Soundtrack: Georges Van Parys

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Simone Signoret · Véra Clouzot · Paul Meurisse · Charles Vanel

Synopsis In Diabolique (1955), the fragile wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistreated mistress conspire to murder him at a secluded house. After executing their plan, the body mysteriously vanishes, plunging them into paranoia. Strange occurrences and eerie sightings suggest...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Danielle Darrieux · Charles Boyer · Vittorio De Sica · Jean Debucourt

Synopsis A woman lies to her husband about having sold a pair of diamond earrings which were a gift from him. He discovers it thanks to the indiscreet jeweller. She is ultimately forced to reckon with her deception and the penalties...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Claude Dauphin · Raymond Bussières

Synopsis In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of them, Marie, aka "Casque d'Or" (Golden Helmet) meets Manda, a carpenter. Her man Roland belongs to the jealous kind, and Leca himself has...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · María Félix · Françoise Arnoul · Jean-Roger Caussimon

Synopsis Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe 'Le Paravent Chinois' featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola, goes slumming in Montmarte (circa 1890) where the then-old-fashioned cancan is still danced. There, he conceives the idea of reviving the cancan...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Gaston Modot · Lya Lys · Max Ernst · Pierre Prévert

Synopsis Luis Buñuel's second film is a surreal attack on bourgeios ideals that incited a riot when first released and still retains its power to shock. Buñuel began the film as a collaboration with Salvador Dali, but after a few days...

Direction René Clair

Cast Maurice Chevalier · François Périer · Marcelle Derrien · Dany Robin

Synopsis Paris, 1920, period of the silent cinema. Emile, a film maker, takes under his wing Jacques and schools him in the art of seduction whilst counselling him never to fall in love. This, of course, sets the scene for Emile...

Direction René Clair

Cast Gérard Philipe · Martine Carol · Gina Lollobrigida · Magali Vendeuil

Synopsis A young composer has vivid dreams of the past that reflect, yet conflict with his waking life.

Direction Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Cast Jean Gabin · Bernard Blier · René Fleur · Julienne Paroli

Direction René Clair

Cast Annabella · René Lefèvre · Jean-Louis Allibert · Paul Ollivier

Synopsis Michel, a Parisian artist, is being hounded by numerous impatient creditors. To make things worse, when he is embracing the woman whose portrait he is painting, he is surprised by his indignant fiancée Béatrice. Suddenly, Michel learns that he holds...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Louis Jourdan · Daniel Gélin · Anne Vernon · Jean Servais

Synopsis Françoise and Henri appear to be a perfectly happy married couple living in Paris. When she discovers that her husband, a test car driver, has been having an affair with another woman, Françoise immediately packs her bags and moves into...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Jeanne d'Alcy · François Lallement · André Méliès · Marie-Georges Méliès

Synopsis A biography of the pioneer film director Georges Méliès, featuring his son André playing Georges, and with shots of his second wife, aged 90

Direction René Clair

Cast Bourvil · Alfred Adam · Philippe Noiret · Claude Rich

Direction René Clair

Cast Michèle Morgan · Gérard Philipe · Brigitte Bardot · Jacques Fabbri

Synopsis Clair's romantic comedy on the power of love over pride. Set in a pre-WWI garrison town, a handsome soldier (Philipe) wagers that he can seduce any woman he pleases before leaving for summer maneuvers. Drawing the name of his quarry...

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Gérard Philipe · Gina Lollobrigida · Marcel Herrand · Olivier Hussenot

Direction Jean Delannoy

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

Synopsis 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 has just attempted suicide. He confronts her and she spends...

Direction Jean Boyer

Cast Bourvil · Joan Greenwood · Gérard Oury · Roger Tréville

Synopsis A mild-mannered government bureaucrat discovers that he has the ability to walk through inanimate objects.

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Gene Kelly · Barbara Laage · Bobby Clark · Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis An American boy and a French girl run away from a Swiss school making for Paris to reunite with their parents. The boy's father (Gene Kelly) and the girl's mother (Barbara Laage) join forces, despite cultural differences, to search for...

Direction Henri Decoin

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

Synopsis 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 immature king Louis XIV, needs to marry him off to...

Direction Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Cast Jean Marais · Geneviève Grad · Gerard Barray · Riccardo Garrone

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Sophia Loren · Peter Sellers · Alastair Sim · Vittorio De Sica