French cinema: 1950s
Le Fauve est lâché (1959)
Maurice Labro
Once a gangster and secret services operative, Paul Lamiani now leads a respectable life as a restaurateur and family man...
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Maurice Labro
Femmes de Paris (1953)
Jean Boyer
Charles Buisson, a Nobel Prize winning professor of astronomy, is delighted when, one evening, he observes a new supernova through his telescope...
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Jean Boyer
Les Femmes s'en balancent (1954)
Bernard Borderie
FBI agent Lemmy Caution investigates the mysterious death of Gransworth Anmes, a wealthy night club owner. Anmes apparently committed suicide by driving his car off a partially completed bridge shortly after having given his wife a huge sum in forged bank notes...
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Bernard Borderie
Fernand cow-boy (1956)
Guy Lefranc
When he learns that a rich uncle has bequeathed him a bar-hotel in the Far West, Fernand Mignot leaves his home in France and is soon on his way to Carson City, USA...
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Guy Lefranc
La Fête à Henriette (1952)
Julien Duvivier
When the censor rejects their latest script two screenwriters set about developing the scenario for a new film. They soon decide on their main characters - a young Parisian dressmaker named Henriette and her fiancé, a photo-journalist named Robert...
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Julien Duvivier
Le Feu aux poudres (1957)
Henri Decoin
At the request of Albatrasse, Ludovic orders a large consignment of rifles from Pedro Wassewich, a notorious gunrunner. Pedro lives with his wife Lola in a villa, the basement of which is filled with armaments... [More...]
Henri Decoin
At the request of Albatrasse, Ludovic orders a large consignment of rifles from Pedro Wassewich, a notorious gunrunner. Pedro lives with his wife Lola in a villa, the basement of which is filled with armaments... [More...]
La Fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Luis Buñuel
In El Pao, the capital city of the prison island of Odeja, the governor Mariano Vargas resides in his luxurious palace, ruling his people with a steely ruthlessness that has made him unpopular with the masses... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
In El Pao, the capital city of the prison island of Odeja, the governor Mariano Vargas resides in his luxurious palace, ruling his people with a steely ruthlessness that has made him unpopular with the masses... [More...]
Le Fil à la patte (1955)
Guy Lefranc
Count Fernand de Bois d'Enghien is determined to marry Viviane, the daughter of the wealthy Madame du Verger. Before he can do this, however, he must first extricate himself from another romantic entanglement, one involving a singer named Lucette Gauthier... [More...]
Guy Lefranc
Count Fernand de Bois d'Enghien is determined to marry Viviane, the daughter of the wealthy Madame du Verger. Before he can do this, however, he must first extricate himself from another romantic entanglement, one involving a singer named Lucette Gauthier... [More...]
La Fille au fouet (1952)
Jean Dréville
Pietro Pons lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a girl, a deception that Lamberta was forced into by a series of tragedies almost twenty years previously... [More...]
Jean Dréville
Pietro Pons lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a girl, a deception that Lamberta was forced into by a series of tragedies almost twenty years previously... [More...]
La Fille de Hambourg (1958)
Yves Allégret
During WWII, Pierre Louviers is a prisoner-of-war and his only consolation as he toils at the port of Hamburg is the comforting regard of a young German woman, Maria... [More...]
Yves Allégret
During WWII, Pierre Louviers is a prisoner-of-war and his only consolation as he toils at the port of Hamburg is the comforting regard of a young German woman, Maria... [More...]
La Foire aux femmes (1956)
Jean Stelli
When she learns that her father is dying, 18-year-old Ludvine leaves the institution where she has been brought up and returns to her home village... [More...]
Jean Stelli
When she learns that her father is dying, 18-year-old Ludvine leaves the institution where she has been brought up and returns to her home village... [More...]
Folie douce (1951)
Jean-Paul Paulin
In a moment of madness, Monsieur Lancer-Léger, the chairman of a small company, divides his annual profits up between himself and his loyal colleagues... [More...]
Jean-Paul Paulin
In a moment of madness, Monsieur Lancer-Léger, the chairman of a small company, divides his annual profits up between himself and his loyal colleagues... [More...]
French Cancan (1954)
Jean Renoir
Nini, a pretty laundry worker, is recruited by Monsieur Danglard, along with a number of other attractive young women, to join his theatre company... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Nini, a pretty laundry worker, is recruited by Monsieur Danglard, along with a number of other attractive young women, to join his theatre company... [More...]
Frou-Frou (1955)
Augusto Genina
At a busy airport, Antoinette Dubois tries in vain to prevent her teenage daughter Michèle from jetting off to start a new life far away with the man she has lost her heart to... [More...]
Augusto Genina
At a busy airport, Antoinette Dubois tries in vain to prevent her teenage daughter Michèle from jetting off to start a new life far away with the man she has lost her heart to... [More...]
Le Fruit défendu (1952)
Henri Verneuil
As he marks his 45th birthday at a dinner party with his nearest and dearest Charles Pellegrin appears to be the very model of middle-class respectability... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
As he marks his 45th birthday at a dinner party with his nearest and dearest Charles Pellegrin appears to be the very model of middle-class respectability... [More...]
Les Fruits de l'été (1955)
Raymond Bernard
Edouard Gravières finds that his new appointment as High Commissioner for Delinquency may be jeopardised when he sees the kind of wild lifestyle his 18-year-old daughter Juliette is leading... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
Edouard Gravières finds that his new appointment as High Commissioner for Delinquency may be jeopardised when he sees the kind of wild lifestyle his 18-year-old daughter Juliette is leading... [More...]
La Fugue de Monsieur Perle (1952)
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Bernard Perle and his wife Juliette run a bakery in a small provincial town. One day, Monsieur Perle receives a letter notifying him that his aunt has died and left him a legacy... [More...]
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Bernard Perle and his wife Juliette run a bakery in a small provincial town. One day, Monsieur Perle receives a letter notifying him that his aunt has died and left him a legacy... [More...]
Futures vedettes (1955)
Marc Allégret
A gifted tenor, Eric Walter finds he has no shortage of female admirers at the music academy in Vienna where he teaches. His most ardent fans are Sophie Dimater and Elisa Petersen, two girls barely out of their teens who are both equally smitten by their handsome teacher... [More...]
Marc Allégret
A gifted tenor, Eric Walter finds he has no shortage of female admirers at the music academy in Vienna where he teaches. His most ardent fans are Sophie Dimater and Elisa Petersen, two girls barely out of their teens who are both equally smitten by their handsome teacher... [More...]
Le Garçon sauvage (1951)
Jean Delannoy
Marie earns a comfortable living working as a prostitute in the French port of Marseilles. Now that she has some stability in her life, she decides to take charge of her twelve-year old son Simon, whom she has placed in the care of kindly shepherd... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
Marie earns a comfortable living working as a prostitute in the French port of Marseilles. Now that she has some stability in her life, she decides to take charge of her twelve-year old son Simon, whom she has placed in the care of kindly shepherd... [More...]
La Garçonne (1957)
Jacqueline Audry
In the early 1920s, Monique Sorbier, the daughter of a respectable bourgeois household, is about to marry her beloved Lucien Vigneret when she receives an anonymous letter accusing her fiancé of having a mistress... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
In the early 1920s, Monique Sorbier, the daughter of a respectable bourgeois household, is about to marry her beloved Lucien Vigneret when she receives an anonymous letter accusing her fiancé of having a mistress... [More...]
Gas-Oil (1955)
Gilles Grangier
After spending the night with his girlfriend Alice at her home in the suburbs of Paris, Jean Chape drives off in his five-ton lorry in the early hours and unwittingly runs over a body laid out in the road... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
After spending the night with his girlfriend Alice at her home in the suburbs of Paris, Jean Chape drives off in his five-ton lorry in the early hours and unwittingly runs over a body laid out in the road... [More...]
Gervaise (1956)
René Clément
In the 1850s, at the start of France's Second Empire, life is a constant struggle for most of the ordinary people of Paris... [More...]
René Clément
In the 1850s, at the start of France's Second Empire, life is a constant struggle for most of the ordinary people of Paris... [More...]
Gibier de potence (1951)
Roger Richebé
On leaving the orphanage in which he grew up, Marceau Le Guern has difficulty finding gainful employment. Not long after he is dismissed as a butcher's assistant he encounters the mysterious Madame Alice, an older woman who, seeing he is in difficulty, offers him easy work for good pay... [More...]
Roger Richebé
On leaving the orphanage in which he grew up, Marceau Le Guern has difficulty finding gainful employment. Not long after he is dismissed as a butcher's assistant he encounters the mysterious Madame Alice, an older woman who, seeing he is in difficulty, offers him easy work for good pay... [More...]
Le Gorille vous salue bien (1958)
Bernard Borderie
Géo Paquet is one of the most dependable agents in the French secret service. Nicknamed 'the Gorilla', he is well endowed with both brains and brawn, and this makes him a valuable asset to the service... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
Géo Paquet is one of the most dependable agents in the French secret service. Nicknamed 'the Gorilla', he is well endowed with both brains and brawn, and this makes him a valuable asset to the service... [More...]
Le Grand chef (1959)
Henri Verneuil
Tired of their low-paid job as car cleaners, Antoine and Paulo dream of owning their own petrol station. To raise the money for this venture they kidnap the young son of a millionaire... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Tired of their low-paid job as car cleaners, Antoine and Paulo dream of owning their own petrol station. To raise the money for this venture they kidnap the young son of a millionaire... [More...]
Le Grand cirque (1950)
Georges Péclet
During WWII, French pilots are assigned to the British squadron at Biggin Hill and take part in a series of dangerous reconnaissance and combat missions... [More...]
Georges Péclet
During WWII, French pilots are assigned to the British squadron at Biggin Hill and take part in a series of dangerous reconnaissance and combat missions... [More...]
Les Grandes familles (1958)
Denys de La Patellière
With interests ranging from banking to commodities and publishing, the Schoudlers are one of France's wealthiest and most powerful business families... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
With interests ranging from banking to commodities and publishing, the Schoudlers are one of France's wealthiest and most powerful business families... [More...]
Les Grandes manoeuvres (1955)
René Clair
Armand de la Verne is a soldier in the French cavalry in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and he sees himself as something of a Don Juan, a man whom no woman can refuse... [More...]
René Clair
Armand de la Verne is a soldier in the French cavalry in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and he sees himself as something of a Don Juan, a man whom no woman can refuse... [More...]
Le Guérisseur (1954)
Yves Ciampi
Stricken with a sudden heart attack, Madame Mériadec, a woman in her fifties, is as good as dead until Pierre Laurent shows up at her bedside and applies his unique method of treatment... [More...]
Yves Ciampi
Stricken with a sudden heart attack, Madame Mériadec, a woman in her fifties, is as good as dead until Pierre Laurent shows up at her bedside and applies his unique method of treatment... [More...]
Guernica (1950)
Alain Resnais
The work of the artist Pablo Picasso and a poem by Paul Eluard are woven into this personal reflection on one of the most heinous of war crimes, the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica at the time of the Spanish Civil War... [More...]
Alain Resnais
The work of the artist Pablo Picasso and a poem by Paul Eluard are woven into this personal reflection on one of the most heinous of war crimes, the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica at the time of the Spanish Civil War... [More...]