Jean Epstein Movies

The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car...

Following a 19th-century play penned by Benjamin Antier, the figure of Robert Macaire, bandit and rogue, enjoyed popularity in several contexts. One...

Produced for the National Federation of Building Workers Ciné-Liberté, a Popular Front organization intended to counteract capitalist...

In the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali, a captive princess held prisoner and...

A poetic drama, spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a waifish fisherman and a...

Two young doctors, surprised by the storm, take refuge in an inn. A diamond broker joins them and, for lack of space, shares their room. At dawn he...

A renowned doctor and his brother live and work together until the brother falls in love with Marie, a singer, and gives up medicine to be with her....

Visit to the Château de Nohan where George Sand had lived.

Parisian adventures of a fearless couple of friends and their return to their home in Marseille after a happy double marriage.

Lost short film.

On June 22, 1923, and just five days after the start of a violent volcanic eruption on the north side of Etna, Epstein and cameraman Paul Guichard...

In a foundry, in 1951, a modernization program was implemented in order to revive competitiveness.

Documentary film about the people of Brittany and their lives, including music and dance from the region.

A short subject, described by its director as a film poem, commissioned by the French Youth Hostel Association.

Documentary film shot in Brittany about lighthouses and lighthouse keepers on the island of Ouessant and coast of Finistere.

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.