French cinema: 1920s
L'Argent (1928)
Marcel L'Herbier
With the imminent collapse of Caledonian Eagle, a company in which he has a large stockholding, Nicolas Saccard realises that the future of his own company, the Banque Universelle, is suddenly in jeopardy...
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Marcel L'Herbier
L'Atlantide (1921)
Jacques Feyder
In the Sahara Desert, the unconscious body of Lieutenant Saint-Avit is discovered by fellow officers in his Spahi regiment...
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Jacques Feyder
Au secours! (1924)
Abel Gance
Max is relaxing on honeymoon with his bride Renée when he suddenly feels inclined to drop in on his club. He arrives at the club just as the Count de Mornay offers a bet that no one can spend a night in his haunted castle...
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Abel Gance
L'Auberge rouge (1923)
Jean Epstein
One evening in 1825, a wealthy banker hosts a dinner party at his home in Paris. His guests include a well-known merchant, Hermann, and an arms supplier for the French army, Jean-Frédéric Taillefer...
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Jean Epstein
Les Aventures de Robert Macaire (1925)
Jean Epstein
In 1825, the itinerant thief and swindler Robert Macaire wends his way across France in the company of his faithful companion Bertrand, never passing up the opportunity to fleece any unsuspecting party they may come across in their travels...
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Jean Epstein
La Belle Nivernaise (1924)
Jean Epstein
Louveau is the owner of an old barge, La Belle Nivernaise, which ships coal along the Nivernaise canal in central France... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Louveau is the owner of an old barge, La Belle Nivernaise, which ships coal along the Nivernaise canal in central France... [More...]
Brumes d'automne (1929)
Dimitri Kirsanoff
As autumn cloaks the world with her customary melancholia, as cold mists descend and browning leaves fall from quivering trees onto the sodden ground, a solitary woman looks back on her past life beside an open fire... [More...]
Dimitri Kirsanoff
As autumn cloaks the world with her customary melancholia, as cold mists descend and browning leaves fall from quivering trees onto the sodden ground, a solitary woman looks back on her past life beside an open fire... [More...]
Cagliostro (1929)
Richard Oswald
In the late 18th century, Joseph Balsamo, alias the Count of Cagliostro, finds fame throughout Europe as a magician, alchemist and fortune teller... [More...]
Richard Oswald
In the late 18th century, Joseph Balsamo, alias the Count of Cagliostro, finds fame throughout Europe as a magician, alchemist and fortune teller... [More...]
Le Capitaine Fracasse (1929)
Alberto Cavalcanti
Sigognac, a penniless young aristocrat, lives alone in his ruined castle. One day, a troupe of travelling actors arrive at his door and ask for shelter for the night... [More...]
Alberto Cavalcanti
Sigognac, a penniless young aristocrat, lives alone in his ruined castle. One day, a troupe of travelling actors arrive at his door and ask for shelter for the night... [More...]
Carmen (1926)
Jacques Feyder
After killing a man in a duel, Don José Lizzarabengoa is forced to flee his home in Navarre. On his arrival in Castille, he enlists in the army and soon becomes a sergeant in the regiment at Almanza... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
After killing a man in a duel, Don José Lizzarabengoa is forced to flee his home in Navarre. On his arrival in Castille, he enlists in the army and soon becomes a sergeant in the regiment at Almanza... [More...]
Catherine (1924)
Albert Dieudonné
In the provincial town of Varance, Catherine Ferrand, an orphan, is employed as housemaid to Georges Mallet, a prominent local councillor... [More...]
Albert Dieudonné
In the provincial town of Varance, Catherine Ferrand, an orphan, is employed as housemaid to Georges Mallet, a prominent local councillor... [More...]
La Chute de la maison Usher (1928)
Jean Epstein
Sir Roderick Usher and his wife Madeleine lead a solitary life, living in an ancient castle surrounded by sinister misty marshes in the most barren and forbidding of rural landscapes... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Sir Roderick Usher and his wife Madeleine lead a solitary life, living in an ancient castle surrounded by sinister misty marshes in the most barren and forbidding of rural landscapes... [More...]
Coeur fidèle (1923)
Jean Epstein
In the port of Marseille, Marie works as a serving girl in a shabby bar owned by her cruel adopted parents, Monsieur and Madame Honchon... [More...]
Jean Epstein
In the port of Marseille, Marie works as a serving girl in a shabby bar owned by her cruel adopted parents, Monsieur and Madame Honchon... [More...]
La Coquille et le clergyman (1928)
Germaine Dulac
A clergyman experiences a bizarre sequence of fantasies that torment him and test his faith to the limit. He has fallen for a beautiful woman, the wife of a proud general, and this obsession provokes image after image in his increasingly heated brain... [More...]
Germaine Dulac
A clergyman experiences a bizarre sequence of fantasies that torment him and test his faith to the limit. He has fallen for a beautiful woman, the wife of a proud general, and this obsession provokes image after image in his increasingly heated brain... [More...]
Crainquebille (1922)
Jacques Feyder
For over forty years, a modest street peddler, Crainquebille, has sold vegetables from his cart in the environs of the Halles market in Paris... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
For over forty years, a modest street peddler, Crainquebille, has sold vegetables from his cart in the environs of the Halles market in Paris... [More...]
Dans la nuit (1929)
Charles Vanel
A quarry worker takes a wife, but not long after the wedding he is caught in a rock blast that leaves him horribly disfigured... [More...]
Charles Vanel
A quarry worker takes a wife, but not long after the wedding he is caught in a rock blast that leaves him horribly disfigured... [More...]
Le Diable au coeur (1927)
Marcel L'Herbier
The Bucailles are a poor, slovenly family who live in a small town on the coast of Normandy. Lacking parental discipline, the mischievous daughter Ludivine and her two younger brothers misbehave constantly, with the result that their household is in a constant state of mess and pandemonium... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
The Bucailles are a poor, slovenly family who live in a small town on the coast of Normandy. Lacking parental discipline, the mischievous daughter Ludivine and her two younger brothers misbehave constantly, with the result that their household is in a constant state of mess and pandemonium... [More...]
La Divine croisière (1929)
Julien Duvivier
In a village on the rugged coast of Brittany the wealthy ship owner Claude Ferjac has a reputation as a mean-spirited tyrant... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In a village on the rugged coast of Brittany the wealthy ship owner Claude Ferjac has a reputation as a mean-spirited tyrant... [More...]
El Dorado (1921)
Marcel L'Herbier
In a popular district of Granada Sibilla works as an exotic dancer at a seedy nightclub, El Dorado. Her thoughts are constantly on her 11-year-old son, who is confined to bed with a chronic illness... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
In a popular district of Granada Sibilla works as an exotic dancer at a seedy nightclub, El Dorado. Her thoughts are constantly on her 11-year-old son, who is confined to bed with a chronic illness... [More...]
Le Double amour (1925)
Jean Epstein
The casino at the rich man's seaside resort Saint-Blaise-de-la-mer is the venue for a gala concert for charity, the star attraction being the beautiful Countess Laure Maresco... [More...]
Jean Epstein
The casino at the rich man's seaside resort Saint-Blaise-de-la-mer is the venue for a gala concert for charity, the star attraction being the beautiful Countess Laure Maresco... [More...]
Emak-Bakia (1926)
Man Ray
A series of unidentifiable black and white images, flashing flakes, dancing pins… A neon sign broadcasts the day's news... [More...]
Man Ray
A series of unidentifiable black and white images, flashing flakes, dancing pins… A neon sign broadcasts the day's news... [More...]
Entr'acte (1924)
René Clair
Two men approach a canon and fire it. Rifle-range dummies sway in the wind. A dancing ballerina turns into a strange bearded man... [More...]
René Clair
Two men approach a canon and fire it. Rifle-range dummies sway in the wind. A dancing ballerina turns into a strange bearded man... [More...]
L'Étoile de mer (1928)
Man Ray
A window opens onto a quiet country lane, where a man and a woman are walking side-by-side. Transported by desire, they ascend a staircase and enter a room, where the man watches as the woman removes her clothes and stretches out on a bed... [More...]
Man Ray
A window opens onto a quiet country lane, where a man and a woman are walking side-by-side. Transported by desire, they ascend a staircase and enter a room, where the man watches as the woman removes her clothes and stretches out on a bed... [More...]
La Femme de nulle part (1922)
Louis Delluc
At a house in the country not far Genoa, a husband tells his younger wife that he must spend the next twenty-four hours away from home to take his leave of a friend at the seaport... [More...]
Louis Delluc
At a house in the country not far Genoa, a husband tells his younger wife that he must spend the next twenty-four hours away from home to take his leave of a friend at the seaport... [More...]
Feu Mathias Pascal (1926)
Marcel L'Herbier
After the death of his father, Mathias Pascal learns that his family is in dire financial straits. He must abandon his dreams of an unfettered, carefree existence and finds work as an assistant librarian in the little town where he lives, Miragno... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
After the death of his father, Mathias Pascal learns that his family is in dire financial straits. He must abandon his dreams of an unfettered, carefree existence and finds work as an assistant librarian in the little town where he lives, Miragno... [More...]
Fièvre (1921)
Louis Delluc
In the busy French port of Marseille, a rough Corsican named Topinelli runs a popular bar with his wife Sarah. A party of sailors recently returned from the Far East invade the bar, intent on an evening of carousing and dancing with the women of the town... [More...]
Louis Delluc
In the busy French port of Marseille, a rough Corsican named Topinelli runs a popular bar with his wife Sarah. A party of sailors recently returned from the Far East invade the bar, intent on an evening of carousing and dancing with the women of the town... [More...]
La Fille de l'eau (1925)
Jean Renoir
After the death of her father, a barge man, Virginie has no one but her cruel uncle Jef. But he merely squanders his inheritance and sells the barge, before attempting to rape his niece... [More...]
Jean Renoir
After the death of her father, a barge man, Virginie has no one but her cruel uncle Jef. But he merely squanders his inheritance and sells the barge, before attempting to rape his niece... [More...]
Finis terrae (1929)
Jean Epstein
The Ushant archipelago is a group of small islands situated off the coast of Brittany at the northwest extremity of France... [More...]
Jean Epstein
The Ushant archipelago is a group of small islands situated off the coast of Brittany at the northwest extremity of France... [More...]
La Galerie des monstres (1924)
Jaque Catelain
Castile, Spain. Idealistic youngsters, Riquett's and Ralda are deeply in love but their union is opposed by the latter's over-proud aristrocratic grandfather, who has higher hopes for his orphaned ward than marriage to a mere itinerant gypsy boy... [More...]
Jaque Catelain
Castile, Spain. Idealistic youngsters, Riquett's and Ralda are deeply in love but their union is opposed by the latter's over-proud aristrocratic grandfather, who has higher hopes for his orphaned ward than marriage to a mere itinerant gypsy boy... [More...]
Gardiens de phare (1929)
Jean Grémillon
Off the coast of Finistère, an old lighthouse keeper Brehan and his son Yvon commence their month-long stint in a lighthouse... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
Off the coast of Finistère, an old lighthouse keeper Brehan and his son Yvon commence their month-long stint in a lighthouse... [More...]