Les Amours finissent à l'aube (1953)
Henri Calef

Didier Guéret is in charge of marketing for a large automobile company based in Paris. He takes advantage of his frequent business trips to other cities across Europe to pursue short-lived amorous liaisons with various women he comes into contact with...   [More...]

Le Boulanger de Valorgue (1953)
Henri Verneuil

Valorgue, a quaint little town in the south of France, used to be such an idyllic spot. Now it is caught up in the most frenzied of civil wars, with half of the town siding with the good-natured baker, Félicien Hébrard, and the other half with the grocer, the cantankerous old widow Zanetti...   [More...]

Le Carrosse d'or (1953)
Jean Renoir

In the 18th Century, a travelling band of actors arrive in a Spanish colony in South America. When they are invited to perform before the royal court, the Viceroy, Ferdinand, instantly falls in love with the leading performer, Camilla...   [More...]

Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage (1953)
Albert Lamorisse

Across the vast expanse of wetland in the Camargue region of south-eastern France, a herd of wild horses roam, led by their indomitable leader White Mane...   [More...]

L'Ennemi public no 1 (1953)
Henri Verneuil

Having lost his job in a New York department store on account of his advanced myopia, Joe Calvet decides to cheer himself up with a visit to the cinema...   [More...]

L'Envers du paradis (1953)
Edmond T. Gréville

Badly in need of a few weeks of rest in tranquil surroundings, a Parisian named Gabriel Dautrand arrives in a small rural town in the south of France...   [More...]

Julietta (1953)
Marc Allégret

Whilst holidaying in Limoges, Madame Valender tries to marry her daughter Julietta to Hector d'Alpon, a wealthy prince, to make an impression on everyone...   [More...]

Madame de... (1953)
Max Ophüls

A wealthy Countess decides to sell her earrings to pay off a small debt, leading her husband, an important general, to believe that the jewels have been lost...   [More...]

Manon des sources (1953)
Marcel Pagnol

In a small Provençal village, the locals tell a newly installed schoolteacher the story of Manon, a young shepherdess who lives a wild and solitary life in the surrounding hills...   [More...]

Maternité clandestine (1953)
Jean Gourguet

In the suburbs of Paris, a gang of wayward adolescents led by Maurice survive on the spoils of their petty crimes. Under the instructions of small-time hoodlum André, the gang must hold up a cashier on his way home one evening...   [More...]

Les Orgueilleux (1953)
Yves Allégret

In a remote Mexican town, a coach deposits two strangers, an attractive young French woman Nelly and her visibly sick husband Tom...   [More...]

Le Salaire de la peur (1953)
Henri-Georges Clouzot

In a dusty, hot South American mining town, European immigrants eke out a meagre existence, struggling to find work in an area of high unemployment...   [More...]

Les Statues meurent aussi (1953)
Chris Marker

Today when we see an African sculpture made in a previous century we are likely to be fascinated by it, perhaps mesmerised by its unfamiliar exotic beauty...   [More...]

Thérèse Raquin (1953)
Marcel Carné

After being adopted by her aunt, Thérèse Raquin was forced into marrying her sickly cousin Camille at an early age...   [More...]

Un acte d'amour (1953)
Anatole Litvak

Some years after the war, an American, Robert Teller, pays a visit to a seaside town in the South of France. He casts his mind back to 1944, recalling his time in Paris immediately after the Liberation...   [More...]

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)
Jacques Tati

Monsieur Hulot sets out for his summer holiday at the peaceful seaside resort of St. Marc-Sur-Mer. No sooner has he arrived, in his trusty old jalopy, than the nightmare of his fellow holiday-makers begins...   [More...]

La Vie d'un honnête homme (1953)
Sacha Guitry

Through a combination of hard work and ruthlessness, Albert Ménard-Lacoste has become a wealthy businessman, although his austerity prevents him from being loved, even by his family...   [More...]