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Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty,...

Genre: History

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Guitry

Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: François Périer

A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Pierre Mingand

Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

Kohlman, the attorney for the Fournil bank, diverts money from the institution. To hide his malpractices, he imagines to remove the director, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Dauphin

The invincible bandit faces his daughter, courageous and honest, who wants to end his criminal activities. With a young journalist, her...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Marcel Herrand

Being born a witch's daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Guillaumette tries to stay on the straight and narrow with a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Héléna Bossis

A chronicler gets himself hired as a gamekeeper in Monsieur De Saint-Ricquier's mansion where he lives with his stepdaughter, Henriette, everybody...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Claude Génia

In order to please Martineau, a wealthy industrialist, cynical Gabory accepts to organize a rigged beauty contest whose winner will be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nadine Alari

Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jourdan

Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sophia Loren

Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raymond Souplex

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sophie Desmarets

Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Lamoureux

The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zizi Jeanmaire

Without seeming to touch it, journalist Trupeau is interested in the doings of Mireille, a jewelry store saleswoman. A certain Jojo is hanging around...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Geneviève Kervine

A poor wop entrusts his savings to an antique dealer's care. Bad idea. When he comes back to claim his dough,the villain acts as if they've never...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raf Vallone

1868. Revolutionary Mathias Sandorf is determined to oust the dictatorship oppressing his country. The people see him as their liberator. Denounced...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Louis Jourdan

This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Moreau

Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innocent, but implicated in the ransacking of a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Claude Laydu

The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Villard

Emile Magis, a modest employee, more or less ostracized by the others, would like only one thing, to be happy. Little by little he realizes that life...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Guy Bedos

The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Georges Marchal

American FBI agent Lemmy Caution arrives in France to track down a dangerous spy.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eddie Constantine

Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

This modest, unpretentious French film is a streamlined version of the true story previously cinematized as The Song of Bernadette (1943). Daniele...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danièle Ajoret

Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a brilliant feat, he is awarded a title by King Louis...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jean Marais

Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raf Vallone

A remake and rewriting by director Bernard Borderie and scripters of a well-made 1932 film, this routine French drama seems a little outdated. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noëlle Adam

"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Micheline Presle

Gaby, the singer of the "Raymond's Jazz" band, leads Maurice, one of the musicians, to believe that, following a night he spent with her in the hay,...

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Cast: Jacqueline Gauthier

Paris 1847. A British Lord, Lord Henry Seymour, is famous for his eccentricities. The aristocracy disapproves of his frequenting of the dregs of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Claude Pascal

Shortly before the War, Jan Lazlo, a Hungarian musician who has emigrated to France, falls for a young woman. Alas, the lady forsakes him and the...

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Cast: Michèle Alfa

Sophie de Réan, an unruly mischievous little girl grows up under the thumb of Mademoiselle, her strict governess. Following her mother's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madeleine Rousset

Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Marais