Movies: Eugène Ionesco

A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros....

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to ...

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to...

Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco....

An Old Man and Old Woman frantically prepare chairs for a series of invisible guests who are coming to hear an orator reveal the old man's discovery....

Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love with Sophie and records a message of love. The tape is mistakenly broadcast in the company. In the face of success, Sophie founded the company Tell m...

A television version of the award-winning stage adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's tragic farce, mounted in 1994 for Moscow's School of Contemporary Plays Theatre and revived for television in 2009....

Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world. (Segment of "Les sept péchés capitaux")...

Based on Eugene Ionesco’s play, this is an animated film warning that by conforming to patterns and living en masse, people will become rhinoceroses....

A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur....

Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him. Because of his marginal behavior, his head is broken, like everyone else....

A staging of Eugène Ionesco's play "Exit the King" by Jorge Lavelli....

A mysterious herd of rhinos attacks a peaceful town. The surprised townsfolk initially try to ignore the threat, but their fear for their fate intensifies and causes them to voluntarily become rhinos. A young man named Bérenger tries his best to prot...

The professor gives his student a lesson, during which the relationship between them gradually changes....

A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA Obscenity Codes....

This is the story of a meeting between a man and a woman. In a train, an Austrian singer and a French teacher exchange on their past, their character, and fall in love. Their journey is made in music. The opportunity to evoke Georges Brassens, Annabe...

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Elderly couple, in their 90s, live in a lighthouse where the old man is a janitor. Isolated and with no visitors, they decide that on that day the old man will finally make an announcement that will change humanity or at least what is left of it....

A staging of Eugène Ionesco's play "Rhinoceros" by mmanuel Demarcy-Mota....

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