French cinema: 1949
Les Amants de Vérone (1949)
André Cayatte
A film crew is shooting an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Venice. Bettina Verdi, the leading actress, visits a glass factory in Murano with her guide Raffaele...
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André Cayatte
Au p'tit zouave (1949)
Gilles Grangier
Au p'tit Zouave is a café run by Armand Billot and his wife in a working class district of Paris. The café is a popular haunt for ordinary people working in the area, although Billot's main preoccupation is his treasured goldfish, which he guards day and night from his wife's cat...
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Gilles Grangier
Au royaume des cieux (1949)
Julien Duvivier
Flanked by policemen, Maria Lambert, a 17-year-old orphan, arrives at Haute-Mère, a secure educational establishment located in an austere region of France that is at risk of flooding...
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Julien Duvivier
Au-delà des grilles (1949)
René Clément
Pierre is on the run from the police, careful to evade capture after murdering the mistress who dared to be unfaithful to him...
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René Clément
L'École buissonnière (1949)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
In 1920, Monsieur Pascal, a veteran of the First World War, arrives in a small Provençal town to take up a teaching post...
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Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Entre onze heures et minuit (1949)
Henri Decoin
It was between the hours of eleven o'clock at night and midnight that the crime took place. Jérôme Vidauban, a trafficker wanted by the police, is shot dead in a Paris subway by an unknown assassin... [More...]
Henri Decoin
It was between the hours of eleven o'clock at night and midnight that the crime took place. Jérôme Vidauban, a trafficker wanted by the police, is shot dead in a Paris subway by an unknown assassin... [More...]
Fantômas contre Fantômas (1949)
Robert Vernay
Brutally rejected by his one true love Irène de Charras, the renowned surgeon François de Bréval commits suicide by crashing his car into a tree at high speed... [More...]
Robert Vernay
Brutally rejected by his one true love Irène de Charras, the renowned surgeon François de Bréval commits suicide by crashing his car into a tree at high speed... [More...]
Le Furet (1949)
Raymond Leboursier
Paris is in the grip of a crime wave. A series of seemingly unrelated murders have taken place, and on each occasion the police are forewarned of the crime by a letter signed 'Le Furet'... [More...]
Raymond Leboursier
Paris is in the grip of a crime wave. A series of seemingly unrelated murders have taken place, and on each occasion the police are forewarned of the crime by a letter signed 'Le Furet'... [More...]
Gigi (1949)
Jacqueline Audry
Gigi is a girl on the threshold of womanhood, after being brought up in the protective cocoon of her wealthy grandmother, Mamita... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
Gigi is a girl on the threshold of womanhood, after being brought up in the protective cocoon of her wealthy grandmother, Mamita... [More...]
Hans le marin (1949)
François Villiers
Once the US navy ship Alabama has docked at the port of Marseille, three of its crew, including a Canadian Eric Martin, head straight for the Kit-Cat bar... [More...]
François Villiers
Once the US navy ship Alabama has docked at the port of Marseille, three of its crew, including a Canadian Eric Martin, head straight for the Kit-Cat bar... [More...]
Histoires extraordinaires (1949)
Jean Faurez
France, at the time of the Second Empire. One dreary night, three gendarmes regale a new recruit with tales of murder and intrigue with which they have had first hand experience... [More...]
Jean Faurez
France, at the time of the Second Empire. One dreary night, three gendarmes regale a new recruit with tales of murder and intrigue with which they have had first hand experience... [More...]
Jour de fête (1949)
Jacques Tati
It is 14th July and the arrival of a travelling fair in the sleepy French country town of Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre is greeted with enthusiasm by the locals, especially the children... [More...]
Jacques Tati
It is 14th July and the arrival of a travelling fair in the sleepy French country town of Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre is greeted with enthusiasm by the locals, especially the children... [More...]
Manon (1949)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
A cargo ship leaves Marseilles loaded with Jews, survivors of the Holocaust who hope to begin a new life in the recently founded state of Israel... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
A cargo ship leaves Marseilles loaded with Jews, survivors of the Holocaust who hope to begin a new life in the recently founded state of Israel... [More...]
La Marie du port (1949)
Marcel Carné
In 1949, Odile le Flem, a woman in her mid-thirties, makes a reluctant return to the small Normandy town where she grew up, Port-en-Bessin, to attend the funeral of her recently deceased father... [More...]
Marcel Carné
In 1949, Odile le Flem, a woman in her mid-thirties, makes a reluctant return to the small Normandy town where she grew up, Port-en-Bessin, to attend the funeral of her recently deceased father... [More...]
Maya (1949)
Raymond Bernard
When the cargo ship Saint-Jacques docks at a seaport, the crew waste no time going ashore to enjoy the distractions offered by the town... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
When the cargo ship Saint-Jacques docks at a seaport, the crew waste no time going ashore to enjoy the distractions offered by the town... [More...]
Occupe-toi d'Amélie (1949)
Claude Autant-Lara
Paris, 1910. Spectators at the Palais Royal watch in anticipation as the curtain rises on a stage production of Georges Feydeau's play Occupe-toi d'Amélie... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Paris, 1910. Spectators at the Palais Royal watch in anticipation as the curtain rises on a stage production of Georges Feydeau's play Occupe-toi d'Amélie... [More...]
Orphée (1949)
Jean Cocteau
Orphée is a poet who arouses anger wherever he goes, even though his work is still greatly admired. At a street café, his most vociferous opponents, a group of young firebrands called the Bacchantes, start a fight... [More...]
Jean Cocteau
Orphée is a poet who arouses anger wherever he goes, even though his work is still greatly admired. At a street café, his most vociferous opponents, a group of young firebrands called the Bacchantes, start a fight... [More...]
Pattes blanches (1949)
Jean Grémillon
Odette, an attractive young woman, arrives in the fishing town of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany and becomes the mistress of Jock, the owner of the local inn... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
Odette, an attractive young woman, arrives in the fishing town of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany and becomes the mistress of Jock, the owner of the local inn... [More...]
Le Point du jour (1949)
Louis Daquin
A mining community in the north of France... A young engineer Larzac begins work at the mine and soon takes objection to the management's authoritarian treatment of the miners... [More...]
Louis Daquin
A mining community in the north of France... A young engineer Larzac begins work at the mine and soon takes objection to the management's authoritarian treatment of the miners... [More...]
Rendez-vous de juillet (1949)
Jacques Becker
In his early 20s, Lucien Bonnard has made up his mind to become a celebrated explorer, but his bourgeois parents are insistent that he abandons these wild delusions and instead settle for a more conventional career like banking... [More...]
Jacques Becker
In his early 20s, Lucien Bonnard has made up his mind to become a celebrated explorer, but his bourgeois parents are insistent that he abandons these wild delusions and instead settle for a more conventional career like banking... [More...]
Le Sang des bêtes (1949)
Georges Franju
On the dreary outskirts of Paris, the city's poor live in tall tenement blocks bordered by undeveloped land which is a playground for children and a haven for lovers... [More...]
Georges Franju
On the dreary outskirts of Paris, the city's poor live in tall tenement blocks bordered by undeveloped land which is a playground for children and a haven for lovers... [More...]
Le Secret de Mayerling (1949)
Jean Delannoy
In the early hours of 30th January 1889, the Archduke Rudolph, crown prince of Austria, is found dead in his hunting lodge at Mayerling, lying on his bed beside his 17-year-old lover Marie Vetsera... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
In the early hours of 30th January 1889, the Archduke Rudolph, crown prince of Austria, is found dead in his hunting lodge at Mayerling, lying on his bed beside his 17-year-old lover Marie Vetsera... [More...]
Le Silence de la mer (1949)
Jean-Pierre Melville
In the winter of 1941, a German officer, Werner von Ebrennac, is billeted to a house in a small town in Nazi occupied France... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
In the winter of 1941, a German officer, Werner von Ebrennac, is billeted to a house in a small town in Nazi occupied France... [More...]
Tête blonde (1949)
Maurice Cam
As he heads home one evening, Frédéric Truche is delighted when he spies an abandoned parcel on a luggage rack in the Paris metro... [More...]
Maurice Cam
As he heads home one evening, Frédéric Truche is delighted when he spies an abandoned parcel on a luggage rack in the Paris metro... [More...]
Une si jolie petite plage (1949)
Yves Allégret
It is not the most welcoming of places - a barren stretch of coastline in northern France, made more inhospitable by the pounding rain and howling sea breeze... [More...]
Yves Allégret
It is not the most welcoming of places - a barren stretch of coastline in northern France, made more inhospitable by the pounding rain and howling sea breeze... [More...]