François Mauriac Movies

An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.

"In Search of Marcel Proust" is a 1962 literary documentary directed by the Italian poet Attilio Bertolucci. It serves as a biographical and critical...

Twenty years have passed. Thérèse lives alone in Paris. We exiled her there. She seems to be asking nothing more for life. She is sick...

Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family...

This documentary is a portrait of Proust composed of recollections by those who knew him. Intercut with reading from his works.

A doctor and his son fall in love for the same woman, who has lost her child.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a young man from the upper middle class tries to escape the constraints of his family.

Two brothers-in-law hate each other but, for business interests, they want their respective son and daughter to marry. The young fiancées are...

In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a...

Marcelle de Barthas is young French widow, who since her husband’s death some seven years previously, has lived a secluded life in her country...