Alexandre Astruc Movies
- 1974
Charlotte
Charlotte3.31974HD
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...
- 1968
Adriatic Sea of Fire
Adriatic Sea of Fire5.81968HD
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...
- 1953
Les Crimes de l'amour
Les Crimes de l'amour61953HD
Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars,...
- 2001
Savage Souls
Savage Souls4.52001HD
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...
- 1952
The Respectful Prostitute
The Respectful Prostitute5.31952HD
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...
- 1957
A Girl in a Pocket
A Girl in a Pocket4.31957HD
A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by...
- 1949
Rendezvous in July
Rendezvous in July5.71949HD
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
- 1958
End of Desire
End of Desire5.41958HD
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...
- 1955
Bad Liaisons
Bad Liaisons61955HD
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...
- 1976
Sartre by Himself
Sartre by Himself71976HD
Michel Contat is Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS, ITEM/CNRS/ENS and a specialist of Jean-Paul Sartre whose novels and theater he has edited...
- 1962
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education5.41962HD
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...
- 1981
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher61981HD
After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick...
- 1964
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum6.31964HD
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...
- 1954
Count of Bragelonne
Count of Bragelonne4.71954HD
Raoul De Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
- 1966
Long March
Long March01966HD
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He...
- 1961
Shadows of Adultery
Shadows of Adultery6.11961HD
Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she...
- 1965
Evariste Galois
Evariste Galois6.21965HD
Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.
- 1950
Paris Waltz
Paris Waltz51950HD
A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.
- 1953
The Crimson Curtain
The Crimson Curtain7.21953HD
A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars....
- 1964
Bassae
Bassae7.91964HD
"I was interested by the fact that some old guy, after the Parthenon’s glamour, devoted himself in a much smaller temple, where there was no...