French cinema: 1931
À nous la liberté (1931)
René Clair
Émile is serving a stretch in prison when he strikes up a friendship with fellow prisoner Louis. Together, the two men attempt a break-out which results in Émile's re-capture...
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René Clair
Les Amours de minuit (1931)
Augusto Genina
Marcel and Gaston are two men who are on the run, although when they meet on a train bound for a seaport they do their best to conceal the fact...
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Augusto Genina
Le Blanc et le noir (1931)
Marc Allégret
Marcel and Marguerite Desnoyers are staying in a hotel on the Spanish border. After a row with her husband, Marguerite is convinced he is being unfaithful to her...
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Marc Allégret
Bric à Brac et compagnie (1931)
André Chotin
Monsieur Verly is a successful antiques dealer who is determined that his frivolous son Jean should follow in his footsteps...
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André Chotin
La Chienne (1931)
Jean Renoir
Maurice Legrand is a middle-aged bank cashier who is unhappily married to a shrewish wife. His only pleasure in life is his hobby, oil painting...
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Jean Renoir
Les Cinq gentlemen maudits (1931)
Julien Duvivier
Five disparate friends take a boat to Morocco for what they hope will be a relaxing sightseeing holiday. They arrive in the midst of a religious festival and immediately provoke the wrath of an old man when they try to remove the veil of his young female companion... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Five disparate friends take a boat to Morocco for what they hope will be a relaxing sightseeing holiday. They arrive in the midst of a religious festival and immediately provoke the wrath of an old man when they try to remove the veil of his young female companion... [More...]
Daïnah la métisse (1931)
Jean Grémillon
After three long and trying weeks, an ocean liner completes its crossing of the Pacific Ocean and comes into port at Ecuador... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
After three long and trying weeks, an ocean liner completes its crossing of the Pacific Ocean and comes into port at Ecuador... [More...]
La Fin du monde (1931)
Abel Gance
The astronomer Martial Novalic is horrified when he discovers that a comet is on a collision course with planet Earth. With only 114 days to impact, Martial sets about trying to alert humanity to the encroaching disaster, but his efforts are frustrated by the unscrupulous stockholder Schomburg, who hopes to capitalise on an impending war between the major powers... [More...]
Abel Gance
The astronomer Martial Novalic is horrified when he discovers that a comet is on a collision course with planet Earth. With only 114 days to impact, Martial sets about trying to alert humanity to the encroaching disaster, but his efforts are frustrated by the unscrupulous stockholder Schomburg, who hopes to capitalise on an impending war between the major powers... [More...]
Jean de la Lune (1931)
Jean Choux
Jeff is a poet and dreamer, nicknamed 'Jean de la lune' because of his child-like innocence. He is madly in love with Marceline and marries her, completely unaware of her wayward nature which compels her to chase after any man that catches her eye... [More...]
Jean Choux
Jeff is a poet and dreamer, nicknamed 'Jean de la lune' because of his child-like innocence. He is madly in love with Marceline and marries her, completely unaware of her wayward nature which compels her to chase after any man that catches her eye... [More...]
Kameradschaft (1931)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
During the Great Depression, France and Germany are both beset with high unemployment. In a French border town, unemployed German miners are turned away when they try to find work in a French mine... [More...]
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
During the Great Depression, France and Germany are both beset with high unemployment. In a French border town, unemployed German miners are turned away when they try to find work in a French mine... [More...]
Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931)
Marc Allégret
1880, a garrison town in France. Not content with being an organist at a convent, Célestin composes comic operas in his spare time under the name Floridor... [More...]
Marc Allégret
1880, a garrison town in France. Not content with being an organist at a convent, Célestin composes comic operas in his spare time under the name Floridor... [More...]
Marius (1931)
Alexander Korda
César is the owner of a café in the French port of Marseilles, which he runs with his twenty-year-old son Marius... [More...]
Alexander Korda
César is the owner of a café in the French port of Marseilles, which he runs with his twenty-year-old son Marius... [More...]
Le Million (1931)
René Clair
A penniless artist, Michel, is pursued by creditors when he discovers he has won the million florin lottery. He realises that he left the winning lottery ticket in his jacket, which he gave to his girlfriend, Béatrice, to repair... [More...]
René Clair
A penniless artist, Michel, is pursued by creditors when he discovers he has won the million florin lottery. He realises that he left the winning lottery ticket in his jacket, which he gave to his girlfriend, Béatrice, to repair... [More...]
Mor vran (1931)
Jean Epstein
For those who eke out an existence on Sein, one of the smaller islands in the Breton archipelago, life is unremittingly hard... [More...]
Jean Epstein
For those who eke out an existence on Sein, one of the smaller islands in the Breton archipelago, life is unremittingly hard... [More...]
On purge bébé (1931)
Jean Renoir
Monsieur Follavoine, a leading porcelain manufacturer, has perfected what he believes to be the world's first totally unbreakable chamber pot... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Monsieur Follavoine, a leading porcelain manufacturer, has perfected what he believes to be the world's first totally unbreakable chamber pot... [More...]
Le Parfum de la dame en noir (1931)
Marcel L'Herbier
On the day that Mathilde Stangerson and Robert Darzac finally get married, the journalist Joseph Rouletabille makes a terrible discovery: Mathilde's first husband Frédéric Larsan is still alive... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
On the day that Mathilde Stangerson and Robert Darzac finally get married, the journalist Joseph Rouletabille makes a terrible discovery: Mathilde's first husband Frédéric Larsan is still alive... [More...]
Paris-Beguin (1931)
Augusto Genina
Jane Diamant is a popular but highly temperamental star at the Paris night spot Les Folies-Bergère. One evening, a burglar named Bob breaks into her villa... [More...]
Augusto Genina
Jane Diamant is a popular but highly temperamental star at the Paris night spot Les Folies-Bergère. One evening, a burglar named Bob breaks into her villa... [More...]
Pour un soir..! (1931)
Jean Godard
The singer Stella Maria is the star attraction at a popular nightclub. Seeing one of his comrades succumb to her lethal charms, a naval officer warns him off by relating the tragic story of a poor sailor who lost all that he had because of his love for this heartless siren... [More...]
Jean Godard
The singer Stella Maria is the star attraction at a popular nightclub. Seeing one of his comrades succumb to her lethal charms, a naval officer warns him off by relating the tragic story of a poor sailor who lost all that he had because of his love for this heartless siren... [More...]
Taris, roi de l'eau (1931)
Jean Vigo
French swimming champion Jean Taris is the subject of this short documentary, an early commission for the film director Jean Vigo after he completed his innovative first documentary À propos de Nice in 1930... [More...]
Jean Vigo
French swimming champion Jean Taris is the subject of this short documentary, an early commission for the film director Jean Vigo after he completed his innovative first documentary À propos de Nice in 1930... [More...]
Tout ça ne vaut pas l'amour (1931)
Jacques Tourneur
Renaudin, a pharmacist, takes in Claire, a young woman who is traumatised by a stillbirth. Attached to her and anxious to make her happy, Renaudin wants to court her, but she is in love with another man, Jean, who has a shop next door... [More...]
Jacques Tourneur
Renaudin, a pharmacist, takes in Claire, a young woman who is traumatised by a stillbirth. Attached to her and anxious to make her happy, Renaudin wants to court her, but she is in love with another man, Jean, who has a shop next door... [More...]