Musidora
Actor · 1889 – 1957 · Paris, France
Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer. She is best known for her acting in silent films, and rose to public attention for roles in the Louis Feuillade serials Les Vampires as Irma Vep and in Judex as Marie Verdier.
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Movie6.8DramaCrimeWhen an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and ominously disguised and sunk into the muddy path of vengeance, punishes the crooks and protects the innocents. (Originally a twelve-part epic serial.)
Judex
1916 · 21 votes
- Movie9.0Adventure
Les chacals
1917 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0
A French short film
La Peine du talion
1916 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaPisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own father.
Severo Torelli
1914 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaThrillerParis is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organization that sows chaos and death. The intrepid journalist Philippe Guérande and his partner embark on a long crusade to put an end to the crimes of the Great Vampire and Irma Vep, his dangerous accomplice. (A ten episode movie serial.)
Movie7.0A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.
Movie10.0ComedyLe furoncle
1915 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryPatrick Cazals’ film, La Dixième Muse, brings Musidora to life for the second time. The first occasion was the publication of his earlier book on the same subject with Henri Veyrier in 1978. The latter remains an essential work of reference because its author was the first person since Francis Lacassin to have surveyed Musidora’s career as a pioneering filmmaker and total artist. It includes previously undiscovered documents that are no longer accessible in their original form. This film too contains many previously unknown images found and selected by Patrick Cazals. Above all, it offers the animated image of a beauty in a close-fitting black suit, and her voice that speaks directly to us, alongside the voices of all those the director has brought together to establish a subtle bond with Musidora and bring her into our own age.
- Movie10.0Comedy
Short romantic comedy starring Musidora as a capricious woman.
Triple entente
1915 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaPrince Romano seduces Vicenta, a waitress in a shabby inn. She escapes to join him in Paris.
Vicenta
1920 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaThe central story of a young woman driven to suicide by the cares of earning piecework money to support her child.
- MovieDramaRomance
Movie7.0DramaPour Don Carlos was the biggest production by Société des Films Musidora (est. December 10, 1919). Based on a novel by Pierre Benoît, Musidora’s first creatively autonomous work is set during the conflict between Carlists and Bourbons in late 19th century Spain. Benoît insisted that Jacques Lasseyne, a Spanish grandee who put money into the production, should co-direct. The film was shot in 1920, in the Spanish Basque Country. It represents a turning point in Musidora’s career, sparking her passionate love affair with a country and a culture that welcomed her as a great star. Above all, though, she encountered Antonio Cañero, a bullfighter who acted as her technical adviser on the film. Because of him, she did all she could to ensure that her succeeding productions, until 1926, were shot in Spain. Pour Don Carlos was released in Paris and in Madrid in December 1921, in a shortened version because its original, three-hour length made it impossible to release in the market of the time.
Movie6.0DramaAn innkeeper, Juana, is courted by Jarana, a bullfighter who is then seduced by a stranger. Juana then confides in a hunchbacked antiquarian who loves her desperately.
Movie7.0A young intellectual, J. Powers, loses his faith in God after the untimely death of his wife. He devotes his great talents to writing a shockingly blasphemous book, debunking all religion, and then embarks on a trip to Jerusalem. Far from reconciling him to God, the sight of all the different sects worshipping in that ancient city only serves to embitter him and deepen his unbelief. One day, wandering in the country, he loses his way and stops to ask directions at a small house. The inhabitants are a poor but devout family whose daughter, Ruth, revives his broken heart. At the risk of losing her, he confesses to her his loss of faith, and she gently declares that meditation on the Gospels will heal him. He sorrowfully tells her that he wishes he could believe as she does, but it is impossible.
- Movie9.0
The sad adventures of a young Parisian woman.
Mademoiselle Chiffon
1919 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ComedyMysteryThe famous scientific detective Justin Crécelle and his faithful assistant Walter Jymson seek to halt the deeds of the "Clutching Foot" gang, who attempt to kidnap Hélène, the fiancée of Justin, in both possible and ridiculous ways. The film is a spoof of the Les Vampires serials, with Musidora appearing in one episode in costume.
- Movie7.0Drama
Musidora wants the hero of her next film to be a young toreador who is reluctant to play for the camera.
- MovieDocumentary
A documentary that takes a collage approach to depicting Musidora's career.
- Movie5.8Comedy
With the help of Lévesque and Musidora, Feuillade creates a light-hearted meta-fiction, self-parodying his own work.
Lagourdette, gentleman cambrioleur
1916 · 5 votes
- Movie7.0War
La jeune fille la plus méritante de France
1918 · 1 votes
- MovieFamilyDrama
This 1914 War patriotic melodrama tells the story of reconciliation between the remarried woman and her son.
- Movie8.0WarDrama
During the WWI, Jeannette (Musidora) finds refuge in the South France, among other women. She starts the correspondence with a soldier of the front line and sends him a parcel.
- MovieDrama
The patriotic melodrama, set during WWI, revolves around a thief played by René Navarre.