Jean Epstein Movies

The inhabitants of a poor village want to sell their houses and their land. One day, a woman breaks down in her car while crossing the village....

Following a 19th-century play penned by Benjamin Antier, the figure of Robert Macaire, bandit and rogue, enjoyed popularity in several contexts. One...

Jacques Prémont-Solène is a degenerate gambler and his losses at baccarat have bankrupted his lover, Laure Maresco. When he steals four...

When an innocent young woman finds herself abandoned by the proper young man whose child she's had, she is taken in by a troupe of traveling...

Documentary film shot in Brittany about lighthouses and lighthouse keepers on the island of Ouessant and coast of Finistere.

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

The film, shot in Nice, was started by Jean Epstein, and the editing finished by Maurice Mariaud, who had just shot The Adventurer

From the French television series Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma, the episode uploaded here, Jean Epstein ou le Cinéma...

This portrait of the French film theorist and avant-garde director Jean Epstein (1897-1953) concentrates on the period when he filmed in Brittany,...

Because he found a box washed up by the sea holding unknown contents, a poor and despised fisherman and his daughter are suddenly courted by everyone...

On June 22, 1923, and just five days after the start of a violent volcanic eruption on the north side of Etna, Epstein and cameraman Paul Guichard...

In spite of bad omen about the upcoming storm, the fisherman sets out to the sea and doesn’t return. The wife of the fisherman embarks on a...

Parisian adventures of a fearless couple of friends and their return to their home in Marseille after a happy double marriage.

Produced for the National Federation of Building Workers Ciné-Liberté, a Popular Front organization intended to counteract capitalist...

A mother sells a photo of her daughter to the press for publicity, and a daughter suddenly dies leaving the mother desperate surrounding by portraits...

An idyllic description of that french area, including quarries, vineyards and the most typical issues from Bourgogne's region.

In a foundry, in 1951, a modernization program was implemented in order to revive competitiveness.