French cinema: 1947
Les Amants du pont Saint-Jean (1947)
Henri Decoin
On the banks of the River Rhône, Alcide Garonne ekes out a modest existence as a ferryman and poacher. He lives in a threadbare abode with his partner Maryse, an extravagant vagabond from Paris who is drunk most of the time...
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Henri Decoin
Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
Jacques Becker
Antoine and Antoinette are an ordinary working class couple who live in Paris and struggle to get by in the austere aftermath of World War II...
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Jacques Becker
Le Bataillon du ciel (1947)
Alexander Esway
Spring, 1944: a decisive moment in the Second World War. Colonel Rouvier, a respected soldier who lost an arm in combat in Tunisia, is put in charge of training a parachute regiment of the French Free Forces in England...
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Alexander Esway
Bethsabée (1947)
Léonide Moguy
Georges Dubreuil, a spahi captain stationed at a French fortress in Morocco, is delighted when his fiancée, Arabella Delvert, comes to visit him...
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Léonide Moguy
Le Café du cadran (1947)
Jean Gehret
Julien Couturier and his wife Louise give up their peaceful life in the Auvergne to run a small bar-café in the thriving heart of Paris...
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Jean Gehret
Carré de valets (1947)
André Berthomieu
Madame de La Bastide has high hopes that her son Jacques will follow in his father's footsteps and become a highly respected lawyer... [More...]
André Berthomieu
Madame de La Bastide has high hopes that her son Jacques will follow in his father's footsteps and become a highly respected lawyer... [More...]
Chemins sans loi (1947)
Guillaume Radot
Inès, a young gypsy girl, is abandoned by her lover, a rich landowner, and must fend for herself when she learns she is pregnant with his child... [More...]
Guillaume Radot
Inès, a young gypsy girl, is abandoned by her lover, a rich landowner, and must fend for herself when she learns she is pregnant with his child... [More...]
Copie conforme (1947)
Jean Dréville
No one would think that Manuel Ismora, an esteemed society photographer, is an audacious thief and con artist. The newspapers are filled with accounts of Ismora's criminal exploits, which involve the fraudulent sale of a château and the theft of some valuable jewels, but the police are slow in bringing him to justice... [More...]
Jean Dréville
No one would think that Manuel Ismora, an esteemed society photographer, is an audacious thief and con artist. The newspapers are filled with accounts of Ismora's criminal exploits, which involve the fraudulent sale of a château and the theft of some valuable jewels, but the police are slow in bringing him to justice... [More...]
Le Diable au corps (1947)
Claude Autant-Lara
Marthe Grangier, a nurse in a military hospital during the First World War, is pressurised into getting married by her parents... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Marthe Grangier, a nurse in a military hospital during the First World War, is pressurised into getting married by her parents... [More...]
L'École des facteurs (1947)
Jacques Tati
The French postal service is keen to keep up with its American equivalent and so introduces a programme of modernisation that will make it more efficient than ever before... [More...]
Jacques Tati
The French postal service is keen to keep up with its American equivalent and so introduces a programme of modernisation that will make it more efficient than ever before... [More...]
Fantômas (1947)
Jean Sacha
According to police records, there is irrefutable proof that the arch-criminal Fantômas is a dead man. His daughter Hélène is at last free to marry the man of her choice - the journalist Fandor, who assisted Inspector Juve in rescuing her from her father's evil clutches... [More...]
Jean Sacha
According to police records, there is irrefutable proof that the arch-criminal Fantômas is a dead man. His daughter Hélène is at last free to marry the man of her choice - the journalist Fandor, who assisted Inspector Juve in rescuing her from her father's evil clutches... [More...]
Les Gosses mènent l'enquête (1947)
Maurice Labro
During Easter, a handful of boarders who have no homes to go to must remain at their school, François 1er, for the duration of the holidays... [More...]
Maurice Labro
During Easter, a handful of boarders who have no homes to go to must remain at their school, François 1er, for the duration of the holidays... [More...]
Les Jeux sont faits (1947)
Jean Delannoy
Pierre Dumaine is the leader of a resistance movement in an unnamed police state. He is preparing an insurrection when he is shot dead by an informer... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
Pierre Dumaine is the leader of a resistance movement in an unnamed police state. He is preparing an insurrection when he is shot dead by an informer... [More...]
La Kermesse rouge (1947)
Paul Mesnier
Paris in the 1890s. When Agnès Bonnardet falls in love with a struggling Montmartre painter, Claude Sironi, her aristocratic relatives waste no time in acting to thwart a mésalliance that will bring disgrace on the family... [More...]
Paul Mesnier
Paris in the 1890s. When Agnès Bonnardet falls in love with a struggling Montmartre painter, Claude Sironi, her aristocratic relatives waste no time in acting to thwart a mésalliance that will bring disgrace on the family... [More...]
La Maison sous la mer (1947)
Henri Calef
Flore, a good-looking woman in her early thirties, leads a contented but pretty humdrum life in the northern French town of Flamanville... [More...]
Henri Calef
Flore, a good-looking woman in her early thirties, leads a contented but pretty humdrum life in the northern French town of Flamanville... [More...]
Miroir (1947)
Raymond Lamy
A prominent figure in the world of high finance, Pierre Lussac appears to be the model French citizen. He has wealth, influence and the unwavering admiration of the bourgeois set to which he belongs... [More...]
Raymond Lamy
A prominent figure in the world of high finance, Pierre Lussac appears to be the model French citizen. He has wealth, influence and the unwavering admiration of the bourgeois set to which he belongs... [More...]
Monsieur Chasse (1947)
Willy Rozier
As he pursues an extramarital affair, the bourgeois Monsieur Duchatel lets his attractive young wife Léontine think he is spending his free time hunting... [More...]
Willy Rozier
As he pursues an extramarital affair, the bourgeois Monsieur Duchatel lets his attractive young wife Léontine think he is spending his free time hunting... [More...]
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
Maurice Cloche
In the early 1600s, during the reign of King Louis XIII, Vincent de Paul gives up his privileged position as a private tutor to the aristocratic Gondy family, so that he can devote himself to the needs of the poor and infirm... [More...]
Maurice Cloche
In the early 1600s, during the reign of King Louis XIII, Vincent de Paul gives up his privileged position as a private tutor to the aristocratic Gondy family, so that he can devote himself to the needs of the poor and infirm... [More...]
Non coupable (1947)
Henri Decoin
Michel Ancelin was once a respected surgeon but now, an embittered alcoholic, he lives out his declining years as a family doctor in a dull provincial town in the company of his mistress, Madeleine... [More...]
Henri Decoin
Michel Ancelin was once a respected surgeon but now, an embittered alcoholic, he lives out his declining years as a family doctor in a dull provincial town in the company of his mistress, Madeleine... [More...]
Panique (1947)
Julien Duvivier
Recently released from prison, an attractive young woman Alice meets up with her lover Alfred. The latter, a vicious crook, has murdered an old woman at a fairground... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Recently released from prison, an attractive young woman Alice meets up with her lover Alfred. The latter, a vicious crook, has murdered an old woman at a fairground... [More...]
Paris 1900 (1947)
Nicole Védrès
A vibrant montage of moving image depicting life in Paris in the dying days of the Belle Époque, from the turn of the 20th century to the start of the First World War... [More...]
Nicole Védrès
A vibrant montage of moving image depicting life in Paris in the dying days of the Belle Époque, from the turn of the 20th century to the start of the First World War... [More...]
Pas si bête (1947)
André Berthomieu
Léon Ménard is not quite so stupid as he seems. His experience of the world may be limited, he may have the air of a country bumpkin, but this gauche Normandy peasant has a keen eye when it comes to detecting schemers and charlatans... [More...]
André Berthomieu
Léon Ménard is not quite so stupid as he seems. His experience of the world may be limited, he may have the air of a country bumpkin, but this gauche Normandy peasant has a keen eye when it comes to detecting schemers and charlatans... [More...]
Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Against the wishes of her husband Maurice, music hall singer Jenny Lamour is prepared to do anything to advance her career... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Against the wishes of her husband Maurice, music hall singer Jenny Lamour is prepared to do anything to advance her career... [More...]
Le Silence est d'or (1947)
René Clair
Paris, 1906. Emile Clément is a fifty-something pioneer in the recently born art of cinematography, and he is also an inveterate womaniser... [More...]
René Clair
Paris, 1906. Emile Clément is a fifty-something pioneer in the recently born art of cinematography, and he is also an inveterate womaniser... [More...]
Six heures à perdre (1947)
Alex Joffé
Breaking his long train journey in Paris, a traveller finds he has six hours at his disposal so he decides to wander around the city... [More...]
Alex Joffé
Breaking his long train journey in Paris, a traveller finds he has six hours at his disposal so he decides to wander around the city... [More...]
La Taverne du poisson couronné (1947)
René Chanas
Captain Palmer returns to port with his cargo after an eventful sea journey in which his seamanship was tested to the limit by a violent storm... [More...]
René Chanas
Captain Palmer returns to port with his cargo after an eventful sea journey in which his seamanship was tested to the limit by a violent storm... [More...]
Le Tempestaire (1947)
Jean Epstein
On a small island off the coast of Brittany, a young woman and her grandmother are sitting at a spinning wheel when the door to their cottage suddenly opens of its own accord... [More...]
Jean Epstein
On a small island off the coast of Brittany, a young woman and her grandmother are sitting at a spinning wheel when the door to their cottage suddenly opens of its own accord... [More...]