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1920s French Movies

Public list by WPS with 235 movies or TV shows/series

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The Passion of Joan of Arc(1928)

NR
| 1h 22min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 477 votes)

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.

Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - With Renée Jeanne Falconetti, André Berley, Maurice Schutz, Antonin Artaud, Michel Simon, Louis Ravet, ...
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Napoleon(1927)

5h 33min | Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 91 votes)

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

Directed by Abel Gance - With Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Antonin Artaud, Edmond Van Daële, Abel Gance, Suzanne Bianchetti, ...

The Fall of the House of Usher(1928)

1h 3min | Drama, Horror
3.6/5 (with 50 votes)

A stranger called Allan goes to the House of Usher. He is the sole friend of Roderick Usher, who lives in the eerie house with his sick wife Madeleine. When she dies, Roderick does not accept her death, and in the dark night, Madeleine returns.

Directed by Jean Epstein - With Charles Lamy, Jean Debucourt, Abel Gance, Marguerite Gance, Luc Dartagnan

Nanook of the North(1922)

1h 19min | Documentary, Drama
3.6/5 (with 150 votes)

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

Directed by Robert J. Flaherty - With Berry Kroeger
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Ballet Mécanique(1924)

19min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 45 votes)

Ballet Mécanique (1923-4) is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by artist Fernand Léger and filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input from Man Ray). It has a musical score by the American composer George Antheil (However, the film premiered with no soundtrack, on September 24th, 1924 at the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik in Vienna). It is considered one of the masterpieces of early experimental filmmaking.

Directed by Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy - With Alice Prin, Dudley Murphy, Fernand Léger

La Roue(1923)

6h 58min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 26 votes)

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage.

Directed by Abel Gance - With Ivy Close, Pierre Magnier, Max Maxudian, Séverin-Mars

Nana(1926)

2h 30min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

A government official, Count Muffat, falls under the spell of Nana, a young actress. She becomes his mistress, living in the sumptuous apartment which he provides for her. Instead of elevating herself to Muffat's level, however, Nana drags the poor man down to hers - in the end, both lives have been utterly destroyed.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Catherine Hessling, Werner Krauss, André Cerf, Claude Autant-Lara, Jacqueline Ford, Jean Angelo, ...

Emak-Bakia(1926)

18min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Emak-Bakia (Basque for Leave me alone) is a 1926 film directed by Man Ray. Subtitled as a cinépoéme, it features many techniques Man Ray used in his still photography (for which he is better known), including Rayographs, double exposure, soft focus and ambiguous features. The film features sculptures by Pablo Picasso, and some of Man Ray's mathematical objects both still and animated using a stop motion technique.

Directed by Man Ray - With Alice Prin, Jacques Rigaut, Man Ray

Anemic Cinema(1926)

7min
3.1/5 (with 36 votes)

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.

Directed by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray

The Smiling Madame Beudet(1923)

42min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 35 votes)

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.

Directed by Germaine Dulac - With Alexandre Arquillière, Germaine Dermoz, Jean d'Yd, Madeleine Guitty, Raoul Paoli

Return to Reason(1923)

3min
3.2/5 (with 35 votes)

Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.

Directed by Man Ray - With Alice Prin

The Crazy Ray(1925)

59min | Comedy, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

A night watchman on the Eiffel Tower wakes up to find the entire population of the city frozen in place.

Directed by René Clair - With Henri Rollan, Albert Préjean, Louis Pré Fils, Marcel Vallée
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The Seashell and the Clergyman(1928)

40min | Mystery
3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own appetites.

Directed by Germaine Dulac - With Alex Allin, Génica Athanasiou, Lucien Bataille

L'Argent(1928)

2h 45min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

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

Directed by Marcel L'Herbier - With Pierre Alcover, Marie Glory, Brigitte Helm, Yvette Guilbert, Henry Victor, Alfred Abel, ...

Cœur fidèle(1923)

1h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 24 votes)

The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.

Directed by Jean Epstein - With Léon Mathot, Gina Manès, Edmond Van Daële

The Little Match Girl(1928)

32min | Drama, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.

Directed by Jean Renoir, Jean Tedesco - With Catherine Hessling, Guy Ferrant

Kean(1924)

2h 16min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

By 1820, Edmund Kean is the most admired Shakespearan actor. But if his art is peerless, his free lifestyle is ill thought of, particularly by the high society. Kean has fallen passionately in love with Countess Elena de Koefeld, the wife of the ambassador of Denmark. Elena loves him too but hesitates to give up her rank in society and follow Kean. On the other hand, Anna, a rich heiress who refuses to marry Lord Mewill, the husband chosen by her parents, confesses her love for Kean and decides to become an actress like him... The aristocrats, outraged by Edmund's profligate ways, decide to boycott his performances and his career is broken. Kean does not recover from such a blow and, on a stormy night, dies in Elena's arms.

Directed by Alexandre Volkoff - With Ivan Mozzhukhin, Joe Alex, Laurent Morléas, Mary Odette, Nathalie Lissenko, Nikolay Kolin, ...

L'Inhumaine(1924)

2h 3min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young Swedish scientist, Einar Norsen. At her lavish parties she enjoys their amorous attentions but she remains emotionally aloof and heartlessly taunts them. When she is told that Norsen has killed himself because of her, she shows no feelings. At her next concert she is booed by an audience outraged at her coldness. She visits the vault in which Norsen's body lies, and as she admits her feelings for him she discovers that he is alive; his death was feigned. Djorah is jealous of their new relationship and causes Claire to be bitten by a poisonous snake. Her body is brought to Norsen's laboratory, where he, by means of his scientific inventions, restores Claire to life.

Directed by Marcel L'Herbier - With Georgette Leblanc, Jaque Catelain, Philippe Hériat, Marcelle Pradot
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Loves of Casanova(1927)

2h 8min | Drama, Adventure
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into debauchery, manages to escape and, by a circuitous route, arrives in Saint Petersburg, where he will be involved in the many plots that threaten the throne of Czar Peter III….

Directed by Alexandre Volkoff, Anatole Litvak - With Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo, Rina De Liguoro, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, ...

Monte Cristo(1929)

3h 43min | Adventure
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

This epic adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was directed by Henri Fescourt, and stars Jean Angelo, Lil Dagover, Pierre Batcheff, the beautiful Marie Glory, and Bernhard Goetzke as the Abbé Faria.

Directed by Henri Fescourt - With Lil Dagover, Gaston Modot, Pierre Batcheff, Bernhard Goetzke, Ernest Maupain, François Rozet, ...

Cagliostro(1929)

59min | Drama, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)

Directed by Richard Oswald - With Alfred Abel, Alice Tissot, Andrews Engelmann, Charles Dullin, Edmond Van Daële, Georges Deneubourg, ...

Michel Strogoff(1926)

2h 48min | Adventure
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Adapted from Jules Verne's 1876 novel Michael Strogoff, the film tells the tale of a Russian courier named Michael Strogoff who has to dash across Russia with a vital message for the tsar's brother, wrestling with bears and fighting off ferocious Tatar rebels along the way. Captured by the Tatars, he is brought before their leader and blinded with a red hot sword by the executioner.

Directed by Victor Tourjansky - With Acho Chakatouny, Henri Debain, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Jeanne Brindeau, Nathalie Kovanko, Vladimir Gajdarov, ...

Jean Chouan(1926)

Drama, History

This 8 chapter serial drama tells the story of a resistance movement led by Jean "Chouan" Cottereau against the Republicans in Western France starting in 1793.

Directed by Luitz-Morat - With René Navarre, Maurice Schutz

Whirlpool of Fate(1925)

1h 12min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Jean Renoir's directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a young girl who manages to turn her tragic family life into one of joy and happiness.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Catherine Hessling, Pierre Lestringuez, Pierre Champagne, Charlotte Clasis, Pierre Renoir, André Derain, ...

The Italian Straw Hat(1928)

1h 45min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

On the day of Fadinard's wedding, his horse eats a lady's hat on a bush at the roadside, while the lady is hidden behind the bush with her lover Lieutenant Tavernier. Because she is married, she cannot return home hatless without being compromised, and Tavernier orders Fadinard to replace the hat with one exactly like it - or else he will wreck his new home. In an elaborate sequence of complications, Fadinard tries to find a hat while keeping to his marriage schedule.

Directed by René Clair - With Albert Préjean, Yvonneck, Olga Chekhova, Jim Gérald, Valentine Tessier, Alice Tissot, ...

Mauprat(1926)

1h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Romantic novelist George Sand's Mauprat as adapted by cinema visionary Jean Epstein. As a child, orphan Bernard de Mauprat was adopted by Tristan, a brigand who brought him up with his biological sons to hate, kill and pillage. Hubert de Mauprat, the elder brother of Tristan, the very incarnation of nobility, and his daughter, the beautiful and intrepid Edmée, undertake to tear wild-eyed Bernard away from his uncle. Still uncouth and rough, Bernard endeavors to wrest the love of Edmée away from her betrothed.

Directed by Jean Epstein - With Sandra Milovanoff

Poil de Carotte(1925)

1h 48min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

The suffering and rebellion of 12-year-old François Lepic, nicknamed "Poil de Carotte" by his mother, who hates him. Occupied with the council elections, his father appears unaware that the young boy is increasingly tempted by suicide.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With André Heuzé, Charlotte Barbier-Krauss, Henry Krauss, Suzanne Talba

The New Gentlemen(1929)

2h 3min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

The plot focuses on Gaillac (Albert Prejean), an electrician employed by the Paris Opera. In love with gorgeous ballerina Suzanne (Gaby Morlay), Gaillac must play second fiddle to Suzanne's wealthy "protector," powerful politician Count Montoire (Henry Roussell). When the Opera personnel go on strike, Gaillac is appointed leader of the strikers, doing his job so well that he is ultimately elected Secretary of Labor in the French cabinet. Now on equal footing with Montoire, Gaillac is at last a "worthy" suitor for Suzanne -- who can't make up her mind between her two well-connected admirers, leading to a political rivalry the likes of which Paris has never seen. This harmless political satire ended up being banned by the French government for undermining "the dignity of Parliament and its ministers". (moviefone.com)

Directed by Jacques Feyder - With Albert Préjean, Bill-Bocketts, Charles Barrois, Christian-Gérard, Gaby Morlay, Georges Deneubourg, ...

The Lighthouse Keepers(1929)

1h 22min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 6 votes)

In 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, they are prisoners of the lighthouse. In a rustic Brittany village, a young bride waits, unaware of the tragedy.

Directed by Jean Grémillon - With Gabrielle Fontan, Génica Athanasiou, Geymond Vital, Paul Fromet

Misdeal(1928)

1h 42min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Maldone 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. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.

Directed by Jean Grémillon - With André Bacqué, Annabella, Charles Dullin, Charles Lavialle, Daniel Lecourtois, Edmond Beauchamp, ...
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