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
Invitation to a Journey
1927 · Movie · 36 min. · France
Direction Germaine Dulac
Cast Emma Gynt · Raymond Dubreuil · Robert Mirfeuil · Paul Lorbert
6.4
35 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
Direction Germaine Dulac · Jean Brérault · François Mauch
Cast Odette Brianne · Brochard · Sarah Clèves · Favières
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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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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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