Jacques Feyder

Jacques Feyder

Date of Birth: 21 Jul 1885

Country: France

Biography: Jacques Feyder (21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema. He adopted French nationality in 1928.

Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 29 (Director), 13 (Writer)

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    The Kiss
    Irene (Greta Garbo) is unhappily married to an older businessman, but very much in love with a handsome young lawyer... (imdb)
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    Carnival in Flanders
    When the village of Boom, in Flanders, learns a Spanish Duke and his troops plan to pass the night, the 4-man army deserts and the Mayor plays dead; so the Mayor's wife organizes the townswomen to greet the invaders and preserve the peace with womanly wiles. (imdb)
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    Knight Without Armour
    Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. He becomes imprisoned in Siberia, as a revolutionary, until the 1917 uprisings. Amid the turmoil of the civil war between the red and white armies, he tries to flee Russia along with the beautiful Countess Alexandra. (imdb)
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    Visages d\
    Jean and Pierrette, the two children of Pierre Amsler, mayor of a mountain village in the Haut-Valais (Switzerland), are about 12 and 4 years old when her mother dies. While Pierrette fails to understand the situation and believes her nanny telling her that her mother is on a voyage, Jean is deeply shaken, nearly losing himself in long and bitter mourning. (imdb)
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    La loi du nord
    After killing his wife's lover Robert Shaw escapes to the north of Canada with the help of his secretary.
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    Crainquebille
    A poor vegetable peddler in Paris runs afoul of the law and finds himself ground up in the cogs of the corrupt French judicial system. (imdb)
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    Son of India
    A rajah''s son falls for an American girl touring India. (TCM.com)
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    Anna Christie
    Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent & respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. (imdb)
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    Daybreak
    Willi, a brash young lieutenant in the Austrian Imperial Guard, bent on an evening of pleasure, visits a house of ill repute and gambling parlor. (imdb)
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    Le grand jeu
    Pierre turns to a life of crime to support his wife. When he is discovered he decides to join the French Foreign Legion.
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    Macadam
    A hotel in the back streets of Paris has a bad reputation because of its owners shady dealings, much to her daughter's chagrin. When an man shows up looking to hide out after a crime things turn tense.
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    Les gens du voyage
    Intrigue follows a French traveling circus when the lion tamer's husband seeks refuge after escaping from prison.
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    Fahrendes Volk
    An escaped convict arrives seeks refuge at a circus where his lover and son work.
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    Pension Mimosas
    When his father is sent to prison Pierrot is adopted by the owners of a small gambling house and grows up to be a small time crook.
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    Une femme disparaît
    When a faded opera star commits suicide and leaves an unidentified corpse a series of people attempt to claim relation to her.
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    Die klugen Frauen
    Story of a town in Flanders under Spanish occupation which is preparing for a festival when they learn that a Spanish duke hopes to arrive in town.
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    Olympia
    Lieutenant Kovacs attempts to woo the princess Olympia against her mother's wishes.
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    Si l\
    Capt. Kovacs falls for the general's daughter against her mother's wishes.
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    Le spectre vert
    A group of people who knew each other years before discover that members of the group are being killed. (imdb)
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    Thérèse Raquin
    Thérèse, sick of her husband convinces her artist lover to do away with him.
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    Carmen
    After killing a man in a duel José escapes to Castille and enlists in the army, where he meets Carmen, an enchanting gypsy girl.
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    L\
    Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis. (imdb)
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    Gribiche
    Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.
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    Les nouveaux messieurs
    A theater electrician's love to a ballet dancer is tested when he is elected minister. (imdb)
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    Révolte dans la prison
    French-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Charles Boyer in Chester Morris's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
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    Biscot se trompe d\
    Burlesque comedy in which the tipsy Biscot returns to his apartment building but can't find his own place, going floor by floor into every one else's units.
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    La faute d\
    A modest man who applies for a job in an insurance firm is tormented by the idea that he has made a simple spelling mistake on his application.
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    Têtes de femmes, femmes de tête
    Boulevard comedy in which we never see the feet of any of the actors.A wronged woman gets help from her sister to retrieve her husband, who has been charmed away by a princess.
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    Le pied qui étreint
    A parody of the serial thrillers popularized in the US with Pearl White and Exploits of Elaine, in France with Les Vampires: Hero and assistant rescue girl from sinister gang.
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