Alexandre Astruc

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when...

20 de mai. de 2001

An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying mur...

12 de dez. de 1980

Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking fo...

25 de out. de 1955

24 de set. de 1958

"I was interested by the fact that some old guy, after the Parthenon’s glamour, devoted himself in a much smaller temple, where there was no white ...

01 de jan. de 1964

Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherin...

02 de mai. de 1962

Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.

09 de dez. de 1954

In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). ...

31 de mai. de 1966

A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition...

09 de jan. de 1964

Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the length...

30 de jan. de 1993

Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery s...

13 de abr. de 1961

A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly pr...

06 de mar. de 1953

The film tells the story of the Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb which fights against Germany in 1941, and how some of the crew members try to organise a ...

08 de out. de 1968

Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney,...

07 de out. de 1952

Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.

01 de jun. de 1965

Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.

09 de fev. de 1974

Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars, garrisoned in the pr...

02 de jan. de 1953

Michel Contat is Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS, ITEM/CNRS/ENS and a specialist of Jean-Paul Sartre whose novels and theater he has edit...

26 de out. de 1976

Depois de uma longa jornada, Alain chega à mansão Usher para visitar seu velho amigo, Roderick Usher. Ao chegar, no entanto, ele descobre que Roder...

12 de abr. de 1981

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc, originally aired sometime around 1970.

01 de jan. de 1970