French cinema: 1940
Battement de coeur (1940)
Henri Decoin
On leaving a reformatory, Arlette finds herself alone and penniless in Paris. An orphan, she has no one to stay with and nowhere to go...
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Henri Decoin
Bécassine (1940)
Pierre Caron
Bécassine, a young Breton girl, works as a maid for the Marquise de Grand-Air, who lives with her daughter Annie and Uncle Coretin in a grand house by the sea...
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Pierre Caron
Cavalcade d'amour (1940)
Raymond Bernard
For hundreds of years, the château de Maupré has brought misfortune to its inhabitants, as those who choose to wed within its walls are destined to wed unhappily...
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Raymond Bernard
L'Émigrante (1940)
Léo Joannon
Christiane is the owner of a popular night club whose habitués includes Monrozat, a sad wreck of a man who is desperately looking for a woman to accompany him to South America to start a new life...
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Léo Joannon
La Fille du puisatier (1940)
Marcel Pagnol
France, 1939. Pascal Amoretti and his assistant Felipe earn an honest living by digging wells in their picturesque region of Provence...
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Marcel Pagnol
L'Héritier des Mondésir (1940)
Albert Valentin
When the old Baron of Mondésir dies, he leaves his entire estate to his illegitimate son Bien-Aimé, the village postman... [More...]
Albert Valentin
When the old Baron of Mondésir dies, he leaves his entire estate to his illegitimate son Bien-Aimé, the village postman... [More...]
L'Homme du Niger (1940)
Jacques de Baroncelli
Breval, the commander of a French garrison in the Sudan, persuades the politician François Mourrier of the necessity to construct a dam across the River Niger to improve farming conditions in the region... [More...]
Jacques de Baroncelli
Breval, the commander of a French garrison in the Sudan, persuades the politician François Mourrier of the necessity to construct a dam across the River Niger to improve farming conditions in the region... [More...]
Menaces (1940)
Edmond T. Gréville
France in 1938. Despite the Munich Agreement, the outbreak of war seems imminent. In a small Parisian hotel, several disparate individuals take refuge from the storm clouds that are gathering over Europe... [More...]
Edmond T. Gréville
France in 1938. Despite the Munich Agreement, the outbreak of war seems imminent. In a small Parisian hotel, several disparate individuals take refuge from the storm clouds that are gathering over Europe... [More...]
Monsieur Hector (1940)
Maurice Cammage
The vicomte de Saint-Amand, a skiing champion, sends his valet Hector ahead of him to prepare his apartment in Nice. Whilst his master is away, Hector dresses up in one of the vicomte's suits and meets and falls in love with Suzanne, a washroom attendant who has herself borrowed the fur coat of one of her clients... [More...]
Maurice Cammage
The vicomte de Saint-Amand, a skiing champion, sends his valet Hector ahead of him to prepare his apartment in Nice. Whilst his master is away, Hector dresses up in one of the vicomte's suits and meets and falls in love with Suzanne, a washroom attendant who has herself borrowed the fur coat of one of her clients... [More...]
Les Musiciens du ciel (1940)
Georges Lacombe
In Paris, Victor makes a dishonest living as a petty criminal. When his partner in crime is arrested for manufacturing forged coins, Victor begins begging on the street, pretending he is blind... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
In Paris, Victor makes a dishonest living as a petty criminal. When his partner in crime is arrested for manufacturing forged coins, Victor begins begging on the street, pretending he is blind... [More...]
Nuit de décembre (1940)
Curtis Bernhardt
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a world-class pianist, falls in love with an attractive young woman named Anne, but after a night of passion she mysteriously walks out of his life, never to return... [More...]
Curtis Bernhardt
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a world-class pianist, falls in love with an attractive young woman named Anne, but after a night of passion she mysteriously walks out of his life, never to return... [More...]
Paradis perdu (1940)
Abel Gance
In 1913, an aspiring young artist, Pierre, falls in love with a beautiful seamstress, Janine. Their Elysian summer is cut short when war breaks out and Pierre is sent to fight on the Western Front... [More...]
Abel Gance
In 1913, an aspiring young artist, Pierre, falls in love with a beautiful seamstress, Janine. Their Elysian summer is cut short when war breaks out and Pierre is sent to fight on the Western Front... [More...]
Le Président Haudecoeur (1940)
Jean Dréville
President Haudecoeur is a public prosecutor with a reputation for being strict and inflexible, both in his professional and private life... [More...]
Jean Dréville
President Haudecoeur is a public prosecutor with a reputation for being strict and inflexible, both in his professional and private life... [More...]
Sérénade (1940)
Jean Boyer
In Vienna of the 1810s, an unknown young composer, Franz Schubert, is struggling against self-doubt and his modest circumstances to make a success of his career... [More...]
Jean Boyer
In Vienna of the 1810s, an unknown young composer, Franz Schubert, is struggling against self-doubt and his modest circumstances to make a success of his career... [More...]
Sur le plancher des vaches (1940)
Pierre-Jean Ducis
Jean Durand is a modest office clerk who is tired of being treated as an object of ridicule by his boss and colleagues. He cannot believe his good fortune when he wins a lottery prize, but is less heartened when he discovers that his prize in an aeroplane... [More...]
Pierre-Jean Ducis
Jean Durand is a modest office clerk who is tired of being treated as an object of ridicule by his boss and colleagues. He cannot believe his good fortune when he wins a lottery prize, but is less heartened when he discovers that his prize in an aeroplane... [More...]
Les Surprises de la radio (1940)
Marcel Aboulker
The Bontemps are an ordinary French family who, like all of the other residents in the peaceful little village of Coussy la Chapelle, are chronically addicted to the radio... [More...]
Marcel Aboulker
The Bontemps are an ordinary French family who, like all of the other residents in the peaceful little village of Coussy la Chapelle, are chronically addicted to the radio... [More...]
Tempête (1940)
Bernard-Deschamps
When his latest scam in America attracts the attention of the police, international con artist Korlick beats a hasty retreat to Europe, where he has no difficulty finding investors for his phoney project to construct an artificial sea in the Sahara Desert... [More...]
Bernard-Deschamps
When his latest scam in America attracts the attention of the police, international con artist Korlick beats a hasty retreat to Europe, where he has no difficulty finding investors for his phoney project to construct an artificial sea in the Sahara Desert... [More...]