Jean Epstein Movies

A poetic drama, spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a waifish fisherman and a...

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

In the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali, a captive princess held prisoner and...

A rich youth runs off with a circus troupe after a misunderstanding with a perfume girl he has loved.

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

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

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

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

The French and the English spy on each other, in this adventure set in post World War I colonial Syria.

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...

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

Lost short film.

The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car...

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

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

Documentary about the Narbonne region and the wine harvest.

A short subject, described by its director as a film poem, commissioned by the French Youth Hostel Association.