Georges FranjuFilmography

Born:: April 12, 1912 in Fougères, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: First known for making disturbing documentaries that freely intermingled stark realism with a surrealistic edge, Georges Franju went on to use similar techniques for several haunting feature films. Co-founding the world-renowned Cinématheque Française with Henri Langlois provided Franju with his...Read More

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Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque

Actors: Henri Alékan, Jo Amorin, Jean-Michel Arnold, Christian Auboire, Raphael Bassan

Synopsis: Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with Jean Mitry and Georges Franju) one of the founders of the Cinémathèque Française, a theater and museum devoted to preserving the history of the motion picture. Initially a tiny Read More

10/12/05
Le Dernier Melodrame

Crew: Director

Actors: Michel Vitold, Edith Scob, Raymond Bussières, Juliette Mills, Luis Masson

Synopsis: Whether or not the title of this well-wrought film was intentional, this was indeed, the last melodrama made by director Georges Franju (1912-1987). The nostalgic story looks at the last days of a theatrical troupe as it travels around the French countryside performing in small towns in the 1950s. Read More

1980
Nuits Rouges

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director

Actors: Gayle Hunnicutt, Jacques Champreux, Josephine Chaplin

Synopsis: When a master thief (Jacques Champreux) sets his sights on the centuries-old treasure of the Knights Templar, he must struggle to outwit the devoted keepers of the fortune. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

11/20/74
L'Homme Sans Visage

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Man Without A Face is an archvillain, comic-book style, and in this French action movie, he proves to be a worthy foe. The villain has an extensive crime network, including a retreat under the streets of Paris. He has discovered that the Knights Templar, outlawed many hundreds of years before Read More

1973
La Faute De L'Abbe Mouret

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Francis Huster, Gillian Hills, Margo Lion, André Lacombe

Synopsis: A dedicated priest in frail health takes over a church attended by peasants who rejoice in the human love life has to offer them. Mouret (Francis Huster) is at odds with the wrathful rector (Andre Lacombe), who instills fear in the parishioners and takes exception to Mouret's embracing of the Read More

10/14/70
Thomas L'Imposteur

Crew: Director

Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Fabrice Rouleau, Jean Servais, Sophie Dares, Rosy Varte

Synopsis: Thomas (Fabrice Rouleau) is a 16 year old who poses as the nephew of a general to help a princess (Emmanuella Riva) get to Paris during World War I. She helps wounded soldiers by taking them back to her castle for medical care. Thomas is able to cut through the red tape, and soon the princess' Read More

1965
Judex

Crew: Director

Actors: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob, Michel Vitold, Théo Sarapo, Jacques Jouanneau

Synopsis: The characters and plot convolutions of the classic silent French serial Judex are thrust into a 1960s framework in this Georges Franju concoction. Channing Pollock plays a mysterious masked avenger who kidnaps evil-banker Michel Vitold, then sets about to turn the banker's friends and loved ones Read More

12/4/63
Thérèse Desqueyroux

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Sami Frey, Renee Devillers

Synopsis: Emmanelle Riva won a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of a tortured wife in this 1963 French-language adaptation of the novel by Francois Mauriac. Director Georges Franju remains faithful to the book. Riva plays the title character, who feels suffocated in her Read More

1962
Pleins Feux Sur l'Assassin

Crew: Director

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: Pleins Feux sur l'Assassin is a passable murder mystery by Georges Franju set in the atmospheric interior of an old chateau and involving the heirs to a fortune. The dying man whose fortune it is has played an unusual trick on those who would have his riches. He has hidden himself in a secret room Read More

1961
Eyes Without a Face

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Francois Guerin, Juliette Mayniel

Synopsis: French director Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film. Pierre Brasseur plays a brilliant plastic surgeon, Prof. Genessier, who has vowed to restore the face of his daughter, Christiane (Edith Scob), who was mutilated in an Read More

3/2/60
La Première Nuit

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1958
La Tête Contre les Murs

Crew: Director

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Charles Aznavour, Anouk Aimée, Jean Galland

Synopsis: La Tete Contre Les Muirs (U.S. title: The Keepers) was director Georges Franju's 2nd cinematic offering for 1958, and his first purely fictional film. Franju's prior training in documentaries helps to bring a veneer of reality to this harrowing glimpse within the walls of an insane asylum. Pierre Brasseur Read More

1958
Notre Dame: Cathedrale de Paris

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1957
Sur le Pont d'Avignon

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1956
La Théatre National Populaire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1956
Mon Chien

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1955
Monsieur et Madame Curie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1953
Les Poussières

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1953
Le Grand Méliès

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: French filmmaker Georges Franju, director of Eyes Without a Face, Blood of the Beasts, and several other renowned classics, pays fond tribute to one of his forerunners in Le Grand Melies, a half-hour biography about early film director and innovator George Melies. Sequences from the director's Read More

1952
Hotel Des Invalides

Crew: Director

1951
En Passant Par la Lorraine

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1950
Le Sang des Bêtes

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This vivid depiction of a slaughterhouse is presented in French with English subtitles. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1949