Robert Bresson

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

Dir. Robert Bresson · With François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Dir. Robert Bresson · With Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

Dir. Robert Bresson · With Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre, Adrien Borel

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

Dir. Robert Bresson · With Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Dir. Robert Bresson · With Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Marie Cardinal

Rouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, is unjustly tried by an ecclesiastical court overseen by her English enemies.

Dir. Robert Bresson · With Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat

Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.

Dir. Robert Bresson · With Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.

Dir. Robert Bresson · With Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Sylvie Van Den Elsen

A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.

Dir. Robert Bresson · With Paul Bernard, María Casares, Élina Labourdette

Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option...

Dir. Robert Bresson · With Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc

Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a rift developing between Lancelot and Mordred, Arthur urges his knights to bury their differences and become friends. However, the king is unaware that Lancelot is having an affair with his queen, Guinevere. Lancelot is torn between his duty to his king and his love for the queen, whilst Mordred is determined to use his infidelity to destroy him.

Dir. Robert Bresson · With Luc Simon, Vladimir Antolek-Oresek, Laura Duke Condominas