French cinema: 1933
L'Abbé Constantin (1933)
Jean-Paul Paulin
The Countess de Laverdens has set her noble heart on buying the château de Longueval. Imagine then her horror when she learns that she has been outbid at the auction and the property now belongs to two wealthy American sisters...
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Jean-Paul Paulin
Dans les rues (1933)
Victor Trivas
Jacques is the wayward son of a poor war widow. Unable to find work, he falls in with a gang of delinquents who terrorise householders and shopkeepers in their neighbourhood...
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Victor Trivas
Les Deux orphelines (1933)
Maurice Tourneur
On the eve of the French Revolution, two orphan girls, Henriette and Louise, make their way to Paris. Henriette is kidnapped by a libertine marquis to participate in a debauched party, leaving her blind sister at the mercy of an unscrupulous hag, La Frochard...
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Maurice Tourneur
Don Quichotte (1933)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Don Quixote squanders his fortune by buying books about chivalry, which he reads assiduously. After doing so for many years, he believes he is himself a knight, sent on a divine mission to wrong all of the injustices in the world...
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst
L'Homme à l'Hispano (1933)
Jean Epstein
Virtually bankrupt, Georges Dewalter has made up his mind to leave France and move to Senegal in the hope of making his fortune...
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Jean Epstein
L'Homme mystérieux (1933)
Maurice Tourneur
To resolve a business matter, Pierre needs to have his brother Raymond released from the psychiatric institution to which he was committed after he attacked his wife Louise... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
To resolve a business matter, Pierre needs to have his brother Raymond released from the psychiatric institution to which he was committed after he attacked his wife Louise... [More...]
La Maternelle (1933)
Jean Benoît-Lévy
After her father's bankruptcy Rose, an educated woman in her early twenties, is abandoned by her fiancé and is forced to fall back on her own resources... [More...]
Jean Benoît-Lévy
After her father's bankruptcy Rose, an educated woman in her early twenties, is abandoned by her fiancé and is forced to fall back on her own resources... [More...]
Les Misérables (1933)
Raymond Bernard
Jean Valjean leaves jail, having served a 15-year sentence for stealing a loaf of bread, a hard and bitter man. The kindness of a bishop sets him on a new course, however, and eight years later he has become Monsieur Madeleine, a respected mayor and industrialist... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
Jean Valjean leaves jail, having served a 15-year sentence for stealing a loaf of bread, a hard and bitter man. The kindness of a bishop sets him on a new course, however, and eight years later he has become Monsieur Madeleine, a respected mayor and industrialist... [More...]
Quatorze Juillet (1933)
René Clair
Anna, a modest flower seller, is in love with Jean, a Paris taxi driver. They plan to spend the evening of the 14th of July in each other's arms, dancing the night away at an open air ball... [More...]
René Clair
Anna, a modest flower seller, is in love with Jean, a Paris taxi driver. They plan to spend the evening of the 14th of July in each other's arms, dancing the night away at an open air ball... [More...]
La Tête d'un homme (1933)
Julien Duvivier
In a crowded Parisian café, Willy Ferrière, a penniless playboy, declares that he is willing to pay a hundred thousand francs to anyone who will kill his aunt, thereby allowing him to inherit a vast fortune... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In a crowded Parisian café, Willy Ferrière, a penniless playboy, declares that he is willing to pay a hundred thousand francs to anyone who will kill his aunt, thereby allowing him to inherit a vast fortune... [More...]
Zéro de conduite (1933)
Jean Vigo
The summer holidays over, a troupe of young boys return downheartedly to their boarding school, where they will no doubt have to endure another gruelling term of sanctions and punishments at the hands of their cruel teachers... [More...]
Jean Vigo
The summer holidays over, a troupe of young boys return downheartedly to their boarding school, where they will no doubt have to endure another gruelling term of sanctions and punishments at the hands of their cruel teachers... [More...]