René Allio Movies

Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She determines to venture into the modern world and have...

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place...

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea...

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers,...

Michel left Marseilles to Italy when he was twenty years old. Courageous and active, he has succeeded in the construction industry. Thirty years...

Anne, an unhappily married actress, temporarily assumes the identity of her sister Simone, the successful director of a London fashion house.

Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with plenty of unresolved anger. After his father's death, his mother feels compelled to move in with him....

Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.

In 1941, those who had remained around too long to completely escape the Nazi blitzkrieg had one small, slim chance to escape persecution. They could...

About René Allio's 1973 film, " I, Pierre Rivière…", Pascal Kané interviews the filmmaker as well as Michel Foucault, the...

In the streets of Marseille, René Allio encounters, once again, the spaces of his childhood, and remembers his family history.

1776. Simon Bertiny settles in Hérisson-sur-Allier to practice medicine. He quickly runs into the peasants of the region who refuse the help...