Nelly Kaplan Movies

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of...

An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary...

In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so...

Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is...

Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline...

A brilliant analysis of 19th century French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, known for his fantastical and mythological subjects, and who remains to...

In 1930, Honorin, the mayor of a small village, receives a visit from a young girl claiming to be his child.

A small village lies peacefully nestled in the hills beneath the Provence sun... until the arrival of an odd group of vacationers. Who are these...

France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are...

Polly West, a very rich American star, has bought the castle of Sainte Apolline, a small village in Provence. As soon as she arrives, the dynamic...

In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (aka Venus de Palma) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and...

A story of "La Pasta", a renowned prima donna, and her extraordinary rival.

Short film by Nelly Kaplan about the life and works of Rodolphe Bresdin

A short film by Nelly Kaplan on Victor Hugo's drawings.

Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their...

On the 1967 huge Picasso exhibition in Paris, celebrating the 85 anniversary of the painter.

A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded...

Documentary on erotic drawings by the painter André Masson.

This documentary focuses on the making of the 235-minute, silent epic Napoleon, the masterpiece of French director/writer/actor Abel Gance. Napoleon...