French cinema: 1929
Le Bled (1929)
Jean Renoir
Pierre Hoffer, a loafer from metropolitan France, is on his way to Algeria to beg some money off his uncle Christian, a prosperous farmer...
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Jean Renoir
Brumes d'automne (1929)
Dimitri Kirsanoff
As autumn cloaks the world with her customary melancholia, as cold mists descend and browning leaves fall from quivering trees onto the sodden ground, a solitary woman looks back on her past life beside an open fire...
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Dimitri Kirsanoff
Cagliostro (1929)
Richard Oswald
In the late 18th century, Joseph Balsamo, alias the Count of Cagliostro, finds fame throughout Europe as a magician, alchemist and fortune teller...
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Richard Oswald
Le Capitaine Fracasse (1929)
Alberto Cavalcanti
Sigognac, a penniless young aristocrat, lives alone in his ruined castle. One day, a troupe of travelling actors arrive at his door and ask for shelter for the night...
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Alberto Cavalcanti
Dans la nuit (1929)
Charles Vanel
A quarry worker takes a wife, but not long after the wedding he is caught in a rock blast that leaves him horribly disfigured...
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Charles Vanel
La Divine croisière (1929)
Julien Duvivier
In a village on the rugged coast of Brittany the wealthy ship owner Claude Ferjac has a reputation as a mean-spirited tyrant... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In a village on the rugged coast of Brittany the wealthy ship owner Claude Ferjac has a reputation as a mean-spirited tyrant... [More...]
Finis terrae (1929)
Jean Epstein
The Ushant archipelago is a group of small islands situated off the coast of Brittany at the northwest extremity of France... [More...]
Jean Epstein
The Ushant archipelago is a group of small islands situated off the coast of Brittany at the northwest extremity of France... [More...]
Gardiens de phare (1929)
Jean Grémillon
Off the coast of Finistère, an old lighthouse keeper Brehan and his son Yvon commence their month-long stint in a lighthouse... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
Off the coast of Finistère, an old lighthouse keeper Brehan and his son Yvon commence their month-long stint in a lighthouse... [More...]
Maman Colibri (1929)
Julien Duvivier
Married to a wealthy baron, Irène de Rysbergue leads a privileged life but she still sees herself as a carefree ingénue, attending parties and generally have a good time... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Married to a wealthy baron, Irène de Rysbergue leads a privileged life but she still sees herself as a carefree ingénue, attending parties and generally have a good time... [More...]
Monte Cristo (1929)
Henri Fescourt
On the day of his marriage to Mercèdes, the navigator Edmond Dantès is arrested, wrongly accused of being a Bonapartist conspirator... [More...]
Henri Fescourt
On the day of his marriage to Mercèdes, the navigator Edmond Dantès is arrested, wrongly accused of being a Bonapartist conspirator... [More...]
Les Mystères du château de Dé (1929)
Man Ray
The hand of a carved wooden mannequin holds a pair of dice, as if to remind us of Stéphane Mallarmé's words: 'A throw of the dice will never abolish chance'... [More...]
Man Ray
The hand of a carved wooden mannequin holds a pair of dice, as if to remind us of Stéphane Mallarmé's words: 'A throw of the dice will never abolish chance'... [More...]
Les Nouveaux messieurs (1929)
Jacques Feyder
Suzanne Verrier's dreams of becoming a star ballerina with the Paris Opéra ballet company are encouraged by her wealthy patron, Count Montoire-Grandpré... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
Suzanne Verrier's dreams of becoming a star ballerina with the Paris Opéra ballet company are encouraged by her wealthy patron, Count Montoire-Grandpré... [More...]
Peau de pêche (1929)
Jean Benoît-Lévy
Peau de pêche is a ten-year-old orphan boy who spends his days living as free as a bird in the streets of Montmartre... [More...]
Jean Benoît-Lévy
Peau de pêche is a ten-year-old orphan boy who spends his days living as free as a bird in the streets of Montmartre... [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...]
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...]