Cast: Nicole Stephane

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Howard Vernon · Jean-Marie Robain · Nicole Stephane · Georges Patrix

Plot Le Silence de la Mer was based upon a popular wartime "underground" novel by Vercours. Most of the film is confined to the living room of a bourgeois French family....

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville · Jean Cocteau

Cast Nicole Stephane · Edouard Dermithe · Renée Cosima · Jacques Bernard

Plot Elisabeth is very protective of her teenage brother Paul, who is injured in a snowball fight at school and has to rest in bed most of the time. The siblings...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Virginia McKenna · Paul Scofield · Jack Warner · Denise Grey

Plot Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Lucien Barjon · Lucien Hubert · Nicole Stephane

Plot A tribute to the scientists who pioneered the study of radioactivity. Franju uses the documentary reconstruction with actors to show the working methods of the Curies and the precarious conditions...

Direction Léo Joannon

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Pierre Trabaud · Nicole Stephane · Marcelle Géniat

Plot Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in mocking the traditions and credos of Catholicism. Even so, young Gerard (Pierre Trabaud) becomes convinced that Maurice has never...