Jean-Marie Straub Movies
- 1982
Too Early / Too Late
Too Early / Too Late6.61982HD
Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime,...
- 1965
Not Reconciled
Not Reconciled61965HD
A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a...
- 1968
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp4.61968HD
Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...
- 1968
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach6.1941968HD
The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
- 2003
The Return of the Prodigal Son
The Return of the Prodigal Son5.32003HD
In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They...
- 1987
The Death of Empedocles
The Death of Empedocles5.11987HD
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
- 1971
Othon
Othon5.51971HD
Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court...
- 1989
Black Sin
Black Sin4.31989HD
A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich...
- 1978
Cinématon
Cinématon4.31978HD
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
- 1984
Class Relations
Class Relations6.81984HD
A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
- 1979
From the Clouds to the Resistance
From the Clouds to the Resistance5.1761979HD
'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History...
- 2003
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?7.12003HD
Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...
- 1956
Fool's Mate
Fool's Mate6.61956HD
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at...
- 2008
Artemide's Knee
Artemide's Knee6.2732008HD
Jean-Marie Straub's first film after the death of Danièlle Huillet is a love poem to her. Le Genou d'Artémide is based on Cesare...
- 1999
Sicily!
Sicily!6.51999HD
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized...
- 2001
Workers, Peasants
Workers, Peasants42001HD
A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a...
- 1975
Moses and Aaron
Moses and Aaron5.81975HD
A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate...
- 2008
Itinerary of Jean Bricard
Itinerary of Jean Bricard5.82008HD
The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema’s greatest...
- 1995
The Enclosed Valley
The Enclosed Valley7.2221995HD
My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note,...
- 2011
Jackals and Arabs
Jackals and Arabs5.12011HD
A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris.