Marguerite Duras Movies

25 years ago, Marguerite Duras passed away at the age of 81. At the evocation of this name, one spontaneously thinks of the intellectual superstar...

An old lady returns from Africa where she made a fortune to find her son in Paris, whom she has not seen in five years, with the intention of...

Based on M.Diuras' play.

The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.

A documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about Robert Bresson's film "Au Hasard Balthazar," featuring...

Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed...

A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincial town where they once lived to pick up their...

Pierre and Maria, a Parisian couple, travel to Spain with their daughter and her friend. When a violent storm hits they must settle for the night in...

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

Marguerite Duras tells the story of the death of a young English aviator in a French village.

She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de...

Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.

Marguerite Duras.is interviewed twice, first in 1984 and then in 1993, on her life and work as a writer and filmmaker.

TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....

Marin Karmitz's avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer's block.

Franck and Hélène meet in Deauville and decide to get married instantly. A year passes. Their conversation, over the seasons, questions...

Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from the letters, about the poetess’s Jewish past, while the...

Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from these letters, as the film shows a boat journey down the Seine,...

Duras, ever the challenging interviewer, forensically questions a Parisian zookeeper regarding the happiness of the animals in his charge. Intercut...