Screenplay: Cécil Saint-Laurent

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Martine Carol · Peter Ustinov · Anton Walbrook · Oskar Werner

Plot The film tells the tragic story of Lola Montès (1821-1861), a great adventurer who becomes the main attraction of a circus after being the lover of various important European men.

Direction Alexandre Astruc

Cast Jean-Claude Pascal · Anouk Aimée · Gaby Sylvia · Philippe Lemaire

Plot Through her answers to police inspector Corbin's questions, investigating Dr Danieli's suicide, Catherine Racan draws her self-portrait. The ambitious young journalist indeed tells how she got to Paris with Pierre,...

Direction Jean Aurel

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean-Claude Brialy · Sami Frey · Elsa Martinelli

Direction Henri Decoin

Cast Jean Marais · Sylva Koscina · Jean-François Poron · Giselle Pascal

Plot Ste-Marguerite citadel, France's most isolated island prison, holds a mysterious captive, whose iron-masked face nobody may see on pain of death. Cardinal Mazarin, who rules France in the name of...

Direction Jean Aurel

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Maurice Ronet · Christina Holme · Anny Duperey

Plot An older woman uses a younger woman to satisfy both his personal and professional needs in this offbeat sex comedy. Clara (Brigitte Bardot) is beautiful young woman who has been...

Direction Jean-Devaivre

Cast Martine Carol · Jacques Dacqmine · Marthe Mercadier · Véra Norman

Plot Caroline de Bienre, the 16-year-old daughter of French nobility, meets the handsome rogue, Gaston de Sallanches, who is expected to ask for the hand of her older, plainer sister in...

Direction Emil E. Reinert

Cast Henri Vidal · Maria Mauban · Françoise Arnoul · Micheline Francey

Direction Renzo Merusi

Cast Ludmilla Tcherina · Erno Crisa · Frank Latimore · Milly Vitale

Direction Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Cast Marina Vlady · Peter van Eyck · Jean Gaven · Dora Doll

Plot The adventures of a young naive journalist (Marina Vlady,17 at the time) who falls in love with a man accused of his wife's murder.

Direction Denys de La Patellière

Cast France Anglade · Vittorio De Sica · Bernard Blier · Karin Dor

Direction Jean Aurel

Cast Anna Karina · Elsa Martinelli · Michel Piccoli · Jean Sorel

Plot Hélène, who has just broken up with Raoul, a dentist, lets herself be seduced (though not without great resistance) by the obstinate Serge. Raoul, a modern Don Juan, now focuses...

Direction Jacqueline Audry

Cast Andrée Debar · Isa Miranda · Gabriele Ferzetti · Bernard Blier

Plot Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to...

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Martine Carol · Pedro Armendáriz · Valentine Tessier · Arnoldo Foà

Plot In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrètè. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have...

Direction Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Cast Daniel Gélin · Dany Robin · Tilda Thamar · Mary Marquet

Plot Penelope , a nineteen- year- old girl,is bored stiff in the boarding-school where her mother wants her to stay one more year.During a trip to Paris,Penelope gives the slip to...

Direction Richard Pottier

Cast Martine Carol · Jacques Dacqmine · Marie Déa · Paul Bernard

Plot Jeune aristocrate qui fête ses seize ans le 14 juillet 1789, Caroline de Bièvre va vivre péniblement la Révolution tout en cherchant à retrouver son premier amour : Gaston de...

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Dany Robin · Gino Cervi · Philippe Lemaire · Jean Wall

Plot With the help of four protectors, a young Parisian flower girl becomes a famous cabaret singer. She marries one, a Russian prince, but then has other loves until a suicidal...

Direction Jean Aurel

Direction Jean Aurel

Cast Anna Karina · Michel Bouquet · Denise Gence · Marc Eyraud

Direction Bernard Borderie

Cast Jean Marais · Marilú Toló · Sylvie Bréal · Ettore Manni

Direction Jean-Devaivre

Cast Jean-Claude Pascal · Alfred Adam · Daniel Ceccaldi · Jacques Dacqmine

Plot A young, innocent Brigitte Bardot plays the sister of the handsome French officer Juan D'Arandra. Close in a manner inappropriate of siblings, their attraction for each other tortures their souls,...