French cinema: 1953
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...
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Marcel L'Herbier
Le Portrait de son père (1953)
André Berthomieu
Paul, an unsophisticated country boy, is surprised to learn that he has inherited a fortune from the father he has all but forgotten...
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André Berthomieu
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
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...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
Les Statues meurent aussi (1953)
Chris Marker
Today when we see an African sculpture made in a previous century we are likely to be fascinated by it, perhaps mesmerised by its unfamiliar exotic beauty... [More...]
Chris Marker
Today when we see an African sculpture made in a previous century we are likely to be fascinated by it, perhaps mesmerised by its unfamiliar exotic beauty... [More...]
Thérèse Raquin (1953)
Marcel Carné
After being adopted by her aunt, Thérèse Raquin was forced into marrying her sickly cousin Camille at an early age... [More...]
Marcel Carné
After being adopted by her aunt, Thérèse Raquin was forced into marrying her sickly cousin Camille at an early age... [More...]
La Tournée des grands Ducs (1953)
André Pellenc
Gaston, the son of the notary Fromageot, is in love with Brigitte, the daughter of a baroness. Shortly after his arrival in Paris, he loses some money entrusted to him by the baroness and he ends up working in a cabaret to try to make good his loss... [More...]
André Pellenc
Gaston, the son of the notary Fromageot, is in love with Brigitte, the daughter of a baroness. Shortly after his arrival in Paris, he loses some money entrusted to him by the baroness and he ends up working in a cabaret to try to make good his loss... [More...]
Les Trois mousquetaires (1953)
André Hunebelle
Under the reign of Louis XIII, the young Charles d'Artagnan leaves his home village in Gascony and sets out for Paris, determined to fulfil his ambition to become one of the king's musketeers... [More...]
André Hunebelle
Under the reign of Louis XIII, the young Charles d'Artagnan leaves his home village in Gascony and sets out for Paris, determined to fulfil his ambition to become one of the king's musketeers... [More...]
Un acte d'amour (1953)
Anatole Litvak
Some years after the war, an American, Robert Teller, pays a visit to a seaside town in the South of France. He casts his mind back to 1944, recalling his time in Paris immediately after the Liberation... [More...]
Anatole Litvak
Some years after the war, an American, Robert Teller, pays a visit to a seaside town in the South of France. He casts his mind back to 1944, recalling his time in Paris immediately after the Liberation... [More...]
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)
Jacques Tati
Monsieur Hulot sets out for his summer holiday at the peaceful seaside resort of St. Marc-Sur-Mer. No sooner has he arrived, in his trusty old jalopy, than the nightmare of his fellow holiday-makers begins... [More...]
Jacques Tati
Monsieur Hulot sets out for his summer holiday at the peaceful seaside resort of St. Marc-Sur-Mer. No sooner has he arrived, in his trusty old jalopy, than the nightmare of his fellow holiday-makers begins... [More...]
La Vie d'un honnête homme (1953)
Sacha Guitry
Through a combination of hard work and ruthlessness, Albert Ménard-Lacoste has become a wealthy businessman, although his austerity prevents him from being loved, even by his family... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
Through a combination of hard work and ruthlessness, Albert Ménard-Lacoste has become a wealthy businessman, although his austerity prevents him from being loved, even by his family... [More...]
La Vierge du Rhin (1953)
Gilles Grangier
In Düsseldorf, Martin Schmidt finds work on La Vierge du Rhin, a barge bound for France, keeping from his employer that he is in truth Jacques Ledru, a Frenchman who is thought to have been killed in action during World War II... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
In Düsseldorf, Martin Schmidt finds work on La Vierge du Rhin, a barge bound for France, keeping from his employer that he is in truth Jacques Ledru, a Frenchman who is thought to have been killed in action during World War II... [More...]
Virgile (1953)
Carlo Rim
François Virgile is a likeable young man but his attempts to make something of his life are continually thwarted by a curse which, he believes, has brought misery and misfortune to generations of his family... [More...]
Carlo Rim
François Virgile is a likeable young man but his attempts to make something of his life are continually thwarted by a curse which, he believes, has brought misery and misfortune to generations of his family... [More...]