Bertrand Tavernier Movies

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label...

A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young...

Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth...

Elia Kazan represented the American dream. An immigrant who came without anything and who became the Prince of Hollywood and Broadway after World War...

Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this...

In the Shadow of Hollywood examines this assault on our senses through interviews with directors, producers, writers and other experts in the film...

1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected...

A portrait of Fred Junck, founder of Luxembourg City's legendary Cinémathèque.

The history of RKO - one of the legendary "Big Five" studios of the Hollywood’s Golden Age, from its creation in 1928 (when the movies started...

The first part of a documentary made by Bertrand and Nils Tavernier, following a letter judged provocative by the Minister of Integration at the...

Under the mundane guise of a public relations firm, Singrid Karaman is actually running an intelligence network. Her new mission is to foil an...

Twelve short stories about racism in every day life.

Interview with Bertrand Tavernier, Charles Drazin and Olivier Bouvet about Michael Powell's Peeping Tom.

Famous French director Tavernier tells us about his fantastic voyage through the cinema of his country.