Cinematography: Nicolas Hayer

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Serge Reggiani · Jean Desailly · Michel Piccoli

Plot Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Marais · María Casares · François Périer · Marie Déa

Plot Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee's wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess' henchmen and Orphee goes after her into...

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Ginette LeClerc · Micheline Francey · Pierre Larquey

Plot A wave of hysteria sweeps the small provincial town of St Robin when a series of poisen-pen letters signed “Le Corbeau” (The Raven) appear denouncing several prominent members of society....

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Viviane Romance · Michel Simon · Paul Bernard · Max Dalban

Plot In the suburbs of Paris, an old maid has just been murdered. Every body talks about that, except the misanthrope Mr Hire. The same evening, Alice, just getting out of...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Raymond Rouleau · Micheline Presle · Jean Chevrier · Gabrielle Dorziat

Plot Micheline arrives in Paris to prepare her marriage to Daniel Rousseau. There she falls in love with her fiancé’s best friend, dress designer Philippe Clarence, an impenitent ladies’ man who...

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Renée Faure · Gérard Philipe · Lucien Coëdel · Louis Salou

Plot Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around. The Countess of San Severina, is but one of...

Direction Alexandre Astruc

Cast Maurice Ronet

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Jess Hahn · Van Doude · Michèle Girardon · Jean Le Poulain

Plot Pierre Wesserlin (Jess Hahn) is a 39 old American composer, who lives a reckless, bohemian life in Paris. One morning he receives a telegram notifying him that his wealthy aunt...

Direction John Berry

Cast Alvah Bessie · Herbert J. Biberman · Lester Cole · Edward Dmytryk

Plot Who were the Hollywood Ten? This 1950 documentary gives us a closer look at the ten blacklisted film writers and directors who defied the government and the sentiments of their...

Direction Henri Decoin

Cast Louis Jouvet · Madeleine Robinson · Léo Lapara · Monique Mélinand

Plot Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a subway in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Fernandel · Gino Cervi · Vera Talchi · Franco Interlenghi

Plot In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Pierre Melville · Pierre Grasset · Christiane Eudes · Paula Dehelly

Plot Moreau, a French journalist assigned to New York, is sent out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a French United Nations diplomat, Fèvre-Berthier. When he fails to learn anything from...

Direction Pierre Granier-Deferre

Cast Lino Ventura · Charles Aznavour · Irina Demick · Maurice Biraud

Plot Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Mireille Balin · Raymond Rouleau · Pierre Renoir · Noel Roquevert

Plot A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must elucidate this murder to decide who is the winner of...

Direction John Berry

Cast Fernandel · Carmen Sevilla · Fernando Rey · Erno Crisa

Plot Film based on the myth of Don Juan.

Direction Maurice Cloche

Cast Geneviève Page · Franck Villard · Mario Cabré · Dolores Vargas

Direction Jean Valère

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Hardy Krüger · Francisco Rabal · Roger Couderc

Direction Carlo Rim

Cast Darry Cowl · Yves Robert · Rosy Varte · René Blancard

Direction Jean Stelli · Jacques Becker

Cast Charles Vanel · Conchita Montenegro · Albert Préjean · Jim Gerald

Plot Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens. Dupuy, the first mate of the French freighter "Cristobal" is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the "Cristobal" carries a priceless secret...

Direction Louis Daquin

Cast Pierre Blanchar · Jean Desailly · Maria Mauban · Lucien Nat