Cinematography: Christian Matras

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Christian Matras. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Scheherazade

1963 · Movie · 124 min. · France

5.1

30 votes

5.1

30 votes

Esa mujer

1969 · Movie · 98 min. · Spain

5.1

139 votes

5.1

139 votes

Violetas imperiales

1952 · Movie · 94 min. · Spain

Direction Richard Pottier

Cast Carmen Sevilla · Luis Mariano · Angustias Albaicín · Louis Arbessier

Plot Violeta, a gipsy girl, reads Eugenia de Montijo's hand and foretells that she will become an empress. When Eugenia marries Napoleon she calls the girl to the court. Both in...

5.0

244 votes

5.0

244 votes

Varietes

1971 · Movie · 99 min. · Spain

Direction Juan Antonio Bardem

Cast Sara Montiel · Vicente Parra · Chris Avram · Trini Alonso

Plot Spain 1930s. A troupe of performers travel from city to city entertaining audiences and earning a living. The cast includes a magician, a ventriloquist, muscle men, dancers, singers and a...

4.8

181 votes

4.8

181 votes

The Woman from Beirut

1965 · Movie · 87 min. · Spain

Direction Ladislao Vajda

Cast Sara Montiel · Alain Saury · Fernand Gravey · Giancarlo Del Duca

Plot Isabel is a beautiful singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck. After serving time in prison for a crime she did not commit, she lands a singing gig at...

4.7

129 votes

4.7

129 votes

La mujer perdida

1966 · Movie · 105 min. · Spain

4.6

61 votes

4.6

61 votes

Las Leandras

1969 · Movie · 109 min. · Spain

4.5

194 votes

4.5

194 votes

Samba

1965 · Movie · 106 min. · Spain

Direction Rafael Gil

Cast Sara Montiel · Fosco Giachetti · José Prada · Leonardo Villar

Plot The Brazilian singer Laura Monteiro is murdered in her dressing-room by her jealous lover João Fernandes de Oliveira that discovered that she was cheating on him with Assis and she...

4.3

73 votes

4.3

73 votes

Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace

1965 · Movie · 95 min. · Spain

Direction Alfonso Balcázar

Cast Robert Woods · Fernando Sancho · Helmut Schmid · María Sebaldt

Plot Jeff, an avid player with luck, kills a man in self defense after winning his ranch in a card game. The ranch is located in the city of Town Creek,...

4.0

64 votes

4.0

64 votes

Casablanca, Nest of Spies

1963 · Movie · 101 min. · Spain

3.9

125 votes

3.9

125 votes

The Idiot

1946 · Movie · 101 min. · France

Direction Georges Lampin

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Lucien Coëdel · Jean Debucourt · Jane Marken

Plot Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to...

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Wicked Duchess

1942 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Jacques de Baroncelli

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Pierre Richard-Willm · Aimé Clariond · Lise Delamare

Plot The Duchess of Langeais, as beautiful as she is brilliant, is a woman who likes to seduce but who does not give in. Until the day when she falls in...

Not rated

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The Majordomo

1965 · Movie · 93 min. · France

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L'escalier sans fin

1943 · Movie · 100 min. · France

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Paradise Lost

1940 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Fernand Gravey · Elvire Popesco · André Alerme · Monique Rolland

Plot In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and...

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Man to Men

1948 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Bernard Blier · Hélène Perdriére · Denis d'Inès

Plot The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant (Jean-Louis Barrault), who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.

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Bold Adventure

1956 · Movie · 102 min. · France

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The Game of Truth

1961 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Robert Hossein

Cast Robert Hossein · Françoise Prévost · Paul Meurisse · Jean Servais

Plot Another Robert Hossein little gem that should be restored to favour. It might be, relatively speaking, his discreet charm of the bourgeoisie. A dozen elegant people are gathered in a...

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Madame du Barry

1954 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Martine Carol · Daniel Ivernel · Gianna Maria Canale · Jean Paredes

Plot The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France. Nor could she anticipate her...

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Virginie

1962 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Jean Boyer

Cast Roger Pierre · Jean-Marc Thibault · Michèle Girardon · Mireille Darc

Plot Two men sailing to S. America pick up two young women who have been shipwrecked, with complications.

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Not rated