Alexandre Astruc

Alexandre Astruc

Alexandre Auguste Astruc (13 July 1923 – 19 May 2016) was a French film critic and film director. Before becoming a film director he was a journalist, novelist and film critic. His contribution to the auteur theory centers on his notion of the caméra-stylo or "camera-pen" and the idea that directors should wield their cameras like writers use their pens. In 1994 he was awarded the René Clair Award for his whole body of film work.

  • Title: Alexandre Astruc
  • Popularity: 1.491
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1923-07-13
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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  • Also Known As: Alexandre Auguste Astruc
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Alexandre Astruc Movies

  • 1950
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    Paris Waltz

    Paris Waltz

    5 1950 HD

    A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.

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  • 1949
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    Rendezvous in July

    Rendezvous in July

    5.7 1949 HD

    Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.

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  • 1957
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    A Girl in a Pocket

    A Girl in a Pocket

    4.3 1957 HD

    A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by...

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  • 1974
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    Charlotte

    Charlotte

    3.3 1974 HD

    Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime...

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  • 1993
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    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

    5.1 1993 HD

    Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk...

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  • 1966
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    Long March

    Long March

    1 1966 HD

    In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He...

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  • 1955
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    Bad Liaisons

    Bad Liaisons

    6 1955 HD

    Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for...

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  • 1954
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    Count of Bragelonne

    Count of Bragelonne

    4.7 1954 HD

    Raoul De Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.

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  • 1961
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    Shadows of Adultery

    Shadows of Adultery

    6.1 1961 HD

    Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she...

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  • 1958
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    End of Desire

    End of Desire

    5.4 1958 HD

    Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know...

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  • 1955
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    Bad Liaisons

    Bad Liaisons

    6 1955 HD

    Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for...

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  • 1953
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    The Crimson Curtain

    The Crimson Curtain

    7.154 1953 HD

    A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars....

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  • 1953
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    The Crimson Curtain

    The Crimson Curtain

    7.154 1953 HD

    A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars....

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  • 1962
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    Sentimental Education

    Sentimental Education

    5 1962 HD

    Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model...

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  • 1964
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    The Pit and the Pendulum

    The Pit and the Pendulum

    6.3 1964 HD

    A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition...

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  • 1964
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    The Pit and the Pendulum

    The Pit and the Pendulum

    6.3 1964 HD

    A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition...

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  • 1953
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    Les Crimes de l'amour

    Les Crimes de l'amour

    6 1953 HD

    Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars,...

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  • 1976
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    Sartre by Himself

    Sartre by Himself

    7 1976 HD

    Michel Contat is Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS, ITEM/CNRS/ENS and a specialist of Jean-Paul Sartre whose novels and theater he has edited...

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  • 1968
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    Adriatic Sea of Fire

    Adriatic Sea of Fire

    5.8 1968 HD

    The film tells the story of the Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb which fights against Germany in 1941, and how some of the crew members try to organise a...

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  • 2001
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    Savage Souls

    Savage Souls

    4.5 2001 HD

    At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20...

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  • 1964
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    Bassae

    Bassae

    7.875 1964 HD

    "I was interested by the fact that some old guy, after the Parthenon’s glamour, devoted himself in a much smaller temple, where there was no...

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  • 1961
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    Shadows of Adultery

    Shadows of Adultery

    6.1 1961 HD

    Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she...

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  • 1961
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    Shadows of Adultery

    Shadows of Adultery

    6.1 1961 HD

    Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she...

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  • 1965
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    Evariste Galois

    Evariste Galois

    6.2 1965 HD

    Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.

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  • 1981
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    The Fall of the House of Usher

    The Fall of the House of Usher

    6 1981 HD

    After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick...

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  • 1993
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    Albert Savarus

    Albert Savarus

    1 1993 HD

    Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths...

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  • 1993
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    Albert Savarus

    Albert Savarus

    1 1993 HD

    Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths...

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  • 1980
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    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

    1 1980 HD

    An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying...

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  • 1965
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    Evariste Galois

    Evariste Galois

    6.2 1965 HD

    Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.

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  • 1958
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    End of Desire

    End of Desire

    5.4 1958 HD

    Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know...

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  • 1952
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    The Respectful Prostitute

    The Respectful Prostitute

    5.3 1952 HD

    Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a...

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  • 1966
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    Long March

    Long March

    1 1966 HD

    In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He...

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  • 1970
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    Introduction à la Méthode de F. W. Murnau

    Introduction à la Méthode de F. W. Murnau

    1 1970 HD

    A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc, originally aired...

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  • 1974
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    The Purloined Letter

    The Purloined Letter

    1 1974 HD

    Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.

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  • 1980
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    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

    1 1980 HD

    An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying...

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  • 1975
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    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    6 1975 HD

    A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    9 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    10 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    10 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    10 1970 HD

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