Direction: Georges Franju

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Pierre Brasseur · Alida Valli · Juliette Mayniel · Edith Scob

Plot A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter...

Direction Georges Franju

Plot An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Philippe Noiret · Edith Scob · Sami Frey

Plot After Thérèse is acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Bernard Desqueyroux, she recalls the events that lead to her being charged. At the beginning of her marriage to Bernard,...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Pierre Devis · Lisbeth Persson

Plot A residential area schoolboy discovers the odd universe of the Parisian metro. At a time, he glimpses the beautiful face of a blond-haired little girl. Later on, he falls asleep...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Channing Pollock · Francine Bergé · Edith Scob · Théo Sarapo

Plot Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Pierre Brasseur · Paul Meurisse · Jean-Pierre Mocky · Anouk Aimée

Plot In order to get rid of his troublesome son François, Maître Gérane manages to have him committed to a mental hospital owned by Dr. Varmont, a supporter of traditional treatments,...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Jeanne d'Alcy · François Lallement · André Méliès · Marie-Georges Méliès

Plot A biography of the pioneer film director Georges Méliès, featuring his son André playing Georges, and with shots of his second wife, aged 90

Direction Georges Franju

Plot A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's airplane, to Napoleon's and Marshall...

Direction Georges Franju · Henri Langlois

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Jacqueline Lemaire · Roger Pigaut

Plot A Parisian family on their way to the French Riviera. The father decides to get rid of the family dog that he abandons in a forest. His young daughter cries...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Pascale Audret · Jean Babilée · Georges Bever · Pierre Brasseur

Plot When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there, just to annoy his heirs. As a...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Jean Servais · Fabrice Rouleau · Sophie Darès

Plot In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Lucien Barjon · Lucien Hubert · Nicole Stephane

Plot A tribute to the scientists who pioneered the study of radioactivity. Franju uses the documentary reconstruction with actors to show the working methods of the Curies and the precarious conditions...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Gayle Hunnicutt · Jacques Champreux · Josephine Chaplin · Ugo Pagliai

Plot The butler of the writer Maxime de Borrego goes to the store of an old lady and tells that his boss probably knows the location of the Templars treasure, expecting...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Francis Huster · Gillian Hills · André Lacombe · Margo Lion

Plot Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine,...

Direction Fred Tavano · Yves Allain · Jacques Scandelari · Patrice Molinard

Plot TV series (1964-1978). 159 episodes,

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Georges Hubert

Plot The planet is filled with dust and particles of all kinds, natural or originated by man. Such a state of things has of course a great many consequences for public...

Direction Georges Franju

Direction Georges Franju

Plot The Ministry of Fine Arts Franju commissioned a film about the famous cathedral in Paris. As he hasa well known filmmaker trajectory, a condition was imposed: "Film only the cathedral....

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Michel Vitold · Edith Scob · Raymond Bussières · Luis Masson