French cinema: 1926
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...
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Jacques Feyder
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...
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Man Ray
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...
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Marcel L'Herbier
Gribiche (1926)
Jacques Feyder
12-year-old Antoine Belot, nicknamed Gribiche, lives with his mother, a war widow, in modest but comfortable lodgings in Paris...
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Jacques Feyder
Mauprat (1926)
Jean Epstein
Hubert de Mauprat is an ageing French nobleman who leads a quiet life at his castle of Saint Sévère in the company of his daughter Edmée...
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Jean Epstein
Ménilmontant (1926)
Dimitri Kirsanoff
The peace of a rural community is shattered when a man and his wife are violently attacked and murdered with an axe by a deranged killer... [More...]
Dimitri Kirsanoff
The peace of a rural community is shattered when a man and his wife are violently attacked and murdered with an axe by a deranged killer... [More...]
Michel Strogoff (1926)
Viktor Tourjansky
As a revolt by the Tartars threatens to tear the Russian Empire in two, the soldier Michel Strogoff is sent to the Siberian town of Irkutsk with a vital message from the Tsar... [More...]
Viktor Tourjansky
As a revolt by the Tartars threatens to tear the Russian Empire in two, the soldier Michel Strogoff is sent to the Siberian town of Irkutsk with a vital message from the Tsar... [More...]
Nana (1926)
Jean Renoir
A proud but talentless young actress, Nana, dreams of a better life for herself, away from the tawdry slums of Paris. She gets her chance when a government official, Count Muffat, falls under her spell having watched her performance at the theatre... [More...]
Jean Renoir
A proud but talentless young actress, Nana, dreams of a better life for herself, away from the tawdry slums of Paris. She gets her chance when a government official, Count Muffat, falls under her spell having watched her performance at the theatre... [More...]
Rien que les heures (1926)
Alberto Cavalcanti
All cities would look alike if it were not for the monuments which tell them apart. This is not a depiction of the rich and fashionable set, but of the poor and downtrodden who eke out modest lives in the eternal city of Paris... [More...]
Alberto Cavalcanti
All cities would look alike if it were not for the monuments which tell them apart. This is not a depiction of the rich and fashionable set, but of the poor and downtrodden who eke out modest lives in the eternal city of Paris... [More...]
Le Vertige (1926)
Marcel L'Herbier
Russia, March 1917. With a fierce revolution threatening to engulf the entire country, the Petrograd estate of General Svirsky is hours away from being overrun by the peasant mob... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
Russia, March 1917. With a fierce revolution threatening to engulf the entire country, the Petrograd estate of General Svirsky is hours away from being overrun by the peasant mob... [More...]
Le Voyage imaginaire (1926)
René Clair
Jean, a modest bank clerk, is in love with his boss's secretary, Lucie, but he is too shy to impose his feelings on the angelic being who has stolen his heart... [More...]
René Clair
Jean, a modest bank clerk, is in love with his boss's secretary, Lucie, but he is too shy to impose his feelings on the angelic being who has stolen his heart... [More...]