Alain Jessua Movies

In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day...

Hélène Masson visits her friend Gérôme Savignat in the isolated rejuvenation clinic owned by Dr. Devilers and his partner...

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time...

Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the...

Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain...

After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.

When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident....

French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for...

A young talented painter dreams of glory. A man promises it in exchange for his talent and his soul.

A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By...

The story of the French fantasy cinema from Méliès to Raw.

Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of...

Documentary on Max Ophüls and the making of Madame de...

The film documents an old drifter in Paris in the poetic realist style

The director Alain Jessua evokes his beginnings, his career and recalls with passion his experience with the greatest filmmakers.

Interview with Alain Jessua about his work on Max Ophuls' 1953 film THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...