The best Roland Topor’s movies

Roland Topor

Roland Topor

07/01/1938- 16/04/1997
We present our ranking of the best Roland Topor’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Roland Topor.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 17/01/1979
  • Character: Renfield
Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.

Sweet Movie

Sweet Movie
6/10
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/10/1966
  • Character: Un émissaire du prince
In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of an episode of a vapid TV news documentary series called "Qui êtes-vous?" and is pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country in the Soviet bloc.

Ratataplan

Ratataplan
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1979
  • Character: Il boss
Misadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he becomes a barman, and he discovers a special formula that turns simple water into the "Immortality drink". He is robbed of the magic water copyright. So he tries to set up a theatrical company, but the first show is a fiasco. Since finding a normal job seems a mission impossible, he tries to set the sentimental side of his life. He targets the most beautiful girl of his building, and for her he builds a robot able to dance like Tony Manero (John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever (1977)). The robot gets drunk (!). It is another fiasco. So he targets an ugly girl and finally with her succeeds to live his surreal world for ever.

The Making of Nosferatu

The Making of Nosferatu
6.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1979
  • Character: Himsel
Werner Herzog discusses the making of 'Nosferatu' on set.

Fantastic Laloux

Fantastic Laloux
6.7/10
A short documentary about the life of director and artist René Laloux, featuring an interview with Laloux from 2001.

Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
40 years of "Apostrophes". Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.

The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard

The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/09/1975
  • Character: Le pochard
Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona, who has left her father, the railway gatekeeper, after being raped on the train track. She is kidnapped and taken to a Parisian whorehouse. However, a disinherited prince, Dudu who tries to rescue her, is himself kidnapped and forced to serve as a male prostitute. The two captives meet there and fall in love. They are taken away by different rich people - he to an Arab "harem," she to a surgeon's home.

He! Viva Dada

He! Viva Dada
Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings inspired by ""théâtre panique/ the panic theater", includes Fernando Arrabal, Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky.

The Satin Spider

The Satin Spider
5.1/10
  • Release: 26/03/1986
  • Character: Le médecin
The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.

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