Cinematography: Robert Lefebvre

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Claude Dauphin · Raymond Bussières

Synopsis In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of them, Marie, aka "Casque d'Or" (Golden Helmet) meets Manda, a carpenter. Her man Roland belongs to the jealous kind, and Leca himself has...

Direction René Clair

Cast Pierre Brasseur · Georges Brassens · Henri Vidal · Dany Carrel

Synopsis An old bum becomes infatuated with a pretty young girl who gets entangled with a young gangster.

Direction Alexandre Astruc

Cast Jean-Claude Pascal · Anouk Aimée · Gaby Sylvia · Philippe Lemaire

Synopsis Through her answers to police inspector Corbin's questions, investigating Dr Danieli's suicide, Catherine Racan draws her self-portrait. The ambitious young journalist indeed tells how she got to Paris with Pierre, her tender lover and how she soon got rid of...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Danielle Darrieux · Bernard Blier · Robert Dalban · Paul Frankeur

Synopsis Fifteen years after WWII, a group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, so that the former members of the network can finally relive one fateful night and find out who betrayed their murdered leader, Castille.

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Daniel Gélin · Anne Vernon · Elina Labourdette · Jacques François

Synopsis Édouard is a pianist, married with Caroline. This evening, they are invited to Claude's. Claude is the snobbish uncle of Caroline, his son Alain (as snobbish as his father) is in love with Caroline. They spite Edouard a little because...

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Gérard Oury · Philippe Nicaud · Claire Maurier

Synopsis Jacques Decrey, an industrialist, finds out that his wife Gloria has a lover. Posing as a man named Berthier, he blackmails her. After a while, Decrey decides to make Yves Normand, a young unemployed actor and Gloria's lover, out to...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Georges Marchal · Lucía Bosé · Julien Bertheau · Jean-Hacques Delbo

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Jean Marais · Dominique Blanchar · Jean Debucourt · Claude Farell

Direction René Clair

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

Synopsis 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 leaving for summer maneuvers. Drawing the name of his quarry...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Sacha Guitry · Gaby Morlay · Jacqueline Delubac · Georges Grey

Synopsis A sparkling four-way affair overflowing with dialogue that showcases writer-director Sacha Guitry’s wit, Quadrille stars Guitry as a magazine editor whose longtime girlfriend—to whom he plans to finally propose—is uncontrollably drawn to a handsome American movie star. Meanwhile, a discerning...

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Michèle Morgan · Jean Gabin · Walter Chiari · Daniel Gélin

Synopsis On the night of their tenth anniversary, Doctor Rene Richard accidentally discovers that his wife, actress Madeleine Richard, has been having an affair with a disturbed artist, Daniel Prevost who has just attempted suicide. He confronts her and she spends...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Harry Baur · Annie Ducaux · Jany Holt · André Nox

Synopsis 1801, in Vienna, two young women, his pupils, are in love with him. Thérèse de Brunswick's love remains unrequited even though she and Beethoven are engaged for years; Juliette Guicciardi, whom Beethoven loves but who marries a count, regrets that...

Direction Carmine Gallone

Cast Curd Jürgens · Geneviève Page · Jacques Dacqmine · Sylva Koscina

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Fernandel · Samia Gamal · Dieter Borsche · Henri Vilbert

Direction Jean Aurel · J.D. Trop · Roger Vadim

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Joséphine James · Mireille Darc · Edith Zetline

Synopsis Sophie, a flighty young model, learns that her boyfriend is planning to leave her for another woman. Sophie resolves to either win him back or assassinate her rival. A handsome doctor (who happens to be falling for Sophie himself) assists...

Direction Michel Boisrond

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Henri Vidal · Dawn Addams · Dario Moreno

Direction Radley Metzger

Cast Rebecca Brooke · Carl Parker · Marilyn Roberts · Valerie Marron

Synopsis In Paris, the writer Jean meets his former affair, Claire, in a party. Claire is with a girlfriend, the model Anne, and invites Jean to meet them on the next day. Claire offers Anne, who is her humiliated slave, to...

Direction Max Pécas

Cast Sandra Julien · Janine Reynaud · Yves Vincent · Patrick Verde

Synopsis Max Pecas' rich and colorful triumphant masterpiece, with Sandra Julien beautiful and beautifully glacial as a living mannequin. She falls down her rabbit-hole in an elevator shaft, into the murkier part of her subconscious desires, unleashed for us in the...

Direction Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Annie Ducaux · Sophie Desmarets · Alfred Adam

Synopsis King Joan IV of Cerdagne, a womanizer, is on an official visit to France when he bumps into Bourdier the deputy which introduces him to the best places and charms during his stay.

Direction Jean Delannoy · François Dupont-Midi · Alvaro Mancori · Puccini

Cast France Anglade · Dominique Boschero · Lando Buzzanca · Nino Castelnuovo