Henri Alekan Movies

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

Catherine Miller's triumph at the Casino de Paris leads fashionable playwright Alexandre Gordi to ask her to create his next play. Flattered,...

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they...

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.

An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass murderer: The 80 years old man was a SS leader and responsible for the...

A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to...

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...

The work of Rodin imagined in the form of a ballet. It is the journey of man in his life, in his loves, until his death. In the second part, it is...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

More than fifty years after its making, we return to the set of Jean Cocteau's 1946 film "La Belle et la Bete" (Beauty and the Beast). Included are...

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

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

Film professor Michael falls in love with one of his students and is confronted with his pupil's father, with whom he had an affair over 15 years...