French cinema: 1920s
Poil de carotte (1925)
Julien Duvivier
Ten-year-old François, nick-named Poil de Carotte (carrot-top) on account of his red hair, is blighted with the most miserable life imaginable...
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Julien Duvivier
La Proie du vent (1927)
René Clair
Pierre Vignal is on a flying mission over a country in Eastern Europe when his aeroplane gets caught in a violent wind storm which forces him to effect an emergency landing on the densely wooded grounds of a large country estate...
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René Clair
Quatre-vingt-treize (1921)
Albert Capellani
France, 1793. The French Revolution has entered its bloodiest phase with the Republican Army authorised by the Committee of Public Safety to crush opposition to the new régime wherever it shows itself, and with utter ruthlessness...
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Albert Capellani
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...
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Alberto Cavalcanti
La Roue (1923)
Abel Gance
Sisif, a widowed railway worker, rescues a young girl named Norma from the wreckage of a train crash. Realising her mother died in the crash, Sisif decides to bring the girl up as his own, along with his son Elie, whose mother died bringing him into the world...
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Abel Gance
Six et demi, onze (1927)
Jean Epstein
Jérôme de Ners is a renowned doctor who lives with his younger brother Jean after their parents' death. Recently, Jérôme has been aware of his brother's agitation and is concerned when, one day, he suddenly disappears without leaving a clue as to his whereabouts... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Jérôme de Ners is a renowned doctor who lives with his younger brother Jean after their parents' death. Recently, Jérôme has been aware of his brother's agitation and is concerned when, one day, he suddenly disappears without leaving a clue as to his whereabouts... [More...]
La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923)
Germaine Dulac
Madame Beudet leads a melancholic and unfulfilled life, trapped in a loveless marriage to a draper who neglects and subjugates her... [More...]
Germaine Dulac
Madame Beudet leads a melancholic and unfulfilled life, trapped in a loveless marriage to a draper who neglects and subjugates her... [More...]
Das Spielzeug von Paris (1925)
Michael Curtiz
Célimène, a beautiful young music hall dancer, rapidly becomes the main attraction in Paris. One of her most fervent admirers is Miles Seward, an English diplomat... [More...]
Michael Curtiz
Célimène, a beautiful young music hall dancer, rapidly becomes the main attraction in Paris. One of her most fervent admirers is Miles Seward, an English diplomat... [More...]
Sur un air de Charleston (1927)
Jean Renoir
It is the year 2028, not so long after the world was ravaged by a cataclysmic war. A tiny spherical aircraft takes off from central Africa and heads towards Europe, a continent devastated by war... [More...]
Jean Renoir
It is the year 2028, not so long after the world was ravaged by a cataclysmic war. A tiny spherical aircraft takes off from central Africa and heads towards Europe, a continent devastated by war... [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...]
Le Tournoi dans la cité (1929)
Jean Renoir
France, 1562. Catherine de Medici rules as regent for her son, the 12 year-old Charles IX. Though nominally Catholic, Catherine seeks to maintain peace between the rival Catholic and Protestant factions... [More...]
Jean Renoir
France, 1562. Catherine de Medici rules as regent for her son, the 12 year-old Charles IX. Though nominally Catholic, Catherine seeks to maintain peace between the rival Catholic and Protestant factions... [More...]
Les Trois mousquetaires (1921)
Henri Diamant-Berger
1625, France. The young d'Artagnan leaves his home in Gascony and sets out for Paris to fulfil his dream to serve as a musketeer under King Louis XIII... [More...]
Henri Diamant-Berger
1625, France. The young d'Artagnan leaves his home in Gascony and sets out for Paris to fulfil his dream to serve as a musketeer under King Louis XIII... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Visages d'enfants (1925)
Jacques Feyder
In Saint-Luc, a remote village in the Swiss Alps, the president, Pierre Amsler, mourns the death of his wife. Whilst his 4-year old daughter Pierrette is seemingly unaffected, his 11-year old son Jean is traumatised by this tragic loss... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
In Saint-Luc, a remote village in the Swiss Alps, the president, Pierre Amsler, mourns the death of his wife. Whilst his 4-year old daughter Pierrette is seemingly unaffected, his 11-year old son Jean is traumatised by this tragic loss... [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...]