Monsieur Vincent (1947) more movies like this

directed by Maurice Cloche
featuring Pierre Fresnay, Lise Delamare, Gabrielle Dorziat, Aimé Clariond, Jean Debucourt

Pierre Fresnay stars as St. Vincent De Paul in this reverent but realistic French biopic. The film traces "Monsieur Vincent's" progress from his days of forced servitude in Algiers to his entry into the priesthood, culminating with his Herculean efforts on behalf of the ill and destitute in early 17th-century France. Featured in the huge cast are ...

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Mayerling (1936) more movies like this

directed by Anatole Litvak
featuring Charles Boyer, Jean Dax, Jean Debucourt, Marthe Regnier, Danielle Darrieux, Suzy Prim, Gabrielle Dorziat

Based on Idol's End, a novel by Claude Anet, the French Mayerling is based on the tragic real-life story of Hapsburg Crown Prince Rudolph and his mistress, Baroness Marie Vetsera. Since the details of Rudolph and Marie's lives and deaths are clouded in controversy, much of the film is romanticized speculation-with emphasis on the romance. The film ...

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L'Aigle A Deux Têtes (1948) more movies like this

directed by Jean Cocteau
featuring Edwige Feuillère, Jean Marais, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes, Silvia Monfort

Pauline Kael has characterized Jean Cocteau's The Eagle with Two Heads (L'aigle a deux tetes) as an inversion of Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1946). On surface, this is true: In Beauty, the heroine awakens the handsome, good man lurking within the beast, while in Eagle it is the woman who is aroused from her spell by the hero. The woman is a ...

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Abel Gance's Beethoven (1936) more movies like this

directed by Abel Gance
featuring Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roger Blin, Jean Debucourt

This fascinating biography chronicles the years in which the master composer began to lose his hearing. The director's use of sound to represent Beethoven's affliction is notable. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) more movies like this

directed by Jean Epstein
featuring Marguerite Gance, Jean Debucourt, Charles Lamy

The French silent film La Chute de la Maison Usher is adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's Fall of the House of Usher. Director Jean Epstein studiously avoids cheap shocks in this tale of hereditary madness, choosing instead a tightly controlled, spookily subtle technique. The hero, having indirectly caused the death of his beloved, stubbornly tries to ...

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