Le Blé en herbe (1954)
Claude Autant-Lara

Some time in the 1920s, the Ferrets and their two daughters, Vinca and Lisette, spend their summer holiday on the coast of Brittany...   [More...]

French Cancan (1954)
Jean Renoir

Nini, a pretty laundry worker, is recruited by Monsieur Danglard, along with a number of other attractive young women, to join his theatre company...   [More...]

Le Guérisseur (1954)
Yves Ciampi

Stricken with a sudden heart attack, Madame Mériadec, a woman in her fifties, is as good as dead until Pierre Laurent shows up at her bedside and applies his unique method of treatment...   [More...]

Huis clos (1954)
Jacqueline Audry

On leaving an elevator, a diverse group of people find themselves in the lobby of what looks like a plush hotel. The receptionist deals with the new arrivals with a cold professionalism and, one by one, they are directed to their rooms...   [More...]

J'y suis... j'y reste (1954)
Maurice Labro

Nénette, the owner of a downmarket bar-café, has decided to marry her barman, Jules, but it seems she is already married without her knowledge - to the Baron Hubert de Mont-Vermeil...   [More...]

Les Lettres de mon moulin (1954)
Marcel Pagnol

Alphonse Daudet, purchases a windmill in Pampérigouste, an attractive region of rural France, so that he can write a series of short stories about country folk...   [More...]

Le Mouton à cinq pattes (1954)
Henri Verneuil

Trézignan is a sleepy little town in the southeast of France. Anxious to raise the profile of the town and draw in more visitors, the mayor decides to hold a celebratory fête in honour of a set of quintuplets who were born in the town exactly forty years ago...   [More...]

Le Rouge et le noir (1954)
Claude Autant-Lara

Before a court of law, Julien Sorel confesses to the attempted murder of the woman he loved and asks that he be condemned to death...   [More...]

Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
Jacques Becker

Max and Riton are two ageing gangsters who have just pulled off a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Orly airport. Both men hope to retire gracefully on their ill-gotten gains but their plans are jeopardised when Riton says more than he should to his mistress Josy...   [More...]