Screenplay: Prosper Mérimée

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Julia Migenes · Plácido Domingo · Ruggero Raimondi · Faith Esham

Plot A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a french soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful spanish factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Harry Belafonte · Pearl Bailey · Joe Adams

Plot On leave to see his fiancée, Cindy Lou, trooper Joe falls for Carmen, a worker in a Jacksonville parachute factory who is stringing along prizefighter, Husky Miller.

Direction Mark Dornford-May

Cast Pauline Malefane · Andile Tshoni · Zweilungile Sidloyi · Lungelwa Blou

Plot First performed on 3 March, 1875, Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” has since become one of the most popular operas in the history of music. The opera’s librettists, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic...

Direction Carlos Saura

Cast Laura del Sol · Antonio Gades · Pepa Flores "Marisol" · Cristina Hoyos

Plot Never before has the art of flamenco dance been so pulsatingly sensual. Or a love so treacherously obsessive. In this explosive interpretation of the classic opera "Carmen", the lines between...

Direction Janusz Majewski

Cast Józef Duriasz · Edmund Fetting · Gustaw Lutkiewicz · Malgorzata Braunek

Plot A pastor studying folklore in remote parts of Lithuania is invited to stay with a young count. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been attacked by...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Edna Purviance · Charles Chaplin · Jack Henderson · Leo White

Plot A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

Direction Lotte Reiniger

Plot Carmen seduces a soldier. She takes him home to the Gypsy camp, and while he sleeps, she steals his clothes and weapons. She trades them for an elegant dress, but...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Pola Negri · Harry Liedtke · Leopold von Ledebur · Paul Biensfeldt

Plot The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him...

Direction Florián Rey

Cast Imperio Argentina · Pedro Barreto · J. Noé de la Peña · Anselmo Fernández

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Geraldine Farrar · Wallace Reid · Pedro de Cordoba · Horace B. Carpenter

Plot In order to help her smuggler kinsmen, a sultry gypsy seduces and corrupts an officer of the Civil Guard turning him into a traitor and murderer.

Direction Román Chalbaud

Cast Mayra Alejandra · Miguel Ángel Landa · William Moreno · Carlos Márquez

Plot The old story repeats itself, in another time, and another place. End of the 1970s, at La Guaira seaport, a strapping sixteen-year old Carmen is the girl that attract all...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Jack Henderson · Ben Turpin

Plot This is a parody of two "Carmen"s, Bizet's opera and a movie (1915) starring Geraldine Farrar. Smugglers come ashore. Their leader sends the gypsy Carmen to lure Don Jose (called...

Direction Luigi Bazzoni

Cast Franco Nero · Tina Aumont · Klaus Kinski · Guido Lollobrigida

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · Victor Jory · Arnold Moss

Plot Don Jose Lizarabengoa (Glenn Ford), a soldier in the Dragoons, has just arrived in Seville from Nevara. Soon after his arrival, he takes a walk to familiarize himself with the...

Direction Vicente Aranda

Cast Paz Vega · Leonardo Sbaraglia · Antonio Dechent · Joan Crosas

Direction Tulio Demicheli

Cast Sara Montiel · Jorge Mistral · Maurice Ronet · Germán Cobos

Direction Giovanni Doria · Augusto Turqui

Cast Andrea Habay · Suzy Prim · Juan Rovira · Margarita Silva

Plot In order to help her smuggler kinsmen, a sultry gypsy seduces and corrupts an officer of the Civil Guard turning him into a traitor and murderer.

Direction John Berry

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Curd Jürgens · Jean Servais · Alex Cressan

Plot John Reinke, the Dutch captain of a slave ship, is carrying a live cargo of slaves from Africa to Cuba in the 1800s. He has his mistress and servant-slave, Aiche,...

Direction Mel Ferrer

Cast Faith Domergue · George Dolenz · Donald Buka · Joseph Calleia

Plot In Corsica in the early 1800’s, Colomba Della Rebbia accuses the village mayor Guido Barracini of her father’s murder and Orso Rebbia takes on the responsibility of revenge.

Direction Brian Large

Cast Yelena Obraztsova · Plácido Domingo · Juri Mazurok · Isobel Buchanan

Plot Corporal Don José loves the gypsy Carmen, in love with the bullfighter Escamillo