Known for Directing
Cédric Klapisch (born September 4, 1961), is a French film director. Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII. He was rejected on two occasions by the prestigious French film school IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques), now known as La fémis. He later attended the film school at New York University from 1983 to 1985. During the 1980s, he started to shoot short films such as In transit or Ce qui me meut. He subsequently worked as a scriptwriter and he became a director for feature films. He has also directed a nature documentary for French television. Klapisch's next film, Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire), had its production delayed for 4 months. During this period, he devised a new, low-budget product, which became L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment). Shot in Spain, this film became his greatest box-office success.
Born
September 4, 1961 (age 65)
Birthplace
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Filmography
73 films, 10 shows
Les vrais chercheurs ne savent pas ce qu’ils cherchent
Les vrais chercheurs ne savent pas ce qu’ils cherchent
2025
country: Unknown


Colours of Time
2025 · 2h 6m
country: France
When four distant cousins inherit a 19th-century home in Normandy, they decide to visit and examine their family history. No one has lived there since the 1940s, and the cousins are intrigued by all of the items they find there, little things that help them to understand their ancestor, Adèle Vermillard. Jumping back and forth in time, they meet the mysterious Adèle, whose bohemian lifestyle, and her relationships with the leading artists of the time, changes their lives.


La flûte enchantée au Théâtre des Champs Elysées
2024
country: France


Rise
2022 · 1h 57m
country: Belgium
Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her with her stage backup; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance ever again.


Someone, Somewhere
2019 · 1h 50m
country: Belgium
Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start attending regular therapy. With the help of their therapists, they uncover the real roots of their issues, and find that the connection they were both searching for is much closer than they thought.


La Fête du Cinéma
2018 · 2m
country: Unknown
Short film for the 2018 Fête du Cinéma


Back to Burgundy
2017 · 1h 53m
country: France
Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As seasons go by around their vineyard, they'll have to trust each other again.


Renaud Lavillenie, all the way to the top
2016
country: France
In 2014, in Donetsk, Renaud Lavillenie broke the pole vault world record held by the legendary Sergei Bubka. Since then, the French pole vaulter has become one of the world's greatest athletes. This summer, in Rio, he sets his sights on Olympic gold. His second, another record. Already present in Ukraine, Cédric Klapisch followed the champion in his preparation for over a year.


Opéra national de Paris: L'histoire de Manon
2015 · 2h 35m
country: France
First performed in 1974 and celebrating its 40th anniversary, this production is the second in this year’s season following The Royal Ballet’s. In Regency Paris, bourgeois society gorges itself on luxury and easy pleasures. Carried off in this whirlwind, the sensual yet naïve Manon is unable to resist temptation and she drags down the faithful Des Grieux with her in her fall.


Chinese Puzzle
2013 · 1h 57m
country: Belgium
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.


My Piece of the Pie
2011 · 1h 49m
country: France
France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...


Aurélie Dupont, Instants of Grace
2010 · 58m
country: France
Portrait of Paris Opera prima ballerina Aurélie Dupont.


Paris
2008 · 2h 10m
country: France
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.


Russian Dolls
2005 · 2h 9m
country: France
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.


Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
2003 · 1h 51m
country: France
"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. Although other gang members feel out of their league, Jean persuades them to take part and Caty finds herself in a hellish world of betrayal, violence and murder.


The Spanish Apartment
2002 · 2h 2m
country: France
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.


Peut-être
1999 · 1h 49m
country: France
Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ceiling of the toilets, he discovers a passage leading to this futurist Paris. There, he meets an old man Ako who affirms he is his son and that he wants to exist. Otherwise he will vanish into the air. Arthur is still hesitant because his life is an unfulfilled one: a has a little lucrative job, is uncertain about his future and things are getting out of hand when Ako discovers the passage and interferes in the party.


Family Resemblances
1996 · 1h 50m
country: France
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.


When the Cat's Away
1996 · 1h 31m
country: France
When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée, who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.


Lumière & Company
1995 · 1h 28m
country: France
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.


Good Old Daze
1995 · 1h 41m
country: France
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.


La Chambre
1994 · 2m
country: Unknown
There are many ways to make love, but there is only one way to protect yourself…


The Goldfish
1994 · 3m
country: France
A woman with her hands full finds navigating the city streets nearly disastrous for her aquatic pal but for the clever use of a common prophylactic.


Little Nothings
1992 · 1h 35m
country: France
Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.


Ce qui me meut
1989 · 24m
country: France
Presented as if it were an archive from the beginning of the 20th century, like a Pathé newsreel, this film tells the story of the life of Etienne-Jules Marey, the 19th century pioneer of photography and cinema, famous for studying animal and human locomotion.


In Transit
1986 · 15m
country: United States
A foreign musician is stranded at a New York City area hotel after the airline he was ready to take home collapses and replacement carrier flights are delayed. He bonds with a singing chambermaid.