Soundtrack: Jean Wiener

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Nadine Nortier · Jean-Claude Guilbert · Jean Vimenet · Marie Cardinal

Plot Mouchette is a young teenager living in the tough country. Her mother is going to die, and her father does not take care of her. Mouchette does not manage to...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Anne Wiazemsky · Walter Green · François Lefarge · Pierre Klossowski

Plot Au Hasard Balthazar presents an unfettered view of human cruelty, suffering and injustice, filtered through the eyes of a donkey over the course of his long life. The burro at...

Direction Jean Renoir

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

Plot 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...

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 Jacques Becker

Cast Jean Gabin · René Dary · Dora Doll · Vittorio Sanipoli

Plot Jean Gabin stars as Max, a suave, smooth, elder statesman of a gangster who still manages to hook a pretty young damsel on his arm when he strolls into his...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Viviane Romance · Michel Simon · Paul Bernard · Max Dalban

Plot In the suburbs of Paris, an old maid has just been murdered. Every body talks about that, except the misanthrope Mr Hire. The same evening, Alice, just getting out of...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Jean Gabin · Danièle Delorme · Robert Arnoux · Liliane Bert

Plot André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Nino Formicola · Milly · Roger Trapp · Robert Lombard

Plot Made for television, this film consists of four parts: Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Dominique Sanda · Guy Frangin · Jeanne Lobre · Jacques Kébadian

Plot A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Gérard Philipe · Dany Carrel · Jacques Duby · Danielle Darrieux

Plot Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital. His first attempts are not too successful though as he is rebuffed...

Direction Jean Epstein

Cast Jean Murat · Marie Bell · Joan Helda · Gaston Mauger

Plot The almost financial ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several day in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which was a present from his friends. George...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Jean Gabin · Annabella · Robert Le Vigan · Raymond Aimos

Direction Jacques Feyder · Marcel Blistène

Cast Françoise Rosay · Andrée Clément · Simone Signoret · Paul Meurisse

Plot Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was a hindrance to her...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Daniel Gélin · Brigitte Auber · Nicole Courcel · Pierre Trabaud

Plot Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Francis Huster · Gillian Hills · André Lacombe · Margo Lion

Plot Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine,...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Andrée Servilanges · Beby · Marcel Dalio · Franck Maurice

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Louis de Funès · Noëlle Adam · Frédéric Duvallès · Claude Rich

Plot In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Roger Hanin · Margaret Lee · Michel Bouquet · Micaela Pignatelli

Plot Louis Rapiere aka Tiger is sent to Port-a-Pitre (French Guyane), to supervise the recuperation of a treasure from a sunken ship. A group of revolutionaries pirates the ship and robs...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Gaby Morlay · Victor Francen · George Rigaud · Madeleine Robinson

Plot Lisa is married to not-so-handsome Fedor; She's in love with his colleague (both are magistrates),Serge .After a trial,where a similar situation is depicted (in the dregs of society),Fedor feels he...

Direction Raymond Bernard

Cast Danielle Darrieux · Noël-Noël · Paul Meurisse · Alberto Sordi