The films of
Serge Reggiani
Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (1938)
Christian-Jaque 		  Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
Louis Daquin 		  Étoile sans lumière (1946)
Marcel Blistène 		 
     
Les Disparus de Saint-Agil is classic of French cinema, an atmospheric comedy thriller with dark elements of fantasy and mysticism, which is regarded as one of director Christian-Jaque’s best works...  [More...]   This is an early example of the kind of thriller-mystery, or "polar", which would become phenomenally popular in France during the 1950s. It is also one of the earliest adaptations of a novel by the popular thriller writer...  [More...]   Despite being a somewhat lacklustre melodrama (typifying the blandness of French cinema immediately after the Liberation), Étoile sans lumière retains a certain interest value with enthusiasts of cinema...  [More...]  
Les Portes de la nuit (1946)
Marcel Carné 		  Manon (1949)
Henri-Georges Clouzot 		  Retour à la vie (1949)
Georges Lampin 		 
     
Les Portes de la nuit marked the beginning of a dramatic decline in the fortunes of its director Marcel Carné. Prior to and during World War II...  [More...]    [More...]    [More...]  
La Ronde (1950)
Max Ophüls 		  Les Anciens de Saint-Loup (1950)
Georges Lampin 		  Casque d'or (1952)
Jacques Becker 		 
     
Through a series of dove-tailing love vignettes, Max Ophüls offers us an enchanting film replete with some of the greatest acting talent French cinema has known...  [More...]   Georges Lampin makes a reasonable job of directing a film that seems to have an identity crisis almost from the first scene. The cocktail of film noir...  [More...]   Arguably Jacques Becker’s best and most famous film, Casque d’Or illustrates perhaps more than any of his films his unique conception of film-making. Becquer’s main preoccupation is to capture through...  [More...]  
Napoléon (1955)
Sacha Guitry 		  Les Misérables (1958)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois 		  Marie-Octobre (1959)
Julien Duvivier 		 
     
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...]   Victor Hugo’s powerful classic novel of revenge and redemption is brought to life in this magnificent film adaptation, scripted by one of French cinema’s best writers...  [More...]   Although the latter part of his career was blighted by some notable misfires and unfair comparison with the work of his younger contemporaries (New Wave directors such as François Truffaut)...  [More...]  
Le Doulos (1962)
Jean-Pierre Melville 		  L'Armée des ombres (1969)
Jean-Pierre Melville 		  Comptes à rebours (1971)
Roger Pigaut 		 
     
Le Doulos is a sophisticated policier which shows its roots in classic film noir throughout. The American gangster movies of the 1930s and 1940s had a great appeal to director Jean-Paul Melville and in this film he creates...  [More...]   In this film, director Jean-Pierre Melville draws on his own war-time experiences to paint a vivid and realistic picture of life in the French Resistance during the Second World War...  [More...]    [More...]  

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