Portrait Movies

Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January...

What is essential in a time of upheaval? Director Brittany Farhat documented the months of panic and epiphany in the leadup to July Talk’s...

In a conservative Armenian family a 16 years old Karine dreams to become a veterinarian, but her family, especially her father, who is a well-known...

The documentary relates how in the second half of the 20th century the agent Berthold Barluschke was first a henchman of the State Security Service...

Interview with the Swedish artist John E. Franzén.

After unknowingly drawing a murderer, an aspiring artist becomes the only source of evidence in an ongoing case.

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)...

Johnny, 16, is a young driver of trot race who start doubting his vocation when he realizes Coquelicot, a young horse, is in danger because he didn't...

With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of the essential stars of French cinema.

“You bet on someone in the beginning of the process and then you wait and see what life does with them.” This is how Czech director...

While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and...

Christine’s father died when she was still a small child, and she remained in the care of her sadistic mother, who beat her and abused her...

Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary urban life. Rachel is a young archivist living...