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...]

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...]

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...]

Le Port du désir (1955)
Edmond T. Gréville

As a sunken ship risks blocking the entrance to the port of Marseille, Captain Le Quévic is instructed by the naval authorities to raise the vessel and tow it away...   [More...]

Les Premiers outrages (1955)
Jean Gourguet

In her exercise book, Bichette, a girl in her mid-teens, records her first amorous experience. The object of her juvenile infatuation was a handsome lad named Kiki, the son of the innkeeper in the little village where she spent her summer holidays...   [More...]

Le Printemps, l'automne et l'amour (1955)
Gilles Grangier

For Fernand Sarrazin, the wealthy owner of a nougat-manufacturing plant in Montélimar in the south of France, life could not be peachier...   [More...]

Quatre jours à Paris (1955)
André Berthomieu

Young Mario, hairdresser at the Hyacinthe beauty clinic, falls in love with Gabrielle, a young girl from the provinces who is passing through Paris...   [More...]

Razzia sur la Chnouf (1955)
Henri Decoin

Paul Liski runs the biggest drugs trafficking operation in France but things are not going well. He needs someone he can trust to restructure his entire organisation so that it can expand its reach whilst evading the forces of law and order...   [More...]

Le Rendez-vous des quais (1955)
Paul Carpita

Marseilles, 1953. Robert Fournier is a young dock worker who wants to marry Marcelle, an employee in a biscuit factory. But times are hard and the couple are unable to afford an apartment, so they have no choice but to go on living with their parents...   [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...]

Sur le banc (1955)
Robert Vernay

Two middle-aged tramps, La Hurlette and Carmen, meet up every day on the same park bench in Paris. La Hurlette enjoys the life of the vagabond but he is more than willing to give this up when, one day, he discovers that he has inherited a fortune...   [More...]

La Tour de Nesle (1955)
Abel Gance

Paris, 1315. The Tour de Nesle, a guard tower on the banks of the Seine, has become a symbol of mystery and fear. Each morning, at its base, the bodies of handsome young aristocrats are found floating in the river, all butchered by sword or arrow...   [More...]