French cinema: 1929
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...
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Dimitri Kirsanoff
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...
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Richard Oswald
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...
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Alberto Cavalcanti
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...
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Charles Vanel
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...
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Julien Duvivier
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...]
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...]
Maman Colibri (1929)
Julien Duvivier
Married to a wealthy baron, Irène de Rysbergue leads a privileged life but she still sees herself as a carefree ingénue, attending parties and generally have a good time... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Married to a wealthy baron, Irène de Rysbergue leads a privileged life but she still sees herself as a carefree ingénue, attending parties and generally have a good time... [More...]
Monte Cristo (1929)
Henri Fescourt
On the day of his marriage to Mercèdes, the navigator Edmond Dantès is arrested, wrongly accused of being a Bonapartist conspirator... [More...]
Henri Fescourt
On the day of his marriage to Mercèdes, the navigator Edmond Dantès is arrested, wrongly accused of being a Bonapartist conspirator... [More...]
Les Mystères du château de Dé (1929)
Man Ray
The hand of a carved wooden mannequin holds a pair of dice, as if to remind us of Stéphane Mallarmé's words: 'A throw of the dice will never abolish chance'... [More...]
Man Ray
The hand of a carved wooden mannequin holds a pair of dice, as if to remind us of Stéphane Mallarmé's words: 'A throw of the dice will never abolish chance'... [More...]
Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929)
Marcel Carné
It is a fine Sunday morning and already the exodus has begun - from the oppressively dreary streets of Paris to the leafy riverside suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne... [More...]
Marcel Carné
It is a fine Sunday morning and already the exodus has begun - from the oppressively dreary streets of Paris to the leafy riverside suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne... [More...]
Les Nouveaux messieurs (1929)
Jacques Feyder
Suzanne Verrier's dreams of becoming a star ballerina with the Paris Opéra ballet company are encouraged by her wealthy patron, Count Montoire-Grandpré... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
Suzanne Verrier's dreams of becoming a star ballerina with the Paris Opéra ballet company are encouraged by her wealthy patron, Count Montoire-Grandpré... [More...]
Peau de pêche (1929)
Jean Benoît-Lévy
Peau de pêche is a ten-year-old orphan boy who spends his days living as free as a bird in the streets of Montmartre... [More...]
Jean Benoît-Lévy
Peau de pêche is a ten-year-old orphan boy who spends his days living as free as a bird in the streets of Montmartre... [More...]
Un chien andalou (1929)
Luis Buñuel
One night, a man sharpens his cut-throat razor before using it to slice open a young woman's eye... Eight years later, the same woman invites a man into her apartment... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
One night, a man sharpens his cut-throat razor before using it to slice open a young woman's eye... Eight years later, the same woman invites a man into her apartment... [More...]