French cinema: 1950
Agnès de rien (1950)
Pierre Billon
At the insistence of her husband Francis, Agnès de Chaligny is forced to take up residence in his ancestral family home in the country whilst he, a struggling artist in Paris, sorts out his finances...
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Pierre Billon
La Beauté du diable (1950)
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature...
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René Clair
Le Château de verre (1950)
René Clément
Evelyne Bertal could not be happier, living the kind of life most people would envy in Berne with her devoted husband Laurent, a lawyer...
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René Clément
Chéri (1950)
Pierre Billon
Paris, at the time of the Belle Époque... Known to his female admirers as Chéri, Fred Peloux is the son of the high-class courtesan Charlotte Peloux and spends most of his time in the company of his mother's friends, all fading prostitutes...
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Pierre Billon
Les Enfants terribles (1950)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Paul and Elisabeth are a teenage brother and sister who live with their dying mother in a cramped apartment. When Paul is injured in a snowball fight, the overly protective Elisabeth takes care of him, although she also taunts him...
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Jean-Pierre Melville
Guernica (1950)
Alain Resnais
The work of the artist Pablo Picasso and a poem by Paul Eluard are woven into this personal reflection on one of the most heinous of war crimes, the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica at the time of the Spanish Civil War... [More...]
Alain Resnais
The work of the artist Pablo Picasso and a poem by Paul Eluard are woven into this personal reflection on one of the most heinous of war crimes, the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica at the time of the Spanish Civil War... [More...]
Manèges (1950)
Yves Allégret
As his wife Dora lies close to death in a hospital bed after a horrific car accident, Robert looks back with guilt and tenderness on their brief life together... [More...]
Yves Allégret
As his wife Dora lies close to death in a hospital bed after a horrific car accident, Robert looks back with guilt and tenderness on their brief life together... [More...]
Minne, l'ingénue libertine (1950)
Jacqueline Audry
Minnie is a flighty young woman who, bored with her mundane bourgeois existence, takes refuge in her childish fantasies. On her wedding night, she regales her husband Antoine with a lurid account of a passionate liaison she once had with a hoodlum... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
Minnie is a flighty young woman who, bored with her mundane bourgeois existence, takes refuge in her childish fantasies. On her wedding night, she regales her husband Antoine with a lurid account of a passionate liaison she once had with a hoodlum... [More...]
Miquette et sa mère (1950)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In 1900, 18-year-old Miquette Grandier lives in a small provincial town with her widowed mother, Madame Grandier, the owner of a tobacco shop... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In 1900, 18-year-old Miquette Grandier lives in a small provincial town with her widowed mother, Madame Grandier, the owner of a tobacco shop... [More...]
Nous irons à Paris (1950)
Jean Boyer
Jacques, Paul and Julien have one ambition: to host a new radio show. Unable to break into national radio, they decide to create their own radio station... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Jacques, Paul and Julien have one ambition: to host a new radio show. Unable to break into national radio, they decide to create their own radio station... [More...]
Quai de Grenelle (1950)
Emil E. Reinert
Jean-Louis Cavalade is an impetuous young man who likes nothing better than to hunt snakes in the Forest of Fontainebleau... [More...]
Emil E. Reinert
Jean-Louis Cavalade is an impetuous young man who likes nothing better than to hunt snakes in the Forest of Fontainebleau... [More...]
La Ronde (1950)
Max Ophüls
An all-knowing master of ceremonies guides us through a series of brief love affairs that take place in Vienna of 1900, using a carousel as a metaphor for the revolving series of liaisons which he nudges along... [More...]
Max Ophüls
An all-knowing master of ceremonies guides us through a series of brief love affairs that take place in Vienna of 1900, using a carousel as a metaphor for the revolving series of liaisons which he nudges along... [More...]
Souvenirs perdus (1950)
Christian-Jaque
Four forgotten objects in a lost property office each has a story to tell. An Egyptian statue was a present that Philippe once gave to his lover Florence... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Four forgotten objects in a lost property office each has a story to tell. An Egyptian statue was a present that Philippe once gave to his lover Florence... [More...]
Un chant d'amour (1950)
Jean Genet
In a French prison, two inmates in solitary cells try to communicate with one another. One is young, clean and handsome; the other somewhat older, unshaved and unkempt... [More...]
Jean Genet
In a French prison, two inmates in solitary cells try to communicate with one another. One is young, clean and handsome; the other somewhat older, unshaved and unkempt... [More...]
Un homme marche dans la ville (1950)
Marcello Pagliero
In the late 1940s, Madeleine and André Laurent live in Le Havre, a town that appears as grimly desolate and battle-scarred as their marriage... [More...]
Marcello Pagliero
In the late 1940s, Madeleine and André Laurent live in Le Havre, a town that appears as grimly desolate and battle-scarred as their marriage... [More...]
La Valse de Paris (1950)
Marcel Achard
Paris, in the mid-1800s. Hortense Schneider is an aspiring young actress who is keen to appear in Jacques Offenbach's next operetta... [More...]
Marcel Achard
Paris, in the mid-1800s. Hortense Schneider is an aspiring young actress who is keen to appear in Jacques Offenbach's next operetta... [More...]