French films of 1927
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s produced in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 in 1927
1927 in film
-Events:*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 7 - Abel Gance's Napoleon often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premiers at the Paris Opéra and would demonstrate techniques and equipment that would not be used for years to...

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1927

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1927
1927 in film
-Events:*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 7 - Abel Gance's Napoleon often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premiers at the Paris Opéra and would demonstrate techniques and equipment that would not be used for years to...

Antoinette Sabrier
L' Invitation au voyage
Celle qui domine Léon Mathot
Léon Mathot
Léon Mathot was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918....

 and Carmine Gallone
Carmine Gallone
Carmine Gallone was an early acclaimed Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered one of Italian cinema's top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty year career between 1913 and 1963.-Filmography:*Il bacio di Cirano *La donna nuda *Senza colpa! *Fior di...

 
Chantage
Chantage
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Henri Debain
Henri Debain
Henri Debain was a French film actor.He first appeared in Le Petit café in 1919 and acted in over 25 films between then and 1956.He directed three films including the acclaimed Mephisto in 1931....

Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Cousine de France Gaston Roudès
Gaston Roudès
Gaston Roudès was a French actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1920s and early 1930s...

Croquette
Croquette
A croquette is a small fried food roll containing, usually as main ingredients, mashed potatoes, and/or ground meat , shellfish, fish, vegetables, and soaked white bread, egg, onion, spices and herbs, wine, milk, beer or any of the combination thereof, sometimes with a filling, often encased in...

Louis Mercanton
Louis Mercanton
Louis Mercanton was a Swiss film director, Screenwriter and actor.-Selected filmography:Director* Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth co-director* Le mystère de la villa rose * The Nipper * Octave...

 
Dans l'ombre du harem Léon Mathot
Léon Mathot
Léon Mathot was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918....

 and André Liabel 
Duel
Duel
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Jacques de Baroncelli
Jacques de Baroncelli
Jacques de Baroncelli was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s....

 
Éducation de Prince
Éducation de Prince
Éducation de Prince was a silent French film released in 1927. The French title has been spelled slightly differently over the years. The known English title is Education of a Prince. The director was Henri Diamant-Berger. The known cast included Edna Purviance, Pierre Batcheff and Jean Dax...

Henri Diamant-Berger  Edna Purviance
Edna Purviance
Edna Purviance was an American actress during the silent movie era. She was the leading lady in many Charlie Chaplin movies. In a span of eight years, she appeared in over thirty films with Chaplin.-Early life:...

 
Marquitta
La Proie du vent
Sur un air de Charleston
Le Vertige
Le Vertige
-Production:Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and Robert Mallet-Stevens contributed to the set and costume design for the film.-External links:...

Napoléon Abel Gance
Abel Gance
Abel Gance was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse , La Roue , and the monumental Napoléon .-Early life:...

 
Albert Dieudonné
Albert Dieudonné
Albert Dieudonné was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist.Dieudonné was born in Paris, France and made his acting debut in silent film in 1908 for The Assassination of the Duke of Guise, with musical score by Camille Saint-Saëns. In 1924, he directed the film drama, "Catherine"...

 
Biography / War 3 wins (1981)
Paris Qui Dort
Paris Qui Dort
The Crazy Ray is a 1925 French science fiction comedy short film directed by René Clair. The film is about a mad doctor who uses a magic ray on citizens which causes them to freeze in strange and often embarrassing positions. People who are unaffected by the ray begin to loot Paris. The film's...

René Clair
René Clair
René Clair born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Paris and grew up in the Les Halles quarter. He attended the Lycée Montaigne and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver. After the war, he started a career as a journalist...

 
Sci-Fi (short)
Le Cinéma au service de l'histoire
En rade
En rade
En rade is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. It first appeared as a serial in the magazine La revue indépendante between November 1886 and April 1887. It was published in book form on 26 April, 1887 by Tresse et Stock...

Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.-Early life:Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a...

 
Fleur d’amour Marcel Vandal 
L’île d’amour Jean Durand , Berthe Dagmar 
L'Occident Henri Fescourt
Henri Fescourt
Henri Fescourt was a French film director. He directed some 40 films in his career.- Filmography:* 1912 : Un vol a été commis* 1912 : Le Petit restaurant de l'impasse Canin...

 
La Cousine Bette Max De Rieux 
La Glace a trois faces Jean Epstein
Jean Epstein
Jean Epstein was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Epstein directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the...

La Glu Henri Fescourt
Henri Fescourt
Henri Fescourt was a French film director. He directed some 40 films in his career.- Filmography:* 1912 : Un vol a été commis* 1912 : Le Petit restaurant de l'impasse Canin...

La grande envolée René Plaissety 
La grande épreuve Alexandre Ryder
Alexandre Ryder
Alexandre Ryder was a Polish born French film director best known for his crime drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.He directed some 20 films between 1920 and 1950....

 and André Dugès 
La madone des sleepings Marco de Gastyne
Marco de Gastyne
Marc Henri Benoist better known as Marco de Gastyne was a French painter, illustrator and later film director of more than a dozen films....

 and Maurice Gleize 
La maison sans amour Emilien Charpentier 
La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d’Arc fille de Lorraine Marco De Gastyne
Marco de Gastyne
Marc Henri Benoist better known as Marco de Gastyne was a French painter, illustrator and later film director of more than a dozen films....

 
La petite chocolatière René Hervil 
La petite marchande d'allumettes Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s...

 
La sirène des Tropiques Henri Etiévant, Mario Nalpas
La valse de l'adieu Henry Roussell
Henry Roussell
Henry Roussell was a French silent film actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.He starred in well over 40 films between 1912 and 1939.- External links :...

La Vestale du Gange André Hugon
André Hugon
André Hugon was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards particularly of the 1920s and into sound....

 
Le chasseur de chez Maxim’s Nicolas Rimsky
Nicolas Rimsky
Nicolas Rimsky was an Russian-born French film actor, director and writer. He was born in Moscow, Russia. In 1931, he directed and starred in Pas sur la bouche , based on an operetta by André Barde.-External links:*...

, Roger Lion 
Le chauffeur de mademoiselle Henri Chomette 
Le manoir de la peur Alfred Machin
Alfred Machin
Alfred Machin was one of the rare French film directors whose films expressed progressivist tendencies before World War I. Ironically it turns out during this war his films of the current events were of cinematographic service to the French Army. After 1920, AlfredMachin devoted himself in...

, Henri Wulschleger 
Le mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans
Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans
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Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960...

 
le Baiser qui tue Dr. T. Malachowski , Jean Choux
Jean Choux
Jean Choux was a French film director and producer.-Filmography:*1925 : La Vocation d'André Carel*1926 : La Terre qui meurt*1927 : Le Baiser qui tue*1928 : Espionnage ou la guerre sans armes*1929 : Chacun porte sa croix...

 
Le bonheur du jour Gaston Ravel 
Le mystère de la Tour Eiffel Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960...

 
Le Passager Jacques de Baroncelli
Jacques de Baroncelli
Jacques de Baroncelli was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s....

Le prince Jean René Hervil 
La Reve Jacques de Baroncelli
Jacques de Baroncelli
Jacques de Baroncelli was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s....

 
Le sous-marin de cristal Marcel Vandal 
Le Train de 8H 47 Georges Pallu 
Les cœurs héroïques Georges Pallu 
Les transatlantiques Pierre Colombier
Pierre Colombier
-Selected filmography:Director* Charlemagne * School for Coquettes...

 
Madame Récamier Gaston Ravel 
Minuit… Place Pigalle René Hervil 
Pardonnée Jean Cassagne
Paris-New York-Paris Robert Péguy
Robert Péguy
Robert Péguy was a French film director best known for his films of the 1920s and 1930s.He directed some 30 films between 1910 and 1946. His career peaked in the 1930s.- External links :...

 
Poker d’as Henri Desfontaines
Henri Desfontaines
Henri Desfontaines was a French film director, actor and scriptwriter.- As director :* 1908 : Hamlet* 1909 : Le Puits et le pendule* 1910 : Un invité gênant...

 
Sables Dimitri Kirsanoff
Dimitri Kirsanoff
Dimitri Kirsanoff was an early filmmaker, considered part of the French Impressionist movement in film. He is known for his inexpensively made experimental films.-Early life:...

 
Six et demi, onze Jean Epstein
Jean Epstein
Jean Epstein was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Epstein directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the...

 
Un chapeau de paille d’Italie René Clair
René Clair
René Clair born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Paris and grew up in the Les Halles quarter. He attended the Lycée Montaigne and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver. After the war, he started a career as a journalist...

 
Une java Jean de Size 
Yvette
Yvette
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Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.-Early life:Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a...

 

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