Leos Carax

Leos Carax

1960-11-22 Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France 36 Credits

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.

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An Urban Allegory

An Urban Allegory

2024

as The Director

7.6
Acting

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

It's Not Me

2024

as LC

7.2
Acting

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

It's Not Me

2024

Director, Writer, Producer

7.2
Directing Writing Producing

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

Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus

2021

as Self

8.0
Acting

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

Annette

2021

as The Producer (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

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

Annette

2021

Director

6.7
Directing

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

The Sparks Brothers

2021

as Self (uncredited)

7.4
Acting

Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your fav...

L

L

2014

Director of Photography

10.0
Directing

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

Mr. X

Mr. X

2014

as Self

5.9
Acting

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

DRIVE IN Holy Motors

2013

as Self

6.0
Acting

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

Holy Motors

2012

as The Sleeper / Limousine (voice)

7.0
Acting

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

Holy Motors

2012

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

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

20 Little Films

2012

Director

Directing

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

42 One Dream Rush

2010

Director

Directing

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

Naked Eyes

2010

Director

Directing

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

Hymn to Merde

2009

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Tokyo!

Tokyo!

2008

Director, Writer

6.9
Directing Writing

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

I Did Not Die

2008

as Moitié d'archange

Acting

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

Mister Lonely

Mister Lonely

2008

as Renard

6.6
Acting

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

977

2006

as technician

4.6
Acting

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

My Last Minute

2006

Writer, Director

5.5
Writing Directing

The last minute of a man's life.

Process

Process

2004

as A doctor

3.4
Acting

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

Pola X

1999

Director, Screenplay

5.4
Directing Writing

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

The House

The House

1997

7.2
Acting

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

Sans Titre

1997

Screenplay, Director

5.0
Writing Directing

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

The Lovers on the Bridge

1991

as Prisoner

7.4
Acting

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

The Lovers on the Bridge

1991

Director, Writer

7.4
Directing Writing

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

Investigation of a Film Above Suspicion

1991

as Self

Acting

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

Acting
The Ministries of Art

The Ministries of Art

1989

as Self

6.3
Acting

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

King Lear

King Lear

1988

as Edgar

6.3
Acting

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

Mauvais Sang

1986

as Neighborhood Voyeur (uncredited)

7.1
Acting

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

Mauvais Sang

1986

Director, Writer

7.1
Directing Writing

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

Boy Meets Girl

1984

Director, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

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

Strangulation Blues

1980

Director, Writer

5.6
Directing Writing

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

Directing

Plot TBA.