Henri Alekan Movies

  • 1970
    Figures in a Landscape

    Figures in a Landscape

    Figures in a Landscape

    61970HD

    Two escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black...

    Figures in a Landscape
  • 1966
    The Poppy Is Also a Flower

    The Poppy Is Also a Flower

    The Poppy Is Also a Flower

    5.81966HD

    A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

    The Poppy Is Also a Flower
  • 1954
    Queen Margot

    Queen Margot

    Queen Margot

    7.11954HD

    Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between...

    Queen Margot
  • 1946
    The Battle of the Rails

    The Battle of the Rails

    The Battle of the Rails

    6.8571946HD

    During the Second World War, many French railway workers participated in the resistance. Daily acts of sabotage, spectacular derailments: the railway...

    The Battle of the Rails
  • 1948
    Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    61948HD

    In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky,...

    Anna Karenina
  • 1993
    Golem: The Petrified Garden

    Golem: The Petrified Garden

    Golem: The Petrified Garden

    5.21993HD

    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...

    Golem: The Petrified Garden
  • 1982
    The State of Things

    The State of Things

    The State of Things

    6.41982HD

    On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer...

    The State of Things
  • 1957
    Typhoon Over Nagasaki

    Typhoon Over Nagasaki

    Typhoon Over Nagasaki

    6.21957HD

    Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named...

    Typhoon Over Nagasaki
  • 1975
    Gun Moll

    Gun Moll

    Gun Moll

    5.21975HD

    A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.

    Gun Moll
  • 1983
    The Beautiful Prisoner

    The Beautiful Prisoner

    The Beautiful Prisoner

    6.11983HD

    Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a...

    The Beautiful Prisoner
  • 1959
    Twelve Hours by the Clock

    Twelve Hours by the Clock

    Twelve Hours by the Clock

    4.41959HD

    Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to...

    Twelve Hours by the Clock
  • 1957
    The Case of Dr. Laurent

    The Case of Dr. Laurent

    The Case of Dr. Laurent

    7.11957HD

    A Paris-based doctor tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls...

    The Case of Dr. Laurent
  • 1965
    Lady L

    Lady L

    Lady L

    5.81965HD

    Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived...

    Lady L
  • 1958
    Would-Be Gentleman

    Would-Be Gentleman

    Would-Be Gentleman

    8.51958HD

    M. Jourdain is a cloth merchant who wants to become a gentleman, learning dance, music, fencing and philosophy. Mme Jourdain is worried about...

    Would-Be Gentleman
  • 1997
    Screening at the Majestic

    Screening at the Majestic

    Screening at the Majestic

    01997HD

    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...

    Screening at the Majestic
  • 1969
    Fun and Games for Everyone

    Fun and Games for Everyone

    Fun and Games for Everyone

    6.61969HD

    “FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings. A psychedelic game...

    Fun and Games for Everyone
  • 1997
    Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

    Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

    Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

    01997HD

    This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially...

    Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
  • 1936
    Life Is Ours

    Life Is Ours

    Life Is Ours

    6.41936HD

    A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

    Life Is Ours
  • 1951
    Paris Is Always Paris

    Paris Is Always Paris

    Paris Is Always Paris

    5.21951HD

    A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an...

    Paris Is Always Paris
  • 1990
    Birth of a Golem

    Birth of a Golem

    Birth of a Golem

    3.41990HD

    With the feel of experimental film, Gitai mixes storytelling, readers' theater, cityscapes (usually seen from moving trains), and desolate landscapes...

    Birth of a Golem