Screenplay: Jacques Companeez

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 Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Junie Astor · Suzy Prim · Louis Jouvet

Synopsis The film treats the imprisoning hold of poverty; the disheartening odds of people rising from such social despair, and the ease in which those in the upper spheres of Society may descend.

Direction René Clément

Cast Marcel Dalio · Henri Vidal · Florence Marly · Fosco Giachetti

Synopsis Oslo, April 19th 1945, as the Third Reich is living its last day, a group of Nazis and sympathizers (a Wehrmacht general, an SS leader and his "assistant", an Italian industrialist and his wife who is also the general's lover,...

Direction Frank Tuttle

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

Synopsis 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 FOR HIRE, THE GLASS KEY). It stars Dane Clark as...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Lucille Ball · Charles Coburn · Boris Karloff

Synopsis Before being forever associated with melodrama, acclaimed director Douglas Sirk dabbled in other genres. LURED, a good example of this, is a witty and stylish thriller about a serial killer terrorizing the streets of London. Lucille Ball stars as Sandra,...

Direction Ramón Torrado

Cast Fernando Fernán Gómez · Julia Martínez · Julia Caba Alba · Julia Lajos

Synopsis While in the office doing overtime, Pedro Gutierrez, modest bank clerk, discovers a group of thieves. After wounding him, the robbers flee in terror letting a wad of bills on the floor. Puzzled, Pedro decides to keep the money that...

Direction Jean Dréville

Cast Dany Robin · Dieter Borsche · Simone Renant · Heinz Rühmann

Direction Maurice de Canonge

Cast Paul Meurisse · Odette Joyeux · Léo Lapara · Luce Feyrer

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Fernandel · Françoise Arnoul · Jacques Castelot · René Génin

Synopsis A doctor in southern France takes a mistress but lives to regret it.

Direction Victor Vicas

Cast François Périer · Bella Darvi · Daniel Gélin · Jean Brochard

Direction Romolo Marcellini · Emil E. Reinert · Wolfgang Staudte · Montgomery Tully

Cast Bonar Colleano · Barbara Kelly · Anne Vernon · Karin Himboldt

Synopsis An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the...

Direction Guy Lefranc

Cast Raymond Pellegrin · Magali Noël · Leo Genn · Georges Chamarat

Direction Henri Decoin

Cast Eddie Constantine · Zizi Jeanmaire · Yves Robert · Jacques Morel

Direction Raymond Bernard

Cast Danielle Darrieux · Louis Salou · Gabrielle Dorziat · Jacques Berthier

Synopsis Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a...

Direction Pierre Chenal

Cast Madeleine Sologne · Erich von Stroheim · Louis Salou · Yves Vincent

Direction Ralph Habib

Cast Françoise Arnoul · Philippe Lemaire · Raymond Pellegrin · Catherine Gora

Synopsis A dam is under construction in the Pyrénées mountains. All the workers only have eyes for pretty, sensual Clara, the canteen waitress. And what she exchanges with many of them is more than just looks, this is for sure. Nevertheless,...

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Daniel Gélin · Antonella Lualdi · Danielle Darrieux · Martine Carol

Synopsis Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two children. He tells Chistine he will tell all to her husband and demand her freedom. Christine learns that her husband has been carrying on...

Direction Raymond Bernard

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Jacques Dumesnil · Jacques Morel · Maurice Teynac

Synopsis A false Russian princess (thanks to the 1917 revolution,many crooks pass themselves off as part of the Russian aristocracy ),helped by two henchmen ,seduces wealthy men to divest them of their precious jewels ;some day she falls in love with...

Direction Emil E. Reinert

Cast Marte Harell · Anton Walbrook · Lilly Stepanek · Fritz Imhoff

Direction Alfred Rode

Cast Claudine Dupuis · Philippe Nicaud · Dany Carrel · Jean Gaven

Synopsis A lot of robbed jewels is out in the nature, and no one knows where it is hidden. Possibly the robber's girlfriend knows. When she is out of prison, and returns to her cabaret show in Montparnasse, the police is...