French cinema: 1943
Les Anges du péché (1943)
Robert Bresson
Rather than follow the life of wealth and comfort that has been mapped out for her by her family circumstances, Anne-Marie Lamaury opts instead to take holy orders and devote herself to the service of God...
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Robert Bresson
Au bonheur des dames (1943)
André Cayatte
Paris, 1860. Baudu, an ageing shopkeeper, is none too pleased when a new department store named Au Bonheur des Dames opens on his doorstep and starts poaching his clientele...
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André Cayatte
Le Colonel Chabert (1943)
René Le Hénaff
Paris, 1817. The wealthy Countess Ferraud is distressed when she begins to receive letters from her husband, Colonel Chabert, who was reported to have died during the Napoleonic wars ten years before...
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René Le Hénaff
Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1943)
Robert Vernay
On the day of his engagement to his beloved Mecédès the mariner Edmond Dantès is arrested for treason and sent to the Château d'If, an island prison...
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Robert Vernay
Le Corbeau (1943)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The peace of the small French town of Saint-Robin is disturbed by a sudden outbreak of poison pen letters, which cast vile aspersions on prominent members of the community...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
Domino (1943)
Roger Richebé
François Dominique, alias Domino, returns to Paris with his best friend Mirandole, having failed to make his fortune in Africa... [More...]
Roger Richebé
François Dominique, alias Domino, returns to Paris with his best friend Mirandole, having failed to make his fortune in Africa... [More...]
Douce (1943)
Claude Autant-Lara
Paris, 1887. Engelbert de Bonafé is a wealthy man who lives in a splendid house with his hard-to-please mother, the Countess de Bonafé, and his 17-year-old daughter Douce, whose name reflects her gentle personality... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Paris, 1887. Engelbert de Bonafé is a wealthy man who lives in a splendid house with his hard-to-please mother, the Countess de Bonafé, and his 17-year-old daughter Douce, whose name reflects her gentle personality... [More...]
L'Éternel retour (1943)
Jean Delannoy
Patrice travels to a remote island to find a young wife for his uncle Marc. There he meets a beautiful blonde named Nathalie, who agrees to return to the mainland to marry Patrice's uncle, if only to escape her life of penury... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
Patrice travels to a remote island to find a young wife for his uncle Marc. There he meets a beautiful blonde named Nathalie, who agrees to return to the mainland to marry Patrice's uncle, if only to escape her life of penury... [More...]
Goupi mains rouges (1943)
Jacques Becker
The Goupis are a proud, self-sufficient family living in the Charentes region of France. Most of them live at an inn that is run with an iron hand by the shrewish Goupi Tisane and her tight-fisted brother Goupi Mes Sous... [More...]
Jacques Becker
The Goupis are a proud, self-sufficient family living in the Charentes region of France. Most of them live at an inn that is run with an iron hand by the shrewish Goupi Tisane and her tight-fisted brother Goupi Mes Sous... [More...]
L'Homme de Londres (1943)
Henri Decoin
A port swathed in dense fog sees the coming and going of boats all day. During the night, Maloin is the man who controls the trains that transport goods to and from the port... [More...]
Henri Decoin
A port swathed in dense fog sees the coming and going of boats all day. During the night, Maloin is the man who controls the trains that transport goods to and from the port... [More...]
Je suis avec toi (1943)
Henri Decoin
As she is on her way to New York by ocean liner to sort out an inheritance, Elisabeth La Ferrière is convinced that her husband François will take advantage of her absence to start an extramarital affair... [More...]
Henri Decoin
As she is on her way to New York by ocean liner to sort out an inheritance, Elisabeth La Ferrière is convinced that her husband François will take advantage of her absence to start an extramarital affair... [More...]
Lumière d'été (1943)
Jean Grémillon
Michèle, a young dress designer from Paris, arranges to meet up with her boyfriend Roland, a temperamental artist, at a mountain resort in Provence... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
Michèle, a young dress designer from Paris, arranges to meet up with her boyfriend Roland, a temperamental artist, at a mountain resort in Provence... [More...]
La Main du diable (1943)
Maurice Tourneur
A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. During a momentary power-cut the box suddenly goes missing, and its owner is stricken with terror... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. During a momentary power-cut the box suddenly goes missing, and its owner is stricken with terror... [More...]
Les Roquevillard (1943)
Jean Dréville
In 1880s France, François Roquevillard is a highly regarded barrister in the Savoie town of Chambéry in southeast France... [More...]
Jean Dréville
In 1880s France, François Roquevillard is a highly regarded barrister in the Savoie town of Chambéry in southeast France... [More...]
Le Val d'enfer (1943)
Maurice Tourneur
The foreman of a quarry in the Haute-Provence region of France, Noël Bienvenu lives with his elderly parents after the death of his wife... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
The foreman of a quarry in the Haute-Provence region of France, Noël Bienvenu lives with his elderly parents after the death of his wife... [More...]
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
Louis Daquin
After the death of his parents, Gilles Mauvoisin returns to his hometown of La Rochelle. On his arrival, he is surprised to learn that his uncle, the successful businessman Octave Mauvoisin, has recently died and left him his entire fortune... [More...]
Louis Daquin
After the death of his parents, Gilles Mauvoisin returns to his hometown of La Rochelle. On his arrival, he is surprised to learn that his uncle, the successful businessman Octave Mauvoisin, has recently died and left him his entire fortune... [More...]