Henri Alekan Movies

Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to...

During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains...

Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the...

In Our Nazi, we are plunged into a situation we barely, and only slowly, understand: the filming of Thomas Harlan’s experimental feature...

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in...

After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister....

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

An adaptation of Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.

As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the...

“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings. A psychedelic game...

Reel 34 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

On the banks of the Seine and in the metro, Édith Stockhausen performs a poem by Jean Cocteau.

The dictator Anastasio rules with an iron fist backed by business-men making deals and speeches about building canals, completely disconnected from...

This film essay explores the strange case of G.W. Pabst, the Austrian filmmaker who was considered a giant of early cinema before his reputation went...

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side,...

A short film, shot in a long take, interpreted, drawn and directed by Jean-Louis Bompoint, with the precious collaboration of Hélène...

A primer on French film director Marcel Carne's career through interviews with critics and close creative collaborators.

An episode of the show "Océaniques " about the craft and lighting techniques of the legendary French cinematographer Henri Alekan

Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the...