French films Drama

Non coupable (1947)  
Thirty years ago, Ancelin was a famous doctor, but now he is an alcoholic who tries to forget his wasted life. One night, as usual, his mistress Madeleine finds him totally drunk in a cheap cafe. Despite his condition, Ancelin decides to drive home in his car, but at a crossroads he has a terrible accident and kills a motorcyclist...    [More...]

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Panique (1947)  
Recently released from prison, an attractive young woman Alice meets up with her lover Alfred. The latter, a vicious crook, has murdered an old woman at a fairground. The only witness was a reclusive old man named Monsieur Hire, who is secretly in love with Alice. Alfred and Alice contrive to divert suspicion on to Monsieur Hire......    [More...]

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Anna Karenina (1948)  
Whilst visiting her brother Oblonsky in Moscow, Anna Karenina, wife of a career politician, meets and falls in love with a young solider, Vronsky. In St Petersburg, Anna pursues her illicit affair with Vronsky, to the dismay of her husband who is determined to seek a divorce to avoid a scandal......    [More...]

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D'homme à hommes (1948)  
In 1858, the Swiss-born Henri Dunant is having difficulties managing a colony in Algeria. He decides to visit the Emperor Napoléon III, who is currently in the middle of a campaign in Italy, to ask for support to build a system of irrigation. Arriving in the battle of Solferino, Dunant is appalled by the suffering he sees and immediately begins to take care of the wounded and dying...    [More...]

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Dédée d'Anvers (1948)  
Dédée is a young prostitute who works in a bar in the Belgian port of Anvers. Her boyfriend, Marco, is the bar’s bouncer, a man despised by all, even Dedée. One day, the prostitute meets an Italian sailor, Francesco, and realises that she is in love for the first time. The couple decide to start a new life together...    [More...]

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L'Aigle à deux têtes (1948)  
Natasha, the queen of an unhappy kingdom, lives in seclusion in her castle, still mourning the death of her husband, the king, who died ten years ago. One evening, a young man breaks into her quarters and falls at her feet. Struck by his resemblance to her husband, Natasha conceals him from the police who are searching for him...    [More...]

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Les Amoureux sont seuls au monde (1948)  
Gérard Favier is a famous composer who has been married to the charming Sylvia for almost 20 years. Still deeply in love, they walk the streets of Paris and, one day, they hear a sonata that Gérard once wrote, played on a piano in a house. Gérard is surprised to find that the piano player is a 20 year-old girl named Monelle...    [More...]

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Les Dernières vacances (1948)  
For generations, the Torrignes family have lived in a splendid old house in the south of France. By the early 1930s, the family’s fortune has dried up and there is no other recourse than to sell the house. The present occupants are the widower and amateur photographer Walter Lherminier, his 16-year old daughter Juliette...    [More...]

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Les Parents terribles (1948)  
When Michel, aged 22, reveals that he is in love, his parents are horrified. His overly-possessive mother, Yvonne-Sophie, cannot believe that her son could love anyone other than her, whilst his father, Georges, is not pleased to learn that his son’s sweetheart turns out to be his own mistress, Madeleine. The parents appeal to Aunt Léo to help separate the young lovers...    [More...]

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Au-delà des grilles (1949)  
Pierre is on the run from the police, having murdered his lover. He arrives in the Italian port of Genoa where, leaving the safety of his hideaway on a boat, he tries to find a dentist, only to have his money stolen. He meets Marta, a young woman with a teenage girl, who has separated with her crooked husband. Having fallen in love with Pierre...    [More...]

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Au grand balcon (1949)  
1920. Gilbert Carbot is the driven manager of a small aviation company in Toulouse. He assures his customers that he can deliver letters anywhere quickly, whatever the obstacles, even at the risk of his pilots’ safety. Carbot is a cold and distant man. His pilots, who work under severe pressure, live at Le Grand Balcon...    [More...]

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Entre onze heures et minuit (1949)  
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a subway in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is Vidauban’s perfect double. Using his resemblance to the arch criminal, Carrel manages to infiltrate Vidauban’s circle of acquaintances and contacts...    [More...]

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Fabiola (1949)  
In the fourth century AD, the Roman Empire is crumbling and the growing cult of Christianity is to blame. A young Gaul, Rhual, is a Christian, but he must keep this a secret if he is to realise his dream of becoming a gladiator in Rome. One evening, he discovers a beautiful young woman alone on the seashore. It is love at first sight...    [More...]

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Hans le marin (1949)  
The boat Alabama having arrived at the port of Marseilles, three of its crew, including a Canadian Eric Martin, head straight for the Kit-Cat bar. Here, Eric falls under the spell of the prostitute Dolorès and spends the night with her. When he leaves the next morning, Eric is attacked with a knife by two thugs, Victor and Aimé...    [More...]

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La Marie du port (1949)  
Odile le Flem returns to the Normandy town where she grew up, Port-en-Bessin, to attend the funeral of her father. She is accompanied by her boyfriend, Henri Chatelard, who runs a thriving brasserie and cinema in the nearby town of Cherbourg. After the funeral, Henri falls under the spell of Odile’s younger sister...    [More...]

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Le Silence de la Mer (1949)  
During World War II, a German officer Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted to a house in a small town in Nazi occupied France. He stays with a young woman and her niece who, to show their contempt for him, refuse ever to speak to him. Each evening, when they are together, Von Ebrennac attempts to break the silence with idealistic tales of his own life and country...    [More...]

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Orphée (1949)  
Orphée is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death. When a younger poet, Cegeste, is killed, Orphée meets Death, in the form of a beautiful princess, and they fall in love. But Orphée is already married. Jealous, the Princess instructs her henchmen to kill Orphée’s wife, Eurydice. With the support of Heurtebise...    [More...]

Pattes blanches (1949)  
Odette, an attractive young woman, arrives in the fishing town of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany and becomes the mistress of Jock, the owner of the local inn. Jealous of this new intrusion, Jock’s waitress Mimi starts to visit a bankrupt aristocrat, Julien, who lives the life of a hermit in his old family castle. To tease Mimi...    [More...]

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Portrait d'un assassin (1949)  
Jean, nicknamed Fabius the Foolhardy, is a circus acrobat whose act involves driving a motorcycle up a near-vertical incline, the Wall of Death. Tired of his girlfriend, Marthe, he decides to kill her. One evening, he takes a shot at a woman who resembles Marthe but who in fact is someone else, Lucienne. A well-known impresario...    [More...]

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The Undercover Man (1949)  
Federal treasury investigator Frank Warren is assigned to a case which, if successful, will smash one of America’s biggest crime syndicates and put its boss behind bars for many years. The FBI knows that the only way to bring the Big Fellow (as he is called) and his henchmen to book is to bring a charge of tax evasion against them...    [More...]

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