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...

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

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...

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

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...

Charles and Lucie, an old and poor couple, inherits a luxurious house in the South of France.

The life and work of Abel Gance as told by himself. Includes extracts from many of his films and considers his contribution to the cinema.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Magirama version, which is one of the four segments of the Magirama program, designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel...