My Uncle Benjamin

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of gi

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but neve

Jour de Fête

Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interru

The Phantom of Liberty

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incid

Hauteclaire

The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and

Le Deuxième Souffle

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a deter

The Magnificent Tramp

Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.

A Monkey in Winter

During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years lat

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find t

The Milky Way

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Unusual Tales

A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a

The Gentleman from Epsom

The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive cha

Razzia

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States,

Mr. Orchid

This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief o

Return to Life

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war afte

Come Dance with Me!

The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a

Thérèse Raquin

Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakli

Under the Paris Sky

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris.

Sunday Buddies

Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion

Fantastic Night

Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in or

The Marriage of Chiffon

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with

Portrait of Innocence

A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades d

A Star to the Sun

Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Co

Madame et le mort

A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the trai

Adieu Léonard

A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cous

Blood to the Head

François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentme

Rue de Paris

While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away, and he returned to face the challenges o

Au P'tit Zouave

Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake

A Cage of Nightingales

In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music

Devil's Daughter

Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having

Girl with Grey Eyes

A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a yo

The Ideal Couple

Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love wit

The Night Affair

Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicte

Maigret Sees Red

Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help lan

God's Thunder

Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to sh

Marie-Octobre

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Hele

Counter Investigation

Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his executi

The Bouquinquant Brothers

A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted b

The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean

On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and inci

Justice Is Done

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All m

Monsignor

Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approache

The First Weapons

A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.

Speaking of Murder

Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accom

The Beast Is Loose

Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret do

Passion

An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her h

Follow That Man

While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases.

The Dwarf

In a small circus campaign, the act of Valentine, the dwarf, is one of the highlights of the show. B

Le chien qui a vu Dieu

In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the bak

Nana

In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls m

Star Without Light

An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the si

L'Espagnol

A survivor of the Spanish Civil War who had been in French internment camps takes refuge with a fami

The Lovemakers

The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys

The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen

A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 milli

Les Assassins du dimanche

After failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert has a

Reproduction interdite

An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine pain

License to Kill

Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be ab

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears

Headlines of Destruction

Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriou

An Eye for an Eye

In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible f

Black Dossier

In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential no

Price of Love

Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innoc

Strange Desire of Mr. Bard

A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune p

Le Crâneur

A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.

The Crab Basket

Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up

Minute papillon

Oscar, a shy lifeguard, flees the wrath of his boss following the disaster caused by the water purif

Jeunes mariés

Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their w

Long March

In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man

The Trip to Biarritz

Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dre

Le commissaire mène l’enquête

Rope Around the Neck

Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress.

No Exit

The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the gr

Children of Paradise

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater

Before the Deluge

The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis

The Mark of the Day

In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up an

The Spice of Life

A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leadin

Messieurs Ludovic

Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different char

Sideral Cruises

Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venu

Night Shift

A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.

Port of Point-du-Jour

Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful li

Double Verdict

Richard killed his wife out of jealousy, but was acquitted. During the vacations, he meets a young g

The Atomic Cloud

A Belgian atomic cloud appears not to be deadly but instead instigates a climate of friendship and f

Endless Horizons

The life story of famed French aviatrix Helene Boucher is detailed in Horizons sans fin (Endless Hor

Cry of the Heart

Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated,

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the r

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has al

We Are All Murderers

Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette

Le Cœur révélateur

Part of the longer compilation "Histoires extraordinaires" by the same director. Based on the short

People of No Importance

During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde

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