French cinema: 1949
Millionnaires d'un jour (1949)
André Hunebelle
In a moment of distraction journalist Bernard Lajarrige makes the fatal error of publishing the wrong winning number of the national lottery in his newspaper...
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André Hunebelle
Mission à Tanger (1949)
André Hunebelle
In 1942, the Moroccan city of Tangier is a hotbed of international espionage. It is here that Alexandre Segard runs a spy ring, under the cover of an import-export company...
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André Hunebelle
Monseigneur (1949)
Roger Richebé
Louis Mennechain, a modest Parisian locksmith, can hardly believe his ears when an amiable historian named Piétrefond reveals that he is the direct descendent of King Louis XVI and therefore the rightful king of France...
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Roger Richebé
Occupe-toi d'Amélie (1949)
Claude Autant-Lara
Paris, 1910. Spectators at the Palais Royal watch in anticipation as the curtain rises on a stage production of Georges Feydeau's play Occupe-toi d'Amélie...
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Claude Autant-Lara
On demande un assassin (1949)
Ernst Neubach
Bob Laurent is at the end of his tether. Ruined, rejected and generally disgusted with life, he hires a hoodlum, Willy le Boxeur, to kill him in two days' time...
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Ernst Neubach
Orphée (1949)
Jean Cocteau
Orphée is a poet who arouses anger wherever he goes, even though his work is still greatly admired. At a street café, his most vociferous opponents, a group of young firebrands called the Bacchantes, start a fight... [More...]
Jean Cocteau
Orphée is a poet who arouses anger wherever he goes, even though his work is still greatly admired. At a street café, his most vociferous opponents, a group of young firebrands called the Bacchantes, start a fight... [More...]
Pas de week-end pour notre amour (1949)
Pierre Montazel
When it is announced that the world famous singer Franck Reno is about to get married his fans are understandably up in arms... [More...]
Pierre Montazel
When it is announced that the world famous singer Franck Reno is about to get married his fans are understandably up in arms... [More...]
Pattes blanches (1949)
Jean Grémillon
Odette, an attractive young woman, arrives in the fishing town of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany and becomes the mistress of Jock, the owner of the local inn... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
Odette, an attractive young woman, arrives in the fishing town of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany and becomes the mistress of Jock, the owner of the local inn... [More...]
Le Point du jour (1949)
Louis Daquin
A mining community in the north of France... A young engineer Larzac begins work at the mine and soon takes objection to the management's authoritarian treatment of the miners... [More...]
Louis Daquin
A mining community in the north of France... A young engineer Larzac begins work at the mine and soon takes objection to the management's authoritarian treatment of the miners... [More...]
Portrait d'un assassin (1949)
Bernard-Roland
Jean, nicknamed Fabius the Foolhardy, is a circus acrobat whose act involves driving a motorcycle up a near-vertical incline, the Wall of Death... [More...]
Bernard-Roland
Jean, nicknamed Fabius the Foolhardy, is a circus acrobat whose act involves driving a motorcycle up a near-vertical incline, the Wall of Death... [More...]
Rendez-vous de juillet (1949)
Jacques Becker
In his early 20s, Lucien Bonnard has made up his mind to become a celebrated explorer, but his bourgeois parents are insistent that he abandons these wild delusions and instead settle for a more conventional career like banking... [More...]
Jacques Becker
In his early 20s, Lucien Bonnard has made up his mind to become a celebrated explorer, but his bourgeois parents are insistent that he abandons these wild delusions and instead settle for a more conventional career like banking... [More...]
Le Sang des bêtes (1949)
Georges Franju
On the dreary outskirts of Paris, the city's poor live in tall tenement blocks bordered by undeveloped land which is a playground for children and a haven for lovers... [More...]
Georges Franju
On the dreary outskirts of Paris, the city's poor live in tall tenement blocks bordered by undeveloped land which is a playground for children and a haven for lovers... [More...]
Le Secret de Mayerling (1949)
Jean Delannoy
In the early hours of 30th January 1889, the Archduke Rudolph, crown prince of Austria, is found dead in his hunting lodge at Mayerling, lying on his bed beside his 17-year-old lover Marie Vetsera... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
In the early hours of 30th January 1889, the Archduke Rudolph, crown prince of Austria, is found dead in his hunting lodge at Mayerling, lying on his bed beside his 17-year-old lover Marie Vetsera... [More...]
Le Signal rouge (1949)
Ernst Neubach
Dr Berthold is a respectable doctor and family man who is profoundly affected when his wife is killed in a train accident... [More...]
Ernst Neubach
Dr Berthold is a respectable doctor and family man who is profoundly affected when his wife is killed in a train accident... [More...]
Le Silence de la mer (1949)
Jean-Pierre Melville
In the winter of 1941, a German officer, Werner von Ebrennac, is billeted to a house in a small town in Nazi occupied France... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
In the winter of 1941, a German officer, Werner von Ebrennac, is billeted to a house in a small town in Nazi occupied France... [More...]
Le Sorcier du ciel (1949)
Marcel Blistène
One day in 1818, a humble village priest in his early thirties is making his way down a country road to his new parish, in the town of Ars... [More...]
Marcel Blistène
One day in 1818, a humble village priest in his early thirties is making his way down a country road to his new parish, in the town of Ars... [More...]
Tête blonde (1949)
Maurice Cam
As he heads home one evening, Frédéric Truche is delighted when he spies an abandoned parcel on a luggage rack in the Paris metro... [More...]
Maurice Cam
As he heads home one evening, Frédéric Truche is delighted when he spies an abandoned parcel on a luggage rack in the Paris metro... [More...]
Toâ (1949)
Sacha Guitry
After a violent domestic row, Ecaterina leaves her lover, the playwright and actor Michel Desnoyer. Shortly afterwards, Michel is visited by his sister Françoise and her husband Fernand, who have returned after a long stay in the United States... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
After a violent domestic row, Ecaterina leaves her lover, the playwright and actor Michel Desnoyer. Shortly afterwards, Michel is visited by his sister Françoise and her husband Fernand, who have returned after a long stay in the United States... [More...]
Tous les chemins mènent à Rome (1949)
Jean Boyer
On her way to Rome, Laura Lee, a well-known American actress, is determined to avoid the sensation-hungry journalists who are constantly on her tail... [More...]
Jean Boyer
On her way to Rome, Laura Lee, a well-known American actress, is determined to avoid the sensation-hungry journalists who are constantly on her tail... [More...]
Une si jolie petite plage (1949)
Yves Allégret
It is not the most welcoming of places - a barren stretch of coastline in northern France, made more inhospitable by the pounding rain and howling sea breeze... [More...]
Yves Allégret
It is not the most welcoming of places - a barren stretch of coastline in northern France, made more inhospitable by the pounding rain and howling sea breeze... [More...]