Screenplay: Jacques Prévert

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Pierre Brasseur · Pierre Renoir · Arletty

Plot It follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault), in...

Direction Joris Ivens

Cast Serge Reggiani

Plot Quotidian scenes of Paris along the quays beside the River Seine. Fishing, snoozing, cutting hair, washing clothes. Lovers embrace as nuns gaze. Students sketch, models pose. A diver recovers a...

Direction Jean Grémillon

Cast Jean Gabin · Madeleine Renaud · Michèle Morgan · Charles Blavette

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean Gabin · Michèle Morgan · Michel Simon · Pierre Brasseur

Plot Life's a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country. He lucks into civilian clothes, a little bit of money,...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast René Lefèvre · Florelle · Jules Berry · Marcel Lévesque

Plot A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala...

Direction Jean Grémillon

Cast Madeleine Renaud · Pierre Brasseur · Madeleine Robinson · Paul Bernard

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean Gabin · Jacqueline Laurent · Arletty · Jules Berry

Plot François has shot and killed a man and is now holed up in his apartment, under siege by the police. Over the course of a long night, he reflects on...

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Pierre Brasseur · Serge Reggiani · Yves Montand · Nathalie Nattier

Direction Paul Grimault

Plot The story about the King V and three makes 8 and 8 makes 16. It got excellent reviews.

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Arletty · Marie Déa · Fernand Ledoux · Alain Cuny

Plot At the end of the 15th century, two minstrels Gilles and Dominique come from nowhere into the castle of Baron Hugues. Gilles charms Anne, Hughes' daughter, while Dominique charms both...

Direction Paul Grimault

Plot Adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story.

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Michel Simon · Françoise Rosay · Louis Jouvet · Jean-Pierre Aumont

Plot A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Jacqueline Lemaire · Roger Pigaut

Plot A Parisian family on their way to the French Riviera. The father decides to get rid of the family dog that he abandons in a forest. His young daughter cries...

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Françoise Rosay · Albert Préjean · Lisette Lanvin · Charles Vanel

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Erich von Stroheim · Michel Simon · Armand Bernard · Aimé Clariond

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Anthony Quinn · Jean Carmet · Alain Cuny

Plot Better known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this opulent French production is the second talkie version of Victor Hugo's famous novel. Buried under mounds of latex, Anthony Quinn does...

Direction Albert Lamorisse

Cast Jacques Prévert

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet · Romain Segaud

Plot Based on a poem of Jacques Prévert.

Direction Burcu Sankur · Geoffrey Godet

Plot This poem denounces the destruction of forests to make paper pulp, but paper is used to alert people about the threats of deforestation.

Direction Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt