Direction: Germaine Dulac

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


The Seashell and the Clergyman

1928 · Movie · 32 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Alex Alin · Genica Athanasiou · Lucien Bataille

Plot Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

6.4

405 votes

6.4

405 votes

6.4

35 votes

The Smiling Madame Beudet

1923 · Movie · 38 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Germaine Dermoz · Alexandre Arquillière · Jean d'Yd · Yvette Grisier

Plot El filme nos narra la historia de Madame Beudet, una mujer moderna afrancesada a la que le encanta tocar el piano obras de compositores melenudos, leer novelas y modernas revistas;...

6.2

305 votes

6.2

305 votes

Celles qui s'en font (S)

1928 · Movie · 6 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Lilian Constantini · Georges Vallée

Plot Experimental examination of the struggles faced by women in Paris.

6.1

42 votes

6.1

42 votes

Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque (S)

1929 · Documentary · 5 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

6.1

86 votes

6.1

86 votes

Disque 957 (S)

1928 · Documentary · 5 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Plot A study of line and forms at the sound of Frédérique Chopin. Germain Dulac intended to visually recreate the motifs of Chopin's Prelude in B Flat, which was inspired, according...

5.3

33 votes

5.3

33 votes

Danses espagnoles (S)

1928 · Documentary · 7 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Carmencita García

Plot In this short film directed by French avant-garde filmmaker Germaine Dulac, Carmencita García performs two flamenco dances in front of an audience.

5.0

49 votes

5.0

49 votes

Princesse Mandane

1928 · Movie · 74 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Edmonde Guy · Ernst Van Duren · Jacques Arnna · Mona Goya

Plot Brazen embrace of fashionable costume and glamour creates a witty celebration of Orientalism and cinema itself.

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Heart of an Actress

1924 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Ivan Petrovich · Nicolas Koline · Mabel Poulton · Yvette Andréyor

Plot Desire brings out the worst in an actress’ suitors.

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Le retour à la vie (S)

1936 · Movie · 10 min. · France

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Antoinette Sabrier

1927 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Ève Francis · Gabriel Gabrio · Jean Toulout · Yvette Armel

Plot Adapted from a play by Romain Coolus, whose work Dulac had covered as a theater critic at the turn of the century, this atmospheric and socially inquisitive film tells the...

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Thèmes et variations (S)

1928 · Documentary · 10 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

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Âmes de fous

1918 · Movie · min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Sylvio De Pedrelli · Ève Francis · Suzanne Parisys · Gastao Roxo

Plot A serial in six episodes: 1) La seconde Marquise de Sombreuse; 2) Le Chateau maudit; 3) Folle; 4) L’Exilee; 5) La Danseuse inconnue; 6) Hallucination et realite. Set in modern...

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The Cigarette

1919 · Movie · 51 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Andrée Brabant · Gabriel Signoret · Jules Raucourt · Genevieve Williams

Plot A Parisian museum director believes his wife has lost interest in him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk - thus allowing chance to decide...

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The Devil in the City

1925 · Movie · 61 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Jacqueline Blanc · Michelle Clairfont · Léon Mathot · René Donnio

Plot A small town during the 1500th century. A band of smugglers settle in the abandon Grey Tower. At a city auction a mysterious stranger buys the tower. Rumors has he...

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La belle dame sans merci

1921 · Movie · 87 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Tania Daleyme · Denise Lorys · Yolande Hille · Jean Toulout

Plot An actress has been so hardened by youthful disappointment that she becomes a deliberate heartbreaker with men.

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Gossette

1923 · Movie · 297 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Régine Bouet · Maurice Schutz · Jean-David Évremond · Monique Chrysès

Plot In Gossette (1923), Dulac experimented with and designed a number of special lenses and prisms to produce a variety of effects and multiply the expressive means which translate the characters’...

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Spanish Fiesta

1920 · Movie · 67 min. · France

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Ève Francis · Gabriel Gabrio · Jean Toulout · Gaston Modot

Plot Coveted by two different men, a woman turns to a third man instead.

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