Germaine Dulac Movies

A picador, an already mature man, keeps secret his love for the young orphan he raised. But she falls in love with a young picador...

Dulac’s three 1929 "abstract" films, Record 957, Αrabesques, and Themes and Variations, were the results of a long period of reflection...

Adapted from a play by Romain Coolus, whose work Dulac had covered as a theater critic at the turn of the century, this atmospheric and socially...

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

Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set, the other a lovestruck loner on the verge of...

A symbolist portrait of two gypsies in love, this captivating film finds Dulac deconstructing onscreen gender roles and striving to achieve her idea...

A Spanish festival reveals the emotional distance between a woman and a man.

"Taking its title from John Keats’s early 19th-century poem, this highly personal melodrama finds Dulac interrogating the archetype of the...

The story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is soon suspected of being the devil.

Brazen embrace of fashionable costume and glamour creates a witty celebration of Orientalism and cinema itself.

In Gossette (1923), Dulac experimented with and designed a number of special lenses and prisms to produce a variety of effects and multiply the...

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

A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to...

The film’s visual structure is principally composed of variations on the arabesque: arcs of light, water spouts, spider webs, burgeoning trees,...

An orphan falls for the son of her benefactor, and decides to poison her rival for his affections.

The Bread Peddler is a 1923 French silent drama film directed by René Le Somptier and starring Suzanne Desprès, Gabriel Signoret and...

A wealthy theatre owner decides to leave his wife for a dancer.

Scenes from two dances: one in the 19th century, one in the 20th century.