French cinema: 1950s
Le Colonel est de la revue (1957)
Maurice Labro
Calla and his darling wife Cora are members of a society gathering that meets up from time to time to play at being gangsters...
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Maurice Labro
Comme un cheveu sur la soupe (1957)
Maurice Régamey
Rejected by his beloved Wanda, depressed at his failure to find success as a songwriter, Pierre Cousin decides to commit suicide...
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Maurice Régamey
Les Compagnes de la nuit (1953)
Ralph Habib
In 1950s Paris, two events take place which apparently have no connection. The police are concerned with the corpses of two murdered women...
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Ralph Habib
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1955)
Robert Vernay
In 1814, the merchant ship Le Pharaon returns to the port of Marseilles under the command of the young lieutenant Edmond Dantès...
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Robert Vernay
Le Confident de ces dames (1959)
Jean Boyer
Owing to a shortage of doctors, the inhabitants of the little Italian town Figuerol look to their veterinary Julien Goberti to treat their ailments as well as those of their pets...
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Jean Boyer
Les Copains du dimanche (1958)
Henri Aisner
A small group of young people who work in a factory spend their weekends trying to renovate a light aircraft. They are helped by a former RAF pilot who discovers a new lease of life in the project... [More...]
Henri Aisner
A small group of young people who work in a factory spend their weekends trying to renovate a light aircraft. They are helped by a former RAF pilot who discovers a new lease of life in the project... [More...]
Les Corsaires du Bois de Boulogne (1954)
Norbert Carbonnaux
Hector, Adèle and Cyprien are three struggling singers who are desperate to hit the big time, despite their obvious lack of ability... [More...]
Norbert Carbonnaux
Hector, Adèle and Cyprien are three struggling singers who are desperate to hit the big time, despite their obvious lack of ability... [More...]
Coup dur chez les mous (1956)
Jean Loubignac
Totor and Jo are two petty criminals who can hardly believe their good fortune when they succeed in robbing a jewellers' shop in Paris... [More...]
Jean Loubignac
Totor and Jo are two petty criminals who can hardly believe their good fortune when they succeed in robbing a jewellers' shop in Paris... [More...]
Courte tête (1956)
Norbert Carbonnaux
Amédée Lucas is a naïve young man who scrapes a semi-honest living by selling betting tips to horse racing addicts at the entrance to the Longchamp racecourse in Paris... [More...]
Norbert Carbonnaux
Amédée Lucas is a naïve young man who scrapes a semi-honest living by selling betting tips to horse racing addicts at the entrance to the Longchamp racecourse in Paris... [More...]
Les Cousins (1959)
Claude Chabrol
Against the wishes of his adoring mother, Charles leaves his home in the provinces so that he can study law in Paris. Accommodation is provided by his cousin Paul Thomas, who presently occupies a spacious luxury apartment in Neuilly-sur-Seine belonging to a wealthy relative... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Against the wishes of his adoring mother, Charles leaves his home in the provinces so that he can study law in Paris. Accommodation is provided by his cousin Paul Thomas, who presently occupies a spacious luxury apartment in Neuilly-sur-Seine belonging to a wealthy relative... [More...]
Le Couturier de ces dames (1956)
Jean Boyer
Modest Parisian tailor Fernand Vignard dreams of managing his own fashion house - for women. His dreams comes true when a former mistress dies and leaves him her maison de haute couture in her will... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Modest Parisian tailor Fernand Vignard dreams of managing his own fashion house - for women. His dreams comes true when a former mistress dies and leaves him her maison de haute couture in her will... [More...]
Le Crâneur (1955)
Dimitri Kirsanoff
One-time stuntman Philippe finds his goose well and truly cooked when his girlfriend Betty Ball is found dead in a telephone kiosk at the chic Pigalle nightclub where she works as a dancer, Le Toboggan... [More...]
Dimitri Kirsanoff
One-time stuntman Philippe finds his goose well and truly cooked when his girlfriend Betty Ball is found dead in a telephone kiosk at the chic Pigalle nightclub where she works as a dancer, Le Toboggan... [More...]
Crime au concert Mayol (1954)
Pierre Méré
In the course of a performance at the Concert Mayol, a Parisian music hall, a dancer named Mado is poisoned. Fortunately, the young woman is taken to hospital in time to save her life but she goes missing a short time afterwards... [More...]
Pierre Méré
In the course of a performance at the Concert Mayol, a Parisian music hall, a dancer named Mado is poisoned. Fortunately, the young woman is taken to hospital in time to save her life but she goes missing a short time afterwards... [More...]
Crime et châtiment (1956)
Georges Lampin
Paris in the 1950s. Since he had to abandon his studies because of lack of funds René Brunel has become bitter and cynical over how society appears to be organised for the benefit of a wealthy minority... [More...]
Georges Lampin
Paris in the 1950s. Since he had to abandon his studies because of lack of funds René Brunel has become bitter and cynical over how society appears to be organised for the benefit of a wealthy minority... [More...]
Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage (1953)
Albert Lamorisse
Across the vast expanse of wetland in the Camargue region of south-eastern France, a herd of wild horses roam, led by their indomitable leader White Mane... [More...]
Albert Lamorisse
Across the vast expanse of wetland in the Camargue region of south-eastern France, a herd of wild horses roam, led by their indomitable leader White Mane... [More...]
Le Curé de Saint-Amour (1952)
Émile Couzinet
On the day she is supposed to marry the respectable baron she is affianced to, Nicole elopes with the man she really loves, Jacques... [More...]
Émile Couzinet
On the day she is supposed to marry the respectable baron she is affianced to, Nicole elopes with the man she really loves, Jacques... [More...]
Le Défroqué (1954)
Léo Joannon
It is in 1945, whilst being detained in a German prisoner-of-war camp, that Gérard Lacassagne discovers his vocation to become a priest... [More...]
Léo Joannon
It is in 1945, whilst being detained in a German prisoner-of-war camp, that Gérard Lacassagne discovers his vocation to become a priest... [More...]
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1959)
Jean Renoir
Étienne Alexis, the man most likely to be elected President of the United States of Europe, is a famous biologist who believes that society will be vastly improved if the human species is propagated by artificial insemination... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Étienne Alexis, the man most likely to be elected President of the United States of Europe, is a famous biologist who believes that society will be vastly improved if the human species is propagated by artificial insemination... [More...]
Les Dents longues (1952)
Daniel Gélin
As he embarks on his journalistic career with a provincial newspaper, Louis Commandeur has high hopes of success, but his illusions are soon dispelled when his editor takes all of the credit for a scoop of his... [More...]
Daniel Gélin
As he embarks on his journalistic career with a provincial newspaper, Louis Commandeur has high hopes of success, but his illusions are soon dispelled when his editor takes all of the credit for a scoop of his... [More...]
Les Derniers jours de Pompei (1950)
Marcel L'Herbier
The location is Pompeii, 79 AD, just a few weeks before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius will devastate the entire town, killing most of its population... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
The location is Pompeii, 79 AD, just a few weeks before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius will devastate the entire town, killing most of its population... [More...]
Des femmes disparaissent (1959)
Edouard Molinaro
In Marseilles, the notorious gang leader Quaglio runs a prostitution ring. His plan involves luring young woman to his mansion on the outskirts of the town, before drugging them and smuggling them out of the country to be sold as prostitutes... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
In Marseilles, the notorious gang leader Quaglio runs a prostitution ring. His plan involves luring young woman to his mansion on the outskirts of the town, before drugging them and smuggling them out of the country to be sold as prostitutes... [More...]
Des gens sans importance (1955)
Henri Verneuil
Jean Viard is a long-distance lorry driver who makes a habit of stopping off at a roadside inn run by his friend Barchandeau during his frequent excursions between Paris and Bordeaux... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Jean Viard is a long-distance lorry driver who makes a habit of stopping off at a roadside inn run by his friend Barchandeau during his frequent excursions between Paris and Bordeaux... [More...]
Le Désordre et la nuit (1958)
Gilles Grangier
Inspecteur Georges Vallois is called in to investigate the murder of Albert Simoni, the owner of a night club in Paris. The prime suspect is Lucky Fridel, a young German woman who came to Paris to start a career as a singer... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
Inspecteur Georges Vallois is called in to investigate the murder of Albert Simoni, the owner of a night club in Paris. The prime suspect is Lucky Fridel, a young German woman who came to Paris to start a career as a singer... [More...]
Destinées (1954)
Christian-Jaque
Throughout history, women have had to play their part in war, and in doing so have had to forge their own destinies. After WWII, an American war widow, Elisabeth Whitefield, undertakes a painful journey to a servicemen's cemetery in Italy to reclaim her husband Tony's body and arrange its repatriation... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Throughout history, women have had to play their part in war, and in doing so have had to forge their own destinies. After WWII, an American war widow, Elisabeth Whitefield, undertakes a painful journey to a servicemen's cemetery in Italy to reclaim her husband Tony's body and arrange its repatriation... [More...]
Deux hommes dans Manhattan (1959)
Jean-Pierre Melville
When Fèvre-Berthier, an important French diplomat, goes missing in New York, a French journalist, Moreau, is sent to investigate what became of him... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
When Fèvre-Berthier, an important French diplomat, goes missing in New York, a French journalist, Moreau, is sent to investigate what became of him... [More...]
Les Deux verités (1951)
Antonio Leonviola
In Milan, a young Italian man, Loris, is on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Marie-Louise. The prosecution portrays him as an outright scoundrel who forced the young woman, a homeless orphan, to live with him in a boarding house against her will and then drove her to her death when she tried to escape from him... [More...]
Antonio Leonviola
In Milan, a young Italian man, Loris, is on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Marie-Louise. The prosecution portrays him as an outright scoundrel who forced the young woman, a homeless orphan, to live with him in a boarding house against her will and then drove her to her death when she tried to escape from him... [More...]
Les Diaboliques (1955)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Michel Delasalle and his wife Christina run a private boarding school in Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris. Delasalle is a tyrant not only to the youngsters under his care but also to his wife and his mistress Nicole, who works at the school as a teacher... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Michel Delasalle and his wife Christina run a private boarding school in Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris. Delasalle is a tyrant not only to the youngsters under his care but also to his wife and his mistress Nicole, who works at the school as a teacher... [More...]
Dieu a besoin des hommes (1950)
Jean Delannoy
In the 1850s, life is so hard on the remote Breton island of Sein that its inhabitants have to resort to wrecking passing boats and stealing their cargo to survive... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
In the 1850s, life is so hard on the remote Breton island of Sein that its inhabitants have to resort to wrecking passing boats and stealing their cargo to survive... [More...]
Le Dindon (1951)
Claude Barma
Paris, in the 1890s. Monsieur Pontagnac, an inveterate womaniser, is making overtures to Lucienne when her husband Vatelin appears unexpectedly... [More...]
Claude Barma
Paris, in the 1890s. Monsieur Pontagnac, an inveterate womaniser, is making overtures to Lucienne when her husband Vatelin appears unexpectedly... [More...]
Don Juan (1956)
John Berry
Don Juan Tenorio has grown weary of his reputation as an inveterate womaniser. He has had enough of facile female conquests... [More...]
John Berry
Don Juan Tenorio has grown weary of his reputation as an inveterate womaniser. He has had enough of facile female conquests... [More...]