Soundtrack: Georges Auric

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Yves Montand · Charles Vanel · Véra Clouzot · Peter van Eyck

Plot In a wretched South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Jean Servais · Carl Möhner · Robert Manuel · Jules Dassin

Plot Tony le Stéphanois (Jean Servais) is a grim, hardboiled crook fresh from a stretch in stir for the noble gesture of taking a rap for his younger buddy Jo le...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gregory Peck · Audrey Hepburn · Eddie Albert · Hartley Power

Plot On a diplomatic visit to Rome, Anne (Audrey Hepburn) escapes her royal retainers and scampers incognito through the Eternal City. She happens to meet American journalist Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck),...

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Deborah Kerr · Peter Wyngarde · Megs Jenkins · Pamela Franklin

Plot In Victorian England, the uncle of orphaned niece Flora and nephew Miles hires Miss Giddens as governess to raise the children at his estate with total independence and authority. Soon...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Marais · María Casares · François Périer · Marie Déa

Plot Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee's wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess' henchmen and Orphee goes after her into...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Marais · Josette Day · Marcel André · Mila Parély

Plot A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with his son Ludovic and his three daughters. Two of the daughters, Felicie and Adelaide, are real shrews, selfish, pretentious, evil. They exploit...

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 Charles Crichton

Cast Alec Guinness · Stanley Holloway · Sid James · Alfie Bass

Plot Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is a shy retiring man who dreams of being rich and living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has worked as a bank transfer...

Direction John Huston

Cast José Ferrer · Zsa Zsa Gabor · Colette Marchand · Claude Nollier

Plot Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge, where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Though the son of a French count, Henri's legs were...

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Pablo Picasso · H.G. Clouzot · Claude Renoir

Plot Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush...

Direction René Clair

Cast Raymond Cordy · Henri Marchand · Paul Ollivier · André Michaud

Plot A famous left-wing satirical comedy about two ex-convicts, one of whom works his way up from salesman to factory owner, where he oversees a highly mechanised operation where the workers...

Direction René Clément

Cast Maria Schell · François Périer · Armand Mestral · Suzy Delair

Plot Paris, 1852. When her lover, Lantier, walks out on her, a lame young woman, Gervaise Macquart, is left to make a living for herself and her two young children. Her...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Cocteau · Claudine Auger · Charles Aznavour · Lucía Bosé

Plot Le Testament d'Orphee, the last film made by Cocteau, is a visual summing up of the poet's own life. In it Cocteau gazes, one after the other, into the multiple...

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti · Basil Dearden · Charles Crichton · Robert Hamer

Cast Michael Redgrave · Googie Withers · Mervyn Johns · Roland Culver

Plot Visiting a country house, architect Walter Craig realises that it and his fellow guests are familiar from a recurring nightmare. As the guests share their own tales of the supernatural,...

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Pierre Blanchar · Michèle Morgan · Line Noro · Rosine Luguet

Plot A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but the man already is married.

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Elisabeth Lee Miller · Pauline Carton · Enrique Rivero · Jean Desbordes

Plot Superb timeless film dealing with the poet's inner self, in four sketches: 'The Wounded Hand', 'Do The Walls Have Ears?', 'The Snowball Fight' and 'The Profanation Of The Host'.

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Marais · Josette Day · Yvonne de Bray · Marcel André

Plot When Michel, who's 22, tells his parents he is in love, his mother Yvonne is distraught, believing she will lose his love (which is the center of her life), and...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Jean Servais · Carl Möhner · Grégoire Aslan · Gert Fröbe

Plot Greece, in the 1920's, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a...

Direction John Huston

Cast Deborah Kerr · Robert Mitchum

Plot For different reasons, Irish Catholic nun Sister Angela and U.S. Marine Corporal Allison are stranded on deserted Tuasiva Island in the South Pacific in 1944, the island deserted due to...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Jean Seberg · David Niven · Deborah Kerr · Geoffrey Horne

Plot Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.