Alexandre Astruc Movies

  • 1958
    End of Desire

    End of Desire

    End of Desire

    5.4741958HD

    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...

    End of Desire
  • 2001
    Savage Souls

    Savage Souls

    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...

    Savage Souls
  • 1964
    The Pit and the Pendulum

    The Pit and the Pendulum

    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
  • 1962
    Sentimental Education

    Sentimental Education

    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...

    Sentimental Education
  • 1949
    Rendezvous in July

    Rendezvous in July

    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

    Albert Savarus

    01993HD

    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...

    Albert Savarus
  • 1957
    A Girl in a Pocket

    A Girl in a Pocket

    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...

    A Girl in a Pocket
  • 1974
    Charlotte

    Charlotte

    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...

    Charlotte
  • 1993
    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

    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...

    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
  • 1952
    The Respectful Prostitute

    The Respectful Prostitute

    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...

    The Respectful Prostitute
  • 1961
    Shadows of Adultery

    Shadows of Adultery

    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...

    Shadows of Adultery
  • 1980
    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

    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...

    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
  • 1981
    The Fall of the House of Usher

    The Fall of the House of Usher

    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...

    The Fall of the House of Usher
  • 1955
    Bad Liaisons

    Bad Liaisons

    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...

    Bad Liaisons
  • 1954
    The Count of Bragelonne

    The Count of Bragelonne

    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
  • 1953
    The Crimson Curtain

    The Crimson Curtain

    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....

    The Crimson Curtain
  • 1968
    Adriatic Sea of Fire

    Adriatic Sea of Fire

    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...

    Adriatic Sea of Fire
  • 1950
    Paris Waltz

    Paris Waltz

    Paris Waltz

    51950HD

    A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.

    Paris Waltz
  • 1965
    Evariste Galois

    Evariste Galois

    Evariste Galois

    6.21965HD

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

    Evariste Galois
  • 1953
    Les Crimes de l'amour

    Les Crimes de l'amour

    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,...

    Les Crimes de l'amour