Children of Paradise

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

The Beautiful Adventure

The Dance

The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Casse

Le vertige

General Mikailoff once killed a lieutenant he mistakenly believed to be his wife's lover. Subsequent

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation

Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexu

The Longest Day

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the

Daybreak

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led h

Air of Paris

Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion

The Devil's Envoys

At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the De

Fric-Frac

An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.

Extenuating Circumstances

Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leav

A Dog That Pays Off

Josyane Plaisir, a rather idle singer, who is waiting for the man of her heart,handsome and rich if

Portrait of a Murderer

A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially d

Hôtel du Nord

A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer w

The Pearls of the Crown

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.

Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme

Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money.Her fiance,an Englishman, has gone away

Je te confie ma femme

A young man, having seduced his friend's mistress, undertakes to leave his wife to the latter for on

The Voyage of Mr. Perrichon

Perrichon, a well-off self-satisfied bourgeois, goes on holiday with his wife and his pretty daughte

Lovers and Thieves

Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the

La Fille de Madame Angot

Under the Directory, Clairette is in love with the chansonnier Ange Pitou, while the hairdresser Pom

Aloha, the Song of the Islands

During the London-Melbourne race, two aviators, one male (Guy,) the other female (Betty), are forced

Le Mari rêvé

A shy young composer gets a job as musical director, under a false name, at a music publisher. The e

Sunday Encounter

Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five ye

Désiré

Sacha Guitry exchanges his usual top hat for a uniform in Désiré, playing a cavalier valet embroiled

Madame and Her Redskins

After the exodus, a woman with a tidy life decides to take in the abandoned children; she meets a si

Hitch-Hike

Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to

Law of Men

After a planned robbery on an armoured car the investigating police officer encounters a female jour

Maxime

Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young mil

Thunder Over Paris

An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of

Mother Love

Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to c

Gigolo

Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, h

No Exit

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

Adventure in Paris

Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a

Flesh and the Woman

In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless lo

Explosive Vacation!

Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François M

Paris la belle

A look at Paris in 1928 in black and white and then color sequences filmed in the same places in 195

The Stowaway

A group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to b

The Lover of Borneo

Lucien Mazerand, a bookseller from Châteauroux, goes to Paris to spend a few days in the French capi

The Bureaucrats

A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because o

Love, Madame

Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François

The Trip to Biarritz

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

Boléro

As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a musi

Pension Mimosas

Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstanc

Arletty, Lady Paname

A biography of the French actress Arletty.

The Woman I Loved the Most

Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the p

Let's Make a Dream

A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds ther

The Birth of Children of Paradise

Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing

Madame Sans-Gêne

Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the

The Little Thing

Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fe

My Priest Among the Poor

Abbé Pellegrin, parish priest of Sableuse, sells an ancient Christ to an unknown man, M. de Saint Pr

The Father of the Girl

Françoise Marinier, a strong-willed young woman, won't accept a husband being forced on her. She lef

Mirages

A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer.

Et ta sœur…

Bastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times? But he

Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue

A deputy with higher political aspirations is annoyed that, as visitors come to see him, his wife in

Abduct Me

René Dargelle is asked by a friend to receive a young woman in his place. She is soon to marry a Hin

Destination Rome

After WWII, a young man without perspective arrives in Rome. Living in a loft, he gradually discover

The Tomboy

The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to

Nylon Blues: A History of the Nylon Stocking

Events of strange and serious nature mark the invention and the manufacture of the nylon stockings.

Notre Dame de la Croisette

A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on t

The Sweetness of Loving

A young provincial engineer sends romantic stories he has written to a cousin in Paris, who claims t