Cinematography: Armand Thirard

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Yves Montand · Charles Vanel · Véra Clouzot · Peter van Eyck

Plot In a wretched South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry...

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Simone Signoret · Véra Clouzot · Paul Meurisse · Charles Vanel

Plot Michel Delasalle (Paul Meurisse), the headmaster of a provincial boarding school, becomes the target of a murder plot concocted by his wife Christina (Véra Clouzot) and his mistress (Simone Signoret).

Direction Jean Grémillon

Cast Jean Gabin · Madeleine Renaud · Michèle Morgan · Charles Blavette

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Jean Gabin · Danièle Delorme · Robert Arnoux · Liliane Bert

Plot André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Robert Lynen · Harry Baur · Louis Gauthier · Simone Aubry

Direction René Clair

Cast Maurice Chevalier · François Périer · Marcelle Derrien · Dany Robin

Plot Paris, 1920, period of the silent cinema. Emile, a film maker, takes under his wing Jacques and schools him in the art of seduction whilst counselling him never to fall...

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Suzy Delair · Bernard Blier · Louis Jouvet · Simone Renant

Plot Jenny Lamour is an ambitious music hall singer who wants to be a star and is willing to befriend the lecherous old men who ogle her act, inspiring the jealousy...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Louis Jouvet · Victor Francen · Michel Simon · Madeleine Ozeray

Plot Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor...

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Annabella · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Louis Jouvet · Arletty

Plot At the family-run Hotel du Nord, a young couple check in, planning to commit a double-suicide. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) shoots his lover Renée (Annabella), but then panics and flees, leaving...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Dita Parlo · Ginette Maddie · Andrée Brabant · Madame Barsac

Plot Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches...

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 H.G. Clouzot

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Sami Frey · Charles Vanel · Marie-José Nat

Plot Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of Gilbert Tellier. The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ambitious...

Direction Jean Epstein

Cast Jean Murat · Marie Bell · Joan Helda · Gaston Mauger

Plot The almost financial ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several day in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which was a present from his friends. George...

Direction Maurice Tourneur

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Josseline Gaël · Noel Roquevert · Guillaume de Sax

Plot A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. The man is panic-struck when, during a sudden blackout, the box disappears. To the assembled guests at the...

Direction Peter Brook

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Pascale de Boysson · Jean Deschamps

Plot A wealthy and bored woman (Moreau) is witness of a murder in affection and meets another witness (Belmondo). She asks him about the history of the victim and falls in...

Direction René Clair

Cast Gérard Philipe · Martine Carol · Gina Lollobrigida · Magali Vendeuil

Plot A young composer has vivid dreams of the past that reflect, yet conflict with his waking life.

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Harry Baur · Valery Inkijinoff · Alexandre Rignault · Gaston Jacquet

Plot Willy Ferriere is dead broke and his mistress costs a lot. One day, he says in a pub that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy...

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Suzy Delair · Jean Tissier · Pierre Larquey

Plot Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Harry Baur · Paule Andral · Jackie Monnier · Jean Bradin

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Serge Reggiani · Michel Auclair · Cécile Aubry · Gabrielle Dorziat

Plot An adaptation of Abbe Prevost's classic French novel 'Manon Lescaut', updated to post-World War II France, in which a former French Resistance activist rescues Manon from villagers who want to...