Humbert Balsan Movies

In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is...

A group of disillusioned young Parisians look for satisfaction in political activism, religion, romance, music, and drugs.

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his...

Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his...

Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a...

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it...

A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.

A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.

Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in...

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The...

Paul and Agnes have been going out for quite a while and Agnes is shocked to learn that he'd rather live with two roommates on campus than move in...

After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.

The end of an affair from the woman's point of view.

Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a...

A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret and tortured life.

Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take...

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian...

When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.