French cinema: 1950s
Le Naïf aux quarante enfants (1958)
Philippe Agostini
It is with an unshakable sense of purpose and optimism that Jean-François Robignac takes up his first post as a French teacher, in a state school in Marseilles...
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Philippe Agostini
Napoléon (1955)
Sacha Guitry
This film recounts the life of one of the most important figures in the history of France, Napoléon Bonaparte. Beginning with his arrival at a military academy, the film moves swiftly through Bonaparte's rise to power as a great general and ultimately Emperor of France...
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Sacha Guitry
Nathalie, agent secret (1959)
Henri Decoin
Nathalie and Pivoine are two models who are taking part in a fashion show at the Royal de Megève. Pivoine has a crush on engineer François Pellec, the inventor of an atomic powered car engine...
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Henri Decoin
Nez de cuir (1952)
Yves Allégret
Among the many who lie dead or dying on a battlefield in 1814 is Roger de Tinchebraye. Although he survives his injuries, Roger is badly scarred and Dr Marchal can do nothing to save his once beautiful face...
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Yves Allégret
Ni vu, ni connu (1958)
Yves Robert
Montgaillard prides itself on being the most peaceful town in France. The only worry for the town's authorities is Blaireau, a poacher who busily supplies the townsfolk with game and fish outside the hunting season...
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Yves Robert
Nina (1959)
Jean Boyer
Adolphe Tessier, a modest clerk, is shocked to discover that his wife Nina has taken a lover. Worse, the man in question - a rich idler named Gérard Blonville - is a compulsive philanderer for whom Nina is seemingly just a passing infatuation... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Adolphe Tessier, a modest clerk, is shocked to discover that his wife Nina has taken a lover. Worse, the man in question - a rich idler named Gérard Blonville - is a compulsive philanderer for whom Nina is seemingly just a passing infatuation... [More...]
Notre Dame de Paris (1956)
Jean Delannoy
Paris, 1492. In and around the Catherdral of Notre Dame, the poor folk celebrate the Festival of Fools. One star attraction is Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy girl who enchants all with her dancing and singing... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
Paris, 1492. In and around the Catherdral of Notre Dame, the poor folk celebrate the Festival of Fools. One star attraction is Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy girl who enchants all with her dancing and singing... [More...]
Nous autres à Champignol (1957)
Jean Bastia
Champignol is a small rural community somewhere in France, a place where nothing ever happens or is ever likely to happen... [More...]
Jean Bastia
Champignol is a small rural community somewhere in France, a place where nothing ever happens or is ever likely to happen... [More...]
Nous irons à Paris (1950)
Jean Boyer
Jacques, Paul and Julien have one ambition: to host a new radio show. Unable to break into national radio, they decide to create their own radio station... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Jacques, Paul and Julien have one ambition: to host a new radio show. Unable to break into national radio, they decide to create their own radio station... [More...]
Nous n'irons plus au bois (1955)
Ivan Govar
Leaving a juvenile detention centre after serving a term for the accidental killing of his stepmother, Yan makes his way across country to his home village in Flanders, eager to make a fresh start... [More...]
Ivan Govar
Leaving a juvenile detention centre after serving a term for the accidental killing of his stepmother, Yan makes his way across country to his home village in Flanders, eager to make a fresh start... [More...]
Nous sommes tous des assassins (1952)
André Cayatte
During World War II, a series of chance incidents lead an ill-educated young man, René Le Guen, to be recruited by the French Resistance... [More...]
André Cayatte
During World War II, a series of chance incidents lead an ill-educated young man, René Le Guen, to be recruited by the French Resistance... [More...]
La Nuit est mon royaume (1951)
Georges Lacombe
In a brave attempt to save a colleague, railway mechanic Raymond Pinsard is badly injured in an locomotive accident. He is rendered blind, but his doctor assures him that an operation can restore his sight... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
In a brave attempt to save a colleague, railway mechanic Raymond Pinsard is badly injured in an locomotive accident. He is rendered blind, but his doctor assures him that an operation can restore his sight... [More...]
Nuit et brouillard (1955)
Alain Resnais
The Holocaust - two words forever etched on the consciousness of mankind. They resound in our minds like an implacable condemnation from a Celestial power, for a crime which rips the heart and soul out of man's moral purpose... [More...]
Alain Resnais
The Holocaust - two words forever etched on the consciousness of mankind. They resound in our minds like an implacable condemnation from a Celestial power, for a crime which rips the heart and soul out of man's moral purpose... [More...]
O.S.S. 117 n'est pas mort (1957)
Jean Sacha
French secret agent Colonel Hubert Bonnisseur de La Bath (alias OSS 117) is asked by a close acquaintance Muriel Rousset to recover a set of secret documents that have been stolen from the safe of Sir Anthony Lead... [More...]
Jean Sacha
French secret agent Colonel Hubert Bonnisseur de La Bath (alias OSS 117) is asked by a close acquaintance Muriel Rousset to recover a set of secret documents that have been stolen from the safe of Sir Anthony Lead... [More...]
Obsession (1954)
Jean Delannoy
Aldo and Hélène are a couple who have become famous through their daring trapeze act. Presently, Hélène is concerned by her husband's coolness towards her... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
Aldo and Hélène are a couple who have become famous through their daring trapeze act. Presently, Hélène is concerned by her husband's coolness towards her... [More...]
Olivia (1951)
Jacqueline Audry
Victoire, the cook at a young women's institution, is charged with meeting Olivia, a young English student, at the station... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
Victoire, the cook at a young women's institution, is charged with meeting Olivia, a young English student, at the station... [More...]
Ombre et lumière (1951)
Henri Calef
Isabelle Leiritz was a world class pianist before a nervous breakdown imposed a temporary break on her career. Leaving the rest home where she has spent the past few years convalescing, Isabelle visits her half-sister Caroline and contemplates her future... [More...]
Henri Calef
Isabelle Leiritz was a world class pianist before a nervous breakdown imposed a temporary break on her career. Leaving the rest home where she has spent the past few years convalescing, Isabelle visits her half-sister Caroline and contemplates her future... [More...]
Les Orgueilleux (1953)
Yves Allégret
In a remote Mexican town, a coach deposits two strangers, an attractive young French woman Nelly and her visibly sick husband Tom... [More...]
Yves Allégret
In a remote Mexican town, a coach deposits two strangers, an attractive young French woman Nelly and her visibly sick husband Tom... [More...]
La P... respectueuse (1952)
Charles Brabant
Whilst taking a train journey in the southern United States, Lizzie McKay, a nightclub hostess, witnesses the killing of a black man by a drunken white man... [More...]
Charles Brabant
Whilst taking a train journey in the southern United States, Lizzie McKay, a nightclub hostess, witnesses the killing of a black man by a drunken white man... [More...]
La P... sentimentale (1958)
Jean Gourguet
Paty, a college boy, has fallen in love with Linda. The only problem is that she is a prostitute and Paty's father is outraged when he learns that his son is involved with a member of her profession... [More...]
Jean Gourguet
Paty, a college boy, has fallen in love with Linda. The only problem is that she is a prostitute and Paty's father is outraged when he learns that his son is involved with a member of her profession... [More...]
Papa, maman, la bonne et moi... (1954)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Robert Langlois, a trainee lawyer, still lives with his parents in their modest Montmartre apartment. Robert loses his job when his employer catches him flirting with a female colleague... [More...]
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Robert Langlois, a trainee lawyer, still lives with his parents in their modest Montmartre apartment. Robert loses his job when his employer catches him flirting with a female colleague... [More...]
Paris chante toujours! (1951)
Pierre Montazel
After his death, the celebrated actor and benefactor Clodomir leaves a will in which he bequeaths his entire fortune to whoever can obtain the greatest number of autographs in a specified time limit... [More...]
Pierre Montazel
After his death, the celebrated actor and benefactor Clodomir leaves a will in which he bequeaths his entire fortune to whoever can obtain the greatest number of autographs in a specified time limit... [More...]
Paris, Palace Hôtel (1956)
Henri Verneuil
Françoise Noblet is a young manicurist who works at a high class hotel in Paris. One Christmas Eve, she meets Monsieur Delormel, a wealthy businessman who offers her an evening she will never forget... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Françoise Noblet is a young manicurist who works at a high class hotel in Paris. One Christmas Eve, she meets Monsieur Delormel, a wealthy businessman who offers her an evening she will never forget... [More...]
Le Passe-muraille (1951)
Jean Boyer
When he is locked out of his home by his sister and her husband, a humble civil servant Léon Dutilleul discovers he has a peculiar talent: he can walk through walls... [More...]
Jean Boyer
When he is locked out of his home by his sister and her husband, a humble civil servant Léon Dutilleul discovers he has a peculiar talent: he can walk through walls... [More...]
Patrouille de choc (1957)
Claude Bernard-Aubert
During the Indochina War in the late 1940s, Lieutenant Perrin is in charge of a small battalion of French troops at a remote outpost in Vietnam... [More...]
Claude Bernard-Aubert
During the Indochina War in the late 1940s, Lieutenant Perrin is in charge of a small battalion of French troops at a remote outpost in Vietnam... [More...]
Le Pays, d'où je viens (1956)
Marcel Carné
One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double... [More...]
Marcel Carné
One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double... [More...]
Les Pépées font la loi (1955)
Raoul André
Flora finds she has to take the law into her own hands when her daughter Nathalie is kidnapped one day. Her first thought is that her precious offspring has managed to get herself mixed up in a bothersome drugs trafficking operation, so rather than get onto the police she decides to deal with the matter by herself, assisted by her other three daughters: Elvire, Christine and Elisabeth... [More...]
Raoul André
Flora finds she has to take the law into her own hands when her daughter Nathalie is kidnapped one day. Her first thought is that her precious offspring has managed to get herself mixed up in a bothersome drugs trafficking operation, so rather than get onto the police she decides to deal with the matter by herself, assisted by her other three daughters: Elvire, Christine and Elisabeth... [More...]
Le Père de Mademoiselle (1953)
Marcel L'Herbier
Françoise Marinier refuses to allow her parents, a respectable bourgeois couple, to decide whom she should marry. So she leaves home and moves to Paris, where she is soon engaged as a secretary to the popular actress Edith Mars... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
Françoise Marinier refuses to allow her parents, a respectable bourgeois couple, to decide whom she should marry. So she leaves home and moves to Paris, where she is soon engaged as a secretary to the popular actress Edith Mars... [More...]
Le Petit prof (1959)
Carlo Rim
Jérôme Aubin is one of life's natural optimists. He was 15 when France was under Nazi occupation and not even this momentous event could diminish his cheery outlook... [More...]
Carlo Rim
Jérôme Aubin is one of life's natural optimists. He was 15 when France was under Nazi occupation and not even this momentous event could diminish his cheery outlook... [More...]
Les Petites Cardinal (1951)
Gilles Grangier
It is May 1871 and the Second Empire has become history. The Cardinals, a once wealthy family of French aristocrats, have fallen on hard times... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
It is May 1871 and the Second Empire has become history. The Cardinals, a once wealthy family of French aristocrats, have fallen on hard times... [More...]