazi concentration camps investigates the ways in which images of past events cause guilt for those in the present,…
- Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada
- Romance between a French actress and a Japanese architect rekindles their traumatic wartime experiences. The twin threads of despair and sensual love…
- Last Year at Marienbad (L'Annee Dernier a Marienbad) (1961)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi
- All the rules of film–making are broken in this notorious question mark of a film in which a past event plagues the occupants of a grand…
- Guerre Est Finie, La (1966)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Genevieve Bujold…
- (The War is Over). Deeply romantic film in which Spanish Civil War refugee Yves Montand tries in vain to keep alive the memory of his struggle.
- Far from Vietnam (1967)
- Dir. Agnes Varda, Joris Ivens, William Klein
Feat. Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Bernard Fresson…
- A documentary essay film with seven segments each directed by seven French New Wave directors, who express their opposition to the Vietnam War and…
- Stavisky (1974)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Francois Perier, Anny Duperey…
- Belmondo lends his shafty screen persona to the role of notorious financier, swindler, and raconteur Alexandre Stavisky, whose monetary exploits and…
- Providence (1977)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn…
- John Gielgud plays a dying writer struggling to complete his final novel. Unusual film juxtaposes his imagined thoughts with events from his…
- Mon Oncle D'Amerique (My American Uncle) (1980)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Marie Dubois, Jean Daste
- The dir. of LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD experiments with notions of human behaviour in this unusual drama, centred around the theories of a French…
- Life Is A Bed Of Roses (1983)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Ruggero Raimondi, Fanny Ardant, Geraldine Chaplin
- Ambitious fantastical oddity from dir. Resnais was made as a tribute to era–defining French directors Melies, L'Herbier and Rohmer, weaving…
- Love Unto Death (L'amour à Mort) (1984)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi
- Alain Resnais (HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR) pursues his themes of love and death with this symbolic tale of lovers Simon (Arditi) and Elizabeth (Azema)…