Movies: Alexandre Trauner

An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement....

Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act....

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love....

Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy....

This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir....

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. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news....

A comedic take on the Frankenstein story....

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing....

Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, pr...

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder....

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past....

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. Mollenard receives a frosty wel...

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by...

France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited ...

A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker....

Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors....

A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship....

The basic premise: A retired bus driver fulfills his lifelong dream of providing an extended "voyage surprise" (the title is translated as "Mystery Tour") for unsuspecting vacationers. They soon realize, while riding in the old man's home-made bus, t...

A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love....

A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career....