Léon Rousseau Movies

Aging painter Louis and his wife Michelle struggle to cope with Louis' advancing dementia.

A series of 12 short movies from the start of the twentieth century. These movies were the first adult movies, and, according to the film-maker...

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his...

Cédric works in a company specialized in precision mechanics. Its management, run by an investment fund, is disastrous. As another fund is...

An immersive film essay on tennis legend John McEnroe at the height of his career as the world champion, documenting his strive for perfection,...

The Japanese volleyball players called the “Oriental Witches” are now in their 70s. From the formation of the team at the factory until...

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977)...

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and...

Kate Winslet has charted her own course, choosing to play authentic women with complex psyches and realistic bodies, showing unfailing resolve in her...

Since the cult success of Merci Patron!, activist/journalist/filmmaker François Ruffin has become an MP. Here, he attempts to table a law...

Has everything really been said about the Algerian war? Although the archives are opening up, almost fifty years after the signing of the Evian...

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that his Tramp character would not be heard. City...

Art and science have worked together to allow cinema to switch to color. Numerous processes have succeeded one another to try to solve this...

Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of...

Documentary taking a look at the difficulties in Abel Gance's End of the World.

Davide Pozzi, who oversaw the delicate process of scanning the original camera negative, discusses the restoration of Alain Resnais' 1959 film...

Thirty-five years after Bruce Lee, his soul reincarnates into a little doll. With self-confidence, the rubber-made toy leaves to discover the...