Henri Alekan Trailers
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Most Popular Henri Alekan Trailers
Total trailers found: 92
The Territory Trailer (1981)
01 September 1981
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.
Roman Holiday Trailer (1953)
26 August 1953
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome.
The Poppy Is Also a Flower Trailer (1966)
20 May 1966
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
Esther Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India to Ethiopia.
Blind Venus Trailer (1941)
14 September 1941
Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France during the German occupation.
Hatred Trailer (1938)
26 January 1938
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk.
Triple Cross Trailer (1966)
09 December 1966
Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An adept manipulator of situations, Chapman convinces the Germans to use him to spy on the British.
Life Is Ours Trailer (1936)
07 April 1936
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Wings of Desire Trailer (1987)
23 September 1987
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them.
Red Sun Trailer (1971)
15 September 1971
In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United States, a gift from the Emperor of Japan.
Topkapi Trailer (1964)
02 September 1964
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
Austerlitz Trailer (1960)
17 June 1960
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
Street of Shadows Trailer (1937)
13 April 1937
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
Mayerling Trailer (1968)
31 October 1968
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country.
Stranger on the Prowl Trailer (1952)
12 March 1952
A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime.
Berlin-Jerusalem Trailer (1989)
03 February 1989
Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a Russian Jew and revolutionary, goes from Minsk to Palestine to live on a collective.
Such a Pretty Little Beach Trailer (1949)
19 January 1949
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open.
The Best Part Trailer (1955)
30 December 1955
Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps.
Anna Karenina Trailer (1948)
22 January 1948
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted.
Trip to America Trailer (1951)
31 October 1951
As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the prosperity they have heard about.
Birth of a Golem Trailer (1990)
27 August 1990
With the feel of experimental film, Gitai mixes storytelling, readers' theater, cityscapes (usually seen from moving trains), and desolate landscapes to mediate on the act of creation.
Ici et maintenant Trailer (1969)
16 September 1969
Maddening and mysterious,with the elements—ocean, wind, rocky terrain—dominating the scenes.
La Danseuse rouge Trailer (1937)
21 May 1937
Tania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained, in spite of herself, in the nets of the secret services, she becomes a renowned dancer who travels the major capitals, in search of military information.
The Magic of the Kite Trailer (1958)
17 December 1958
Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth.
The Other Eye Trailer (1991)
25 September 1991
This film essay explores the strange case of G.W. Pabst, the Austrian filmmaker who was considered a giant of early cinema before his reputation went behind a cloud.
The Christmas Tree Trailer (1969)
25 September 1969
A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.
Beauty and the Beast Trailer (1946)
29 October 1946
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief.
Twelve Hours by the Clock Trailer (1959)
21 April 1959
Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to take them to freedom arrives.
Paris Casino Trailer (1957)
26 September 1957
Catherine Miller's triumph at the Casino de Paris leads fashionable playwright Alexandre Gordi to ask her to create his next play.
The Lovers of Verona Trailer (1949)
07 March 1949
Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice and Verona.
Faraway, So Close! Trailer (1993)
01 September 1993
A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.
Three Women Trailer (1952)
13 August 1952
The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir.
The Divisions of Nature Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus (Erigena), the ninth century Irish philosopher (who was a 'realist', although the film is more 'nominalist' in characterization of the castle which presents itself as a representation).
Woman of Evil Trailer (1947)
23 September 1947
Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.
Lady L Trailer (1965)
17 December 1965
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.
Would-Be Gentleman Trailer (1958)
19 November 1958
M. Jourdain is a cloth merchant who wants to become a gentleman, learning dance, music, fencing and philosophy.
The Beautiful Prisoner Trailer (1983)
16 February 1983
Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up.
Five Miles to Midnight Trailer (1962)
12 December 1962
American ex-Air Force man and current businessman Bob Macklin is married to the impoverished Italian-born Lisa.
Queen Margot Trailer (1954)
25 November 1954
Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre.
The Trout Trailer (1982)
22 September 1982
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two wealthy suitors.
Figures in a Landscape Trailer (1970)
12 November 1970
Two escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths Trailer (1997)
22 February 1997
This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially Jean-Luc Godard, who discusses Cocteau's foray into cinema.
When You Read This Letter Trailer (1953)
26 July 1953
After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister.
Port of Shadows Trailer (1938)
17 May 1938
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life.
Frou-Frou Trailer (1955)
19 June 1955
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
The State of Things Trailer (1982)
22 March 1982
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956).
Our Nazi Trailer (1984)
27 January 1984
In Our Nazi, we are plunged into a situation we barely, and only slowly, understand: the filming of Thomas Harlan’s experimental feature Wundkanal (1984), in which true-life ex-SS officer Alfred Filbert, now very old, is ‘put on trial’ for the camera, without him suspecting what is to come or why he is really there.
Screening at the Majestic Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
More than fifty years after its making, we return to the set of Jean Cocteau's 1946 film "La Belle et la Bete" (Beauty and the Beast).
paint'o jazz Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
A short film, shot in a long take, interpreted, drawn and directed by Jean-Louis Bompoint, with the precious collaboration of Hélène Bromberg; but especially Henri Alekan, who was the Director of Photography of the film.
Rodin's Hell Trailer (1959)
01 January 1959
The work of Rodin imagined in the form of a ballet. It is the journey of man in his life, in his loves, until his death.
La Dame de Monte-Carlo Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
On the banks of the Seine and in the metro, Édith Stockhausen performs a poem by Jean Cocteau.
Alekan, la lumière Trailer (1988)
04 August 1988
An episode of the show "Océaniques " about the craft and lighting techniques of the legendary Frencn
Paris Is Always Paris Trailer (1951)
15 November 1951
A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
Typhoon Over Nagasaki Trailer (1957)
06 February 1957
Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko.
On Top of the Whale Trailer (1982)
04 February 1982
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language.
The Battle of the Rails Trailer (1946)
27 February 1946
During the Second World War, many French railway workers participated in the resistance. Daily acts of sabotage, spectacular derailments: the railway network took many actions against Nazi occupation.
