Search results for "Pierre Chenal"
Native Son (1951)

Native Son (1951)

Native Son (1951)
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104

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage…

Genre: Drama
Sirocco (1938)

Sirocco (1938)

Sirocco (1938)
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100

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 France, first as the…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Alibi (1937)

Alibi (1937)

Alibi (1937)
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84

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she…

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Genre: Mystery
Crime and Punishment (1935)

Crime and Punishment (1935)

Crime and Punishment (1935)
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107

Pierre Chenal’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as an early forerunner of poetic realism.

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Genre: Crime, Drama