French cinema: 1946
La Bataille du rail (1946)
René Clément
This episodic film recounts the exploits of French railway workers supporting the activities of the French Resistance during the Second World War...
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René Clément
La Belle et la bête (1946)
Jean Cocteau
Once upon a time, there was an old merchant who, having fallen on hard times, lives with his three daughters and his son at their modest house in the country...
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Jean Cocteau
Deux amis (1946)
Dimitri Kirsanoff
1870, during the Franco-Prussian War. Paris is under siege and food is so scarce that its inhabitants are forced to eat their household pets and any rats they can catch...
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Dimitri Kirsanoff
Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons (1946)
Georges Rouquier
The Aveyron district of southern France is noted for its high rocky plateaus which give the countryside a distinctive, almost Neolithic character...
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Georges Rouquier
La Foire aux chimères (1946)
Pierre Chenal
Frank Davis is the unimpeachable director of a company that prints what he claims to be unforgeable banknotes. In his fifties, he is an object of ridicule on account of the facial disfigurement he acquired in an accident...
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Pierre Chenal
L'Homme au chapeau rond (1946)
Pierre Billon
Shortly after the death of his wife, Nicolas is shocked to discover that he is not the biological father of their infant daughter, Liza... [More...]
Pierre Billon
Shortly after the death of his wife, Nicolas is shocked to discover that he is not the biological father of their infant daughter, Liza... [More...]
L'Idiot (1946)
Georges Lampin
After a long stay in Switzerland, where he has been receiving treatment for epilepsy, a Russian prince, Muychkine, returns to Saint Petersburg... [More...]
Georges Lampin
After a long stay in Switzerland, where he has been receiving treatment for epilepsy, a Russian prince, Muychkine, returns to Saint Petersburg... [More...]
Jericho (1946)
Henri Calef
In February 1944, the Germans still occupy the town of Amiens in northern France. The tide of the war is rapidly turning but the town's inhabitants continue to live in fear of what Fate has in store for them... [More...]
Henri Calef
In February 1944, the Germans still occupy the town of Amiens in northern France. The tide of the war is rapidly turning but the town's inhabitants continue to live in fear of what Fate has in store for them... [More...]
Macadam (1946)
Jacques Feyder
The Hôtel Bijou in Montmartre, Paris, shares the seedy reputation of its owner, Madame Rose, a woman who killed her husband because he was too honest... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
The Hôtel Bijou in Montmartre, Paris, shares the seedy reputation of its owner, Madame Rose, a woman who killed her husband because he was too honest... [More...]
Patrie (1946)
Louis Daquin
Flanders in the late 16th century. With his country under occupation by the armies of the King of Spain, the nobleman Count Rysoor enters into a pact with William of Orange to lead a revolt that will free his people from Spanish rule... [More...]
Louis Daquin
Flanders in the late 16th century. With his country under occupation by the armies of the King of Spain, the nobleman Count Rysoor enters into a pact with William of Orange to lead a revolt that will free his people from Spanish rule... [More...]
Le Pays sans étoiles (1946)
Georges Lacombe
After an accident in which he suffers a head injury, Simon Legouge, a modest notary's clerk, begins to experience a series of strange visions... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
After an accident in which he suffers a head injury, Simon Legouge, a modest notary's clerk, begins to experience a series of strange visions... [More...]
Le Père tranquille (1946)
René Clément
Monsieur Martin is a contented man who lives a peaceful existence in the small French town of Moisson with his wife and two children, Monique and Pierre... [More...]
René Clément
Monsieur Martin is a contented man who lives a peaceful existence in the small French town of Moisson with his wife and two children, Monique and Pierre... [More...]
Les Portes de la nuit (1946)
Marcel Carné
In February 1945, Jean Diego is tasked with breaking the news to the wife of a friend of his, Pierre, that her husband has been executed by the Nazis... [More...]
Marcel Carné
In February 1945, Jean Diego is tasked with breaking the news to the wife of a friend of his, Pierre, that her husband has been executed by the Nazis... [More...]
La Revanche de Roger la Honte (1946)
André Cayatte
Twelve years have passed. Under the name Farrell, Laroque has settled in Canada, where he has made a fortune. But Suzanne, now a ravishing young woman, is haunted by the drama that upset her childhood... [More...]
André Cayatte
Twelve years have passed. Under the name Farrell, Laroque has settled in Canada, where he has made a fortune. But Suzanne, now a ravishing young woman, is haunted by the drama that upset her childhood... [More...]
Roger la Honte (1946)
André Cayatte
In 1885, the industrialist Roger Laroque, the owner of a factory in Ville d'Avray, has put all his hopes in his latest invention, the first steam-powered motorcar... [More...]
André Cayatte
In 1885, the industrialist Roger Laroque, the owner of a factory in Ville d'Avray, has put all his hopes in his latest invention, the first steam-powered motorcar... [More...]
Sylvie et le fantôme (1946)
Claude Autant-Lara
Sylvie is an imaginative 16 year old girl who has fallen in love with a man in an old portrait - Alain de Francigny, her grandmother's lover, who died many years ago in a duel... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Sylvie is an imaginative 16 year old girl who has fallen in love with a man in an old portrait - Alain de Francigny, her grandmother's lover, who died many years ago in a duel... [More...]
La Symphonie pastorale (1946)
Jean Delannoy
The young pastor of a mountain village adopts a small blind girl, Gertrude. As Gertrude grows up into an attractive young woman the pastor, now middle-aged, realises that he is in love with her... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
The young pastor of a mountain village adopts a small blind girl, Gertrude. As Gertrude grows up into an attractive young woman the pastor, now middle-aged, realises that he is in love with her... [More...]
Un ami viendra ce soir (1946)
Raymond Bernard
August 1944. On the outskirts of a small village in the French Alps, Dr Lestrade manages an asylum for the mentally deranged... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
August 1944. On the outskirts of a small village in the French Alps, Dr Lestrade manages an asylum for the mentally deranged... [More...]
Un revenant (1946)
Christian-Jaque
Impresario Jean-Jacques Sauvage returns to his home town of Lyons, ostensibly to stage a new ballet production, but as he renews old acquaintances it is evident that he has darker motives in mind... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Impresario Jean-Jacques Sauvage returns to his home town of Lyons, ostensibly to stage a new ballet production, but as he renews old acquaintances it is evident that he has darker motives in mind... [More...]