French cinema: 1950s
Le Rouge et le noir (1954)
Claude Autant-Lara
Before a court of law, Julien Sorel confesses to the attempted murder of the woman he loved and asks that he be condemned to death...
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Claude Autant-Lara
La Route du bonheur (1953)
Maurice Labro
Marina is a schoolteacher in the small Italian village of Montecarlone. One day, she launches an appeal on behalf of one of her more disadvantaged pupils, a little boy named Tonino...
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Maurice Labro
Rue de l'estrapade (1953)
Jacques Becker
Françoise and Henri Laurent appear to be a perfectly happy married couple living in Paris. But when she learns from a friend that her husband, a racing car test driver, has been seen with another woman, Françoise imagines that her marriage is over...
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Jacques Becker
Rue des Prairies (1959)
Denys de La Patellière
Released from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1942, Henri Neveu returns to his modest Parisian apartment to learn that his wife has just died giving birth...
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Denys de La Patellière
La Rue sans loi (1950)
Marcel Gibaud
'La Rue sans loi' is a fitting name for a thoroughfare in Paris where there appears to be a total absence of the rule of law...
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Marcel Gibaud
Sacrée jeunesse (1958)
André Berthomieu
Thomas Longué is 79 and not long for this world, or so his greedy nephew Étienne seems to think. Convinced that the decrepit old man is likely to kick the bucket any day soon, Étienne offers to buy one of his uncle's estates at a favourable price in return for a life's annuity... [More...]
André Berthomieu
Thomas Longué is 79 and not long for this world, or so his greedy nephew Étienne seems to think. Convinced that the decrepit old man is likely to kick the bucket any day soon, Étienne offers to buy one of his uncle's estates at a favourable price in return for a life's annuity... [More...]
Le Salaire de la peur (1953)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In a dusty, hot South American mining town, European immigrants eke out a meagre existence, struggling to find work in an area of high unemployment... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In a dusty, hot South American mining town, European immigrants eke out a meagre existence, struggling to find work in an area of high unemployment... [More...]
Le Salaire du péché (1956)
Denys de La Patellière
Isabelle, the daughter of multi-millionaire Frank Lindstrom, chooses to marry an impoverished journalist, Jean de Charvin... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Isabelle, the daughter of multi-millionaire Frank Lindstrom, chooses to marry an impoverished journalist, Jean de Charvin... [More...]
Les Salauds vont en enfer (1956)
Robert Hossein
Macquart and Rudel are two hardened criminals who are serving life sentences in a secure prison from which escape seems to be impossible... [More...]
Robert Hossein
Macquart and Rudel are two hardened criminals who are serving life sentences in a secure prison from which escape seems to be impossible... [More...]
Le Sang à la tête (1956)
Gilles Grangier
When he started out as a modest dockworker thirty years ago, François Cardinaud could not have imagined that he would become one of the most powerful men in the port of La Rochelle... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
When he started out as a modest dockworker thirty years ago, François Cardinaud could not have imagined that he would become one of the most powerful men in the port of La Rochelle... [More...]
Sans laisser d'adresse (1951)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Emile Gauthier is a Parisian taxi driver. One day, at the Gare de Lyon, he picks up a young woman named Thérèse and her baby... [More...]
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Emile Gauthier is a Parisian taxi driver. One day, at the Gare de Lyon, he picks up a young woman named Thérèse and her baby... [More...]
Les Scélérats (1959)
Robert Hossein
Louise Martin lives with her parents and is engaged as a maid by Jess Rooland, a rich American who lives in a fancy apartment on the other side of the street... [More...]
Robert Hossein
Louise Martin lives with her parents and is engaged as a maid by Jess Rooland, a rich American who lives in a fancy apartment on the other side of the street... [More...]
Le Secret d'Hélène Marimon (1954)
Henri Calef
In the immediate aftermath of WWII, Jacques Taillandier, a successful oil company executive based in the Middle East, returns to Paris... [More...]
Henri Calef
In the immediate aftermath of WWII, Jacques Taillandier, a successful oil company executive based in the Middle East, returns to Paris... [More...]
Le Secret du Chevalier d'Éon (1959)
Jacqueline Audry
To ensure he inherits his uncle's fortune, Pascal d'Éon, an impoverished nobleman, has no choice but to pass off his newborn daughter, Geneviève, as a son... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
To ensure he inherits his uncle's fortune, Pascal d'Éon, an impoverished nobleman, has no choice but to pass off his newborn daughter, Geneviève, as a son... [More...]
Secrets d'alcove (1954)
Henri Decoin
When their journey is impeded by fog, four passengers in a car decide to pass the night by telling each other stories involving beds.... [More...]
Henri Decoin
When their journey is impeded by fog, four passengers in a car decide to pass the night by telling each other stories involving beds.... [More...]
La Sentence (1959)
Jean Valère
As the Allies begin their invasion of Northern France in the summer of 1944, four members of the French Resistance are arrested after an attempt to assassinate a German officer... [More...]
Jean Valère
As the Allies begin their invasion of Northern France in the summer of 1944, four members of the French Resistance are arrested after an attempt to assassinate a German officer... [More...]
Les Sept péchés capitaux (1952)
Yves Allégret
At a busy fairground, a stallholder tries to drum up business by regaling passersby with stories illustrating each of the Seven Deadly Sins... [More...]
Yves Allégret
At a busy fairground, a stallholder tries to drum up business by regaling passersby with stories illustrating each of the Seven Deadly Sins... [More...]
Le Septième ciel (1958)
Raymond Bernard
In the small town of Houblonnes, Brigitte de Ledouville is admired for her good causes. She gives money away freely to those who need it, and no one seems to be remotely curious as to where her immense wealth comes from... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
In the small town of Houblonnes, Brigitte de Ledouville is admired for her good causes. She gives money away freely to those who need it, and no one seems to be remotely curious as to where her immense wealth comes from... [More...]
Le Septième commandement (1957)
Raymond Bernard
Nadia Vronskaïa is a woman whose charms no man can resist, and this is why she is such a successful confidence trickster... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
Nadia Vronskaïa is a woman whose charms no man can resist, and this is why she is such a successful confidence trickster... [More...]
Sérénade au Texas (1958)
Richard Pottier
Jacques Gardel, a modest record seller, can hardly believe his good fortune when a notary, Jérôme Quilleboeuf, excitedly tells him that he has inherited an enormous oil field at a place called Big Bend in Texas... [More...]
Richard Pottier
Jacques Gardel, a modest record seller, can hardly believe his good fortune when a notary, Jérôme Quilleboeuf, excitedly tells him that he has inherited an enormous oil field at a place called Big Bend in Texas... [More...]
Si Paris nous était conté (1956)
Sacha Guitry
A learned professor of history relates the story of Paris to a group of enthusiastic students, not as a string of dry facts, but as a declaration of love through which various historical characters connected with the city speak for themselves... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
A learned professor of history relates the story of Paris to a group of enthusiastic students, not as a string of dry facts, but as a declaration of love through which various historical characters connected with the city speak for themselves... [More...]
Si tous les gars du monde (1956)
Christian-Jaque
When the crew of a Breton fishing boat in the North Sea begin to fall mysteriously ill, the captain, La Guellec, tries to summon help via radio... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
When the crew of a Breton fishing boat in the North Sea begin to fall mysteriously ill, the captain, La Guellec, tries to summon help via radio... [More...]
Si Versailles m'était conté (1954)
Sacha Guitry
What tales the château of Versailles could tell us if its walls could speak… From the halcyon days of excess and grandeur under the reign of the "sun king" Louis XIV, to the tragic years of the French Revolution which brought an ignoble end to the French monarchy… From the intrigue of Madame de Montespan to the genius of Molière… So many stories to tell, so many lives to remember...... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
What tales the château of Versailles could tell us if its walls could speak… From the halcyon days of excess and grandeur under the reign of the "sun king" Louis XIV, to the tragic years of the French Revolution which brought an ignoble end to the French monarchy… From the intrigue of Madame de Montespan to the genius of Molière… So many stories to tell, so many lives to remember...... [More...]
Le Sicilien (1958)
Pierre Chevalier
In Paris, a criminal gang led by Monsieur Bruno is awaiting the arrival of an Italian hitman who is known only as the Sicilian... [More...]
Pierre Chevalier
In Paris, a criminal gang led by Monsieur Bruno is awaiting the arrival of an Italian hitman who is known only as the Sicilian... [More...]
Signé Arsène Lupin (1959)
Yves Robert
After World War I, the French gentleman thief, Arsène Lupin, emerges from his convalescence in a hospital to resume his criminal activities... [More...]
Yves Robert
After World War I, the French gentleman thief, Arsène Lupin, emerges from his convalescence in a hospital to resume his criminal activities... [More...]
Le Signe du lion (1959)
Eric Rohmer
Pierre Wesselrin, an impoverished musician living in Paris, receives a telegram one morning notifying him that his wealthy aunt has died... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Pierre Wesselrin, an impoverished musician living in Paris, receives a telegram one morning notifying him that his wealthy aunt has died... [More...]
Sois belle et tais-toi (1958)
Marc Allégret
After escaping from a strict Catholic reform school, Virginie Dumaillet goes on the run and ends up joining a gang of adolescent petty criminals led by a wild young hoodlum named Loulou... [More...]
Marc Allégret
After escaping from a strict Catholic reform school, Virginie Dumaillet goes on the run and ends up joining a gang of adolescent petty criminals led by a wild young hoodlum named Loulou... [More...]
Son dernier Noël (1952)
Jacques Daniel-Norman
According to Professeur Valensio, little Angèle has only a short while left to live. The child knows that she is likely to die before Christmas, but she also believes that if she can survive the festive season, she will be saved... [More...]
Jacques Daniel-Norman
According to Professeur Valensio, little Angèle has only a short while left to live. The child knows that she is likely to die before Christmas, but she also believes that if she can survive the festive season, she will be saved... [More...]
Sophie et le crime (1955)
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Sophie Brulard is a feisty young Parisian who is keen to make her mark as a journalist on the gossip magazine she works for, Tel Quel... [More...]
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Sophie Brulard is a feisty young Parisian who is keen to make her mark as a journalist on the gossip magazine she works for, Tel Quel... [More...]
Sous le ciel de Paris (1951)
Julien Duvivier
In a small garret in Paris's sixth arrondissement, Mademoiselle Perrier lives with her numerous cats. To feed her treasured pets, the old woman needs to find 64 francs, so she sets out one morning to see if some kind soul will give her the money... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In a small garret in Paris's sixth arrondissement, Mademoiselle Perrier lives with her numerous cats. To feed her treasured pets, the old woman needs to find 64 francs, so she sets out one morning to see if some kind soul will give her the money... [More...]