Jacques Feyder

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Jacques Feyder

Born July 21, 1885 · Ixelles, Brabant, Belgium

Died May 24, 1948 · aged 62

Jacques Feyder , was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema. He adopted French nationality in 1928. Born Jacques Léon Louis Frédérix in Ixelles, Belgium, at age twent…

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Anna ChristieAnna Christie · 1930
Anna Christie
★ 7.81930
MovieDrama
A young woman reunites with the father she's not seen since early childhood, also falls in love with a sailor who wishes to marry her, and eventually is forced to reveal to each man about her dark past. (NOTE: This is the German language version.)
Flesh and the WomanFlesh and the Woman · 1954
Flesh and the Woman
★ 4.21954
MovieDrama
In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.
GribicheGribiche · 1926
Gribiche
★ 6.21926
MovieDrama
Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.
DaybreakDaybreak · 1931
Daybreak
★ 4.31931
MovieDrama
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
Knight Without ArmourKnight Without Armour · 1937
Knight Without Armour
★ 5.91937
MovieHistoryDrama
In the last days of Czarist Russia, Russian-speaking Briton A.J. Fothergill is enlisted by his government to go undercover as Bolshevik radical Peter Ouranoff in an attempt to gain access to the revolutionaries' inner circle. Tasked with accompanying lovely aristocrat Alexandra Vladinoff from Moscow to Petrograd to be tried for crimes against the proletariat, Peter attempts to spirit her out of the war-torn country.
Thérèse RaquinThérèse Raquin · 1928
Thérèse Raquin
★ 5.21928
MovieDrama
Thérèse Raquin, an unhappily married woman, aided by her lover Laurent, drowns her husband Michaud, only to find the guilt of her actions intolerable.
Law of the NorthLaw of the North · 1939
Law of the North
★ 6.31939
MovieDramaAdventure
Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.
The KissThe Kiss · 1929
The Kiss
★ 6.41929
MovieDramaRomance
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.

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The Great GameThe Great Game · 1934
The Great Game
★ 7.11934
MovieDrama
Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement . Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma , one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre.

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