
Acting
François Viguier
Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
Acting credits
7.8A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Napoleon
1927
Michel Corbier, a widower, remarries Madeleine. His children, Lalie and Jo, see her as their second mother and call her "Nène."
Nène
1924
No synopsis available yet.
Opération Jericho
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8.4A young couple go to the carnival. After some savage heavy petting they meet a sinister fakir who offers to sell them Truth for six sous. A set of uncanny events follow. At worst 'avant-gardist' in the extreme, at best the counterpart to Cœur Fidèle's 'fête foraine' sequence after the abolition of melodrama. Excellent black screen cutting and chaotic camera shaking characterize the style.
Balançoires
1928
7.0A mother sells a photo of her daughter to the press for publicity, and a daughter suddenly dies leaving the mother desperate surrounding by portraits of her daughter all around town.
The Poster
1925
6.4A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Life Is Ours
1936
6.8A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working for the mysterious genius who runs the enemy spy ring.
Gibraltar
1938
10.0At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy.
Les Réprouvés
1937
7.0A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London.
The Mutineers of Elsinore
1936
9.0No synopsis available yet.
The Two Worlds
1930
A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting gives young workers hope for a better future.
The Time of the Cherries
1938
7.3A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer holidays in order to pay for reconstruction.
Portrait of Innocence
1941
Travelers who have missed their correspondence are forced to spend the night in the waiting room of a small country station. They are told that a ghost train rushes through the night on each anniversary of an accident that once took place there. A detective tries to solve the case.
A Train in the Night
1934
7.3Locked in a train, a group of suicide candidates await the death promised them by a crook. When they have almost gone mad with anguish, the door opens.
The Train of Suicides
1931
5.3A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.
The Divine Voyage
1929
5.3A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.
The Divine Voyage
1929
6.9The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.
Colonel Chabert
1943
6.0A poetic drama, spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a waifish fisherman and a highborn lady-of-the-manor.
Song of Armorica
1935
No synopsis available yet.
Feu!
1927
7.6A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.
The Benefactor
1942
No synopsis available yet.
La closerie des Genets
1925
7.0A chronicling of the life of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, a Catholic nun who died of tuberculosis at age 24.
The Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux
1929
7.0An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
Father Goriot
1945
8.0A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to Europe together.And then the servant goes missing.
Malaria
1943