Louis Hochet Movies

Jonas, a young drifter, is wandering in a deserted area on the road to Salina, Kansas. He stops at a desolate roadside service station when Mara, the...

A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know...

When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on...

Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the...

Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the...

Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime,...

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich...

When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts...

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History...

Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried...

A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.

A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized...

A story about a widow who begins to receive blackmail letters demanding money from her. This is when everyone in the small town she lives in...

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court...

A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate...

Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles".