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French cinema: 1947

Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
Jacques Becker

Antoine and Antoinette are an ordinary working class couple who live in Paris and struggle to get by in the austere aftermath of World War II...   [More...]

Le Bataillon du ciel (1947)
Alexander Esway

Spring, 1944: a decisive moment in the Second World War. Colonel Rouvier, a respected soldier who lost an arm in combat in Tunisia, is put in charge of training a parachute regiment of the French Free Forces in England...   [More...]

Le Café du cadran (1947)
Jean Gehret

Julien Couturier and his wife Louise give up their peaceful life in the Auvergne to run a small bar-café in the thriving heart of Paris...   [More...]

Copie conforme (1947)
Jean Dréville

No one would think that Manuel Ismora, an esteemed society photographer, is an audacious thief and con artist. The newspapers are filled with accounts of Ismora's criminal exploits, which involve the fraudulent sale of a château and the theft of some valuable jewels, but the police are slow in bringing him to justice...   [More...]

Le Diable au corps (1947)
Claude Autant-Lara

Marthe Grangier, a nurse in a military hospital during the First World War, is pressurised into getting married by her parents...   [More...]

L'École des facteurs (1947)
Jacques Tati

The French postal service is keen to keep up with its American equivalent and so introduces a programme of modernisation that will make it more efficient than ever before...   [More...]

Les Jeux sont faits (1947)
Jean Delannoy

Pierre Dumaine is the leader of a resistance movement in an unnamed police state. He is preparing an insurrection when he is shot dead by an informer...   [More...]

La Kermesse rouge (1947)
Paul Mesnier

Paris in the 1890s. When Agnès Bonnardet falls in love with a struggling Montmartre painter, Claude Sironi, her aristocratic relatives waste no time in acting to thwart a mésalliance that will bring disgrace on the family...   [More...]

Monsieur Vincent (1947)
Maurice Cloche

In the early 1600s, during the reign of King Louis XIII, Vincent de Paul gives up his privileged position as a private tutor to the aristocratic Gondy family, so that he can devote himself to the needs of the poor and infirm...   [More...]

Non coupable (1947)
Henri Decoin

Michel Ancelin was once a respected surgeon but now, an embittered alcoholic, he lives out his declining years as a family doctor in a dull provincial town in the company of his mistress, Madeleine...   [More...]

Panique (1947)
Julien Duvivier

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...   [More...]

Paris 1900 (1947)
Nicole Védrès

A vibrant montage of moving image depicting life in Paris in the dying days of the Belle Époque, from the turn of the 20th century to the start of the First World War...   [More...]

Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
Henri-Georges Clouzot

Against the wishes of her husband Maurice, music hall singer Jenny Lamour is prepared to do anything to advance her career...   [More...]

Le Silence est d'or (1947)
René Clair

Paris, 1906. Emile Clément is a fifty-something pioneer in the recently born art of cinematography, and he is also an inveterate womaniser...   [More...]

Le Tempestaire (1947)
Jean Epstein

On a small island off the coast of Brittany, a young woman and her grandmother are sitting at a spinning wheel when the door to their cottage suddenly opens of its own accord...   [More...]

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