Pierre Chenal Movies

  • 1938
    The Lafarge Case

    The Lafarge Case

    The Lafarge Case

    5.81938HD

    Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her...

    The Lafarge Case
  • 1937
    The Man from Nowhere

    The Man from Nowhere

    The Man from Nowhere

    6.71937HD

    Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns...

    The Man from Nowhere
  • 1959
    Beast at Bay

    Beast at Bay

    Beast at Bay

    4.71959HD

    Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison....

    Beast at Bay
  • 1958
    Sinners of Paris

    Sinners of Paris

    Sinners of Paris

    4.81958HD

    Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that...

    Sinners of Paris
  • 1951
    Native Son

    Native Son

    Native Son

    5.61951HD

    Author Richard Wright portrays his novel's Bigger Thomas, a young chauffeur trapped in an accidental murder.

    Native Son
  • 1939
    The Last Turning

    The Last Turning

    The Last Turning

    6.41939HD

    Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and...

    The Last Turning
  • 1946
    Devil and the Angel

    Devil and the Angel

    Devil and the Angel

    5.41946HD

    The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman,...

    Devil and the Angel
  • 1935
    Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    71935HD

    Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as...

    Crime and Punishment
  • 1937
    Alibi

    Alibi

    Alibi

    6.51937HD

    Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays...

    Alibi
  • 1938
    Sirocco

    Sirocco

    Sirocco

    6.11938HD

    Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to...

    Sirocco
  • 1935
    Les suites d'un premier lit

    Les suites d'un premier lit

    Les suites d'un premier lit

    01935HD

    Les suites d'un premier lit
  • 1970
    Versatile Lovers

    Versatile Lovers

    Versatile Lovers

    31970HD

    Isabelle (Marisa Mell) runs a nursing home for wealthy women who are trying to detox from their various obsessions. Her lover, Serge Belaiev (Robert...

    Versatile Lovers
  • 1956
    Missing Persons Section

    Missing Persons Section

    Missing Persons Section

    5.91956HD

    The love affair of an ex-convict with a showgirl, unleashes the jealousy of his older, wealthy and unbalanced wife. A murder plot, staged phoney...

    Missing Persons Section
  • 1934
    Street Without a Name

    Street Without a Name

    Street Without a Name

    01934HD

    The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their neighborhood will soon be demolished and a...

    Street Without a Name
  • 1944
    El muerto falta a la cita

    El muerto falta a la cita

    El muerto falta a la cita

    3.51944HD

    On the night of his marriage a young man runs over a cyclist. He believes he is dead, he hides the body and a mysterious character appears.

    El muerto falta a la cita
  • 1960
    The Night They Killed Rasputin

    The Night They Killed Rasputin

    The Night They Killed Rasputin

    41960HD

    Rasputin was a lusty steppes peasant, a god revealed, a cunning patriot, all that, or a mystifier? An intriguing biography.

    The Night They Killed Rasputin
  • 1945
    Se abre el abismo

    Se abre el abismo

    Se abre el abismo

    41945HD

    The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.

    Se abre el abismo
  • 1952
    The Idol

    The Idol

    The Idol

    6.51952HD

    An actor argues with his wife and she decides to leave. The day after learning of the mysterious death of his wife in Viña del Mar, he hires a...

    The Idol
  • 1930
    L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui

    L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui

    L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui

    101930HD

    Regarding Le Corbusier: the man and his architecture

    L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui
  • 1936
    Les mutinés de l'Elseneur

    Les mutinés de l'Elseneur

    Les mutinés de l'Elseneur

    01936HD

    A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore...

    Les mutinés de l'Elseneur