Guy Gilles Movies

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.

The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film based on the premise that...

Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but...

The action takes place in Paris in 1959, with a flashback. A teenager in search of a mother he has never known enters manhood and discovers love.

A day in a little café of Paris.

Documentary about a small village near Le Mans, commented by the village school-teacher.

A verlan discussion in a cafe between two young people about a motorbike and girls.

A film by Guy Gilles

An issue of the television series La vie filmée, based on films by amateur filmmakers, and retracing here the life of the French between 1946...

A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in flashback : Bab El Oued, la Madrague, Sidi Ferruch,...

A young man finds in an old abandoned farmhouse in Vans in Ardèche some fifty letters and a notebook forgotten there. Back in Paris, he...

The title sums up the mood of this elegant short film in which a woman recalls her life, locked up for 30 years in the courtyard of a building where...

In the Saint-Lazare metro and station, a young man dreams of getting away from the dullness and everyday life. Colored snapshots of postcards, metro...

Marchers in an Indepence Day celebration in Mexico are transformed into tiny soldiers, tiny articulated automatons, turning a serious event into...

Study of the passengers of a steamship during a Mediterranean cruise. (uniFrance)

Guy Gilles' 1962 short on the wintertime in Paris.