French cinema: 1956
Les Assassins du dimanche (1956)
Alex Joffé
Robert Simonet is a provincial garage owner whose ambition is to be as successful as his former boss. He is also a formidable amateur cyclist and is the favourite to win the cycling race to take place in his town...
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Alex Joffé
Le Ballon rouge (1956)
Albert Lamorisse
One day, a solitary little boy named Pascal comes across a spherical red balloon tied to a lamppost. Without hesitating, the boy releases the balloon and it begins following him as he continues wandering around the streets of Paris...
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Albert Lamorisse
Bob le flambeur (1956)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Once a renowned criminal, Bob Montagne now appears to be a reformed character, content to fritter away his time and his money in the casinos and gambling rooms of the shadier districts of Paris...
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Jean-Pierre Melville
Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956)
Luis Buñuel
Despite his bourgeois origins, Dr Valerio devotes himself to treating the poor on an island in the Mediterranean. His wife Angela leaves him to spend time with her family in Nice, having failed to persuade him to pursue a more lucrative career serving the idle rich in the south of France...
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Luis Buñuel
Crime et châtiment (1956)
Georges Lampin
Paris in the 1950s. Since he had to abandon his studies because of lack of funds René Brunel has become bitter and cynical over how society appears to be organised for the benefit of a wealthy minority...
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Georges Lampin
Gervaise (1956)
René Clément
In the 1850s, at the start of France's Second Empire, life is a constant struggle for most of the ordinary people of Paris... [More...]
René Clément
In the 1850s, at the start of France's Second Empire, life is a constant struggle for most of the ordinary people of Paris... [More...]
L'Homme aux clefs d'or (1956)
Léo Joannon
Antoine Fournier is a teacher in a college, a kind man who spends his free timing raising funds for a good cause. One day, Rémy Bellanger, one of his students, is caught by Fournier whilst stealing money in his office... [More...]
Léo Joannon
Antoine Fournier is a teacher in a college, a kind man who spends his free timing raising funds for a good cause. One day, Rémy Bellanger, one of his students, is caught by Fournier whilst stealing money in his office... [More...]
La Mort en ce jardin (1956)
Luis Buñuel
The setting is a small village on the Brazilian border. An adventurous young man named Shark arrives here at the same time as a party of diamond prospectors who are preparing to attack a small government garrison... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
The setting is a small village on the Brazilian border. An adventurous young man named Shark arrives here at the same time as a party of diamond prospectors who are preparing to attack a small government garrison... [More...]
Le Mystère Picasso (1956)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot is a renowned French film maker, best known for his pessimistic suspense thrillers. At the age of 75, Pablo Picasso is a legendary artist, one of the most celebrated creative talents of the 20th century... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot is a renowned French film maker, best known for his pessimistic suspense thrillers. At the age of 75, Pablo Picasso is a legendary artist, one of the most celebrated creative talents of the 20th century... [More...]
Le Sang à la tête (1956)
Gilles Grangier
When he started out as a modest dockworker thirty years ago, François Cardinaud could not have imagined that he would become one of the most powerful men in the port of La Rochelle... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
When he started out as a modest dockworker thirty years ago, François Cardinaud could not have imagined that he would become one of the most powerful men in the port of La Rochelle... [More...]
Si tous les gars du monde (1956)
Christian-Jaque
When the crew of a Breton fishing boat in the North Sea begin to fall mysteriously ill, the captain, La Guellec, tries to summon help via radio... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
When the crew of a Breton fishing boat in the North Sea begin to fall mysteriously ill, the captain, La Guellec, tries to summon help via radio... [More...]
La Traversée de Paris (1956)
Claude Autant-Lara
In Paris, during the Nazi occupation, Marcel Martin is forced to give up his job as a taxi driver, and makes a modest living as a blackmarket delivery boy... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
In Paris, during the Nazi occupation, Marcel Martin is forced to give up his job as a taxi driver, and makes a modest living as a blackmarket delivery boy... [More...]
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (1956)
Robert Bresson
In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, Lieutenant Fontaine is arrested by the Gestapo for his involvement with the Resistance... [More...]
Robert Bresson
In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, Lieutenant Fontaine is arrested by the Gestapo for his involvement with the Resistance... [More...]
Voici le temps des assassins (1956)
Julien Duvivier
André Chatelin manages a popular restaurant in Paris, adjacent to the busy Halles market. His is an uneventful but contented life, until the fateful day when he is visited by Catherine, the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
André Chatelin manages a popular restaurant in Paris, adjacent to the busy Halles market. His is an uneventful but contented life, until the fateful day when he is visited by Catherine, the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle... [More...]