Mario Nasthasio

The Devil in the City

The story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is soon suspect...

The Child of the Carnival

A foundling is left in front of the home of a rich aristocratic bachelor during the Nice carnival. The marquis...

Gossette

In Gossette (1923), Dulac experimented with and designed a number of special lenses and prisms to produce a var...

You Belong to Me

The frenetic pace of the edit was intended to match the action, based on Article 635 of the French criminal cod...

Fan Fan the Tulip

An earlier version of the 18th century swashbuckling story later made as a vehicle for Gerard Philipe, this one...

L'Ile enchantée

The story takes place in Corsica, where a young business woman (Jacqueline Forzane) tries to construct an elect...

Le Capitaine Rascasse

Esclave

Rayon de soleil

Jean Gourguet's 1928 49-minute silent feels like a French precursor to Siodmak's 1930 "Menschen am Sonntag". It...

The Man with Three Masks

Puissance du hasard