Soundtrack: Paul Misraki

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 Jacques Becker

Cast Gérard Philipe · Lilli Palmer · Anouk Aimée · Lila Kedrova

Plot Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family....

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Robert Arden · Orson Welles · Paola Mori · Akim Tamiroff

Plot Orson Welles’s "Mr. Arkadin" tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past. Welles missed the editing deadline, so the producer handed over...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Gérard Blain · Jean-Claude Brialy · Juliette Mayniel · Guy Decomble

Plot Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Eddie Constantine · Anna Karina · Akim Tamiroff · Valérie Boisgel

Plot Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von...

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Jean Gabin · Annie Girardot · Jean Desailly · Olivier Hussenot

Plot For some time now, women coming home at night have been savagely murdered by a mysterious serial killer. Inspector Lagrume thinks he has found the culprit in the person of...

Direction Yves Allégret · Rafael E. Portas

Cast Michèle Morgan · Gérard Philipe · Carlos López Moctezuma · Michèle Cordoue

Plot The first to die in an epidemic of meningitis in Vera Cruz is a French tourist. His wife Nellie, detached and indifferent, feels little grief and realizes that her coldness...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Bernadette Lafont · Clotilde Joano · Stéphane Audran · Lucile Saint-Simon

Plot Four attractive young women who work together in a shop try to escape the monotony of their uneventful lives by partying and chasing after men. Ginette has ambitions of starting...

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Serge Reggiani · Michel Auclair · Cécile Aubry · Gabrielle Dorziat

Plot An adaptation of Abbe Prevost's classic French novel 'Manon Lescaut', updated to post-World War II France, in which a former French Resistance activist rescues Manon from villagers who want to...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Madeleine Robinson · Antonella Lualdi · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jacques Dacqmine

Plot The Marcoux family lives in a country home, supported by their vineyard. Father Henri possesses a roving eye, and spends more time with their attractive neighbor, Léda, than his family....

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Michèle Morgan · Raf Vallone · Marthe Mercadier · Jean Gaven

Direction Guy Lefranc

Cast Louis Jouvet · Jean Brochard · Pierre Renoir · Pierre Bertin

Plot Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan...

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Michèle Morgan · Jean Gabin · Walter Chiari · Daniel Gélin

Plot On the night of their tenth anniversary, Doctor Rene Richard accidentally discovers that his wife, actress Madeleine Richard, has been having an affair with a disturbed artist, Daniel Prevost who...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Gérard Philipe · María Félix · Jean Servais · Miguel Ángel Ferriz

Plot Set on a fictional Latin American island, the action starts when Gov. Vargas (Miguel Angle Ferriz) is assassinated. His executive secretary Ramon Vasquez (Gerard Phillipe who died during production) is...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Michel Simon · Jacques Louvigny · Marguerite Pierry · Fernandel

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Simone Signoret · Georges Marchal · Charles Vanel · Michel Piccoli

Plot Set in a steaming jungle, the film concerns a disparate group of refugees from a despotic military regime. Among these worthies is "good time girl" Djin (Simone Signoret), ageing miner...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Fernandel · Samia Gamal · Dieter Borsche · Henri Vilbert

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Daniel Gélin · Robert Hirsch · Jacques Dumesnil

Plot When ultra-respectable General Dumont discovers that his nubile daughter Agnes is "A.D.", author of a scandalous under-the-counter novel, he wants her shipped to a convent; but she escapes to Paris,...

Direction Bernard Borderie

Cast Gerard Barray · Georges Descrières · Bernard Woringer · Jacques Toja

Plot The young D'Artagnan travels to Paris, where he hopes to become one of the Musketeer of Louis XIII. He commits a series of blunders and he must accept successive duels...

Direction Jean Boyer

Cast Ray Ventura · Henri Génès · Georges Lannes · Max Elloy

Plot As they are waiting for a divorce, young movie star Malissa Farrell and famous pianist Rudy Walter have left their baby, Johnny, with a child minder in Le Vésinet. Marinette,...