Jean Epstein Movies

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

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

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

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

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

From the French television series Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma, the episode uploaded here, Jean Epstein ou le Cinéma...

Jean Epstein’s short documentary filmed on the Breton island of Sein, which film preservationist and cinephile Henri Langlois called “one...

In spite of bad omen about the upcoming storm, the fisherman sets out to the sea and doesn’t return. The wife of the fisherman embarks on a...

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...

On the islet Bannec, off the coast of Brittany, four fishermen have set up camp for three months to harvest seaweed. If processed correctly, the ash...

Jean Benoît-Lévy & Jean Epstein's inventive documentary about the life of Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and one of the most important...

Documentary on communication routes for the French section of the New York International Exposition of 1939

The inhabitants of a poor village want to sell their houses and their land. One day, a woman breaks down in her car while crossing the village....

Because he found a box washed up by the sea holding unknown contents, a poor and despised fisherman and his daughter are suddenly courted by everyone...

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

Lost short film.