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Néstor Almendros is a Actor, Director, Writer, Assistant Director, Director of Photography, Art Direction and Cinematography Espagnol born on 30 october 1930 at Barcelona (Espagne)
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Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Directed by Robert Benton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, George Coe
Roles Director of Photography
Rating77%
Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is a workaholic advertising executive who has just been assigned a new and very important account. Ted arrives home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) only to find that she is leaving him. Saying that she needs to find herself, she leaves Ted to raise their son Billy (Justin Henry) by himself. Ted and Billy initially resent one another as Ted no longer has time to carry his increased workload and Billy misses his mother's love and attention. After months of unrest, Ted and Billy learn to cope and gradually bond as father and son.
Directed by Randal Kleiser
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about families, Pregnancy films, Seafaring films, Naturisme, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Le thème des vacances, La sexualité des mineurs, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents, Films about virginity
Actors Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58%
In the Victorian period, two young cousins, Richard and Emmeline Lestrange, and a galley cook, Paddy Button (Leo McKern), survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and reach a lush tropical island. Paddy cares for the small children and forbids them by "law" from going to the other side of the island, as he found evidence of remains of bloody human sacrifices. He also warns them against eating a scarlet berry which is apparently deadly.
Directed by Robert Benton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Danny Glover, John Malkovich, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73%
It is the year 1935 and Waxahachie, Texas is a small, segregated town in the midst of a depression. One evening the local sheriff, Royce Spalding, leaves the family dinner table to investigate trouble at the rail yards. He dies after being accidentally shot by a young black boy, Wylie. Local white vigilantes tie Wylie to a truck and drag his body through town, for all the community to see, before hanging him from a tree.
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about suicide, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Josh Mostel, Robin Bartlett
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74%
In 1947, Stingo relocates to Brooklyn in order to write a novel and is befriended by Sophie Zawistowski, a Polish immigrant, and her emotionally unstable lover, Nathan Landau.
Directed by François Truffaut
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72%
Set during the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War, it tells the story of Lucas Steiner, a Jewish theatre director and his Gentile wife, Marion Steiner, who struggles to keep him concealed from the Nazis in their theatre cellar while she performs both his former job as the director and hers as an actress.
Directed by Terrence Malick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke, Stuart Margolin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating76%
The story is set in 1916. Bill (Gere), a Chicago manual laborer, knocks down and kills a boss (Margolin) in the steel mill where he works. He flees to the Texas Panhandle with his girlfriend Abby (Adams) and younger sister Linda (Manz),
Directed by François Truffaut, Pascal Deux
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Laudenbach, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Xavier Saint-Macary
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
Jacques Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel (Caroline Sihol), Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is the prime suspect. But his secretary, Barbara Becker (Fanny Ardant), while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations.
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films
Actors Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg, Heinz Engelmann, Georges Montant
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Stefan is a German student who has finished his mathematics studies and decides to have an adventure to rid himself of his inhibitions and discard his personal commitments. After hitch-hiking to Paris, he makes a friend playing cards in a bar and they decide to commit a burglary to get some money. He meets a free-spirited American girl called Estelle and follows her to Ibiza. He discovers Estelle is involved with an ex-Nazi German man called Dr. Wolf. Stefan saves Estelle from Dr. Wolf only to find she does not really want to be saved, and she introduces him to heroin (referred to by the old street name, "horse") which she has stolen from Dr. Wolf. Stefan is initially against Estelle using heroin, but having used it previously, she persuades him to try it. Soon Stefan and Estelle are both heavily addicted to heroin. They try to break the addiction using LSD and initially manage to stay clean. However, after a while they're both using heroin again. Unable to break free of the addiction, it quickly spirals out of control leading to a tragic end for Stefan.
Directed by François Truffaut
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Le thème des vacances
Actors Jean-François Stévenin, Virginie Thévenet, Georges Desmouceaux, Éva Truffaut, François Truffaut, Tania Torens
Roles Director of Photography
Rating75%
Small Change is a comedy with a serious message, based around the daily lives of young children in Thiers, France. Scenes include a baby and a cat perilously playing on an open windowsill, a girl causing confusion with a bullhorn, a double date at the movie theater, a kid telling a dirty joke, a botched haircut, as well as many scenes about school life. Yet throughout this the difficulties and responsibilities faced by children appear, including the ongoing story of a boy's experience of an abusive home. Truffaut gives a message of resilience in the face of injustice, vocalized through one of the teachers. The story ends with a message of hope, the school closing for the summer vacation, and one of the key characters finding his first love at a summer camp.
Directed by Moshé Mizrahi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Gabriel Jabbour, Geneviève Fontanel, Bernard Lajarrige, Mohamed Zinet
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
Madame Rosa (Simone Signoret) is a frail, aging, retired Jewish prostitute and Auschwitz survivor who earns a meager living by caring for the children of younger female sex workers, as well as for Momo (short for Mohammed) (Sami Ben Youb), a young Arab boy on the verge of adolescence. Momo hasn't seen his parents in years. He and Madame Rosa struggle to make ends meet, and as her body and mind start to fail, it becomes clear that Momo is the only person she has left in the world. Despite his young age, he has to help Madame Rosa who refuses to be hospitalized. He will stay with her as she faces her ultimate fears and prepares for her last and most difficult voyage.
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Among those, 10 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
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Add to a movie listKramer vs. Kramer (1979)
, 1h45Directed by Robert Benton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, George Coe
Roles Director of Photography
Rating77%
Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is a workaholic advertising executive who has just been assigned a new and very important account. Ted arrives home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) only to find that she is leaving him. Saying that she needs to find herself, she leaves Ted to raise their son Billy (Justin Henry) by himself. Ted and Billy initially resent one another as Ted no longer has time to carry his increased workload and Billy misses his mother's love and attention. After months of unrest, Ted and Billy learn to cope and gradually bond as father and son.
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
, 1h44Directed by Randal Kleiser
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about families, Pregnancy films, Seafaring films, Naturisme, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Le thème des vacances, La sexualité des mineurs, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents, Films about virginity
Actors Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58%
In the Victorian period, two young cousins, Richard and Emmeline Lestrange, and a galley cook, Paddy Button (Leo McKern), survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and reach a lush tropical island. Paddy cares for the small children and forbids them by "law" from going to the other side of the island, as he found evidence of remains of bloody human sacrifices. He also warns them against eating a scarlet berry which is apparently deadly.
Places in the Heart (1984)
, 1h52Directed by Robert Benton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Danny Glover, John Malkovich, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73%
It is the year 1935 and Waxahachie, Texas is a small, segregated town in the midst of a depression. One evening the local sheriff, Royce Spalding, leaves the family dinner table to investigate trouble at the rail yards. He dies after being accidentally shot by a young black boy, Wylie. Local white vigilantes tie Wylie to a truck and drag his body through town, for all the community to see, before hanging him from a tree.
Sophie's Choice (1982)
, 2h30Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about suicide, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Josh Mostel, Robin Bartlett
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74%
In 1947, Stingo relocates to Brooklyn in order to write a novel and is befriended by Sophie Zawistowski, a Polish immigrant, and her emotionally unstable lover, Nathan Landau.
The Last Metro (1980)
, 2h11Directed by François Truffaut
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72%
Set during the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War, it tells the story of Lucas Steiner, a Jewish theatre director and his Gentile wife, Marion Steiner, who struggles to keep him concealed from the Nazis in their theatre cellar while she performs both his former job as the director and hers as an actress.
Days of Heaven (1978)
, 1h34Directed by Terrence Malick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke, Stuart Margolin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating76%
The story is set in 1916. Bill (Gere), a Chicago manual laborer, knocks down and kills a boss (Margolin) in the steel mill where he works. He flees to the Texas Panhandle with his girlfriend Abby (Adams) and younger sister Linda (Manz),
Confidentially Yours (1983)
, 1h50Directed by François Truffaut, Pascal Deux
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Laudenbach, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Xavier Saint-Macary
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
Jacques Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel (Caroline Sihol), Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is the prime suspect. But his secretary, Barbara Becker (Fanny Ardant), while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations.
More (1969)
, 2hDirected by Barbet Schroeder
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films
Actors Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg, Heinz Engelmann, Georges Montant
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Stefan is a German student who has finished his mathematics studies and decides to have an adventure to rid himself of his inhibitions and discard his personal commitments. After hitch-hiking to Paris, he makes a friend playing cards in a bar and they decide to commit a burglary to get some money. He meets a free-spirited American girl called Estelle and follows her to Ibiza. He discovers Estelle is involved with an ex-Nazi German man called Dr. Wolf. Stefan saves Estelle from Dr. Wolf only to find she does not really want to be saved, and she introduces him to heroin (referred to by the old street name, "horse") which she has stolen from Dr. Wolf. Stefan is initially against Estelle using heroin, but having used it previously, she persuades him to try it. Soon Stefan and Estelle are both heavily addicted to heroin. They try to break the addiction using LSD and initially manage to stay clean. However, after a while they're both using heroin again. Unable to break free of the addiction, it quickly spirals out of control leading to a tragic end for Stefan.
Small Change (1976)
, 1h45Directed by François Truffaut
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Le thème des vacances
Actors Jean-François Stévenin, Virginie Thévenet, Georges Desmouceaux, Éva Truffaut, François Truffaut, Tania Torens
Roles Director of Photography
Rating75%
Small Change is a comedy with a serious message, based around the daily lives of young children in Thiers, France. Scenes include a baby and a cat perilously playing on an open windowsill, a girl causing confusion with a bullhorn, a double date at the movie theater, a kid telling a dirty joke, a botched haircut, as well as many scenes about school life. Yet throughout this the difficulties and responsibilities faced by children appear, including the ongoing story of a boy's experience of an abusive home. Truffaut gives a message of resilience in the face of injustice, vocalized through one of the teachers. The story ends with a message of hope, the school closing for the summer vacation, and one of the key characters finding his first love at a summer camp.
Madame Rosa (1977)
, 1h35Directed by Moshé Mizrahi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Gabriel Jabbour, Geneviève Fontanel, Bernard Lajarrige, Mohamed Zinet
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
Madame Rosa (Simone Signoret) is a frail, aging, retired Jewish prostitute and Auschwitz survivor who earns a meager living by caring for the children of younger female sex workers, as well as for Momo (short for Mohammed) (Sami Ben Youb), a young Arab boy on the verge of adolescence. Momo hasn't seen his parents in years. He and Madame Rosa struggle to make ends meet, and as her body and mind start to fail, it becomes clear that Momo is the only person she has left in the world. Despite his young age, he has to help Madame Rosa who refuses to be hospitalized. He will stay with her as she faces her ultimate fears and prepares for her last and most difficult voyage.