Cast: Jany Holt

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Junie Astor · Suzy Prim · Louis Jouvet

Synopsis The film treats the imprisoning hold of poverty; the disheartening odds of people rising from such social despair, and the ease in which those in the upper spheres of Society may descend.

Direction René Clément

Cast Maria Schell · François Périer · Armand Mestral · Suzy Delair

Synopsis Paris, 1852. When her lover, Lantier, walks out on her, a lame young woman, Gervaise Macquart, is left to make a living for herself and her two young children. Her lot seems to improve when she falls in love with...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Renée Faure · Jany Holt · Sylvie · Marie-Hélène Dasté

Synopsis Rich young Anne-Marie thinks she has found her vocation when she joins a Dominican convent as a novice. The convent specialises in rehabilitating female prisoners, and Anne-Marie becomes especially fascinated with Therese, trying to get her to join the convent...

Direction Peter Handke

Cast Edith Clever · Markus Mühleisen · Bruno Ganz · Michael Lonsdale

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Harry Baur · Annie Ducaux · Jany Holt · André Nox

Synopsis 1801, in Vienna, two young women, his pupils, are in love with him. Thérèse de Brunswick's love remains unrequited even though she and Beethoven are engaged for years; Juliette Guicciardi, whom Beethoven loves but who marries a count, regrets that...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Harry Baur · Roger Karl · Charles Dorat · Roger Duchesne

Synopsis The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Gene Hackman · Matt Dillon · Gayle Hunnicutt · Viktoriya Fyodorova

Synopsis Chris Lloyd does NOT get along with his father Walter. Walter is too careful, cautious, and boring to Chris, and never tries anything new, and Chris had to live by the same standards when he was growing up. But when...

Direction Mathieu Kassovitz

Cast Julie Mauduech · Hubert Koundé · Mathieu Kassovitz · Vincent Cassel

Synopsis Lola is pregnant. But she does not know who the father is : Jamal, the black muslim, son of diplomats, or Felix, the pennyless jewish messenger. Jamal and Felix meet at Lola's, and the race begins.

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Glenn Ford · Geraldine Brooks · Cedric Hardwicke · George Macready

Synopsis In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). Years later, financial reverses lead Mike to return in search of the...

Direction Maurice de Canonge

Cast Jany Holt · Pierre Renoir · Jean Dhabi · Odette Barencey

Synopsis The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Harry Baur · Marcelle Chantal · Pierre Richard-Willm · Carine Nelson

Synopsis Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.

Direction Jacques Fansten

Cast Jean Carmet · Daniel Gélin · Blanchette Brunoy · Grégoire Colin

Synopsis After a missed burglary, deux young cads take refuge in a retiring-pension sowing terror. On the call of one of the pensioners, the police catch them. But some of the old people are puzzled by their situation and decide to...

Direction Ariel Zeitoun

Cast Gérard Lanvin · Akosua Busia · Richard Brooks · Laure Killing

Direction Henri Decoin

Cast Michel Simon · Jany Holt · Jean Debucourt · Georges Bréhat

Synopsis Michel Ancelin is an alcoholic doctor: the more the people look down on him as a miserable failure the more he hates his own guts... until that night when, driving home and drunk, he accidentally kills a man. What if...

Direction Georges Lacombe

Cast Jany Holt · Pierre Brasseur · Gérard Philipe · Marthe Mellot

Synopsis Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and falls in love. But her lover...

Direction Serge de Poligny

Cast André Lefaur · Odette Joyeux · Jany Holt · Alain Cuny

Synopsis Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. The two girls had a playmate, Hervé, the son of the gamekeeper. Now...

Direction Pierre Chenal

Cast Viviane Romance · Louis Jouvet · Pierre Renoir · Jany Holt

Synopsis Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears...

Direction Serge de Poligny

Cast Pierre Richard-Willm · Jany Holt · Line Noro · Anne Belval

Synopsis Sylvie, a girl who believes she is cursed having seen her two lovers die in tragic circumstances, lives in the town of Carcassonne, in the South of France with her adoptive guardian, Mr. Toulzac. This one, a retired school teacher,...

Direction Roger Dallier

Cast Jany Holt · Pierre Cressoy · Jean Servais · Jean Brochard

Synopsis A woman considered a saint by the young brides remembers her past: her revenge on her rival and the family who humiliated her was ruthless and terrible.

Direction Jean-Claude Sussfeld

Cast Pierre Arditi · Mathilda May · Aurelle Doazan · Jean-Marie Marion

Synopsis Jean Nevers is a solitary middle-aged bachelor whose apartment is next to that of Cora Elbaz, an erotic dancer who lives alone with her five year old son Antoine.