André Barsacq

7.0 MovieAdapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

L'Argent

1928

7.0 MovieA shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals...

Summer Light

1943

7.4 MovieIn a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, a young man slowly goes mad following a bite by a rabid dog while his father looks on helplessly. Thwarted by a raging sea,...

The Lighthouse Keepers

1929

7.5 MovieMaldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete....

Misdeal

1928

6.6 MovieBertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic...

Crimson Curtain

1952

6.6 MovieA pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty,...

Southern Carrier

1937

6.0 MovieMathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room was locked from...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

1930

6.0 MovieBased on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a...

Yoshiwara

1937

5.5 MovieIkhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty thousand roubles, he comes to try his luck again at a new inn. He is...

Les Joueurs

1960

9.0 MovieValentin, the general supervisor of a sub-prefecture cram school, has a strange power: all he has to do is wish for a certain person to turn into a bird, and the...

Les Oiseaux de la lune

1974

10.0 MovieTowards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was...

Mysteries of Paris

1935

Movie1840. The arrival of a young tutor in a wealthy Russian family will stir the hearts of two women. The mother, Natalia Petrovna, and her 17-year-old ward, Vera, fall...

Un mois à la campagne

1966

MoviePrince Myshkin is a good man, yet his goodness borders on naivety—or even idiocy. After spending his youth in a Swiss sanatorium being treated for epilepsy and...

The Idiot

1968

TVPrince Myshkin is a good man, yet his goodness borders on naivety—or even idiocy. After spending his youth in a Swiss sanatorium being treated for epilepsy and...

The Idiot