Henri Alekan Movies

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruno Ganz

The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Marais

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Audrey Hepburn

Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Christopher Plummer

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Melina Mercouri

In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United...

Genre: Western

Cast: Charles Bronson

The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Isabelle Huppert

Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

With the feel of experimental film, Gitai mixes storytelling, readers' theater, cityscapes (usually seen from moving trains), and desolate landscapes...

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Gilson

Catherine Miller's triumph at the Casino de Paris leads fashionable playwright Alexandre Gordi to ask her to create his next play. Flattered,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caterina Valente

A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Danièle Huillet

Maddening and mysterious,with the elements—ocean, wind, rocky terrain—dominating the scenes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Serge Bard

Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus...

Genre: Documentary

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After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Philippe Lemaire

“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings. A psychedelic game...

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Cast: Caroline de Bendern

When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raymond Pellegrin

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

On the banks of the Seine and in the metro, Édith Stockhausen performs a poem by Jean Cocteau.

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Cast: Édith Stockhausen

Lively scenes of Paris, all narrated by Maurice Chevalier, link together four dramatic ballet choreographies by Roland Petit: La Croqueuse de...

Genre: Music

Cast: Maurice Chevalier

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

In Our Nazi, we are plunged into a situation we barely, and only slowly, understand: the filming of Thomas Harlan’s experimental feature...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alfred Filbert

A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henri Vidal

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marcelle Arnold

Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lino Ventura

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jerome Koenig

Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivien Leigh

An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass murderer: The 80 years old man was a SS leader and responsible for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfred Filbert

Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viviane Romance

A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are especially interested in their sentimental stories....

Genre: Romance

Cast: André Lefaur

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Mondy

The work of Rodin imagined in the form of a ballet. It is the journey of man in his life, in his loves, until his death. In the second part, it is...

Genre: Documentary

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The dictator Anastasio rules with an iron fist backed by business-men making deals and speeches about building canals, completely disconnected from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Bouise

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabelle Weingarten

A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a Russian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lisa Kreuzer

As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sophia Loren

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Geoffrey Carey

An adaptation of Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marika Green

A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sophia Loren

A 1946 war movie which tells the courageous efforts by French railway workers to sabotage Nazi reinforcement-troop trains.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jacques Baumer

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Willeke van Ammelrooy

Film professor Michael falls in love with one of his students and is confronted with his pupil's father, with whom he had an affair over 15 years...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Howard Hensel

A fugitive takes refuge in a manor where a blind retired thespian lives.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harvey Keitel

Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone Benyamini

Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Daniel Mesguich

Immediately after Lisa declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going husband Robert, he is reported dead in a plane crash....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sophia Loren

Two escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Robert Shaw

Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Omar Sharif

Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olivier Straub

Genre: History

Cast: Mac Ronay

The work of Rodin imagined in the form of a ballet. It is the journey of man in his life, in his loves, until his death. In the second part, it is...

Genre: Documentary

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A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Holden

Julietta is a French comedy comedy romance film from 1953, directed by Marc Allégret, written by Françoise Giroud, starring Dany Robin...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Marais

Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Moreau

A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Senta Berger

A short film, shot in a long take, interpreted, drawn and directed by Jean-Louis Bompoint, with the precious collaboration of Hélène...

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Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Serge Reggiani

Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Vanel

During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Madeleine Robinson

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jean Gabin

A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Yves Montand

Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gérard Philipe

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Dasté

Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gérard Philipe

Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth.

Genre: Family

Cast: Patrick de Bardine

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dany Robin

M. Jourdain is a cloth merchant who wants to become a gentleman, learning dance, music, fencing and philosophy. Mme Jourdain is worried about...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Meyer

A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Muni

Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Andrée Debar