Alexandre Astruc Movies
- 1958
End of Desire
End of Desire5.4741958HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1949
Rendezvous in July
Rendezvous in July5.71949HD
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
- 1993
Albert Savarus
Albert Savarus01993HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1993
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits5.11993HD
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1980
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin01980HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1954
The Count of Bragelonne
The Count of Bragelonne5.21954HD
Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
- 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....
- 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...
- 1950
Paris Waltz
Paris Waltz51950HD
A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.
- 1965
Evariste Galois
Evariste Galois6.21965HD
Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.
- 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,...