Cinematography: Marcel Fradetal

Direction Georges Franju

Plot An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Channing Pollock · Francine Bergé · Edith Scob · Théo Sarapo

Plot Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast...

Direction Georges Franju

Plot A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's airplane, to Napoleon's and Marshall...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Pascale Audret · Jean Babilée · Georges Bever · Pierre Brasseur

Plot When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there, just to annoy his heirs. As a...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Jeanne Allard · Angelo Bellini

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Jean Servais · Fabrice Rouleau · Sophie Darès

Plot In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from...

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 Georges Franju

Cast Francis Huster · Gillian Hills · André Lacombe · Margo Lion

Plot Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine,...

Direction Marcel Hanoun

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Félix Marten · José Varela · Lucienne Bogaert

Plot Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges,...

Direction Alain Magrou

Cast Janine Reynaud · Philippe Gasté · Nyl Clottu · Cathy Reghin

Direction Georges Franju

Direction Georges Franju

Plot The Ministry of Fine Arts Franju commissioned a film about the famous cathedral in Paris. As he hasa well known filmmaker trajectory, a condition was imposed: "Film only the cathedral....

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Michel Vitold · Edith Scob · Raymond Bussières · Luis Masson

Direction Georges Franju

Direction Georges Franju

Cast María Casares · Marc Cassot · Monique Chaumette · Silvia Monfort

Plot Documentary about the National Popular Theater, an important experimental theater room which was under the direction of Jean Vilar. Franju combines the filming of the drama with documentary footage, creating...

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Pierre Renoir · Marie Déa · Erich von Stroheim

Direction Georges Franju · Tadeusz Konwicki · Egon Monk · Wojciech Solarz

Cast Hélène Dieudonné · Michel Robert · Elisabeth Alfhoff · Wilhelm Althoff

Plot The film consists of three segments, of about half an hour each, "Les rideaux blancs" (Georges Franju), "Matura" / "Abitur" (Tadeusz Konwicki and Wojciech Solarz collaboration) and "Berlin N 65"...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Jean Babilée · Jacques Bernard · Roger Blin · Tino Carraro