Alain Cavalier (born September 14, 1931) is a French film director. He was born in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher and studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. He won several awards, including the César Award for Best Film and César Award for Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987. His upcoming film Pater is scheduled to premiere In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Cavalier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

• 2026Thanks for Coming — Self, Director, Screenplay
• 2023L'Amitié — Self, Director, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Editor, Sound, Screenplay
• 2023Variations — Director
• 2019Living and Knowing You Are Alive — Self, Screenplay, Director
• 2018Six portraits XL : 1 Léon et Guillaume — Director
• 2018Six portraits XL : 2 Jacquotte et Daniel — Director
• 2018Six portraits XL : 3 Philippe et Bernard — Director
• 2015Le Caravage — Director
• 2014Cavalier Express — Director
• 2014Faire l'affiche — Director
• 2014Marier deux arbres — Director
• 2014Paradise — Director
• 201210 films inédits d'Alain Cavalier — Director
• 2012Journal filmé à la Cinémathèque française — Self, Director
• 2011Cadeau de naissance — Director
• 2011Complices — Director
• 2011Elle, seule — Director
• 2011Faire la mort — Director
• 2011Le pâtissier japonais — Director
• 2011Ma femme vit dans la peur / C'est plein / Le roi des biberons — Director
• 2011Pater — Alain Cavalier, Director, Director of Photography, Writer
• 2010France 1961 — Director
• 2009Haiku — Director
• 2009Irene — Director
• 2009Sept gouttes de sommeil — Director
• 2008Les Braves — Director
• 2007Agonie d'un melon — Director
• 2007Holy Places — Director
• 2007I'd Like to Share Spring with Someone — Alain
• 2007J’attends Joël — Director
• 20068 récits express d'Alain Cavalier — Director, Screenplay
• 2005Bonnard — Director
• 2005Le Filmeur — Self, Director
• 2002René — Director, Writer
• 2000Vies — Director
• 1998Georges de La Tour — Director
• 1998Sodomites — Thanks
• 1996The Encounter — Self, Director, Producer
• 1993Libera me — Director, Writer
• 1993Liberté, liberté chérie — Director
• 24 portraits d Alain Cavalier — Self, Director, Creator
• 1991Portraits: Deuxième Série — Director
• 1990The Illusionist — Director, Screenplay
• 1988Portraits: Première Série — Director, Writer
• 1987L'Orangère — Director
• 1987La Dame-Lavabo — Director
• 1987La Matelassière — Director
• 1987La repasseuse — Director
• 1986Thérèse — Director, Writer
• 1982Lettre d'Alain Cavalier — Director
• 1981Un étrange voyage — Writer, Director
• 1979Martin and Lea — Director, Screenplay
• 1979This Answering Service Takes No Messages — Director
• 1976Fill 'er Up with Super — Screenplay, Director
• 1968Heartbeat — Director, Writer
• 1967Pillaged — Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Dialogue
• 1966A Matter of Resistance — Screenplay
• 1964The Unvanquished — Un passant à Lyon (uncredited), Director, Scenario Writer
• 1962Le Combat dans l'île — Director, Writer
• 1958Elevator to the Gallows — Assistant Director
• 1958Provincial Chronicle — Screenplay
• 1958The Lovers — Assistant Director
• 1958Un américain — Director
• 1957Appelez le 17 — Second Assistant Director
• 1957Les alchimistes — Assistant Director

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2025Cavalier Seul — Self
• 2005Roger Diamantis or Real Life — Self
• 1996Alain Cavalier - Sept chapitres, cinq jours, 2 pièces-cuisine — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self