Movies: Alexandre Astruc

  • 2001
    Savage Souls

    Savage Souls (2001)

    Savage Souls

    4.52001HD

    At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes...

    Savage Souls
  • 1981
    The Fall of the House of Usher

    The Fall of the House of Usher (1981)

    The Fall of the House of Usher

    61981HD

    After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become...

    The Fall of the House of Usher
  • 1961
    Shadows of Adultery

    Shadows of Adultery (1961)

    Shadows of Adultery

    6.11961HD

    Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she runs, but isn’t this occupation a mere wholesome distraction? When she meets Bruno and becomes his l...

    Shadows of Adultery
  • 1958
    End of Desire

    End of Desire (1958)

    End of Desire

    5.41958HD

    Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not ...

    End of Desire
  • 1964
    The Pit and the Pendulum

    The Pit and the Pendulum (1964)

    The Pit and the Pendulum

    6.31964HD

    A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition......

    The Pit and the Pendulum
  • 1993
    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (1993)

    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

    5.11993HD

    Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, ...

    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
  • 1980
    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1980)

    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

    01980HD

    An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer....

    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
  • 1952
    The Respectful Prostitute

    The Respectful Prostitute (1952)

    The Respectful Prostitute

    5.31952HD

    Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a colored man. Fred decides to seduce Lizzie in order to make her give false evidence according to whi...

    The Respectful Prostitute
  • 1950
    Paris Waltz

    Paris Waltz (1950)

    Paris Waltz

    51950HD

    A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider....

    Paris Waltz
  • 1962
    Sentimental Education

    Sentimental Education (1962)

    Sentimental Education

    5.41962HD

    Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherine, a very determined woman, is secretly in love with Frédéric and in order to keep him away from Anne, ...

    Sentimental Education
  • 1949
    Rendezvous in July

    Rendezvous in July (1949)

    Rendezvous in July

    5.71949HD

    Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians....

    Rendezvous in July
  • 1993
    Albert Savarus

    Albert Savarus (1993)

    Albert Savarus

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    Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths she goes to ensure their marriage, even after she learns he is deeply in love with another woman....

    Albert Savarus
  • 1957
    A Girl in a Pocket

    A Girl in a Pocket (1957)

    A Girl in a Pocket

    4.31957HD

    A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidot...

    A Girl in a Pocket
  • 1968
    Adriatic Sea of Fire

    Adriatic Sea of Fire (1968)

    Adriatic Sea of Fire

    5.81968HD

    The film tells the story of the Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb which fights against Germany in 1941, and how some of the crew members try to organise a mutiny to keep fighting when the commander is ordered to surrender....

    Adriatic Sea of Fire
  • 1974
    Charlotte

    Charlotte (1974)

    Charlotte

    3.31974HD

    Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, ...

    Charlotte
  • 1955
    Bad Liaisons

    Bad Liaisons (1955)

    Bad Liaisons

    61955HD

    Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a doctor who illegally performs abortions and now they are interrogating all of his previous clients....

    Bad Liaisons
  • 1953
    Les Crimes de l'amour

    Les Crimes de l'amour (1953)

    Les Crimes de l'amour

    61953HD

    Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars, garrisoned in the provinces, who evokes a strange adventure. Staying with an old couple, he acts as acquaintance with Alber...

    Les Crimes de l'amour
  • 1954
    The Count of Bragelonne

    The Count of Bragelonne (1954)

    The Count of Bragelonne

    5.21954HD

    Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin....

    The Count of Bragelonne
  • 1965
    Evariste Galois

    Evariste Galois (1965)

    Evariste Galois

    6.21965HD

    Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night....

    Evariste Galois
  • 1953
    The Crimson Curtain

    The Crimson Curtain (1953)

    The Crimson Curtain

    7.21953HD

    A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a c...

    The Crimson Curtain