Direction: Alexander Esway

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Alexander Esway. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Mauvaise graine

1934 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Billy Wilder · Alexander Esway

Cast Pierre Mingand · Danielle Darrieux · Raymond Galle · Paul Escoffier

Plot In the 30`s, in Paris, the playboy Henri Pasquier (Pierre Mingand) is supported by his father, Dr. Pasquier (Paul Escoffier) with money and a brandy new car. When Dr. Pasquier...

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The Idol

1948 · Movie · 90 min. · France

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They Are Not Angels

1947 · Movie · 130 min. · France

Direction Alexander Esway

Cast Pierre Blanchar · René Lefèvre · Janine Crispin · Jean Wall

Plot "They are not Angels" is a French film directed by Alexandre Esway, released in 1947, based on the book by Joseph Kessel who had stayed in the paratroopers camp of...

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Plenty of Time for Play (S)

1935 · Movie · 15 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Esway

Cast Joyce Barbour · Edward Chapman · Edmund D'Alby · Atholl Fleming

Plot It takes a leap of imagination to get from the electric oven in 1935 to plastic clothes, video phones, vacuum tube emails, and the home cinema by 1955. But the...

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The Conquest of the Air

1936 · Documentary · 71 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Esway · Zoltan Korda · John Monk Saunders · Alexander Shaw

Cast Frederick Culley · Laurence Olivier · Franklin Dyall · Henry Victor

Plot This documentary traces man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.

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Hercule

1938 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Alexander Esway

Cast Fernandel · Gaby Morlay · Pierre Brasseur · Henri Crémieux

Plot A simple fisherman from Provence inherits a Parisian newspaper, but finds some of his new staff are dishonest.

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Bargekeepers Daughter

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Alexander Esway

Cast Elvire Popesco · Louis Jouvet · André Alerme · Fernand Charpin

Plot Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his family was exiled from. But Chautard, a French financier, who has business there (the...

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Steppin' in Society

1945 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Esway

Cast Edward Everett Horton · Gladys George · Ruth Terry · Robert Livingston

Plot A prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly...

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Barnabé

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · France

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