Jean Epstein Movies

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

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

Jean Bonnard, clean-cut industrialist and the only son of a widow, goes to visit his mother in the small village where she lives. However, early in...

Documentary film about the people of Brittany and their lives, including music and dance from the region.

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....

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

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

Jean Benoît-Lévy & Jean Epstein's inventive documentary about the life of Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and one of the most important...

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

Documentary about the Narbonne region and the wine harvest.

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

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

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...

Jean Epstein’s short documentary filmed on the Breton island of Sein, which film preservationist and cinephile Henri Langlois called “one...

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...

Following a premonition, a young woman tries to persuade her fiancé not to go out to sea in his fishing boat, but the boy ignores her and sets...

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