This atmospheric drama from director Marc Allégret effectively marked the start
of a distinguished film career for actress Michèle Morgan... [More...]
There is not a great deal to commend this limp melodrama other than its
stellar cast, which includes three of the finest French actors of the
period... [More...]
This is a very atmospheric film from one of France’s great directors, Marcel Carné,
better known for his legendary film, Les
Enfants du Paradis... [More...]
Remorques continues the trend in poetic realism
which was so popular in French cinema in the 1930s and reunites stars Jean
Gabin and Michèle Morgan (previously seen together in Marcel Carné’s
film... [More...]
Jean Delannoy’s interpretation of André Gide’s powerful and moving novel is an
impressive and memorable piece of cinema. The pastor is treated sympathetically... [More...]
Fabiola is among the earliest and best of the big budget Roman spectacle film which
became popular both in Hollywood and European cinema in the late 1950s... [More...]
Les Orgueilleux was an ambitious attempt to break with the conventional romantic
drama which dominated French cinema in the early 1950s. Filmed mainly on location
in Mexico and with some graphic depictions of human suffering... [More...]
This is a fine tragicomic romantic film from arguably the most romantic of all the great
pre-WW2 French film directors, René Clair. It has the distinction of being
Clair’s first film to be made in colour... [More...]
The scope of this film and its scale are breathtaking – but the end result is only partially
successful. Even in his formidable epic of the 1920s... [More...]
Often cited as one of Sacha Guitry’s best films, with a cast list most directors can only
dream of, Si Paris nous était conté aims to tell the story of Paris
through a series of sketches which range... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière directed this respectable example of the suspense thriller,
an adaptation of a James Hadley Chase novel which skilfully blends the style of American
film noir with that of the conventional... [More...]
