Néstor Almendros Movies

Young José María goes through a painful journey until he discovers that he is a transsexual.

Promising young racing car driver Joe Joe Quillico leaves the stock car racing scene in the United States in order to pursue Grand Prix racing in...

A documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson's current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.

Eric Rohmer directs this short documentary that narrates the presence of women in French universities as of the time of its release -- 1966. During...

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...

A documentary film about the creation and organization of an agricultural cooperative and the economic benefits for farmers.

Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son...

This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by...

The story of the persecution of homosexuals and intellectuals in Cuba under Fidel Castro's dictatorship, from the beginning of the Cuban Revolution...

Eric Rohmer and his actors prepare and rehearse "Perceval le Gallois".

An American art student thinks she's found love with a handsome prince, but things are not what they appear to be.

In Asamblea general (1960), the documentary about Fidel's address of the First Declaration of Havana in the Plaza of the Revolution, Alea practises...

An educational documentary film about planting and harvesting tomatoes.

A documentary about the Cuban Revolution's transition into an authoritarian dictatorship, including repression, imprisonment, torture, and execution...

Government agents hire a mercenary to infiltrate a crime ring that's selling guns to a right-wing militia in Texas.

Short film on the ceremony of ‘Sing Sing’ practised by Papua New Guinea’s tribes.

Short film that examines the different types of ceremonial make-up worn by the Mapuga tribe.

Wednesday July 31, 1968, almost six months after the start of the "Langlois affair" which saw the government attempt to oust the founder of the...

Short film about the Mapuga tribe’s feast of pigs with sweet potatoes.

In just a few simple lines, a picture of the French countryside in the 1960s: the last moments of a disappearing, changing world. The simplest...