Pierre Chenal Movies
- 1959
Beast at Bay
Beast at Bay4.71959HD
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....
- 1958
Sinners of Paris
Sinners of Paris4.81958HD
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...
- 1951
Native Son
Native Son5.61951HD
Author Richard Wright portrays his novel's Bigger Thomas, a young chauffeur trapped in an accidental murder.
- 1938
The Lafarge Case
The Lafarge Case5.81938HD
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...
- 1939
The Last Turning
The Last Turning6.41939HD
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...
- 1937
Alibi
Alibi6.51937HD
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays...
- 1937
The Man from Nowhere
The Man from Nowhere6.71937HD
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...
- 1946
Devil and the Angel
Devil and the Angel5.41946HD
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,...
- 1956
Missing Persons Section
Missing Persons Section5.91956HD
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...
- 1934
Street Without a Name
Street Without a Name01934HD
The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their neighborhood will soon be demolished and a...
- 1938
Sirocco
Sirocco6.11938HD
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...
- 1945
Se abre el abismo
Se abre el abismo41945HD
The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.
- 1952
The Idol
The Idol6.51952HD
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...
- 1935
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment71935HD
Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as...
- 1970
Versatile Lovers
Versatile Lovers31970HD
Isabelle (Marisa Mell) runs a nursing home for wealthy women who are trying to detox from their various obsessions. Her lover, Serge Belaiev (Robert...
- 1936
Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
Les mutinés de l'Elseneur01936HD
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...
- 1943
A Real Man
A Real Man6.31943HD
A foreign woman marries a rich man.
- 1930
L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui
L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui101930HD
Regarding Le Corbusier: the man and his architecture
- 1958
Dangerous Games
Dangerous Games51958HD
Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where he is spotted by Fleur, a poor girl: she...
- 1944
El muerto falta a la cita
El muerto falta a la cita3.51944HD
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.