French cinema: 1927
Le Diable au coeur (1927)
Marcel L'Herbier
The Bucailles are a poor, slovenly family who live in a small town on the coast of Normandy. Lacking parental discipline, the mischievous daughter Ludivine and her two younger brothers misbehave constantly, with the result that their household is in a constant state of mess and pandemonium...
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Marcel L'Herbier
La Glace à trois faces (1927)
Jean Epstein
Three women from three different social spheres each awaits the return of her lover, and as they do so they reflect on the happy times they have spent together...
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Jean Epstein
La Glu (1927)
Henri Fescourt
Not long after her arrival in a small Breton fishing village, a young woman from Paris soon draws attention to herself. Attached to the Count of Ribiers, a wealthy landowner several years her senior, the woman is looked on with suspicion by the locals, who see her as a dangerous temptress...
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Henri Fescourt
L'Invitation au voyage (1927)
Germaine Dulac
Tired of being ignored by her husband, a young woman heads off one evening to a nautical-themed nightclub that is frequented by rowdy sailors...
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Germaine Dulac
Le Joueur d'échecs (1927)
Raymond Bernard
The year is 1776. Under Catherine the Great, Russia has annexed Poland, Lithuania and Prussia. Polish nobleman Boleslas Vorowski is the leader of a secret resistance movement that intends to free Poland from the yoke of imperialist Russia...
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Raymond Bernard
Le Mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans (1927)
Julien Duvivier
In Brussels, Ferdinand Beulemans is the proud owner of one of the city's leading breweries. He has high hopes of being elected Honorary President of the Brewers' Society, his only serious rival being Monsieur Meulemeester whose son Séraphím is promised in marriage to the Beulemans' beautiful daughter Suzanne... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In Brussels, Ferdinand Beulemans is the proud owner of one of the city's leading breweries. He has high hopes of being elected Honorary President of the Brewers' Society, his only serious rival being Monsieur Meulemeester whose son Séraphím is promised in marriage to the Beulemans' beautiful daughter Suzanne... [More...]
Marquitta (1927)
Jean Renoir
Prince Vlasco becomes so enchanted by the street singer Marquitta that he leaves his present mistress and takes her as his lover... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Prince Vlasco becomes so enchanted by the street singer Marquitta that he leaves his present mistress and takes her as his lover... [More...]
Napoléon (1927)
Abel Gance
Napoleon Bonaparte is just 14 years old when his potential as a great military commander first becomes apparent. In the winter of 1783, whilst attending an elite military school, Brienne College, he gets into a fierce snowball fight with his enemies and scores a prodigious victory... [More...]
Abel Gance
Napoleon Bonaparte is just 14 years old when his potential as a great military commander first becomes apparent. In the winter of 1783, whilst attending an elite military school, Brienne College, he gets into a fierce snowball fight with his enemies and scores a prodigious victory... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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...]
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...]