Soundtrack: Guy Bernard

Direction Margot Benacerraf

Cast José Ignacio Cabrujas · Laurent Terzieff

Synopsis "Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the...

Direction Chris Marker · Alain Resnais

Synopsis Statues Also Die traces the devastating impact of French colonialism on African art. As Resnais' co-director, Chris Marker, stated, "We want to see their suffering, serenity, humor, even though we...

Direction Alain Resnais · Robert Hessens

Cast María Casares · Jacques Pruvost

Synopsis On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the...

Direction Marcel Cravenne

Cast Erich von Stroheim · Denise Vernac · Palau · Massimo Serato

Direction Nicole Védrès

Cast Claude Dauphin

Synopsis Documentary limning the life of Paris and its citizens during "La Belle Epoque," the years between 1900 and 1914. Beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1900 and the completion of...

Direction Bernard Vorhaus

Cast Paul Henreid · Merle Oberon · Paul Bonifas · Maximilienne

Synopsis A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a...

Direction Roger Leenhardt

Cast Odile Versois · Michel François · Jean Varas · Renée Devillers

Synopsis A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Michèle Morgan · Kieron Moore · Françoise Rosay · Jack Watling

Synopsis At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes back to the family...

Direction Jean Canolle

Cast Marcel Colas

Synopsis Petit Gosse leaves the family farm one morning to visit the vast world. He has exotic images of the world in mind: the coconut trees of Africa, the buildings of...

Direction Yannick Bellon

Cast Michel Vitold

Direction Margot Benacerraf

Synopsis A short documentary illustrating the life and work of the well-known Venezuelan painter Armando Reverón.

Direction Henri Aisner

Cast Serge Reggiani · Hélène Perdriére · Pierre Renoir · Marcel Herrand

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Jean Marais · Dany Robin · Jeanne Moreau · Nicole Berger

Direction Ewald André Dupont · Luciano Emmer · Robert Hessens · Alain Resnais