Biography
Leos Carax (born November 22, 1960) is a French-born film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl (1984), and his notable works include Lovers on the Bridge (1991) and the controversial Pola X (1999). His professional name is an anagram of his first and middle names.
Known For
Complete Filmography

An Urban Allegory
2024
as The Director
A ballet dancer is late for an audition for a show inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. She arrives with her seven-year-old son, Jay, and begs th...

It's Not Me
2024
as LC
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, wh...

It's Not Me
2024
Director, Writer, Producer
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, wh...

Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus
2021
as Self
In 2019, the director Leos Carax proposes to Estelle Charlier and Romuald Collinet to design, make and animate "Annette", the puppet of his new film. ...

Annette
2021
as The Producer (uncredited)
The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humour and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the perfec...

Annette
2021
Director
The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humour and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the perfec...

The Sparks Brothers
2021
as Self (uncredited)
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your fav...

L
2014
Director of Photography
A gentle and patient travelling camera accompanies sunrise on the Père Lachaise cemetery, and by continual metamorphosis of the visual material shows ...

Mr. X
2014
as Self
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure...

DRIVE IN Holy Motors
2013
as Self
A making-of documentary of Leos Carax's Holy Motors. Present during the shoot, Salomé catches exacting and inspiring moments of the production and add...

Holy Motors
2012
as The Sleeper / Limousine (voice)
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwov...

Holy Motors
2012
Director, Writer
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwov...

20 Little Films
2012
Director
Each year since 1995, the Viennale has asked a great, international director to make his or her own personal contribution to the festival: a contribut...

42 One Dream Rush
2010
Director
Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world's most awarded vodka "42 Below", known f...

Naked Eyes
2010
Director
A tale of voyeurism about man and his neighbor: a sensual and mysterious blind woman, who is shy and can only see when naked.

Hymn to Merde
2009
Director
A clip by Leos Carax, inspired by his film "Merde" (part of the feature film "Tokyo!'), with Denis Lavant singing in Merdogon.

Tokyo!
2008
Director, Writer
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. ...

I Did Not Die
2008
as Moitié d'archange
Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

Mister Lonely
2008
as Renard
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives ...

977
2006
as technician
977 is a coded number relating the attempt to “test the harmony with algebra”, to figure out the mathematical regularities of emotional and spiritual ...

My Last Minute
2006
Writer, Director
The last minute of a man's life.

Process
2004
as A doctor
The story of a woman who decides to kill herself. She puts herself through a series of experiences that test the limits of what is humanly bearable in...

Pola X
1999
Director, Screenplay
A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.

The House
1997
A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting since they have all emerged from a single perpetua...

Sans Titre
1997
Screenplay, Director
In 1997, for it's fiftieth anniversary, the Cannes Film Festival asked Leos Carax for a short film, a kind of postcard addressed to the festival, in w...

The Lovers on the Bridge
1991
as Prisoner
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would ...

The Lovers on the Bridge
1991
Director, Writer
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would ...

Investigation of a Film Above Suspicion
1991
as Self
A documentary on the set of the ultra eventful Leos Carax film "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf", which spans three years of filming and knows an accumulation...
Le Pont-Neuf des amants
1991

The Ministries of Art
1989
as Self
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Ja...

King Lear
1988
as Edgar
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civiliza...

Mauvais Sang
1986
as Neighborhood Voyeur (uncredited)
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them br...

Mauvais Sang
1986
Director, Writer
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them br...

Boy Meets Girl
1984
Director, Writer
In Paris at night, a young aspiring filmmaker grapples with heartbreak after his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend. After a failed attempt to ...

Strangulation Blues
1980
Director, Writer
A very Parisian night. Paul plays at strangling Colette because she doesn't inspire him a single, damn camera shot. Early in the morning, he takes fli...
Untitled Leos Carax Project
N/A
Director
Plot TBA.