French cinema: 1932
Au nom de la loi (1932)
Maurice Tourneur
Inspector Clamart is confident that he can single-handedly deal with a drugs trafficking ring. The next day, his lifeless body is found floating in the Seine...
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Maurice Tourneur
Les Berceaux (1932)
Jean Epstein
Along the harbour boats sway gently in the wind, awaiting their departure in silence whilst mothers rock their infants to sleep in cradles...
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Jean Epstein
Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932)
Jean Renoir
Heartbroken when he loses sight of a stray dog he has befriended, a Parisian tramp named Priap Boudu throws himself from a bridge into the river...
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Jean Renoir
Les Croix de bois (1932)
Raymond Bernard
At the outbreak of World War I, Gilbert Demachy, an idealistic young student, enlists and is sent to the Western Front to fight for his motherland, France...
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Raymond Bernard
Fanny (1932)
Marc Allégret
Such is the status accorded to single mothers in France of the 1930s that Fanny has no choice but to surrender herself to a marriage of convenience...
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Marc Allégret
Les Gaietés de l'escadron (1932)
Maurice Tourneur
Despite the best efforts of its commander, Captain Hurluret, the barracks of the 51st Rifles has yet to be acquainted with the notion of military discipline... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
Despite the best efforts of its commander, Captain Hurluret, the barracks of the 51st Rifles has yet to be acquainted with the notion of military discipline... [More...]
La Nuit du carrefour (1932)
Jean Renoir
At the Carrefour des Trois-Veuves, some thirty kilometres north of Paris, insurance agent Michonnet is surprised when his car is stolen... [More...]
Jean Renoir
At the Carrefour des Trois-Veuves, some thirty kilometres north of Paris, insurance agent Michonnet is surprised when his car is stolen... [More...]
L'Or des mers (1932)
Jean Epstein
Hoëdic is one of the poorer islands in the Breton archipelago off the coast of northwestern France. It is a desolate expanse of rock inhabited by a hundred fishing families who, unable to work for half of the year, live in extreme poverty, dependent on alms supplied by their kindly rector... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Hoëdic is one of the poorer islands in the Breton archipelago off the coast of northwestern France. It is a desolate expanse of rock inhabited by a hundred fishing families who, unable to work for half of the year, live in extreme poverty, dependent on alms supplied by their kindly rector... [More...]
Poil de carotte (1932)
Julien Duvivier
Bullied by his matriarchal mother, abused by his siblings, ignored by his father, Poil de Carotte's childhood is as miserable as it could be... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Bullied by his matriarchal mother, abused by his siblings, ignored by his father, Poil de Carotte's childhood is as miserable as it could be... [More...]
Le Rosier de Madame Husson (1932)
Dominique Bernard-Deschamps
Madame Husson, the most respected personage in a small Normandy town, has resolved to arrest the moral decline in her community... [More...]
Dominique Bernard-Deschamps
Madame Husson, the most respected personage in a small Normandy town, has resolved to arrest the moral decline in her community... [More...]
Tumultes (1932)
Robert Siodmak
Once released from prison, Ralph Schwartz doesn't waste any time organising another bank raid with his band of crooks. His wife Ania is less keen to see him: she has started to have an affair with another man, a photographer named Gustave... [More...]
Robert Siodmak
Once released from prison, Ralph Schwartz doesn't waste any time organising another bank raid with his band of crooks. His wife Ania is less keen to see him: she has started to have an affair with another man, a photographer named Gustave... [More...]