Cinematography: Robert Juillard

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Edmund Moeschke · Ernst Pittschau · Barbara Hintz · Franz-Otto Krüger

Synopsis Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War has to do all kinds of work and tricks to help his family in getting food and barely survive. One day he meets a man who...

Direction René Clément

Cast Georges Poujouly · Brigitte Fossey · Amédée · Laurence Badie

Synopsis The story focuses on Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a five-year-old refugee from Paris taken in by a peasant family after her parents are killed during a bombardment of a civilian convoy. Michel Dolle (Georges Pujouly), the family's 11-year-old son, becomes her...

Direction René Clément

Cast Maria Schell · François Périer · Armand Mestral · Suzy Delair

Synopsis Paris, 1852. When her lover, Lantier, walks out on her, a lame young woman, Gervaise Macquart, is left to make a living for herself and her two young children. Her lot seems to improve when she falls in love with...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Anna Magnani · Federico Fellini

Synopsis Two-part episodes: Il miracolo (The Miracle) & La voce umana (The Human Voice). A diptych of stories deliberating on the nature of human love and emotional attachment, both starring Magnani in the key role. In "The Miracle," a suggestible, innocent...

Direction Jacqueline Audry

Cast Arletty · Franck Villard · Gaby Sylvia · Yves Deniaud

Direction Robert Hossein

Cast Robert Hossein · Marina Vlady · Odile Versois · Héléna Manson

Synopsis One dark night, in the deserted streets of Nice... An American car slowly drives past Victor Menda, then slowly pulls up... A come on from the mysterious blonde at the wheel and Victor finds himself kissing her and making love...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Jack Palance · Orson Welles · Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis Thirty-three years after his epic "Napoleon," director Abel Gance returned to the life of the Little Corporal with this look at the decisive 1805 conflict between French forces and the armies of Austria and Russia. An epic reconstruction of the...

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Gene Kelly · Barbara Laage · Bobby Clark · Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis An American boy and a French girl run away from a Swiss school making for Paris to reunite with their parents. The boy's father (Gene Kelly) and the girl's mother (Barbara Laage) join forces, despite cultural differences, to search for...

Direction Pierre Colombier

Cast Raimu · Fernandel · Jules Berry · Lisette Lanvin

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Arletty · Suzy Carrier · André Luguet · Denise Grey

Synopsis The father of the girl is a magistrate with a high sense of duty.The daughter, Françoise is a romantic girl.The mother of the girl is an ambitious woman who doesn't accept the second place of her husband in a town...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Fernand Gravey · Elvire Popesco · André Alerme · Monique Rolland

Synopsis In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war...

Direction Luis Saslavsky

Cast François Périer · Jeanne Moreau · Micheline Presle · Madeleine Robinson

Synopsis Gervais and his friend Bernard, two prisoners of war, manage to escape from the camp where they are held. Bernard is determined to take refuge with Hélène, his war grandmother, a woman with whom he has been carrying on a...

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Louis Jouvet · Claude Dauphin · Odette Joyeux · Janine Darcey

Direction Bernard Borderie

Cast Eddie Constantine · Françoise Brion · Alfred Adam · Renaud Mary

Direction Henri Diamant-Berger

Cast Jane Souza · Guy Bertil · Brigitte Barbier · Jacques Riberolles

Direction Raoul André

Cast Louise Carletti · Pierre Cour · Francis Blanche · Albert

Direction Carlo Rim

Cast Etchika Choureau · Danielle Darrieux · Robert Lamoureux · Sophie Desmarets

Synopsis Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou is taken in hand by Léo, a street photographer and his squatter friends. They all want to know what happened to her, so to satisfy their curiosity, Marie-Lou starts recounting her unfortunate experiences...

Direction Armand Gatti

Cast Herbert Wochinz · Jean Négroni · Hans Christian Blech · Jean-Marie Serreau

Direction André Michel

Cast Gino Cervi · Joël Flateau · Simone Renant · Paulette Dubost

Synopsis An orphan ,Remi ,was sold to an itinerant musician ,Vitalis ,who travels with his performing animals.

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Jean Marais · Brigitte Bardot · Isabelle Pia · Yves Robert