Cast: Jean Desailly

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Serge Reggiani · Jean Desailly · Michel Piccoli

Plot Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean Desailly · Françoise Dorléac · Nelly Benedetti · Daniel Ceccaldi

Plot Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre...

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Pierre Blanchar · Michèle Morgan · Line Noro · Rosine Luguet

Plot A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but the man already is married.

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Anthony Quinn · Virna Lisi · Grégoire Aslan · Michael Redgrave

Plot Wartime drama, with Anthony Quinn as a Romanian farmer who falls foul of a local police captain (Gregoire Aslan) who desires Quinn's wife (Virna Lisi).

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Alain Delon · Richard Crenna · Catherine Deneuve · Riccardo Cucciolla

Plot Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just a asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang...

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Jean Gabin · Annie Girardot · Jean Desailly · Olivier Hussenot

Plot For some time now, women coming home at night have been savagely murdered by a mysterious serial killer. Inspector Lagrume thinks he has found the culprit in the person of...

Direction Gilles Grangier

Cast Lino Ventura · Andrea Parisy · Robert Hirsch · Dora Doll

Plot Pascal scrapes a modest living selling newspapers in the streets of Paris. Although a little rough around the edges, he has a good heart, so that when he sees a...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Jean Marais · Georges Marchal · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Brigitte Bardot

Plot Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed...

Direction René Clair

Cast Michèle Morgan · Gérard Philipe · Brigitte Bardot · Jacques Fabbri

Plot Clair's romantic comedy on the power of love over pride. Set in a pre-WWI garrison town, a handsome soldier (Philipe) wagers that he can seduce any woman he pleases before...

Direction Georges Lautner

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jean Desailly · Robert Hossein · Michel Beaune

Plot French secret agent Joss Baumont (Belmondo) is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation changes and the...

Direction Philippe de Broca · Claude Chabrol · Jacques Demy · Sylvain Dhomme

Cast Jacques Charrier · Marie-José Nat · Eddie Constantine · Nicole Mirel

Plot Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film.

Direction Robert Enrico

Cast Philippe Noiret · Michel Serrault · Dorithée · André Falcon

Direction Philippe Labro

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Carla Gravina · Jean Rochefort · Charles Denner

Plot Bart Cordell, is unanimously considered as a daddy's boy and an insignificant playboy. So, when he suddenly becomes head of his father's financial empire following his death,nobody understandably expects much...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Richard Burton · Alain Delon · Romy Schneider · Valentina Cortese

Plot After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with the politics. Stalin has sent out an assassin,...

Direction Jean-Paul Carrère

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Madeleine Renaud · Elina Labourdette · Jean Desailly

Direction André Berthomieu

Cast Jean Desailly · Martine Carol · Denise Grey · Pierre Larquey

Plot Jacques de la Bastide is a young lawyer, not very good and oppressed by his mother. He takes over the case of three bandits, than falls for the wife of...

Direction Louis Daquin

Cast Pierre Blanchar · Jean Desailly · Maria Mauban · Lucien Nat

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Danielle Darrieux · Jean Desailly · Victor Guyau · Grégoire Aslan

Direction Claude Bernard-Aubert

Cast Salvatore Adamo · Michel Constantin · Elisabeth Wiener · Jess Hahn

Plot Philippe, a student, is sent to jail for manhandling his father's business partner, who blackmailed the poor man and caused his death. He shares his cell with two mates: easily...

Direction Michel Boisrond · Christian-Jaque · René Clair · Henri Decoin

Cast Darry Cowl · Noel Roquevert · Paulette Dubost · Sophie Desmarets