Jean Epstein Movies

This portrait of the French film theorist and avant-garde director Jean Epstein (1897-1953) concentrates on the period when he filmed in Brittany,...

A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.

Jean Benoît-Lévy & Jean Epstein's inventive documentary about the life of Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and one of the most important...

The visit of Ouest Eclair newspaper.

In the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali, a captive princess held prisoner and...

From the French television series Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma, the episode uploaded here, Jean Epstein ou le Cinéma...

Documentary film about the people of Brittany and their lives, including music and dance from the region.

Documentary on communication routes for the French section of the New York International Exposition of 1939

Because he found a box washed up by the sea holding unknown contents, a poor and despised fisherman and his daughter are suddenly courted by everyone...

When an innocent young woman finds herself abandoned by the proper young man whose child she's had, she is taken in by a troupe of traveling...

Documentary about the Narbonne region and the wine harvest.

A short subject, described by its director as a film poem, commissioned by the French Youth Hostel Association.

The inhabitants of a poor village want to sell their houses and their land. One day, a woman breaks down in her car while crossing the village....

Parisian adventures of a fearless couple of friends and their return to their home in Marseille after a happy double marriage.

Produced for the National Federation of Building Workers Ciné-Liberté, a Popular Front organization intended to counteract capitalist...

The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car...

In a foundry, in 1951, a modernization program was implemented in order to revive competitiveness.

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.