Directing
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…
Known For
Anna Christie · 1930Anna 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 Woman · 1954Flesh 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.
Gribiche · 1926Gribiche
★ 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.
Daybreak · 1931Daybreak
★ 4.31931
MovieDrama
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
Knight Without Armour · 1937Knight 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 Raquin · 1928Thérèse 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 North · 1939Law 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 Kiss · 1929The 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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