Michel Portal Movies

France, Normandy, towards the end of World War II: Young French women are recruited as wives for American GIs. In US Army recreation camps, the...

The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.

"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel,...

In a setting cleared of all stage artifice, multi-instrumentalist composer and performer Michel Portal invents, listens, writes and plays in his only...

Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain...

Marie is a young woman recently released from prison on drug charges. As a condition of her release, she joins a theatrical troupe composed of young...

The love story between Yann and Gaud is passionate, but Gaud is a sailor's wife and she watches her man leave with fear in her heart.

An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor...

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, heir to Sigmund Freud and the English school of psychoanalysis, passionate about both science and the movement of...

Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that...

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them...

One day, Pedro Sansinenea left family, friends and country, an environment that drowned him. Twenty years later he returns to the Basque Country for...

The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life.

A couple takes on a homeless teenager. The trio forms a family-like community that seems to work extremely informally and without many regulations....

At the end of the nineteenth century, Italian anarchists, ten men, one woman, libertarian, collectivist emigrate to Brazil to start a leaderless...

On a deserted island, an old caretaker with a waning memory wanders among the ruins of a former children’s prison, which was destroyed by a...

After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to put a stop to the climb of violence.

Somewhere in Europe in the twentieth century, a young man decides to change his life by engaging in the army. A modern and quirky tale, with...

ARTE pays tribute to the memory of the unforgettable Michel Portal, who passed away on February 12, 2026. Invited in 2021 by the Nancy Jazz...