Jean Penzer Movies

Julien is an electronics professional who is down on his luck when he decides to enter an international sailboat race. He is led astray from his...

Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream...

Chronicles Bernadette's years with the Sisters of Charity of Nevers convent, from age 22 until her untimely death from tuberculosis at age 35.

Yves Montand, playing himself, returns to his hometown of Marseilles to appear in an autobiographical musical. Once there, he searches for the...

In early 1858, at the Massabielle grotto, 14-year old asthmatic, illiterate miller's daughter Bernadette sees a light she later distinguishes as a...

Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She...

A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.

Barcelona, 1967. Hans Fromm, a German-born architect, lives an well-ordered everyday life. He has become the target of an antifascist death squad...

A sketch of everyday life among people from different social circles in a France torn by the conflict between the modern and the traditional. This...

A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affair is doomed by her taste for luxury and his...

In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the...

In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring...

An elegant young woman in her messy room answers the phone call from her lover. This one, who intends to leave her, tries to make her understand what...

Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the...

A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the mirror reality.

Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world. (Segment...