French cinema: 1939
La Charrette fantôme (1939)
Julien Duvivier
He who hears the wheels of the Ghost Wagon knows he is soon going to die. Every year on New Year's Eve, the Wagon, driven by Death himself, comes to claim someone at midnight.....
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Julien Duvivier
Circonstances atténuantes (1939)
Jean Boyer
Two months into his retirement Gaëtan Le Sentencier, once a busy and highly respected judge, finds himself at a loose end...
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Jean Boyer
Le Dernier tournant (1939)
Pierre Chenal
Frank, a young drifter, arrives at a remote service station on a mountain road near to Marseille. Here, the kindly old owner, Nick, offers him a job which he readily accepts...
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Pierre Chenal
Derrière la façade (1939)
Georges Lacombe
Two rival police inspectors, Boucheron and Baumer, investigate the murder of the owner of a well-to-do apartment block. Madame Mathieu has been found stabbed to death in the lift, and there is no shortage of suspects...
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Georges Lacombe
La Famille Duraton (1939)
Christian Stengel
The Martins are an ordinary French family who live a simple but contented life in the country. When a stranger, Sammy Walter, injures himself in a car accident just outside their front door they naturally come to his help...
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Christian Stengel
La Fin du jour (1939)
Julien Duvivier
After a final performance, the faded star Raphael Saint-Clair is ready to take up residence at the Abbaye de Saint-Jean-la-Rivière, a retirement home for actors who have fallen on hard times... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
After a final performance, the faded star Raphael Saint-Clair is ready to take up residence at the Abbaye de Saint-Jean-la-Rivière, a retirement home for actors who have fallen on hard times... [More...]
Fric-Frac (1939)
Claude Autant-Lara
Marcel is an honest, perhaps too trusting, young man who works for a small firm of jewellers in Paris. His employer's daughter Renée has made up her mind to marry him but he shows her no interest and resents her attempts to control his life... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Marcel is an honest, perhaps too trusting, young man who works for a small firm of jewellers in Paris. His employer's daughter Renée has made up her mind to marry him but he shows her no interest and resents her attempts to control his life... [More...]
Le Jour se lève (1939)
Marcel Carné
François, an ordinary factory worker, barricades himself in his one-room lodgings, after shooting dead another man... [More...]
Marcel Carné
François, an ordinary factory worker, barricades himself in his one-room lodgings, after shooting dead another man... [More...]
Macao, l'enfer du jeu (1939)
Jean Delannoy
In the late 1930s, China and Japan are locked in a fierce military conflict. Mireille, a French actress, is one of many hundreds of westerners who are desperately seeking a safe way out of war-torn China... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
In the late 1930s, China and Japan are locked in a fierce military conflict. Mireille, a French actress, is one of many hundreds of westerners who are desperately seeking a safe way out of war-torn China... [More...]
Le Monde tremblera (1939)
Richard Pottier
With capital supplied by the unscrupulous banker Emil Lasser, Dr Jean Durand succeeds in creating a machine that can predict, to the nearest minute, when an individual will die... [More...]
Richard Pottier
With capital supplied by the unscrupulous banker Emil Lasser, Dr Jean Durand succeeds in creating a machine that can predict, to the nearest minute, when an individual will die... [More...]
La Règle du jeu (1939)
Jean Renoir
The aviator André Jurieux returns to France after a record-breaking flight, but is heart-broken when the woman he loves, Christine de la Chesnaye, is not there to meet him... [More...]
Jean Renoir
The aviator André Jurieux returns to France after a record-breaking flight, but is heart-broken when the woman he loves, Christine de la Chesnaye, is not there to meet him... [More...]
La Tradition de minuit (1939)
Roger Richebé
Clara Véry, a singer at the nightclub Le Soleil noir, receives an anonymous telephone call inviting her to attend a meeting the next day in a café... [More...]
Roger Richebé
Clara Véry, a singer at the nightclub Le Soleil noir, receives an anonymous telephone call inviting her to attend a meeting the next day in a café... [More...]
Trois de Saint-Cyr (1939)
Jean-Paul Paulin
Despite the objections of his father, a wealthy banker, Jean Le Moyne enters Saint-Cyr, France's most prestigious military academy, to become an officer in the French army... [More...]
Jean-Paul Paulin
Despite the objections of his father, a wealthy banker, Jean Le Moyne enters Saint-Cyr, France's most prestigious military academy, to become an officer in the French army... [More...]