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Meurtres (1950)

Richard Pottier

Noël Annequin is the outcast from the celebrated Annequin family. Whilst his brothers went on to university to become an eminent doctor and lawyer, finding their way into high society, Noël stayed in the country to settle down with the woman he loved, Isabelle. When, years later, Isabelle lies in bed, dying in agony from an incurable disease, only Noël can comfort her... [More...]

La Minute de vérité (1952)

Jean Delannoy

On the evening of his wedding anniversary, a respectable doctor, Pierre Richard, is called away to attend to a suicide victim. On the bedside table of the man who has attempted to kill himself, Pierre is surprised to see a photograph of his wife, the beautiful actress Madeleine Richard. Returning home, he confronts his wife, and demands an explanation... [More...]

Miquette et sa mère (1950)

Henri-Georges Clouzot

In 1900, Miquette, the pretty daughter of the widow Grandier, decides to become an actress after seeing a play performed by the Monchablon theatre company. Unfortunately, Madame Grandier has other plans, knowing that the old Marquis de la Tour Mirande is eager to maker her his mistress. It is not the Marquis that Miquette loves but his son Urbain, who is being coerced into marrying a wealthy heiress... [More...]

Les Miracles n’ont lieu qu’une fois (1951)

Yves Allégret

Late one evening in a Parisian bar, Jérôme rakes over his memories and begins to tell his sad life story to the attentive bar owner. It begins in 1939, when Jérôme, 22, has just completed the second year of his studies in medicine. He has his whole life before him and he is ready to take a vacation... [More...]

Le Miroir à deux faces (1958)

André Cayatte

Deciding it is time for him to marry, schoolmaster Pierre Tardivet places an ad in the newspaper for his ideal partner. Of the many replies he receives, he selects Marie-Josée Vauzange, a middle-aged spinster who, whilst gentle and cultivated, is far from being an object of beauty. Ten years after their marriage, Pierre is involved in a car accident... [More...]

Les Misérables (1958)

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Jean Valjean, a convict unjustly sentenced to hard labour, escapes from his prison. After a clergy man saves him from being arrested again, he resolves to reform and start a new life. Years later, he is the respectable mayor of a small French town, who has adopted a young girl Cosette. Then his arch-enemy Inspecteur Javert surfaces and, discovering the mayor’s true identity, determines to bring him to book... [More...]

Les Mistons (1957)

François Truffaut

During their summer holidays in the French town of Nîmes, a group of mischievous schoolboys make fun at the expense of two lovers, Gérard and Bernadette. But what starts out as harmless tomfoolery ends in tragedy... [More...]

La Môme vert-de-gris (1953)

Bernard Borderie

FBI agent Lemmy Caution is despatched to Casablanca to prevent a consignment of gold from being hi-jacked by a ruthless gang of hoodlums. A beautiful cabaret singer, Carlotta, a.k.a. La Môme vert-de-gris, lures Caution into a web of mayhem and betrayal. Could this be Lemmy Caution’s last adventure&# ... [More...]

Mon oncle (1958)

Jacques Tati

Monsieur Hulot rents a modest rooftop apartment in an old part of Paris, where traders sell their goods in the streets and young boys play games on unsuspecting passers-by. His upwardly mobile sister is married to Monsieur Arpel, who runs a successful plastics factory. The Arpels live in an ultramodern house, of sleek minimalist design, equipped with all the latest labour-saving gadgets... [More...]

Le Monde du silence (1956)

Louis Malle

Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau takes us on a voyage of discovery in this groundbreaking underwater documentary. We are shown exciting new vistas teeming with exotic life, all the wonders that are contained in the cold dark depths of the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean... [More...]

Monsieur Fabre (1951)

Henri Diamant-Berger

Jean-Henri Fabre is the foremost entomologist of his day, recognised by the emperor Napoleon III and the philospher Stuart Mill, among others. He is devoted to his subject, the study of insects, although his radical views bring him into conflict with the scientific establishment... [More...]

Monsieur Leguignon, lampiste (1952)

Maurice Labro

Diogène Leguignon is a modest railway worker for whom things seldom tend to go right. Having been expelled from his home, he and his wife are forced into a rundown house in a less desirable part of town. Unknown to Leguignon, a band of local children have discovered a stash of treasure and keep it concealed under the floorboards in his house... [More...]

Monsieur Ripois (1954)

René Clément

André Ripois is a young Frenchman who cannot help seducing attractive English women. He is drawn to them like a moth to the flame, the victim of a fatal attraction that will doubtless be his downfall one day. Tired of her husband’s endless infidelities, Catherine Ripois finally decides to divorce him, but even as she prepares to make this move André has embarked on his next amorous conquest, Catherine’s best friend Patricia... [More...]

Monsieur Taxi (1952)

André Hunebelle

Pierre Verger is an amiable Parisian taxi driver whose only worry is his two grown-up children, who are on the verge of leaving the family nest. His daughter Jacqueline is engaged to François, a timid artist who earns his living selling flowers. His son Georges, a journalist, is in love with Lily, an attractive dancer, but is too ashamed to reveal the fact to his overly respectable parents... [More...]

Montparnasse 19 (1958)

Jacques Becker

In the Montparnasse district of Paris in 1919, a young Italian painter, Amedeo Modigliani, struggles to make a living as an artist. He falls in love with Jeanne, the daughter of wealthy parents. Against her parents’ wishes, Jeanne moves in with Modigliani, who is suffering from tuberculosis and has a drink problem... [More...]

La Mort en ce jardin (1956)

Luis Buñuel

The setting is a small village on the Brazilian border. An adventurous young man named Chark arrives here at the same time as a party of diamond prospectors who are preparing to attack a small government garrison. Chark is arrested, accused of robbery, but escapes in the tumult of a full-scale rebellion... [More...]

Le Mouton à cinq pattes (1954)

Henri Verneuil

The mayor of Trézignan, a small town in the south of France, plans to revive his little community by holding a fête to commemorate a very special event - the fortieth anniversary of the birth of a set of quintuplets. There is just one snag, however. The five identical sons left the area twenty years ago, having fallen out with their father - the irascible viticulturist Edouard Saint-Forget - and no one knows their present whereabouts... [More...]

Le Mystère Picasso (1956)

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Director Henri-Georges Clouzot films Pablo Picasso as the great Spanish artist dashes out a series of abstract paintings. [More...]

Napoléon (1955)

Sacha Guitry

This film recounts the life of one of the most important figures in the history of France, Napoléon Bonaparte. Beginning with his arrival at a military academy, the film moves swiftly through Bonaparte’s rise to power as a great general and ultimately Emperor of France. We follow his great battle campaigns, and his personal life, particularly his courtship of Josephine and his many subsequent secret liaisons... [More...]

Nez de cuir (1952)

Yves Allégret

Among the many who lie dead or dying on a battlefield in 1814 is Roger de Tinchebraye. Although he survives his injuries, Roger is badly scarred and Dr Marchal can do nothing to save his once beautiful face. Before the war, Roger was a great womaniser but now he must hide his face behind a leather mask... [More...]

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