Cinematography: Christian Matras

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Erich von Stroheim · Pierre Fresnay · Marcel Dalio

Plot 1916, during World War I. Lieutenant Maréchal and Capitaine de Boeldieu are two combat pilots who are shot down by the Germans. They are taken to a prisoner of war...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Danielle Darrieux · Charles Boyer · Vittorio De Sica · Jean Debucourt

Plot A woman lies to her husband about having sold a pair of diamond earrings which were a gift from him. He discovers it thanks to the indiscreet jeweller. She is...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Claude Dauphin · Gaby Morlay · Madeleine Renaud · Ginette LeClerc

Plot Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth....

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Anton Walbrook · Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Simone Simon

Plot An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Gérard Philipe · Lilli Palmer · Anouk Aimée · Lila Kedrova

Plot Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family....

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Martine Carol · Peter Ustinov · Anton Walbrook · Oskar Werner

Plot The film tells the tragic story of Lola Montès (1821-1861), a great adventurer who becomes the main attraction of a circus after being the lover of various important European men.

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Francis Lacombrade · Didier Haudepin · François Leccia · Dominique Maurin

Plot Jean Delannoy's This Special Friendship (Les Amities partculieres) is set in a boy's boarding school of the early 1930s. Two of the students, Francis Lacombrade and Francois Leccia, become close...

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Henri Vidal · Mylène Demongeot · Isa Miranda · Jean-Loup Philippe

Plot Betty Farnwell, a rich widow living in Nice, decides to marry Philippe, a good-looking but self-interested man. No sooner has he got married than he meets bewitching young Eve, Betty's...

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 Georges Franju

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Philippe Noiret · Edith Scob · Sami Frey

Plot After Thérèse is acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Bernard Desqueyroux, she recalls the events that lead to her being charged. At the beginning of her marriage to Bernard,...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Paul Frankeur · Laurent Terzieff · Alain Cuny · Edith Scob

Plot Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from...

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Sidney Poitier · Diahann Carroll

Plot Two jazz musicians deal with romantic problems in Paris. Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate American jazzmen working in a Left Bank nightclub in Paris. Ram is there...

Direction Jacqueline Audry

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Simone Simon · Marie-Claire Olivia · Yvonne de Bray

Plot Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris.

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Curd Jürgens · Peter Ustinov · O.E. Hasse · Sam Jaffe

Plot A psychiatrist, desperate for money to keep his faltering practice running, makes a deal with a spy to hide a mysterious person in his clinic in return for a million...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Silvia Monfort · Jean Marais · Jean Debucourt

Plot Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas,...

Direction Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Cast Romy Schneider · Alain Delon · Micheline Presle · Sophie Grimaldi

Plot Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner (Alain Delon) and the young Christine (Romy Schneider). Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning...

Direction André Cayatte

Cast Michèle Morgan · Bourvil · Ivan Desny · Georgette Anys

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Gérard Philipe · Gina Lollobrigida · Marcel Herrand · Olivier Hussenot

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Claudia Cardinale · Jess Hahn · Marcel Dalio

Plot In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Shirley MacLaine · Alan Arkin · Rossano Brazzi · Michael Caine

Plot Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession", a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night", angry wife becomes a streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One", seemingly prudish girl turns...