Direction: Claude Autant-Lara

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Claude Autant-Lara. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Four Bags Full

1956 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Jean Gabin · Bourvil · Louis de Funès · Robert Arnoux

Synopsis Two men, a painter and a poor guy have to cross over Paris by night during world war II and nazi occupation to delivery black market meat. As they walk along dark parisian streets they encounter various characters and adventures...

6.9

403 votes

6.9

403 votes

Le diable au corps (Devil in the Flesh)

1947 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Gérard Philipe · Micheline Presle · Jean Debucourt · Jean Varas

Synopsis During World War I, underage student Francois Jaubert meets and falls in love with Marthe Grangier, who is engaged to Jacques, a soldier at the Front. Though Francois pursues her ardently, they become separated and she marries Jacques. But when...

6.8

108 votes

6.8

108 votes

The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo

1961 · Movie · 180 min. · France

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Louis Jourdan · Yvonne Furneaux · Pierre Mondy · Bernard Dheran

Synopsis Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom...

6.7

26 votes

6.7

26 votes

6.4

69 votes

Love Is My Profession

1958 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Jean Gabin · Brigitte Bardot · Edwige Feuillère · Nicole Berger

Synopsis Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.

6.4

139 votes

6.4

139 votes

6.3

48 votes

The Oldest Profession

1967 · Movie · 119 min. · France

Direction Claude Autant-Lara · Mauro Bolognini · Philippe de Broca · Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Michèle Mercier · Enrico Maria Salerno · Gabriele Tinti · Elsa Martinelli

Synopsis A collection of sketches on prostitution through the ages. 1) "The Prehistoric Era": A caveman discovers that a cavewoman is more attractive when cave paint is applied to her face. And she can earn more seashells that way. 2) "Roman...

4.7

64 votes

4.7

64 votes

Marguerite of the Night

1955 · Movie · 125 min. · France

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Michèle Morgan · Yves Montand · Jean Debucourt · Jacques Clancy

Synopsis An updating of the Faust legend, with a dash of Fritz Lang's "Der Müde Tod", to a 1950's Paris recreated in vividly abstract expressionistic sets. The film cost a small fortune to make and was virtually ignored on its release,...

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Enough Rope

1963 · Movie · 104 min. · France

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Le mariage de Chiffon

1942 · Movie · 103 min. · France

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The Green Mare

1959 · Movie · 94 min. · France

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The Mysterious Mr. Davis

1939 · Movie · 58 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Henry Kendall · Kathleen Kelly · Richard Gofe · Alastair Sim

Synopsis A man, down on his luck, invents a business partner and build an aura around him that leads to opportunities and complications in equal measure.

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Fric-Frac

1939 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Claude Autant-Lara · Maurice Lehmann

Cast Fernandel · Michel Simon · Hélène Robert · Arletty

Synopsis Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. When he meets lovely Loulou and her lazy friend Jo, he is fascinated by the girl and somehow attracted by their world : Loulou and...

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News in Brief (S)

1923 · Movie · 22 min. · France

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Louise Lara · Antonin Artaud · Paul Barthet · Roland Barthes

Synopsis A story of a love trio, an adultery, an expression of jealousy and the desire to murder without the help of titles, by the combination of images, their associations, editing, tricks, overprints, idling, and acceleration.

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