Hand-Picked Alternatives Movies That Echo the Spirit of Le pied qui...

Dir: Jacques Feyder

After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Les nouveaux messieurs perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A theater electrician's love to a ballet dancer is tested when he is elected minister.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father is in jail, into their home. Which makes Louise Noblet all the happier as she can't have children herself. But, after a while, Pierre's father is released from prison and reclaims his son... Time passes and Pierre, now a young adult, lives in Paris more or less on the wrong side of the law. He has a mistress, Nelly, who does not say no to other men's money... Louise, who still loves Pierre as her own son, wants only one thing - to help him get by.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Pension Mimosas perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Simultaneously filmed German language version of the French classic La Kermesse Heroique, in which women of a 17th century Flanders town ,after the men have run off, win over the invading Spanish by collaborating and offering hospitality.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father's new wife, not wanting her to take the place of his beloved mother, and makes life miserable for his new stepsister..

Dir: Jacques Feyder

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Die klugen Frauen perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

3 men fall in love with a woman from a window photograph .When they find her living as a recluse in an isolated Hungarian mansion, they decide against a visit because she wouldn't live up to their idealized images of her.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Mother perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

One of three foreign language versions of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: a princess in the court of the old Austro-Hungarian empire rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instead, a dashing cavalry captain.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

Willi, a brash young lieutenant in the Austrian Imperial Guard, bent on an evening of pleasure, visits a gambling parlor and house of ill-repute. He meets Laura, a sweet innocent girl and spends the night with her, leaving her money in the morning. Devastated to realize that he found her a mere convenience, she becomes the mistress of Herr Schnabel, an unpleasant but wealthy gentleman. Never quite getting over Laura, Willi is goaded by her into gambling with Schnabel and losing more money to him than he can possibly repay. Laura is unaware that Willi must either pay his debt by the next day or take the only other honorable way out: committing suicide.