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Henri Alekan is a Actor, Director of Photography and Cinematography French born on 10 february 1909
Among those, 14 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Directed by Terence Young, Bernard Farrel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, James Robertson Justice, Véronique Vendell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
In the 1880s, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (Mason) and his mother Empress Elisabeth (Gardner), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that does not realize the need for social reform. The Prince of Wales (Robertson Justice), later to become Britain's King Edward VII, provides comic relief.
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams, Tullio Carminati
Roles Director of Photography
Rating79%
Ann, the crown princess of an unspecified country, has started a widely publicized tour of several European capitals. In Rome she becomes frustrated with her tightly scheduled life, to the point of throwing a fit. Her doctor gives her a sedative to calm her down and help her sleep, but she secretly leaves her country's embassy.
Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Jess Hahn, Akim Tamiroff
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) visits Istanbul, where she sees a traveling fair featuring replicas of treasures from the Topkapı Palace. Next she cases the Topkapı, fascinated by the emerald-encrusted dagger of Sultan Mahmud I. Leaving Turkey, she recruits her ex-lover, Swiss master-criminal Walter Harper (Maximilian Schell), to plan a theft of the dagger. They engage Cedric Page (Robert Morley), master of all things mechanical; Giulio, "The Human Fly" (Gilles Ségal), a mute acrobat; and the burly Hans (Jess Hahn), who will provide the muscle needed for the job.
Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Circus films, Films about religion, Films about angels, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Nick Cave
Roles Director of Photography
Rating78%
Set in contemporary West Berlin (at the time still enclosed by the Berlin Wall), Wings of Desire follows two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a painter struggling to find inspiration, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him. Their raison d'être is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality. In addition to the story of two angels, the film is also a meditation on Berlin's past, present, and future. Damiel and Cassiel have always existed as angels; they existed in Berlin before it was a city, and before there were even any humans.
Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama, Action, Historical
Themes French war films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Charles Boyer, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Howard Vernon, Lucien Desagnaux, Pierre Latour
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69%
Ce film retrace la résistance des cheminots français pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et leurs efforts (sabotage des trains et des voies) pour perturber la circulation des trains pendant l'occupation nazie.
Directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes La provence
Actors Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel, Silvia Monfort, Henri Arius, Antoine Balpêtré, Georges Lannes
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Dédicace : « Ce film est dédié respectueusement aux pionniers de la méthode psychoprophylactique d’accouchement sans douleur. Il a été réalisé avec l’aide de la maternité des métallurgistes à Paris où cette méthode a été pratiquée la première fois en France en 1952. »
Directed by André Hunebelle
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Gilbert Bécaud, Vittorio De Sica, Grethe Weiser, Grégoire Aslan, Roland Kaiser, Véra Valmont
Roles Director of Photography
Rating48%
Catherine Miller, une vedette du Casino de Paris, est remarquée par Alexandre Gordy, un auteur qui veut la faire jouer dans sa prochaine pièce. Catherine s'installe alors, avec sa famille, chez Gordi sur la Côte d'Azur. Jacques Merval, le secrétaire de Gordi, mais aussi l'auteur véritable des dernières pièces de Gordy, va faire en sorte qu'elle revienne au music-hall.
Directed by Yves Ciampi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Météorologie, Transport films, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films
Actors Jean Marais, Danielle Darrieux, Keiko Kishi, Sō Yamamura, Hitomi Nozoe, Kumeko Urabe
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58%
Le personnage central est Pierre Marsac, un ingénieur français qui travaille sur le chantier naval de Nagasaki.
Directed by Terence Young, Bernard Farrel
Origin France
Genres Action, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Toshiro Mifune, Capucine, Anthony Dawson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
Link Stuart (Bronson) is a ruthless outlaw, and co-leader along with Gauche (Delon) of a gang of bandits. Link and Gauche lead their gang on a successful train robbery, and discover that one of its cars carries a Japanese ambassador, who is bringing a ceremonial katana (sword) as a gift for President Ulysses S. Grant. Gauche takes the sword, and kills one of the two samurai guards, while members of his gang attempt to murder Link by throwing dynamite into the train car he occupies, then leaving him for dead.
Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Marcel Dalio, Florence Marly, Henri Vidal, Fosco Giachetti, Paul Bernard, Michel Auclair
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
As Germany is in the throes of losing World War II, a number of wealthy Nazis and some French sympathizers head for South America in a German submarine leaving from Oslo. The film's narrator is a French doctor (Henri Vidal) who has been kidnapped to tend a sick woman, Hilde Garosi (Florence Marly), the wife of one man and the lover of another, both aboard. The doctor realizes he will be murdered at any point once the woman has recovered so he tries various stratagems to escape. All fail.
Directed by Marcel Carné
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Jean Gabin, Blanchette Brunoy, Nicole Courcel, Odette Laure, René Blancard, Jane Marken
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
Henri, owner of a busy brasserie and cinema in Cherbourg, takes the easy-going Odile who lives with him to the funeral of her father in Port-en-Bessin. The two are bored with each other. He waits for her in a café where he is taken with a new waitress called Marie, unaware that she is Odile’s tough little sister. He buys an old trawler in Port-en-Bessin, which he visits often to oversee its restoration and to pursue Marie. She has a young admirer called Marcel who gets drunk and is knocked down by Henri’s car. Henri takes the lad to his apartment in Cherbourg, where Odile can look after him. One day the provocative Marie turns up at Cherbourg, tantalising Henri but not giving in. Tired of trying to seduce her, he takes her to Marcel’s room, where they find Odile in bed with him. Disgusted with all three, Marie gets a bus home. A phone call from there about his boat warns Henri that Marie has been threatening to throw herself into the sea. He drives over in haste and she tells him she can in fact swim like a fish. As a last effort at winning her, he slips the keys to his business into her victorious hand.
Directed by Jean Dréville
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films, Histoire de France, Films about royalty
Actors Jeanne Moreau, Louis de Funès, Armando Francioli, Henri Génès, Françoise Rosay, Robert Porte
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
La vie à la cour et à Paris autour du massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy en août 1572.
Directed by Abel Gance
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Claudia Cardinale, Leslie Caron, Elvire Popesco, Georges Marchal
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
The first half of this film covers Napoleon's coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle, where he beat both Austrian and Russian forces in his drive eastward.
Directed by Yves Ciampi, Jean Dewever
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Yves Montand, Jean Servais, Curd Jürgens, María Félix, Gérard Oury, Gert Fröbe
Roles Camera Operator
Rating66%
Dans un pays d'Afrique, un ancien pilote de chasse français (Michel Rivière) devenu pilote de brousse se rend compte qu'il transporte en contrebande une quantité importante de diamants. Il décide de les écouler à son propre profit. Par ailleurs le propriétaire des diamants charge un autre ancien pilote de chasse, allemand (Wolf Gerke), de les récupérer. Les deux hommes vont sympathiser quand ils découvrent qu'ils ont combattu au même endroit. Ils revivent en buvant les périodes de la guerre où ils furent des héros.
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Among those, 14 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
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Add to a movie listMayerling (1968)
, 2h20Directed by Terence Young, Bernard Farrel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, James Robertson Justice, Véronique Vendell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
In the 1880s, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (Mason) and his mother Empress Elisabeth (Gardner), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that does not realize the need for social reform. The Prince of Wales (Robertson Justice), later to become Britain's King Edward VII, provides comic relief.
Roman Holiday (1953)
, 1h58Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams, Tullio Carminati
Roles Director of Photography
Rating79%
Ann, the crown princess of an unspecified country, has started a widely publicized tour of several European capitals. In Rome she becomes frustrated with her tightly scheduled life, to the point of throwing a fit. Her doctor gives her a sedative to calm her down and help her sleep, but she secretly leaves her country's embassy.
Topkapi (1964)
, 2hDirected by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Jess Hahn, Akim Tamiroff
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) visits Istanbul, where she sees a traveling fair featuring replicas of treasures from the Topkapı Palace. Next she cases the Topkapı, fascinated by the emerald-encrusted dagger of Sultan Mahmud I. Leaving Turkey, she recruits her ex-lover, Swiss master-criminal Walter Harper (Maximilian Schell), to plan a theft of the dagger. They engage Cedric Page (Robert Morley), master of all things mechanical; Giulio, "The Human Fly" (Gilles Ségal), a mute acrobat; and the burly Hans (Jess Hahn), who will provide the muscle needed for the job.
Wings of Desire (1987)
, 2h8Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Circus films, Films about religion, Films about angels, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Nick Cave
Roles Director of Photography
Rating78%
Set in contemporary West Berlin (at the time still enclosed by the Berlin Wall), Wings of Desire follows two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a painter struggling to find inspiration, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him. Their raison d'être is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality. In addition to the story of two angels, the film is also a meditation on Berlin's past, present, and future. Damiel and Cassiel have always existed as angels; they existed in Berlin before it was a city, and before there were even any humans.
The Battle of the Rails (1946)
, 1h22Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama, Action, Historical
Themes French war films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Charles Boyer, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Howard Vernon, Lucien Desagnaux, Pierre Latour
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69%
Ce film retrace la résistance des cheminots français pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et leurs efforts (sabotage des trains et des voies) pour perturber la circulation des trains pendant l'occupation nazie.
The Case of Dr. Laurent (1957)
Directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes La provence
Actors Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel, Silvia Monfort, Henri Arius, Antoine Balpêtré, Georges Lannes
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Dédicace : « Ce film est dédié respectueusement aux pionniers de la méthode psychoprophylactique d’accouchement sans douleur. Il a été réalisé avec l’aide de la maternité des métallurgistes à Paris où cette méthode a été pratiquée la première fois en France en 1952. »
Paris Casino (1957)
, 1h35Directed by André Hunebelle
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Gilbert Bécaud, Vittorio De Sica, Grethe Weiser, Grégoire Aslan, Roland Kaiser, Véra Valmont
Roles Director of Photography
Rating48%
Catherine Miller, une vedette du Casino de Paris, est remarquée par Alexandre Gordy, un auteur qui veut la faire jouer dans sa prochaine pièce. Catherine s'installe alors, avec sa famille, chez Gordi sur la Côte d'Azur. Jacques Merval, le secrétaire de Gordi, mais aussi l'auteur véritable des dernières pièces de Gordy, va faire en sorte qu'elle revienne au music-hall.
Typhoon Over Nagasaki (1957)
, 1h55Directed by Yves Ciampi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Météorologie, Transport films, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films
Actors Jean Marais, Danielle Darrieux, Keiko Kishi, Sō Yamamura, Hitomi Nozoe, Kumeko Urabe
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58%
Le personnage central est Pierre Marsac, un ingénieur français qui travaille sur le chantier naval de Nagasaki.
Red Sun (1971)
, 1h49Directed by Terence Young, Bernard Farrel
Origin France
Genres Action, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Toshiro Mifune, Capucine, Anthony Dawson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
Link Stuart (Bronson) is a ruthless outlaw, and co-leader along with Gauche (Delon) of a gang of bandits. Link and Gauche lead their gang on a successful train robbery, and discover that one of its cars carries a Japanese ambassador, who is bringing a ceremonial katana (sword) as a gift for President Ulysses S. Grant. Gauche takes the sword, and kills one of the two samurai guards, while members of his gang attempt to murder Link by throwing dynamite into the train car he occupies, then leaving him for dead.
The Damned (1947)
, 1h40Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Marcel Dalio, Florence Marly, Henri Vidal, Fosco Giachetti, Paul Bernard, Michel Auclair
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
As Germany is in the throes of losing World War II, a number of wealthy Nazis and some French sympathizers head for South America in a German submarine leaving from Oslo. The film's narrator is a French doctor (Henri Vidal) who has been kidnapped to tend a sick woman, Hilde Garosi (Florence Marly), the wife of one man and the lover of another, both aboard. The doctor realizes he will be murdered at any point once the woman has recovered so he tries various stratagems to escape. All fail.
Marie of the Port (1950)
, 1h28Directed by Marcel Carné
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Jean Gabin, Blanchette Brunoy, Nicole Courcel, Odette Laure, René Blancard, Jane Marken
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
Henri, owner of a busy brasserie and cinema in Cherbourg, takes the easy-going Odile who lives with him to the funeral of her father in Port-en-Bessin. The two are bored with each other. He waits for her in a café where he is taken with a new waitress called Marie, unaware that she is Odile’s tough little sister. He buys an old trawler in Port-en-Bessin, which he visits often to oversee its restoration and to pursue Marie. She has a young admirer called Marcel who gets drunk and is knocked down by Henri’s car. Henri takes the lad to his apartment in Cherbourg, where Odile can look after him. One day the provocative Marie turns up at Cherbourg, tantalising Henri but not giving in. Tired of trying to seduce her, he takes her to Marcel’s room, where they find Odile in bed with him. Disgusted with all three, Marie gets a bus home. A phone call from there about his boat warns Henri that Marie has been threatening to throw herself into the sea. He drives over in haste and she tells him she can in fact swim like a fish. As a last effort at winning her, he slips the keys to his business into her victorious hand.
Queen Margot (1954)
, 1h33Directed by Jean Dréville
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films, Histoire de France, Films about royalty
Actors Jeanne Moreau, Louis de Funès, Armando Francioli, Henri Génès, Françoise Rosay, Robert Porte
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
La vie à la cour et à Paris autour du massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy en août 1572.
The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)
, 2h46Directed by Abel Gance
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Claudia Cardinale, Leslie Caron, Elvire Popesco, Georges Marchal
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
The first half of this film covers Napoleon's coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle, where he beat both Austrian and Russian forces in his drive eastward.
Heroes and Sinners (1955)
, 1h55Directed by Yves Ciampi, Jean Dewever
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Yves Montand, Jean Servais, Curd Jürgens, María Félix, Gérard Oury, Gert Fröbe
Roles Camera Operator
Rating66%
Dans un pays d'Afrique, un ancien pilote de chasse français (Michel Rivière) devenu pilote de brousse se rend compte qu'il transporte en contrebande une quantité importante de diamants. Il décide de les écouler à son propre profit. Par ailleurs le propriétaire des diamants charge un autre ancien pilote de chasse, allemand (Wolf Gerke), de les récupérer. Les deux hommes vont sympathiser quand ils découvrent qu'ils ont combattu au même endroit. Ils revivent en buvant les périodes de la guerre où ils furent des héros.