French cinema: 1943
Adémaï bandit d'honneur (1943)
Gilles Grangier
Adémaï decides to take a well-deserved holiday on the island of Corsica at the invitation of some distant relatives...
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Gilles Grangier
Adieu Léonard (1943)
Pierre Prévert
Not able to make an honest living by selling paper lanterns, Félicien Léonard resorts to a spot of safe cracking to supplement his meagre income...
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Pierre Prévert
Adrien (1943)
Fernandel
To look at him, you would hardly think that Adrien Moulinet, a modest bank cashier in his mid-thirties, would be marked for greatness...
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Fernandel
Les Anges du péché (1943)
Robert Bresson
Rather than follow the life of wealth and comfort that has been mapped out for her by her family circumstances, Anne-Marie Lamaury opts instead to take holy orders and devote herself to the service of God...
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Robert Bresson
Au bonheur des dames (1943)
André Cayatte
Paris, 1860. Baudu, an ageing shopkeeper, is none too pleased when a new department store named Au Bonheur des Dames opens on his doorstep and starts poaching his clientele...
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André Cayatte
La Bonne étoile (1943)
Jean Boyer
Auguste, known to his friends as Guste, ekes out a modest living as a fisherman in a small Mediterranean port in the south of France... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Auguste, known to his friends as Guste, ekes out a modest living as a fisherman in a small Mediterranean port in the south of France... [More...]
Le Capitaine Fracasse (1943)
Abel Gance
Penniless and alone, the young Baron of Cigognac is ready to join his ancestors in the family vault beneath his run-down chateau... [More...]
Abel Gance
Penniless and alone, the young Baron of Cigognac is ready to join his ancestors in the family vault beneath his run-down chateau... [More...]
Le Colonel Chabert (1943)
René Le Hénaff
Paris, 1817. The wealthy Countess Ferraud is distressed when she begins to receive letters from her husband, Colonel Chabert, who was reported to have died during the Napoleonic wars ten years before... [More...]
René Le Hénaff
Paris, 1817. The wealthy Countess Ferraud is distressed when she begins to receive letters from her husband, Colonel Chabert, who was reported to have died during the Napoleonic wars ten years before... [More...]
Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1943)
Robert Vernay
On the day of his engagement to his beloved Mecédès the mariner Edmond Dantès is arrested for treason and sent to the Château d'If, an island prison... [More...]
Robert Vernay
On the day of his engagement to his beloved Mecédès the mariner Edmond Dantès is arrested for treason and sent to the Château d'If, an island prison... [More...]
Le Corbeau (1943)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The peace of the small French town of Saint-Robin is disturbed by a sudden outbreak of poison pen letters, which cast vile aspersions on prominent members of the community... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The peace of the small French town of Saint-Robin is disturbed by a sudden outbreak of poison pen letters, which cast vile aspersions on prominent members of the community... [More...]
Domino (1943)
Roger Richebé
François Dominique, alias Domino, returns to Paris with his best friend Mirandole, having failed to make his fortune in Africa... [More...]
Roger Richebé
François Dominique, alias Domino, returns to Paris with his best friend Mirandole, having failed to make his fortune in Africa... [More...]
Douce (1943)
Claude Autant-Lara
Paris, 1887. Engelbert de Bonafé is a wealthy man who lives in a splendid house with his hard-to-please mother, the Countess de Bonafé, and his 17-year-old daughter Douce, whose name reflects her gentle personality... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Paris, 1887. Engelbert de Bonafé is a wealthy man who lives in a splendid house with his hard-to-please mother, the Countess de Bonafé, and his 17-year-old daughter Douce, whose name reflects her gentle personality... [More...]
L'Éternel retour (1943)
Jean Delannoy
Patrice travels to a remote island to find a young wife for his uncle Marc. There he meets a beautiful blonde named Nathalie, who agrees to return to the mainland to marry Patrice's uncle, if only to escape her life of penury... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
Patrice travels to a remote island to find a young wife for his uncle Marc. There he meets a beautiful blonde named Nathalie, who agrees to return to the mainland to marry Patrice's uncle, if only to escape her life of penury... [More...]
La Ferme aux loups (1943)
Richard Pottier
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and photographer who work together as a team on the newspaper L'Echo du jour. Just as they are about to go off on a weekend break with Micky, their boss's secretary, they are sent to a crime scene to report the murder of a Russian named Le Moujik... [More...]
Richard Pottier
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and photographer who work together as a team on the newspaper L'Echo du jour. Just as they are about to go off on a weekend break with Micky, their boss's secretary, they are sent to a crime scene to report the murder of a Russian named Le Moujik... [More...]
Goupi mains rouges (1943)
Jacques Becker
The Goupis are a proud, self-sufficient family living in the Charentes region of France. Most of them live at an inn that is run with an iron hand by the shrewish Goupi Tisane and her tight-fisted brother Goupi Mes Sous... [More...]
Jacques Becker
The Goupis are a proud, self-sufficient family living in the Charentes region of France. Most of them live at an inn that is run with an iron hand by the shrewish Goupi Tisane and her tight-fisted brother Goupi Mes Sous... [More...]
L'Homme de Londres (1943)
Henri Decoin
A port swathed in dense fog sees the coming and going of boats all day. During the night, Maloin is the man who controls the trains that transport goods to and from the port... [More...]
Henri Decoin
A port swathed in dense fog sees the coming and going of boats all day. During the night, Maloin is the man who controls the trains that transport goods to and from the port... [More...]
Je suis avec toi (1943)
Henri Decoin
As she is on her way to New York by ocean liner to sort out an inheritance, Elisabeth La Ferrière is convinced that her husband François will take advantage of her absence to start an extramarital affair... [More...]
Henri Decoin
As she is on her way to New York by ocean liner to sort out an inheritance, Elisabeth La Ferrière is convinced that her husband François will take advantage of her absence to start an extramarital affair... [More...]
Le Loup des Malveneur (1943)
Guillaume Radot
Legend has it that, many years ago, the first of the Malveneurs was transformed into a wolf by a curse and became a ravenous beast that preyed on the locals... [More...]
Guillaume Radot
Legend has it that, many years ago, the first of the Malveneurs was transformed into a wolf by a curse and became a ravenous beast that preyed on the locals... [More...]
Lumière d'été (1943)
Jean Grémillon
Michèle, a young dress designer from Paris, arranges to meet up with her boyfriend Roland, a temperamental artist, at a mountain resort in Provence... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
Michèle, a young dress designer from Paris, arranges to meet up with her boyfriend Roland, a temperamental artist, at a mountain resort in Provence... [More...]
La Main du diable (1943)
Maurice Tourneur
A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. During a momentary power-cut the box suddenly goes missing, and its owner is stricken with terror... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. During a momentary power-cut the box suddenly goes missing, and its owner is stricken with terror... [More...]
Monsieur des Lourdines (1943)
Pierre de Hérain
Dying of boredom at his family estate in the country, Anthime des Lourdines flees to Paris to live the life of a reckless prodigal... [More...]
Pierre de Hérain
Dying of boredom at his family estate in the country, Anthime des Lourdines flees to Paris to live the life of a reckless prodigal... [More...]
Les Mystères de Paris (1943)
Jacques de Baroncelli
France, 1830. In the guise of a down-and-out named Rodolphe, the Grand-Duke of Gérolstein enters the lower depths of Paris in search of his missing daughter Fleur de Marie, the fruit of one of his erstwhile amorous adventures... [More...]
Jacques de Baroncelli
France, 1830. In the guise of a down-and-out named Rodolphe, the Grand-Duke of Gérolstein enters the lower depths of Paris in search of his missing daughter Fleur de Marie, the fruit of one of his erstwhile amorous adventures... [More...]
Ne le criez pas sur les toits (1943)
Jacques Daniel-Norman
Professor Moucherotte, a distinguished research chemist, is on the point of developing a revolutionary new fuel called Benzyl... [More...]
Jacques Daniel-Norman
Professor Moucherotte, a distinguished research chemist, is on the point of developing a revolutionary new fuel called Benzyl... [More...]
Picpus (1943)
Richard Pottier
Whilst moving into her new apartment in the rue Picpus, Paris, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Inspector Maigret is called into investigate... [More...]
Richard Pottier
Whilst moving into her new apartment in the rue Picpus, Paris, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Inspector Maigret is called into investigate... [More...]
Pierre et Jean (1943)
André Cayatte
In 1913, Alice, a young mother, is unhappily married to her vain and uncouth husband Roland, who forces her to open a shop to make a living... [More...]
André Cayatte
In 1913, Alice, a young mother, is unhappily married to her vain and uncouth husband Roland, who forces her to open a shop to make a living... [More...]
Port d'attache (1943)
Jean Choux
After the armistice, a young sailor named René sets out to find work in France. Passing through the countryside, he meets an old farmer, Garda, who struggles to keep his farm going after being deserted by his son and daughter... [More...]
Jean Choux
After the armistice, a young sailor named René sets out to find work in France. Passing through the countryside, he meets an old farmer, Garda, who struggles to keep his farm going after being deserted by his son and daughter... [More...]
Les Roquevillard (1943)
Jean Dréville
In 1880s France, François Roquevillard is a highly regarded barrister in the Savoie town of Chambéry in southeast France... [More...]
Jean Dréville
In 1880s France, François Roquevillard is a highly regarded barrister in the Savoie town of Chambéry in southeast France... [More...]
Un seul amour (1943)
Pierre Blanchar
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affair that once took a macabre and deadly turn... [More...]
Pierre Blanchar
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affair that once took a macabre and deadly turn... [More...]
Une vie de chien (1943)
Maurice Cammage
Gustave Bourdillon is the music teacher at a special school for young ladies run by Monsieur Calumet. For some time, Gustave has had a crush on his employer's delightful wife Emilie, but, keen to hold onto his job, he keeps his amorous feelings to himself... [More...]
Maurice Cammage
Gustave Bourdillon is the music teacher at a special school for young ladies run by Monsieur Calumet. For some time, Gustave has had a crush on his employer's delightful wife Emilie, but, keen to hold onto his job, he keeps his amorous feelings to himself... [More...]
Le Val d'enfer (1943)
Maurice Tourneur
The foreman of a quarry in the Haute-Provence region of France, Noël Bienvenu lives with his elderly parents after the death of his wife... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
The foreman of a quarry in the Haute-Provence region of France, Noël Bienvenu lives with his elderly parents after the death of his wife... [More...]