Jacques Prévert Movies

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other...

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious...

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are...

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As...

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate,...

A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a...

At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events the led him to the killing.

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee...

A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their...

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them...

Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the...

A budding romance between two toy dancers is put into dangers when the boy is conscripted into the toy army.

When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner...

Once upon a time there lived in the same village two men bearing the very same name. One of them chanced to possess four horses, the other had only...

Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.

Documentary filmmaker Védrès' first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie Commence Demain. The film made it...

A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love...