Henri Alekan Movies

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

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

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.

Employees remember the director Max Ophüls, who was forced to emigrate in 1933 - his fifth film "Liebelei" was a great success in cinemas. After...

A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a...

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.

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,...

Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India to...

Tania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained, in spite of herself, in the nets of the secret...

A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.

Julietta Valendor is in love with lawyer André Landrecourt. He is unaware of her feelings. He puts her up one day when he has his...

Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France...

A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera....

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

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

Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a Russian...

Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the...

Maddening and mysterious,with the elements—ocean, wind, rocky terrain—dominating the scenes.

Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus...