Cinematography: Claude Renoir

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Patricia Walters · Adrienne Corri · Nora Swinburne · Esmond Knight

Plot Harriet (Patricia Walters) is a pensive, awkward, and fanciful adolescent growing up in Bengal near the banks of the river. The eldest child of a jute factory manager (Esmond Knight),...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Sylvia Bataille · Georges Darnoux · Jane Marken · André Gabriello

Plot The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love to a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Charles Blavette · Celia Montalván · Édouard Delmont · Max Dalban

Plot The story is the basic "good man destroyed by bad woman" conceit: An Italian laborer sets the gears in motion for Zola-esque tragedy by falling in love with a young...

Direction Maurice Cloche

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Aimé Clariond · Jean Debucourt · Lise Delamare

Plot An inspiring chronicle of the life of St. Vincent de Paul, who established a lifeline between the fortunes of the rich and the misfortunes of the poor.

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Pablo Picasso · H.G. Clouzot · Claude Renoir

Plot Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush...

Direction Jacques Deray

Cast Michel Auclair · Claude Dauphin · Jose Giovanni · Charles Vanel

Direction Serge Leroy

Cast Mimsy Farmer · Jean-Luc Bideau · Michael Lonsdale · Philippe Léotard

Plot On a visit in the Norman countryside at the week-end, a young English woman, Helen Wells, who is looking for a country place to rent, is offered assistance by a...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Anna Magnani · Odoardo Spadaro · Nada Fiorelli · Dance

Plot A small town of Central America in the eighteenth century. Camilla, the star of a theater company, hesitates between three men. The Vice King gives her his magnificent golden coach....

Direction Raymond Rouleau

Cast Simone Signoret · Yves Montand · Mylène Demongeot · Alfred Adam

Plot Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven...

Direction Alexandre Astruc

Cast Maria Schell · Christian Marquand · Pascale Petit · Louis Arbessier

Plot Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom...

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Pascale Petit · Andrea Parisy · Jacques Charrier · Laurent Terzieff

Plot Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces him to the existentialist circles of...

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Louis de Funès · Bourvil · Terry-Thomas · Claudio Brook

Plot Terry-Thomas sparkles as an English pilot lost in occupied France during the Second World War; Bourvil and Louis De Funès play Parisians who somewhat involuntarily aid the ubiquitous Resistance by...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Jean Marais · Mel Ferrer · Jean Richard

Plot Polish Princess Elena (Ingrid Bergman) believes she was born to be the guardian angel of great causes and great (undiscovered) men. It is only when men need her that she...

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Claudine Auger · Jean-Louis Bras · Maurice Caffarelli · Dominique Dieudonné

Plot For the rebellious youngsters on a deprived Parisian housing estate, home is not a tiny room in a cramped apartment but a place amongst the shattered ruins of a derelict...

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Dane Clark · Simone Signoret · Fernand Gravey · Robert Duke

Plot This gripping 'lost' gangster movie (finally being released on DVD, having never been theatrically released in the U.S.) was filmed in Paris by acclaimed noir director Frank Tuttle (THIS GUN...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Daniel Gélin · Brigitte Auber · Nicole Courcel · Pierre Trabaud

Plot Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.

Direction Alain Cavalier

Cast Alain Delon · Lea Massari · Georges Géret · Robert Castel

Plot In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas (Alain Delon) is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run...

Direction Guy Lefranc

Cast Louis Jouvet · Jean Brochard · Pierre Renoir · Pierre Bertin

Plot Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Omar Sharif · Jack Palance · Leigh Taylor-Young · David de Keyser

Plot Uraz (Omar Sharif), the son of Tursen (Jack Palance), the stable master for a feudal lord, is a master horseman who lives by a primitive code of honor. Uruz's family...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Gene Hackman · Fernando Rey · Bernard Fresson · Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Plot This sequel to the Oscar-winning "The French Connection" picks up almost exactly where the earlier film leaves off. Still on the trail of drug kingpin Frog One (Fernando Rey), narcotics...