Leos Carax

Leos Carax

Born: November 22, 1960
in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Leos Carax (born November 22, 1960) is a French-born film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl (1984), and his notable works include Lovers on the Bridge (1991) and the controversial Pola X (1999). His professional name is an anagram of his first and middle names.

Movies for Leos Carax...

It’s Not Me
Title: It’s Not Me
Released: June 12, 2024
Type: Movie
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.
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Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus
Title: Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2021
Type: Movie
In 2019, the director Leos Carax proposes to Estelle Charlier and Romuald Collinet to design, make and animate "Annette", the puppet of his new film. This one will be the child of the couple Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver. Propelled into the world of cinema, begins for this charismatic duo a unique and singular adventure in their career as puppeteers. Faced with the demands of the filmmaker, the impossible, they are held.
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Annette
Title: Annette
Character: The Producer (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 2021
Type: Movie
The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humour and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the perfect couple, healthy, happy, and glamourous. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious girl with an exceptional destiny, will change their lives.
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The Sparks Brothers
Title: The Sparks Brothers
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: June 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.
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Mr. X
Title: Mr. X
Character: Himself
Released: January 20, 2014
Type: Movie
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is considered to be an icon of world cinema. Mr.X dives into the poetic and visionary world of an artist who was already a cult figure from his very first film. Punctuated by interviews and unseen footage, this documentary is most of all a fine-tuned exploration of the poetic and visionary world of Leos Carax, alias "Mr.X".
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DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Title: DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Character: Self
Released: January 21, 2013
Type: Movie
A making-of documentary of Leos Carax's Holy Motors. Present during the shoot, Salomé catches exacting and inspiring moments of the production and adds interviews with its main participants (the actors Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, and Kylie Minogue, and the cinematographer, Caroline Champetier).
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Holy Motors
Title: Holy Motors
Character: The Sleeper / Limousine (voice)
Released: July 2, 2012
Type: Movie
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.
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I Did Not Die
Title: I Did Not Die
Character: Moitié d'archange
Released: August 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.
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Mister Lonely
Title: Mister Lonely
Character: Renard
Released: February 2, 2008
Type: Movie
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
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977
Title: 977
Character: technician
Released: October 26, 2006
Type: Movie
977 is a coded number relating the attempt to “test the harmony with algebra”, to figure out the mathematical regularities of emotional and spiritual realms of human being. The characters have volunteered for the experiment to be put through not only scientific researching, but also through the everyday trials of friendship, love, attractions, envy and “the strongest of affects” – the curiosity. Thus, the scientific experience turns into human one, and a result is unpredictable…
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Process
Title: Process
Character: A doctor
Released: February 10, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who decides to kill herself. She puts herself through a series of experiences that test the limits of what is humanly bearable in an ultimate attempt to find a reason to live.
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The House
Title: The House
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting since they have all emerged from a single perpetual dream: that of a young man who no longer wants to wake up, immersed as he is in this world of fascinating spectres.
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The Lovers on the Bridge
Title: The Lovers on the Bridge
Character: Prisoner
Released: October 16, 1991
Type: Movie
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
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Investigation of a Film Above Suspicion
Title: Investigation of a Film Above Suspicion
Character: Self
Released: June 6, 1991
Type: Movie
A documentary on the set of the ultra eventful Leos Carax film "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf", which spans three years of filming and knows an accumulation of disasters, increasing an initial budget of 32 million francs to more than 120 million francs.
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Le Pont-Neuf des amants
Title: Le Pont-Neuf des amants
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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The Ministries of Art
Title: The Ministries of Art
Character: Self
Released: February 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Edgar
Released: September 15, 1987
Type: Movie
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
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Mauvais Sang
Title: Mauvais Sang
Character: Neighborhood Voyeur (uncredited)
Released: November 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.