Jacques Prévert Movies

A look at Paris in 1928 in black and white and then color sequences filmed in the same places in 1959.

A biography of the French actress Arletty.

In Paul Grimault's satire of the arms trade, the dealer is alerted to the breakout of war by a signal on his map, so travels in turn to each of two...

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

A poetic ode to the River Seine, Ivens' distinguished camera eye surveys its lively banks and step-stone canals with a vérité candor, a...

Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and...

A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the...

Ernest is a former infantryman dazed by his experience in the trenches. One day, he hears cannon fire and believes the nightmare has returned. He...

An adaptation of a children's poem called Chanson des escargots qui vont à l'enterrement by Jacques Prévert, starring Joseph...

This short documents the important role played by bread in the daily life of the city of Paris.

The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to...

Two out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic complications ensue.

The short film is based on a poem by Jacques Prévert. The poem speaks of the irony of the fact that the newspaper warns us about deforestation...

The cruel Professor Savantas invites himself into an oasis cut off from the world to recover a huge diamond, which is the totem of the indigenous...