French cinema: 1928
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
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...
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Jean Epstein
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...
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Germaine Dulac
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...
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Man Ray
Maldone (1928)
Jean Grémillon
For twenty years, Olivier Maldone has lived the life of an itinerant labourer, content to earn his meagre wage by toiling on the land and the canals...
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Jean Grémillon
Le Mystère de la tour Eiffel (1928)
Julien Duvivier
With their 'Siamese Twins' dance act, the Mironton Brothers - Achille Saturnin and his exact double - are one of the main attractions at a popular Parisian fairground... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
With their 'Siamese Twins' dance act, the Mironton Brothers - Achille Saturnin and his exact double - are one of the main attractions at a popular Parisian fairground... [More...]
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
Carl Theodor Dreyer
In 1431, Joan of Arc is arrested and brought before a court of ecclesiastical judges on a charge of treason and heresy. The Church believes that Joan's visions are manifestations of the Devil, but she maintains they are messages from God and his saints... [More...]
Carl Theodor Dreyer
In 1431, Joan of Arc is arrested and brought before a court of ecclesiastical judges on a charge of treason and heresy. The Church believes that Joan's visions are manifestations of the Devil, but she maintains they are messages from God and his saints... [More...]
Tire au flanc (1928)
Jean Renoir
By an odd stroke of fate, the bourgeois Jean Dubois d'Ombelles and his valet Joseph Turlot end up having to serve their military service at the same time, in the same barracks... [More...]
Jean Renoir
By an odd stroke of fate, the bourgeois Jean Dubois d'Ombelles and his valet Joseph Turlot end up having to serve their military service at the same time, in the same barracks... [More...]
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (1928)
René Clair
The year is 1895. Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse picks up and eats a straw hat. The owner of the hat is a married woman who, at the time, is in the embrace of a French officer, Lieutenant Tavernier... [More...]
René Clair
The year is 1895. Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse picks up and eats a straw hat. The owner of the hat is a married woman who, at the time, is in the embrace of a French officer, Lieutenant Tavernier... [More...]
Verdun, visions d'histoire (1928)
Léon Poirier
Early in 1916, a young French soldier returns home to break the news to his mother that he is soon to be sent to the front near Verdun, an area that has so far been untouched by the conflict... [More...]
Léon Poirier
Early in 1916, a young French soldier returns home to break the news to his mother that he is soon to be sent to the front near Verdun, an area that has so far been untouched by the conflict... [More...]