Search results for "Pierre Chenal"
L’Alibi

L’Alibi

L’Alibi
IMDb: 6.8
84

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she…

Genre: Mystery
Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment
IMDb: 7
107

Pierre Chenal’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as an early forerunner of poetic realism.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Native Son

Native Son

Native Son
IMDb: 6.2
104

Author Richard Wright portrays his novel’s Bigger Thomas, a young chauffeur trapped in an accidental murder.

Genre: Drama
Sirocco

Sirocco

Sirocco
IMDb: 6.8
100

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama